The San Angelo press. (San Angelo, Tex.) 1897-1907, 1904-01-07
INDUSTRIAL ECHOES.
Review OF Weeks Work of Mechanics,
Artisans And Their
Organizations.

cents a working day of ten hours.
The recent 10 per cent reduce
tion in wages of New England's
cotton textile operative affected
$4,000 men.
q The caretakers of the Hamilton
(Can.) public schools will receive
10 per cent increase in their
salaries.
Albany On. W printers will
consider the question of raising
their scales 20 per cent, to take
effect January ], 1904.
All traction men in the employ
of the street railway company at
Marquette, Mich, have gone on a
strike for higher wages.
Recently the Photographers
union was formed in San Fran
cisco, Cal, the first of this craft
to be organized in the United
States.
A slight increase will probably
be made in the wages of engine
men on the Ontario and Quebec
division of the Canadian Pacific.
San Francisco, Cal, Laborers'
Protective union has requested of
the city an increase of laborers'
wages from 81. 80 to SD day.
Seven striking union cloak
makers of San Francisco, CAL,
will shortly open cooperative
factory, and employ some of the
men now on strike.
Labor unions at st. Joseph,
Mo-, are again on the verge of a
general strike as a result of
trouble between contractors and
union bricklayers.
Washington, d. c., women
typewriters and stenographers are
to be organized into union and
affiliate with the American FEEDER
alton of Labor.
Building Trades Council of st.
Joseph. Mo-, has decided that
hereafter members shall not rent
houses unless they bear the label
of organized labor.
Nearly two-thirds of the 200O
miners of the Northern Colorado
coal fields have resumed work and
it is believed that the full force
will soon be at work.
In September there were about
10000 revenue-puying members
of the American Federation of
Labor. Since then, approximate
~ 100000 have been added.
The Northern Pacific road has
adopted new regulation, notify
ing lUs men at St. Paul, Mimi,
that drinking on or off duty, is
equivalent to discharge.
The faculty of law of the Uni
versity of Breslau has conferred
the degree of LID on M. Schlag-
zinkowski, formerly working
blacksmith, and now Francis
can monk.
Cleveland, Ohio, tailors have
refused to agree to proposition
from the Merchant Tailors' Pro-
tective association that the strik-
ers return to work under an open
shop policy.
Boston, Mass, hack and cab
drivers, who work eighteen and
twenty hours a day in busy sea-
SONS, for which they receive $12
, weekly or less, will present. de-
mands for union hours and wages.
Journeymen BARRIERS are deter
mined to resist the opening of
barberyhops in Montreal, Canada,
on Sunday, and will oppose siren
uously any effort made to repeal
: the bylaw now in effect.
!, Twelve hundred steamtitters at
work on the fair buildings at st.
Louis, have gone out, and will
not resume work until their diff
ferences with the association can
be settled.
There are 7,S4S dressmakers
Ielploycu ny III III iLohuoh'
England. The highest wages OBJ.
talnable-except in the case CT
about dozen heads of depart.
ments-are IS shillings, or 81, 8
week.
Single mills of Castle Rock
and Kelso, Wash, have beer
closed down because of a strike
among the shingle weavers. This
state of affairs is due to the con
tinued low price of shingles.
Orders have been received q
E the car department of the Wabasl
e system at Decatur, H., to maxi
reduction of 10 per cent in ex
penditures for wages. One hun
dred and fifty men will be laid off
At the meeting of the Indian
apolis lind. } Butchers union 200
organized meat workers of tn
citv voted down the nrOnositiO