The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1904-07-14
NeAvS Of
Union Labor

vi Ille rullJu re system over H.
600 machinists, in Philadelphia
5000 in the building trades are
few of the many demonstration
being made against the open shop.
Atchison is probably the only
town in Kansas that has pension
ed n disabled employee. William
Hoover, assistant chief of the fire
department, has been retired on
account of disability after % years
of faithful service with an allow
ance of $50 month.
Cab drivers in London, are
again on strike. They claim it inn
possible to pay the amounts fixed
by the Asquith award ten years
ago.
OF each 1000 immigrants who
reach America it is said there are
only seven girls who desire en-
ployment as house servants.
A general defense fund of $780,
600 is being raised by the Amalga-
mated association of street and
electric railway employees Of
America.
A new international union is to
be formed by the Carpet Workers
union in large cities, to be COM
posed Of carpet layers, cutters,
measurement and sewers.
In 1903, 57,O4G immigrants
landed OH our shores, of which
lS5, 667, over II years old, could
not read or write.
At Milwaukee the annual con-
vention of the International Al
lance of Theatrical Stage EN-
ploses will be held the second week
of July.
The organizing committee of
the San Francisco labor council
has formed the chorus girls into u
union ana a charter has been Sc
cured from the American Fedora
tion of Labor.
In San Francisco novel Coop
erative shoe business is being con-
Quoted by % young and practical
shoemakers and shoe clerks. Each
man has paid in 81, 800 and the
amount has been used Co buy the
factory and the store of one of the
big shoe men of San Francisco
The men are running the business
now on the cooperative basis.
The Journeymen BARRIERS Inter-
national Union has experienced
but two strikes of Importance
since 1896.
Members Of the AmaIgamated
Society of Engineers now total
about %, 800.
Plans:are being made to start n
cooperative shoe factory at North
Brooklield, Mass, where many
shoe workers were thrown out Of
employment by the closing of the
big Bachelor shop. Nearly $40, 900
has been subscribed.
The international Brotherhood
of Transfers now has over 1OO,-
600 members and 900 local
unions, The annual convention
meets in Cincinnati in August.
Chicago Stereotypers' Union
No. 4, has succeeded in union
izing all offices in Chicago, with
scale Of $3 80 per day and an in
crease next April of 20 cents a
day.
President Gompers, of the A.
f. OF H., has been asked to call a
convention for the purpose of
forming national union of soap,
| glycerine and tallow candle
makers.
Portsmouth On. H. must
clans are planning the organiza-
ton of union.
llorseshoers' International
Union convention is to be held
this year at Omaha, Neb., on
June 81.
The cost of the various strikes
IN Colorado during the past rs
months is estimated at S23, O3G,-
600.
British Amalgamated Engin-
GERS will contribute $3.50 to the
lockout diamond workers at
Amsterdam.
Many thousands of workmen in
Hamburg, Germany, are abstaing
ing from drinking beer because of
a strike of nearly 2O00 brewery
hands, boycotting more than 81
breweries Three breweries have
given in to the strikers granted
their demands.
Wauau for nr,t,, ~, 90, l,lov..z =.