The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1904-07-19

RoOters ana sDeet metal workers
strike at Montreal, Can, has been
settled by the employees agreeing TO
the new scale of wages
The percentage Of wage earners who
ar females is. in the United States,
IA, in Germany, %: in England, %;
in Italy. 80, and in Austria, a.
An increase in wages from 10 to %
cents a Gay has been secured by the
employees in the shops OF the Chicago
Great Western, at Oelwein, Ia
At Minneapolis. Mimi, an agree
ment between the upholsterers' union
and the employers has been signed
and will become effective November 1.
There is strong movement
throughout Connecticut TO have one
union Of telegraphers which viii com
prise all the union telegraphers of the
state
Eleven Of the 20 master plumbers of
Pawtucket, r l., have signed an agree
ment with the journeymen in which
wages are raised from SO to So so
day
Engineering firms of Belfast, Ire
Iand, reduce wages Of employees 5 per
cent in October. This is owing to
American ana continental competition.
Street car men at El Paso, Tex, are
as well organized as those of any otn.
er city in Texas, although their union
has only been in existence since last
October
The first union organized in the
state of Iowa wbs formed in 1888 It
was not until 1866 that the second
was organized. There are now 50
unions, with 4S.4OO members,
Last month, at British collieries en-
ploying 4sO,46G vorkpeople, the pits
worked an average of asa days
week. The number employed was 2
per cent. greater than year ago
The strike at sydney IN. So mines
has been settled, the company conced-
ing the request of the men by agreeing
TO make a fortnightly pay hereafter.
The rlen were formerly paid monthly.
Linemen employed in the construc.
don of the Indiana Union Traction
company's line south of Upton are out
on strike. They asked for an increase
of so cents a day, which was refused.
All the trades AMI labor councils in
the Dominion are now affiliated and
chartered by the Trades and Labor
Congress OF Canada, thus consolidat-
ing the labor movement from ocean to
ocean.
The Railway Garments Union, a. St
Paul, Mimi, is now the largest in the
United States. A total Of 10 new
members has been added within two
weeks This brings the total enroll.
ment up to 600
AT Boston. Mass, the Painters' I'm
ion has 1000 members, all Of whom
are working on the eight hour day
schedule, the painters getting 81 day
as minimum, and the decorators
getting SO 20.
AT Proc or Knott, MINI, new
lodge Of railway machinists has been
installed embracing in its membership
every machinist in the employ Of the
Duluth Missabe & Northern Railway
at that place
Lord Peel has decided against the
coal owners in the South Wales dis
trict as regards their demand for a
re5uction in the wages of the miners
In both the recent eases thS minsrs
have gained by the arbitration awards.
Blacksmiths of the Central Railroad
shops at Macon, Ca, have gone on
strike. The machinists are in confer
ence and win join the strikers If de-
mands for an increase Of 25 cents
day in their wages are not complied
with.
Local No 526, of the /. L. NJ Il T.
A.. organized July 70 with member
ship of 2lO, is located in Nome City.
Alaska. The men in that district re-
ceive 81 an hour The association
now has locals in all of the Ameri
can possessions
1t Is said that in the last l6 years
wages in the city Of Boston Mass.
for more than 10000 workmen IN the
building trades have been increased
in many cases more than 25 per cent.
During the same time the hours Of
work have been reduced TO eight