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pittsburg has a servant girls union.
The Detroit United Railway fremen
want an eight-hour day.
There are 7,130 members of organized
labor in New Haven. Conn.
Efforts are being made 10 organize the
| patternmakers Of Columbus. Ohio.
Iowa records show 720 local unions in
the State, with membership of $1,000,
City carriers at Toronto, Canada, will
demand a substantial advance in wages.
Brockton, Mass. electrical worlit RS
4 have procured 20 per cent increase ia
/ wages.
Shortsville. n. Y. drill makers have
received voluntary increases from 10 to
20 per cent.
Efforts are being made at Toelo,
Ohio, to form a union of the trunk and
travelling bag makers.
Eight hundred shipbuilders in the
/ Humber, England. district submitted 10
reduction in wages.
Fourteen hundred bakers will cult
work May I unless their employers make
some agreement with them.
The National Railway Clerks Asse-
/ ciatioi,' which was formed recently. las
/ already membership of 20O0.
Efforts are being made to settle by
arbitration the strike of the journcymen
horseshoers in New York City
The girl ticket agents Of the Brooklyn
( I. road have been ordered 10 work twelve
/ hours day instead Of ten and they have
organized to resist.
| The Pittsburg policemen threaten 10
/ go on strike if the City Council refuses
to grant their demand for an increase Of
20 per cent in wages.
In Winnipeg the street ears gun only
six days Of the week. and the local trades
unions are fighting an attempt to rCn
item on the seventh.
John Blue, of indianapolis. il organ
izing an international union of book
agents. Several cities have local unions
Of the workmen in that line
OF the g. $50 white children in thr
cotton mill districts of South Carolina.
two-ffths never enter school and only
one-fourth are in daily attendance.
Union carpenters at Kansas City.
Kan. viii ask for 40 cents an hour after
May !. A, present the average daily
pay of carpenter is 80 cents an hour
one Of the greatest victories for the
boot and shoe workers union is the re-
cent application for the union label Of
some Of the big Chicago manufacturers.
The convention Of the Amalgamated
Association of Iron. Steel and Tin Work
ers IN Columbus, commencing Tuesday,
April IA, will be gathering Of import
ance to working men.
For amaIgamation with the iron mold
ers was the result of the referendum vo.e
Of the Coremakers' international Union
IN conformity committee has been ap-
pointed TO arrange the merger.
The osseryatore Romano. the official
organ Of tie Vatican at Rome. missed an
issue in January for the first time ia the
forty-two years Of its existence 4 strike
Of the printers employed on ;lie paper
was The cause.
Frank A Jones. of San Francisco, il
the new president Of the National Asso-
citation Of Marine Engineers. succeeding
President George Uhler. who has been
appointed supervising inspector general
Of the United States STEAMBOAT inspec-
tiOa service.
Milwaukee. Wis. IA the home u, the
largest machine shops the largest irdi-
v!duai tannery. the largest hreHerie@ the
largest tin and sheet meta goods fac
tories, the largest malleable irO- ,e@"lts.
the second largest agricultural machin-
ery works and the second largest stove
works in the United States.