Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1901 — Labor World [ARTICLE]

Labor World

Th* new wage agreement of the New York electrical workers establishes a rate of $3.50 w a day for eight'boars’ work, and covers all contracts'within * radius of twenty-five miles of New York. „ f Bookmakers of Reading, Pa., to the number of 350, have been granted an I Increase of 26 cents per day in wages. The raise In the wage scale resulted from a strike, which was settled by a compromise. I A big steel and Iron pianriwtll be built at Sault Ste. Marie, Canada, which will employ 10,000 men and be capitalized at $50,000,000. The plant will be operated In connection with the great power canal being constructed at the Canadian 800. The large clothing city of Cincinnati is becoming rapidly organised. There are seven local unions In the vicinity and eight firms are using the union label. The workday In all union tailor shops Is nine hours and eight In the cutting shops. The United States Steel Corporation, the greatest comblnatloh of Interests In the world, began doing business in the Pittsburg district, the leading Iron and steel center In the country. Fifty thousand employes in the mills and blast furnaces have new employers. The clothing cutters of Baltimore are organizing rapidly, and at the present rate the local will soon readk its former strength, and perhaps repair the damage done daring four years of disorganization. The tailor unions are also reorganizing, and the district council has established a separate headquarters. William F. Sherlock, editor of the Union, a labor Journal, who was recently convicted of criminal libel npon an jemploye of a newspaper aud sentenced to the penitentiary for three monffife, died from pneumonia at his home In Brooklyn. Sherlock was pardoned after serving twenty days of his sentence. The growth of Unionism in Erie, Pa„ Is remarkable—a greater amount of enthusiasm has never been known. Many trades are realizing the benefits from their unions, and before long Erie will be one of the best organized elties to 'be found. The men are making a demand for union goods, and 1t is having a good effect. Trenton, N. J., has a servant girls’ union. They are not to work for less than $2.50 a week, nor take old clothes Instead of their wages. Each girl is entitled to a sweetheart, and she need not meet bimjit the corner. All are to have time to eat aud bathe, shall dress Suitably, and may endeavor to have her. .employej do likewise. An attempt is being made to unionize the farmers of Indiana. They are to be taken into the Thrashers’ National Protective Association. The organization is well established in the States of lowa, Illinois, Texas and several other of the Western States. It is estimated that In the thrashing industry there is at least $500,000,000 Invested and that there are probably 500,000 thrashers in the country.