The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1904-01-28
WORKSHOP MILL and NINE.
Review of Weeks Work of Mechan-
les, Artisans and Labor organi-
cations.

Piano workers at New Haven,
Conn, have formed a union.
There are sixty-two carpenters
Unions in the State of California.
Secondhand clothing workers
Of New York demand an eleven
hour work day.
New York photo-engravers, who
have been organized in rival I'M
IONS, have consolidated.
Fifty years ago the English gov
eminent employed about 2000
women; now it engages 10000.
Horseshoers in Spokane, Wash,
will present new scale calling
for SD 80 to 81 for the nine-hour
day.
Iowa school teachers have pass
ed resolutions asking the State
Legislature for increased compen.
sation.
Lansing (Mlch.) Pressman's
and Typographical unions have
raised their scales 81 a week, TAX
ing erect July l.
Efforts are being made to merge
the unions of the retail salesa-
dies and the retail statesmen at
Minneapolis.
Cloth spongers of New York
City have sighed an agreement
with their employers for an add
vance of 81 a week in wages.
The Lackawanna Railroad COM
pany has issued an order forbid
ding its train employees from fire.
quenting hotels and saloons.
Wages of 100000 men have
been reduced by the cut made by
the United States Steel corpora
ton and subsidiary companies.
Miners in Cripple Creek Colo,
gold mines are being engaged to
develop extensive mining pro-
perties on the West African coast.
Just one of the 375 locals
in the American Federation of
Musicians has woman for secre-
tary-Miss Kate Glover of Joplin,
Mo.
Union Seamen have organized
in opposition to the Frye bill,
which, among other things, pre-
vents the advancement OF wages
to seamen.
At Pittsburg, Pa, 600 mem
bers of the National Union of
Brewery Workers have been given
an increase in wages averaging 10
per cent.
Iowa pays the lowest wage to
female school teachers of any
State in the Union. The average
salary paid men and women is
only 1861.
Over 5000, 900 was expended in
organizing work in the last year
by the American Federation of
Labor, and it is understood that
more than that amount will be
spent the coming year.
Nebraska City (Neb,) mer-
chants, welding to the demands
of the Retail Clerks ASSOCIATION,
have signed an agreement to
close their places of business at
6:30 p. m.
An employers association has
been formed at Indianapolis,
Ind, to promote harmonious re-
lations between employers and
employees and to discourage lock-
outs and strikes.
A cooperative grocery store
will he started in conjunction
with the cooperative dry goods
store controlled by the Pueblo,
Colo, Trades Assembly and own
ed by union labor of that city.
South Wales Federation of
Miners is strongly opposed to q
renewal of the contracting out
plan, either in it's present or any
altered form, and is strongly adj
vising its members against 1T.
Hazelton, Pa Brotherhood of
Carpenters union has formulated
new schedule of wages, which
will raise the maximum rate from
% to ~ cents an hour, to become
effective on April /.
North Cardinals new child Ia
Dor law went into effect January
|, prohibiting the employment of
children under II years of age.
The labor commissioner reports
that there are very few children
under that age being employed in
mills now.
A notice has been posted in the
steel mill of the Tennessee Coal,
Iron and Railroad Company at
Ens!ey, Ala, announcing that a
reduction Of 10 per cent would
be made in the wages of all EN-
ployes with the exception of those
receiving ST per day,
The Chicago Federation of La
Dor has nearly 500 subordinate
unions, with a membership of
100000. Among the affiliated
unions are nine unions of street
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