The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-15

I
 Gurers, Seehanics and Artisans HoIt
 Sway.
 Hamilton, Ohio, butchers have signed
 a compact to close on Sundays. Of the 1,120 students in the University
 of Kansas 460 support themselves.
 Mechanics in the building trades of
 Japan are paid from 35 to 50 cents for 8
 working day of ten hours.
 The caretakeRs of the Hamilton, Can-
 ada, public schools will receive 10 per
 cent. increase in their salaries. All traction men in the employ of the
 street railway company at Marquette,
 Mich, have gone on strike for higher wages.
 A slight increase will probably be
 made in the wages of enginemen on the
 Ontario and Quebec division of the Ca-
 madam Pacific.
 Seven striking union cloakmakers of
 San Francisco will shortly open a CO., operative factory and employ some of the men noW on strike.
 At San Juan, Porto Rico, the indica-
 tions now point to a settlement of the cigarmakers' strike by a compromise on
 s6 1000 for brevas.
 Labor unions at St. Joseph, Mo, are
 again on the verge of general strike as result of trouble between contrac- 1 tors and union bricklayers. Building Trades council of St. Joseph,
 Mo, has decided that hereafter mem- bers shall not rent houses unless they bear the label of organized labor. Nearly two-thirds of the two thou sand miners of the northern Colorado coal fields have resumed work, and it is believed that the full force will soon be at work.
 The Northern Pacific road has adopt cd new regulation notifying it's men at St. Paul that drinking on or off duty is equivalent to a discharge. .. ,..... There is movement on foot to have labor temple erected in Montreal Canada. The Bricklayers' Brotherhood has had the matter under consideration l for some time.
 Cleveland tailors have refused to 1 agree to a proposition from the Mer- chant Tailors' Protective association that the strikers return to work under an open shop policy. Journeyman. barbers are determined to resist the opening of barber shops in Montreal, Canada. on Sunday. and they will oppose strenucusly any effort made to repeal the bylaw now in ef- feet. .., @,. Es,.s-.z =, Twelve hundred steamftters at work on the fair buildings at St. Louis have gone out and will not resume work un- til their differences with the association can be settled. ... .......... :,
 There are 107,S4$ dressnaakers em- ployed by firms in London, England. l. The highest wages obtainable--excep. in the case Of about q dozen heads of departments--are IS shillings,, or s4, a week a@.
 shingle mills of Castle Rock and Kelso, Wash, have been closed down because Of | strike among the shingIe weavers. This state of affairs is said to be due to the continued low price of shingles. f,.
 orders have been received at the car department of the Wabash system at Decatur, Ill.,, to make reduction of 10 per cent. ir expenditures for wages and one hundred and fifty men will be laid off.
 At the meeting of the Indianapolis Butchers union two thousand organiz- cd meat workers of the city voted down the proposition to inaugIrata a strike to secure the adoption of new wage schedule. :8>ft ''
 The Trades and Labor council of Ra- cine, Wis, has organized a ladies' union labor league for the purpose of agita- ton for only union-made goods. The new union starts out with member ship of 150.
 Union boxmakers at Brockton, Mass. and vicinity have presented a request to the employing boxmakers involving increases of from to 10 per cent. in wages, according to the grades of the workers.
 It Is claimed by the police officials of Winnipeg, Man, that the recent trouble on the force was the result of a deliber- ate plan on the part of the agitators to have the whole force mutiny or go on strike.
 The International Hod Carriers and Building Laborers' union, although only few months old. has 162 branches, tWenty-one of them afsiliating within St'S 'noH Ihil " udyS' arrangements are | now being made to issue an official or- l gan. |
 In 1890 the number of children en- I ployed in manufacturing and mechani- cal industries throughout the German empire was 27,4s5. This was reduced in 1892 to 11,212 in 1896 to 5,S12 In 1900 the | number employed was 5,S54. A strike of 1,5oO employees of the Do- 1 minion Iron and Steel company is im- | minent. The 4,000 men working in the | coal mines in Cape Breton are mem- | bers of the same association, and If the | stel men strike they will probably fol- low suit
 The American Federation of Musi- | clans is bending all it's energies and ex- erting it's powers to prevent bands from foreign countries being brought to the Worlds fair in St. Louis next year to compete with American civilian musi- clans.
 The president of the Chicago City Railway company says that the com osny pays two cents of every five for I