The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1904-01-30
GENERAL LABOR NEWS

committee OF three was appointed
to present the resolution to President
Roosevelt an dthe Secretary of War
and to urge Congress to discontinue
appropriations for dredges. The COM
mittee will also ask Congress for law
to protect organized labor in the con-
struction Of the Panama Canal.
Striking clothing cutters at Rochester,
N. Y, are leaving and taking positions
in other cities. Nearly $1,000 is con-
tributed weekly in strike benefits, mar
ried men receiving 312 a week and sim
gle men So.
The association adopted resolution
protesting against the Government
building dredges and doing dredging
work In direct competition with Amer
lean contractors.
Evacuation OF the military camps at
Telluride and Cripple Greek has begun.
and only provost guards will be posted
at these places for cases of emergency.
The fifteenth annual convention Of
the United Mine Workers of America
will be held in Tomlinson Hall, Indian
apolis, Ind, commencing January 18th,
1904.
Union seamen have organized in OPP
position to the Fry. Bill, which, among
other thing prevented the advancement
of wages to sseamaa :x~,s< AZ = - 81:
A strike Will soon begin at all the
mines OPERATED by the United States
Steel Corporation in the Connellsville,
Pa, region.
Nearly 1000 Chicago workmen were
notified this week Of reduction in
wages, ranging from 10 to Is per cent
In oh pfy7 III IL,
IL hours a day for So week and the
men work the same hours for 81 per
week.
A general strike of all persons en-
ployed by the shipping interests at
Barcelona, Spain, has been declared,
and trade and business is paralyzed.
New York photo-engravers who have
been organized in rival unions have
consolidated,
Eight unions of the Boot and Shoe
Workers union were recently expelled
from the order.
Glass factories at Elwood, Ind, have
closed down.
Colored washerwomen Of St. Louis,
Mo-, suburbs have formed union ana
have increased their wages from 81 to
$3.50 a day and have reduced their
working hours from ten to six.
The Blast FURNACE Workers Associa-
ton has $4,000 members, and embra ces
all the territory as far West as Chicago,
South to Alabama and north to But
falo.
It is proposed to have conference
among labor leaders at the st. Louis
fair next year, with a view to starting
agitation for the eight hour day in ev-
cry part Of the country.
In Austrian railway workshops the
working time is mostly ten hours dali
ly: in some instances nine and one
half hours. Earnings vary from twen-
ty-five cents to $1.40 daily.
AS result of 0Yerproduction Ohio
coal operators have reduced the price
of coal at the mines from 10 to Is cents
per ton within the last week.
Wages of 100000 men have been re.
duced by the cut made by the United
States Steel Corporation and subsidiary
companies,
There are 227 lead pencil factories in
Germany, which employ" 2,813 persons
and export each year 1,614 tons of pen
oils worth $2,ooo,ooo +
Trade unions at Toronto Canada
have organized a central body on the
trade seccins OF the country for the per
trade sectional PLAN
Fifty years ago the English govern
ment employed about 1000 women;
now it engages 10000.
Union hardwood finishera of Indian
apoiis are threatening q sttike