The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1903-02-01
Echoes Of The Busy Workshop, Mill
and Mine.
THE GOSSIP OF THE BREADwINNEpS
Review Of Weeks Work Of Every Nation
on tire Globe, Where Manufacturers,
Mechanics, Artisans Hold Sway

AiaeVun III Lublauu is elN.op week.
The company to rewire the city OF Ham
ilton, Ont, must employ union labor
IN Canada street railway cars must be
yesubnlted from November TO March,
Telephone girls at Butte, Mont. have Sc
cured an Increase OF Sl6 month after
short strike
Weekly pensions OF rs Cd have been
granted TO aged employees Of the Leith.
Scotland, gas works.
Coal miners at the Dark Lane colliery,
Mlrheld. England, have been on strike
Clothing cutters at Baltimore, Md, will
receive an increase OF p cents day be
ginning April i.
Building trades at Birmingham, Ala, will
form an alliance and act as one body for
mutual protection
4 large number OF British nayyies and
railway laborers are being engaged In Eng
land for South Africa.
Laboring men OF Beatrice, Neb have or
ganized under charter from the Ameri-
can Fedora ton OF Labor.
Providence, h. l., labor unions are pro.
jecting a new labor temple TO be erected
and owned by union men.
Chicago electrical workers VIII demand
an increase OF 81 per day beginning April
I. Their scale is now 81.
In Belfast, Ireland, district, no fewer
than 10000 people are employed IN con
uection with the linen manufacture.
Glove makers at San Francisco wtll pre-
sent new wage schedule to their EN-
ployes 10 90 into effect March /.
| 5000 tons Of Scotch household coal, which
any employe can have at 80 per ton.
The pay of all freight handlers employed
by the Erie railroad at the Jersey CITY
| terminal was increased from IL to 1874
| cents an hour.
A new scale Of wages to be presented by
| the hoisting and pile drivinG engineers or
| Omaha, Neb. hns been approved by the
| Central Labor Union.
| Niagara Falls IN. ~ Central Labor
| Conncu has tsken the initiative In Il move
| a hp II a.
| on all county printing
| Shoe cutters Mt Brockton, Mass, have
| secured an advance Of 20 per cent In wages
as the result Of a new wage scale presented
| by the union,
The London and Northwestern railway
! has put the woodworrers at the wharton
! (Englsnd) shops on quarter time. This or
der effects 1000 men.
virginia house OF delegates has passed an
act prohibiting factory labor Tor children
! under 10 and regulating the work OF thos,
school jnnitors nj Toledo, Ohio. have pc.
titioned the board Of educsuon for an In
ceive 81 80 a day for fourteen hours work,
The Tahegaml shipDuildlng yard IT Maya.
| snki, japan, has school equipped tor 400
apprentices and a hospital for employees
capable OF accommodating hfty patients.
Toronto Canada union painters have de-
cided to demand Rs cents an hour begin
Mag April Is. Heretofore wages have beea
30 cents mn hour for an eight-hour day.
The Illinois state free employment bu-
reau obtained stus tons last year f,r "a,
| Geo men and 1900 women The a0pll-
cants numbered 2LT79 men and l8, l3A
| women.
An agreement has been reached between
the master bakers and the Journeymen hak
| ors union at Kansas City, Mo. that sixty
hours Will constitute 4 weeks work.
Shipwrghts IN the CLYDE (Sc tland) dis
trictS have been given notice OF q reducti q
In wages OF / cent an hour and ironw0rk.
ers per ceut, to 90 into effect January 81.
Wages Of motormen, conductors aud other
| employees Of the Auburn IN. ~ Street
Railway company have been Increased from
length Of service.
~ vote OF six Locals In favor and four
against the marine cooks and stewards OF
| the Great Lakes voted ut the conyen ION
10 Detroit 60 become affiliated with the
! Seamcu's union.
Committees Of telegraph operators, repre-
scutiug the various railways centering nj
st Paul, MINI, hive submitted new
schedule for an iu"reHse OF wages AMI a
new book OF rules
Union Pacific strikers have unanimously
voted not only not TO accept piece work
but voted that tho subject would not again
be considered IN conference aR a bHSls for
q strike settlement
committee OF the New Jersey State
Teachers association win ask the present
legislature TO pass measure fixing the
minimum salary a teacher can be paid in
the public schools " the State
a conference Of engineers and boiler
makers at Newcsstle-on Tyne England
with their employers, to consider pro
posed reduction OF wages Of workmen, has
adjourned without reaching an agreement
Scotch miners In the Fife and Knross
districts have resolved that no general
strike he entered upon without ballot oil
the entire body. A similar rule Is in force
IN many Of the larger English unions.
Dock yard employees al Marseilles. France
again threaten to strike. They claim that
the full rnto Of siA france day Is moi
being paid and that an excessive numbei
OF foreigners are being given employment
Figures compiled by the New Jersey bu
reau Of labor statistics show that union
Rlassblowers IN that state average $3.50
day and 43ia hours week; and non-unloi
men $40 a day Und 5"'2 hours a Meek
Coal miners Ia Belgium earn from 10 to y
cents a DAY Most of the labor above th'
surface Is performed by young girls wh'
I receive about 20 cents a aty' women IN
der 81 not being permitted 10 work under
several responses TO the request Of th'
! skilled trades IN the Chlcngo brass foundry
for an Increase I'm wages aud the nine
+. hour day have been received from prom
! nent manufacturers, and conferences WIN p'
= held in a few days. 90,
Indiana labor unions will endeavor "a
have a BARRIERS license bill passed at th'
preseut session OF the state legislature
reouIrinr every barber 20 be regularly OK
, anined and licensed by state examining
4 'p Ifter nearly two years Of war the two
p trades assemblies At Denver i-olor af,
united in one body inc Priuc,l,l pm I'm
,nlnns II was nnally decided TO allow ths
locals TO remain independent ., -.
Welsh coal operators, In meeting az
Cardiff. Wales. on January !, submitted Z
amounts 10 n reduction Of 10 per cent on
the present schedule The miners VIII mee'
shortly u consider the proposal
4 nrovinclai British Columbia Miners ~
soriation has been orrarizsd AZ victoria
r.. G. congress viii be held az Nlct9rl'
on February 25 10 complete the or2aniza
49, ,-ht.N e gr+andod 10 tako In all SOC