Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-08-15

NOTES FROM THE LABOR
WORLD.


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Hebrew painters and paperhangers
OF Boston are reforming their old un.
ion.
The San Francisco Building Trades
Council has organized an athletic as
ISOLATION
The girls employed in an Adelaide
Australia, clothing factory went on
strike to resist a reduction of wages.
Steam engineers Of Cleveland, o.,
are making strong efforts to introduce
eight-hour shifts in packing houses
in place of twelvehour shifts.
White and negro longshoremen at
New Orleans have signed a five.year
contract with the stevedores and
steamship agents establishing scale.
A seeding organization from the
Brotherhood of Railroad Employees
has taken the name of Brotherhood
OF Railroad Station Employees.
The next convention of the lnterna.
tional Brotherhood of Bookblnders
will be held during the second week
in June, 1901, at Cedar Rapids, la.
The book and job scale of the San
Francisco Typographical Union has
been increased from $22 to $24
week, All employers have accepted
the new scale under an agreement.
The telephone service at Sheboy.
gan, Wis, was tied up for two hours
recently by strike of the girl oper-
ators, who demanded a weeks yaca-
ton with pay and obtained the con.
cession.
twenty-five hundred children's jac
ket makers, who went on a strike in
New York a few weeks ago to resist
a reduction of wages, have won their
strike in all but n few shops and have
returned to work at their former
wages.
The railway trackmen are planning
for the establishment of home for
their aged and INDECENT members. II
Is proposed to acquire a tract of FIVE
acres near Fort Scott, Kan,
upon which to locate the institution
The st. Paul Typographical Union
has decided to make a label exhibit
at the Minnesota State Fair this year,
and will ask the Minneapolis union
to join with It. Last year the St.
Paul union made a highly credtable
label display.
The National Brotherhood of Oper
alive Potters has voted to fix an age
limit for all apprentices entering the
trade Resolutions were adopted
which will hereafter make 1t necessa.
ry for all new apprentices to be six.
teen years or over.
In New York State a bill, which
takes from the health boards of the
irstclass cities the inspection Of mer-
ldHtilt NoNdDllShiiNhlh anu pluNto ~ |
IN the hands of the labor department,
was passed and 1t will so into effect
IN October /.
One Of the principal matters and
most important features of the next [
of the United Brotherhood
If Carpenters and Joners, which will
meet in Salt Lake City September 10,
$ the plan to start an old-age pen
sion, similar to that of the Interna- |
ional Typographical Union.
II has been announced that the well
Known English labor leader, j. Keir
Iarde, who is also a member of par [
lament, intends to attend the cnoven-
ion of the Trades and Labor Coun-
II Congress, to be held at Halifax,
l. S. on September q, and that he
viii also attend meeting of miners I
{ Springfield
Representatives of the Glass Blow
RS of America won notable victory
N the final day of their recent wage q
difference with the manufacturers of |
lass bottles, which was held at At |
lntic City, ~ j., when they obtained ,
wage scale at the same figure as .
asst year with the same working I