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IN THE FIELD OF INDUSTRY.
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Carpenters at Tuolumne, Cal., re
cently organized a union.
Railway clerks have, organized a
union at Now Haven, Conn.
The Southern Pacific will probably
give its engineers an Increase in pay.
Union Pacific yardmen at Omaha,
Neb., have made a demand for an in
crease of 5 cents an hour.
Alolders at Cleveland, 0., are on
strike. They demand an increase of
au to 15 per cent
Switchmen of the Colorado & South
ern have been granted an increase,
amounting to 11 per cent
It has been announced by the paint
ers at Portland, Me., that 'a nine-hour
day will go into effect on January 1.
Striking telephone linemen at Now
Orleans, La., have lost ' their strike,
the men accepting the terms offered.
Woodworkers at' Jonesboro, Arlc,
are on strike In support of a demand
for a 20 per cent increase and a fixed
scale.
A movement is on foot to bring the
brotherhoods of engineers, conductors,
firemen and trainmen into closer work
ing relationship.
Coal chute men at Moborly, Mo.,
whose business it is to load and un
load cars, have struck. They demand
an increase in wages.
Street car men" at Atlanta, Go., will
on December 1 receive a voluntary
Increase in wages amounting to an
average of nearly 15 per cent
The new wage contract of the broom
makers in Milwaukee, Wis., has been
signed by all of the seven shops in
which it was presented.
A - suggestion, has been indorsed a
Boston, Mass., by which the team
drivers of the United States and Cana
da shall be united in one central body.
The American Cabinet company has
begun the construction of an Industrial
village near its big factory, which io
located near Tonawanda, N. Y.
Labor at Memphis, Tenn., is very
scarce at present, particularly on ves
sels. Negro helpers on the latter were
recently paid as high as $110 a month.
Retail clerks at Aberdeen, Wash.,
organized a union some time ago. The
first step has been an agitation for
early closing, with every prospect of
success.
'A decision granting all the demands
of the strikers has been reached at
Chicago, 111., in the controversy be
tween. the rubber workers and Morgan
& Wright.
Plasterers at Knoxville and Chat
tanooga, Tenn., will enforce a demand
made some time ago for an eight-hour
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ceded to.
At Saratoga, N. T., the strike of the
trolley employes of the Hudson Val
ley railroad has been brought to a
close, the company granting the de
mands of the strikers.
It is generally believed in railroad
circles at- San Francisco, Cal., that the
question of higher "wages for the tele
graphers of the Southern Pacific "will
be amicably settled.
Ore diggers at the Rorer iron mines
of the Virginia Iron, Coal and Coke
company, near Roanoke, are on strike.
The men are making $1 a day and want
a 10 per cent increase.
Glass snappers at the National win
dow glass factory at Montpelier, Ind.,
have gone out on account of the com
pany taking off the guarantee and put
ting them on percentage.
The total number employed in the
tinplate industries of Great Britain at
the present time is about 20,000. A
dispute In the trade led to a decline in
the mills at work last month.
Cincinnati foundrymen have refused
to meet representatives of the core
makers' interna tional union in confer
t ace on the question of apprentices in
volved in the present strike.
Tennessee miners' at Whitwell and
Tracy City have signed a wage seal?
for the ensuing year. The coal dig
gers get no advance, but the day la
borers get a uniform advance of 13 per
cent.
Dairymen at San Francisco are sign
ing the new wage scale submitted by
the milk wagon drivers, which pro
vides for an increase of pay for the
drivers from $55 to $75 a month.
At Atlanta the ordinance committor
of council has adopted a resolution to
the effect that no convict labor or ma
terials made by convict labor be used
on the public works of Atlanta.
Telegraph operators at Des Moines
la., have formed a local union of
the international order of commercia.
telegraphers. This union will em
brace all commercial operators in cen
tral Iowa.
A general strike of silversmiths is
threatened throughout Massachusetts
Connecticut and Rhode Island, as a re
sult of the movement In New York for
a nine-hour day.
A general advance, of 15 per cent in
wages for Belgian window glass work
ers has been announced. The men
had threatened to strike unless giv
en an increase equal to that granted
the workers in this country.
Massachusetts and New Hampshire
trades unions are instigating a move
ment for a pooling of orders for the
winter's supply of fuel, and, if neces
sary, to buy coal direct from the oper
ators in order to procure a cheaper
rate.
At Topeka, Kas., the Santa Ie rail
way system has announced an increase
of 1 per cent an hour for about one
thousand two hundred of their skilled
tradesmen In metal work and helpers
on the main, line between Chicago and
Albuquerque, N. M.
The action of the Chicago federation
of labor in reinstating Chicago typo,
graphical union No 16, underpressure
Irom President Gompers, terminates a
controversy having for its origin a
strike of Chicago newspaper pressmen
two years ago.
The question of a reduction in wages
of boilerraakers and Iron shipbuilders,
shipwrights, ship joiners, laborers and
others on the northeast coast of Eng
land has not yet been finally decided
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A general strike is not expected, how
ever. "
All the employes of the Begelow
boiler works atNew Haven, Conn.,
have refused to work on Fridayc.
Strange fatalities have occurred ro
cently on successive Fridays which
have so impressed the men that they
think it Is an unlucky workday.
At Topeka, Kas., linemen employed
by the Missouri & Kansas Te'lephono
i ompany have struck for higher wage?
and shorter hours. The men want the
length of the day decreased from 10 to
9 hours and an increase in wages from
?2.25 to $2.50 a day.
The army clothing department em
ployes' union in England is protesting
against the low rate of wages paid by
the government. ThG union demand?
the recognized trade union rates in all
classes of work, presumably on the
log system of the tailors' union.
About 2,000 miners and others havo
struck work in the Castleford district
of Yorkshire, England, against the
reduction of 10 per cent In wages, as
assented to by the national federation
of miners. The men allege that their
wages have been very low.
Patternmakers at Cincinnati, O., will
go on a strike unless their demands
for a raise in wages and the cutting
down of apprentice apportionments ar.;
complied with. The demand of the
patternmakers' union is for a mini
mum scale of 37 cents' an hour for a
nine-hour day.
Montreal, Can., longshoremen who
went out on a strike recently for an
Increase of wages have all returned to
worlc, th steamship companies hav
ing granted their demands for 30 cents
an hour for day and 35 cents for night
work. The men have been getting 20
cents an hour night or day work.
At Chicago, HI., all the shopmen on
the Wabash lines are out on strike,
and the Chicago & Eastern Illinois and
Cnicago & Alton machinists, black
smiths and boilermakers are on the
verge of a walk-out They are de
manding a minimum wage of 30 cents
an hour.
Indianapolis (Ind.) switchmen are
receiving 23 and 25 cents an hour for
day work, with practically no posi
tive limit of hours, and 24 cents and
26 cents an hour for night work.
They will ask for a raise to the basis
of the Chicago scale, which is 2S
cents and 30 cents an 'hour for day
service and 29 cents and 31 cents an
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