Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1903 — LABOR NOTES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LABOR NOTES

iJhlcago carpenters want DO cents as hour. Sacramento waiter anions are battling against Chinese cooks. Street car conductors In Switzerland are paid 80 cents a day for twelve hours. Trade unions In New York Increased 10 per cent In membership during ths »a*t six mouths. Telephone girls at Butte, Mont., have secured an increase of 815 a month after * short strike. Clothing cutters at Baltimore, hfd., Will receive an Increase of 25 cents a day bsglnning April 1. In ten years the boih«.makers and iron shipbuilders’ union has grown from 450 to 23,000 members. Building trades at Birmingham, Ala., will form an alliance and aeft as one body for mutual protection. Providence, R. 1., labor nn&ns are proScting a new labor temple to be erected id owned by union men. International stonemakers’ union has deolded to affiliate with the National Building Trades Council of America. In Belfast, Ireland, district Xf fewer than 70,000 people nro employed In connection with the linen manufacture. Chicago, 111., electrical worker* wUI demand on lncreaie of $1 a day, beginRing April i. Their scale la now $4 Glove mnkers at San Francisco, CaL, will present a new wage schedule to their employes to go into effect March 1. The pay of all freight handlers smpleyw sd by ths Erls Railroad at ths Jersey City terminal was Increased from 17 te 18 Vi cents an hour. A new ecale of wages to be presenter by the hoisting and pile-driving engineers Of Omaha, Neb., has been approved by ths Central Labor Union. The Illinois State Free Employment JJweauo obtained situations last year for 84,000 men and 18,134 women. Virginia nouse of Delegates has passed an act prohibiting factory labor for children under 18 and regulating the work of those between 12 and 14. Toronto, Canada, nnlon painters have decided to demand 86 cents an hour beginning April 15. Heretofore wages pave been 80 cents an hour for an eighthour day. New York State Federation will advocate twenty measures before the State Aoaembly this year. One Is a bill to pro3nt the beuancs of Injunctions In casea ■trikes and lockouts. Committees of telegraph operators representing the vnrloss railways centering at St Paul, Minn., have submitted a MW achedule for an Increase of wages and a new book of rules. Ths American Federation of Labor executive council has Indorsed the movement to send a special commissioner to Investigate labor conditions In Hawaii, ths Philippines, Chins snd Japan. Dissatisfaction Is reported to exist among ths motormen, firemen, guard* and clippers employed on ths Manhattan Elevated Railroad on account of wagea and hours of work. Union Pacific strikers hava unanimously voted not only not to accept piecework, but voted that the eubject would Rot again bs considered in conference as s basis for a strike settlement Ths oldest trade union of the world {a the anfalgnmated custom tailors of England. Ths employers havs an association, and a joint standing arbitration board dlscuarea all difficulties. Wagea of motormen, conductors ant other employes of ths Auburn (N. Street Railway Company havs teen Increased from 10 to 20 per cent, depending upon the length of servlco,