The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-02
LABOR NOTES,

The United Garment Workers are on strike
in Peoria, Ill.
The Twin City District Council will meet at
Midway Monday evening.
War has been declared by the cigar-makers,
union against twenty non-union shops in Chicago
The indications are that there will be no
strikes IN the building trades in New York city
The Womans Label League. Of st. Paul. gave
very successful entertainment Sunday after
noon
John Wahlquist organizer for the Carpenters
Union; organized new union at Willmar, Mimi,
Sa turday night. ~,
Circulars asking aid for the striking textile
workers of Lowell. Mass, have been received by
unions in this city.
The Twin City Sign Painters Union met at
Midway Monday night and another class Of can
didates initiated.
Striking messenger boys Of Duluth have formed
| a union and applied to the American Federation
| of Labor for a charter
! The Garment Workers Union will give a dan
| cling party MAJ. {, at Holcombs hall. Potter s
| orchestra will furnish music.
Employees of the Irvine department of the Deer
| ing branch of the Internatio Harvester com
| pany are on strike in Chicago
1t is rumored that settlement is near in the
| the Clyde iron works, in Duluth.
A new scale has been adopted by the electrical
workers. An eight-hour day and s71a cents an
hour are asked. commencing June l.
William J. Bougler. Of the local Horseshoers'
Union has resigned the presidency of the union
and started in business for himself.
| The strike of the painters of Portland Oregon
Tor minimum wage scale of So. so per day has
practically been changed to lockout Of the
building trades. =
Local No. 80 of the Meat Cutters and Butcher
| Workmen will hold open meeting and smoker
| at Alexander's hall, Thursday evening, Nav =
All butcher workmen are invited.
Only 10000 barrels were sold last week by
local barrel companies, an average of s. COO for
each company The mills are again in opera
ton and the coopers are at work again
A conference has been held between Mayor
Davey: of Butte. Mont, and the Western Union
officials, and result it likely that the
1 company will resume business there shortly
| The San Francisco Labor Council has sent ont
letters to the effect that the labor market in
all lines is overcroMd ed on the coast and that
employment is scarce, especially in southern Cali
fornia
! Union Pacific strike board at Omaha. has for
4 warded a letter of thanks to the twin cify
unions for their liberal contributions The ma
chinists lead all others. having sent some So 900
About Ia, 900 members of the local unions OF
the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners OF
America will go on strike in Philadelphia unless
their demands are granted. A compromise scale
offered by the master carpenters has been re
jected.,
The Steam Power Council has elected the fol
vice president. J. w. Farber; secretary j. IA
Hubert; treasurer, W. Worcester; business
} agent, w II. Lyons; sergeant-at-arms, P. Peter
i son. A new constitution was adopted.
Il The striking carriage workers are still out
with no likelihood of, an early agreement with
81 the BOSSES, who say the shops are running the
N full quota of and that assertions from the
| ranks of the strikers have been frequent The
returned to work and seem sanguine of success
1t is reported that the mill owners of tn,
Pacific coast have formed combine to Kill
the Pacific Coast Association Of Textile Workers