Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-22
THE WORLD OF INDUSTRY.
Gossip of the Breadwinners in Many
 Places

AfOSSips Of the BreadW1nnerS III Many
 Places. # } A school of salesmen was opened z 1ecently in Chicago.
 Plans for the forming of two locals Of bellboys' unions i'll Boston are being made.
 In Durban, Natal, bricklayers and plasterers receive 16s day; carpen- ters, 15s, and plumbers and painters from 10 to 12s.
 San Francisco, Gal, union butchers will follow the wake of the Oakland butchers and establish cooperative shops over the city.
 Female cigarmakers at Nottingham, Edlgland, have struck in sympathy with the London employees of the Im- perial Tobacco Go.
 A International Union of Steam Engi. eers has a membership of 5O,O0O. ah crease of 15,000 since the last inter- ational convention.
 Scotland leads the world in the pro- brtion of it's working population en- gaged in mining and manufactures, S60.4 per cent being thus engaged. The movement to inaugurate q Building trades council at Memphis. Tenn, was launched several weeks ago by the Painters and Decorators union. Painters district council of eastern Massachusetts is being reorganized. The council will have more authority aIhd will receive more money from af- 6diated locals.
 3the number of hours which constitute days work from nine to eight hours has gone into effect at the D., F. and NJ. railroad shops.
 San Francisco, Gal, Pile Drivers Bridge and Structural Iron Workers uhion has fixed a scale of $5 day for f6remen and $4 a day for pile drivers HIhd raftsmen.
 At the end of the last fiscal year the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join- ets of America had a membership of D1, ,205, an increase of 45,000 since the tlanta convention
 In Italy, agriculture, horticulture bind forestry claim the largest percent. age of those employed, nearly three dfths of the working population being engaged in those industries.
 All the police officers of Aalesund, Norway, have gone on a strike because heir Sdemand for an increase of wages 5f 15 kr month had not been granted by the town board.
 There is a possibility that the strike bf the laundry workers at Toledo, O.. vill assume big proportions, owing td he Inauguration of the open shop sys> lem by the employers.
 Plans will shortly be consummated or the amalgamation of the Minneap lis. Minn, organizations of bricklay- ITS and stone masons. A large major ty of both unions favor the step.
 Alligator catchers at certain points long the extreme southern coast oA florida have formed a union to pro. ect their industry from amateurs and E,.1v,e. cf1r r1% ften 01I of<N,.c F01a port.
 In Spain there is still great deal f industrial discontenr. The chies enter of action appears to be Barce bna, where strikes occur and are then bandoned with a celerity that is sur rising.
 British tinplate industry shows i'm. royement. In August there were 379 hills at work, compared with 354 in le previous month and 345 year ago. he number employed was about 19, 0O.
 At the present time there are tens thousands of women engaged at the ifficult and tedious work of picking late above the surface of the English totch, Welsh. Belgian, French and erman mines.
 Bridge and Structural Workers In srnationaI union has decided to put pecial organizers into the field to in ease tle membership which now is bout 16,000, one-third of which is em- loved in New York city.
 Labor disputes at Marseilles, France, .e not wholly ended, but large num- hr of laborers are at work. There as a rupture in the negotiations re- Bntly entered into, but probably these i'll be resumed and the affair settled. At Port Arthur, Canada, the strike hong the c. N. R. freight handlerA lded recently, the company granting increase to 221s cents an hour for y and 25 cents an hour for nighs ork for the remainder of the season. The city of Manchester, England, hich owns the street cars, sells eel Ibid tokens at the rate of penny ch. They are for the use of employ, who want to give their employees r fare and do not want 1t spent oth- se.
 The Odd Fellows, in their recent invention of New York state, voted wn the resolution to place the label the Allied Trades on all printed mat rs
 It is estimated that in England gen. ally 600,000 men at present need em- pyment
 Labor day celebration at St Louis, b, was held inside the exposition ounds. Over 224,OO0 persons en- red. compared with 1S7.192 on the ening day There were 26.000 more an entered the grounds on Labor day the Chicago fair in 1893.
 Owing to the scarcity of labor. and save the fast ripening crop. plant,
 at Augusta, Ga. have put laborers work picking cotton by moonlight.
 s feared that the labor problem in