The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1903-10-01
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| China coppersmiths earn 81 day.
England has nearly 1000 female hutch
ers.
Columbus. Ohio, freight handlers will
organize.
Longshoremen at Providence, Il. L.,
will organize.
A law legalizing strikes is in prepara-
| tion at st. Petersburg, Russia.
Los Angeles plasterers won 81 in
crease. They now get So day.
The demand for skilled white labor
is steadily increasing in South Africa.
New Orleans, La, has nineteen negro
labor unions, numbering II 900 nfen.
In the German Parliament there are
over eighty representatives of working
men.
Seamen on native river craft get So a
month in China; ON seagoing Chinese ves-
sells, So.
Mine owners Of Sonora are arranging
Mexicans.
A union of paper box makers in Chi
cago. ILL.,. composed exclusively of wom-
en-, numbers 5000
Scotch shale miners have agreed to
ask for an advance of Is. a day or 4d. 4
ton on their wages.
International Typographical Union will
make determined effort for general
eight-hour day. commencing Jan. l, 1905.
Painters at Chattanooga, Tenn, after
being out three weeks, won their strike
for an eight-hour day and 311a cents an
hour.
Nanaimo. h. c., miners are strongly
considering the question of severing con-
nection with the Western Federation of
Miners.
New Orleans, La, horseshoers have
presented demands calling for recognition
of the union and a new scale of wages
and hours.
The headquarters of the Amalgamated
Leather Workers International Union
has been removed from Olean, N V. to
Philadelphia.
A colored man was elected as inter
national vice-president at the convention
of the longshoremen held at Bay City,
Mich, recently.
Losses incurred by the strike of the
workers at the naphtha wells. Raku,
Russia, amount to no less than 1.40O, 900
pounds to the owners alone.
4 cooperative grocery. the company
for which was Incorporated May IL, has
been launched at Elkhart. Ind. the Lake
Shore shOpmen being the prime movers
The marble workers union threatens a
general strike throughout the United
States, in order TO force the Employers
Association 10 sign scale for the en-
suing year.
Boston. Mass. union bricklayers. after
being on arike since July /, have re-
turned TO work, securing a rate of 90
cents an hour, and full recognition of
the union.
The popularity of Germany's railway
minister Herr Budde) is illustrated by
the fact that nearly 10000 labOring men
bought his latest portrait-a lithograph
costing ID cents.
\ plan has been suggested in England
for the erection of sanitarium for the
reception of tuberculosis patients on
terms that would be within the means
of the working classes.
The estate of the late Z. NJ. Arthur
is probably worth from 100000 to $780,
600. Mr.. Arthur's wealth was in Cleve-
land real estate and II limited amount
of gilt-edged securities.
1t has been voted to remove the ma
tional headquarters of the International
brotherhood of Stationary Engineers |
from New York City to Omaha TO facili- ]
tate crusade to organize the firemcn of |
the West.
Master plumbers of Holyoke have re-
ceived copies of new agreement that |
the journeymen plumbers desire them 10 |
sign, calling for an increase in wages
from S2.62!a to So a day.
The organization of women wage work
ers throughout the country has become
popular. and Is increasing rapidly. In
Chicago there are twenty-five crafts |
organized, with 81, 900 members.
The strike of the boilermakers on the
Omaha system at st. Paul, Mimi, has
been settled. the men accepting the offe,
Of $500 a day for ten hours work in
the st. Paul and Sioux City shops, and
$3.45 a das in the round-house, where
the boiler repairing is done.