The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1905-11-30
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The ordinary Cuban bricklayer does
well if he can put up 500 bricks
day. The American on rough work can
lay 1.S00.
There are about 1900 carpenters in
Cuba. Good men are paid from S1.5O to
81 n day in the cities; in the smaller
places they work for much less.
Thirty-two new cigar factories were
started during October in Pcnnsylva-
mia, as against 1S in September, 30 in
October, 1904 and 81 in October, 1908.
A few days ago James B. and Joseph
G.. Murphy. merchant tailors of Chicago,
were held for the grand jury for misuse
of the label of the United Garment
Workers.
Nine more companies, employing over
5000 men, are dismissng their working
force and leaving Chicago forever, for
the country. on account of the ccasclcss
labor troubles.
Belgian female workers on handmade
lace earn but from % to 80 cents day
of twelve to fifteen hours work. In
eastern Flanders the wages are still
lower, ranging from 1G to 20 cents n
day.
The general membership of the Broth
erhood of Painters, Papcrhangers and
Decorators by a majority of 10000 has
voted to hold Il convention during the
coming winter. Memphis, Tenn, will
probably be the place. The union has
not held n convention in four years,
Boston lodge of machinists has ac-
cepted the recent wage increase given
by the n. Y, n. III. Il ii. X. r., and
which will increase the machinists' pay
roll OF that system just $4,000 year.
The increase will not interfere with the
increase expected May 1 of next year,
it Is said.
The annual report of the New York
State Commission on Prisons for 1904
shows that all inmates able to work
were employed: that the sales of manu-
facturcd articles for the year amounted
| TO S70S,S2S. and that not one dollars
worth of prison-mado goods was sold In
| the open market
The United States District Attorney of
| New York has caused the arrest of clev-
en- heads of manufacturing concerns OF
that city on warrants charging them
with having conspircd, through the me-
dium of an employers association, to
violate the alien contract labor law by
the importation of foreign workmen.
The printers have adopted the follow.
| ing slogan in the present eight-hour cam
| paign: I'VE propose to sell to the en-
ploycr hours out of "a, and we will
do as we please with the remaining 1G.
This is the union printers answer tc
the aspersions made upon the union by
its opponents in their effort to east obi
um upon the movement of tho men fol
the shorter workday.
4 joint convention of the United Min,
Workers of the three anthracite dis
tricts will be held at Shamokin. Pa.
beginning Thursday, Dec. II. This con
vention will formulate the demands t,
be presented to the operators mex
spring. The chief demands will be a!
follows: An eight-hour workday; wag,
payments according to weight; uniform
wages for all employees; II uniform seal,
for rock slate, water and dead work
an agreement between the United Min,
Workers and the operators.
| At the close of 1904, England, Scot
land and Ireland, with n population o.
n,5O0OO0, had n trade union member
ship of 1,902,30S. In other words, il
- Of the population was a trade union
ist. In Germany there were 1,2I6,S31
trade unionists in n population of So,
100000, or l in A. In France. with
population of 3S,300,000, there are 715.
5IG trade unionists, or / TO 53. Italy
with 32,5O0,OO0 population, reports 1Sl,
30 members of trade unions. or | tC
| $50. In AuStrin the trnlp unions hnv,