The Nome nugget., 1903-04-18
THE WORLD
 OF LABOR Condensed News From
 Many Parts. NOTES OF INTEREST Concerning the Progress Made
 by Labor Organizations the rdst rear.
NOTES OF INTEREST

formed d union.
 Syraruse. x. Y., bakers will demand day work after May 5. 1903.
 About 5000 men are employed in the mines of Turkey.
 The standard rate of wages for hand in England is $9.4S week.
 Street passenger traffic of London, gives employment to 50,000 persons.
 Miners in the Russian iron mines work ten hours day. Night work is 
 Dcs Moines, la, horse,hoers have made a succtsstul demand for nine hour day.
 Carpenters, painters and masons of Canandaigua. X. Y., will ask for in- creased wages alter April l.
 Under the rule of the carpenters and ioiners union no strike can be ordered between November and April.
 Tie Montreal, Canada, Longshore- mems union has decided to affiliate with the international union of that craft.
 Telephone linemen at AsheVille, x. C., have struck to enforce demand for B day. They have been receiving $l.5O.
 Trimmers employed hy the Oakland, Cal, Gas Light and Heat Company have received an increase of Sl0 per month.
 The organization of the New Eng land District Lodge of Boilermakers and Iron ShipbuiIders was completed recently.
 It is estimated that 20,O GOO Irish agri- cultural laborer, cross the channel an nually for hay ing and harvesting in Eng land.
 A cen;ral labor uni n, comprising nearly all the labor unions of Augusta, Halluweli and Gardiner, Me-, has been organized.
 A scholarship at Ruskin Hall. OK ford England, has been granted to one member of the anal lganlated engineers of England
 JOWrneymen plumbers at St. Louis, Mo have heen sran.ed their demands of B day, an increase of one dollar over the old scale.
 Mexican miners al Monterrey. Mex ice, are on a strike because Of di~satiS- faction witt, d new system of pay n- auSusa'ed cn January l.
 Chelsea, Mas. d 'dermen have unani- mnusly voted tn give organized labor the prefcren' Q in ali matters of con structiun of public works.
 The Rand (Transvaal) n.agnaie es pre- fer to have the native labor problems accentuated twenty fold than let in he ''white l;Lborer,' if even he proved a cheaper commodity than his darkskin ned brother. The settled white labor CT would quick! appreciate his rights of citizenship and apply the potency of his dreaded vote.
 Nine hours instead of ten hereafter will br considered q working day in all of the iron works of Portland, Oregon. without any rednc fen of pay.
 Bakers at Vim peg, Mani ob |. have Startel n b siuts> on the cooperative plan, the employers having refused to pay union wages.
 Cheyenne, Wyo., local carpenters union has gone into the htilding bus ine-s and employed all If the striking carpeu! CTS at th unicn >cale.
 Of PA trade unions reporting to the lahor department of the London Board of Trade, 2G,454 men. or 4.S per cent. were unemployed last month.
 Wages of the 300 employees of the Os- wego. N. Y. starch factory have been voluntarily increased, the wages aver aging dollar week per man.
 The question of wages of the South Yorkshire, England, coal miners is still under consideration, with the prospect of slight advance for the men.
 The National Association of Blast Furnace Workers proposes to take referendum vote on the question of a general strike for an eight-hour work day.
 Boston, Mass, Central Labor Union has indorsed the new wage schedule presented by the Coal Teamster's Union. This asks for an increase of $l a week and a ,en-honr day.
 Auburn, N. Y., common council has