The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-21
!. LABOR NOTES.

A big strike is feared in the ship building in
dustry OIL the Clyde river, Scotland.
Dry dock emnloyes at Milwaukee have organ
day.
Beer wagon drivers at Cincinnati will organize
under the jurisdiction of the National Transfers
union.
Upholsterers' International Union of North
America will hold convention at st. Louis, No.,
Feb. 16
Organized labor at Nebraska City, Neb., will
make general demand for Increased wages
by May /.
bill is before the Utah legislature limiting
| the hours of labor Of conductors and motormen
to nine hours day.
| by the %, 900 members of the Blast Furnace
Workers Association.
! Section hands on the Missouri Pacific at Eu-
| reka. Kan, have asked for an Increase from
| $1.25 to S1.4O day.
Iron founders in England received about 1912
week, according to figures furnished by the
British Board Of Trade.
| Indianapolis Ind, stonecutters will receive 81
| a day the coming season, an increase of 50 cents
| over the scale last year.
| Skilled labor in Indiana controlled by corpora
lions rs averages ssis DAY. and unsk ~ labor
The International Union of Team Drivers has
only been in existence for four years and already
has SIS local organizations and total member
! Six employees of Barrow, England engineer
ing firm have received prizes ranging from S. to
$50 for suggestions tending to the more ecOnom-
ical production Of work.
Honolulu O!awaii) Federation Of Trades has
passed resolution against the proposal to per
nit Asatic labor to enter Hawaii to engage in
/ agricultural pursuits only.
It Is estimated that the recent increase in
the pay Of railroad employees throughout the
United States affects 100000 men, involving 8
cash outlay for 1903 OF SIS, $50, 0G0.
In the cotton factories Of Alabama, according
to the census of 1900, 30 per cent Of the EN-
I ployes are under 16 years of age. This is the
largest per cent of any state III the union.
Il In Austria religious instruction is compulsory
in all schools. The. head teacher must belong
religion is under the direction Of the religious
bodies.
Chicago laundry wagon drivers, whose wage.
range from 81 to $50 week under the system
| i'll vogue are advocating the Inauguration of
commission system of wages instead of fxet
salaries
Carpenters at Toronto. Can, have presented
new wage scale to their employers to go int
:. effect May 1, 1908. The new csale calls for 3:
cents an hour and an eight-honr day. an increase
! of 5 cents an hour
movement has bene started among labo
unions to send a commission to Great Britain
) to study labor conditions there similar to thu
; commission sent from Great Britain to thu
States by Alfred Moseley.
Il The gain in the membership of st. Louis 1abo
! unions. according to the annual report OF tn
t state labor commissioner, Anderson. during thu
| year 1902 is 6,076. The increase In the mos
: prominent cities of Missouri was over 10000.
: Hordes of Chinese were brought into Canad
to complete the Onderdonk section of the Cana
r dian Pacific railway. After the railway wa
i built most Of these Chinese STAYED in the couu
Q try These formed large reinfcrcements to tn
n chean labor which has always been the ours
Il of Bfitish Columbia. and from which that proy
| ince is suffering to-day.