The Nome nugget., 1903-04-22
Condensed News From
 Many Parts.
NOTES @ INTEREST
Concerning t1le Progress Made by Labor Organizations
 the Past Year.

Boilermakers of Clevelandt O., de- inand a nine-hohr workday. At pres ent the men work ten hours at S2.9O ner day. They wanr the reduction in heurs with DO reductionin pay.
 There are to%ns in Enoland, like Leicester, which are almost given up .o the making of boots and shoes, Lei cester having ll,000 members in it's Boot and Shoe Trade Association.
 Unsolicited the street railway com pany of Middletown, Conn.,, has in Gseased the, pay of it's motoRmen and c3nductors who have been in coAinu- C1s service over five years two cents an hour.
 AEmployes of the Western Coal and Mining Company, near Fort Smith, Ark bave been voluntarily granted an eight-hour day at the same pay for which they have h&herto. worked nine hours.
 The Wisconsin State Feachens' Asso- CiAtion adopted resolution favoring AtEh amendments to the child labor laws as will entirely prohibit the em- plDyment of any child who is under II years old.
 \ coal operator located near 5hel- jiha, Mo-, has opened two mines-oue foy union and one. for non-anon men, Q. that the miners san take their Gnpicv. HI 9 sana scalscof pay is in eGec: at both miues. {,
 Statistics published by the New ter sry bureau of labor show that union ciYarmakers average S2.27 a day and york 47 hours week, while .nQn-union hands average Sl.65 day for 54 hours a week.
 Unless the hoilermakers, iron ship builders and marine engineers oppose the reduction in. wages the striking jC,hers on the northeast. coast of Eng land will have small chance of success in winning their strike.
 \ new waue scale, to go into effect May l, has been approved by the Inter- Hational Association of Bridge asd Structural Iron Workers. It call for 50 cents an hour. an advance of ?! cents an hour and an eight-hour day.
 A plan adopted by the Wichita Kan ] Railroad and Light Company. of, pay ing, its employees percentage above th2-amount of their earning, resulted in sn additional earning of the em- ployes of , per cent. for the past year. Representatives of the various unions affiliated with the. Memphis (Tenn.) Trades and Labor Council met to draft application to, the American Federation of Labor for reinstatement to a mem- bership in the national body. The or ganization wants to affiliate with tie national federation, but still retain the right to accept or reject unions or the national ass ociations if the applicants are affiliated with the American feder- atioa. ..,.. .. Twenty-four fresh labor disputes were reported in England in DecemI CT last, four in mining, four in ngineering and metal trades, nine in the textile indus tries, three,.in the clothing. ,. one in the building industries and three others. The decision of the directors of the London X Northwestern railway that, beginning with January l, 1903, en- lstoyes of that read will be retired when they reach the age limit of 6j years, is causing unfayora ble comment in Eng lish labor circles.
 Union papera akers in the Fox River va c., Wi~.y threatea the greatest smise the industry has ever known. Tney demand that they be given Satur- day aight and until a.m. Monday lay off, and the manufacturers have de- ciled not to close down the mills on Sunday as heretofore.
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