Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1903 — LABOR NOTES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LABOR NOTES

Cleveland plumbers won the eight-hour day, with $4 pay. In Indiana the average work day is a Kttle over nine hours. The labor unions at Niagara Falls are planning to erect a labor temple. London (Ont.) firemen are asking for 10 per cent increase in their salaries. Montreal bookbinders struck fpr an. $8 to Sl2 week scale and fifty-four hours’ wore. 1 ,* San Francisco tanners’ strike has been settled. This men gained the half time demanded. i! . ' J ; T ’ ' ’ There are nearly 125,000 miners in Belgium, not 10 per cent .of whom make a dollar, a day; v ; The standard rate of wages for bricklayers *pd plasterer*’ laborers in Eugland.is f*,.n week. , Union printers at Waco, Texas, havepresented *, new wage scale calling for a substantial increase. Steamfitters at New Haven,, Conn., will demand $3.50 a day, an increase of 50 cents, after May; 1. In Austria no trade union, as such, cap engage in a strike. Strikes must be conducted by' Secret Organisations. Thife Internafidnal Brotherhood of Paperhangers has adopted a gen'eral plan for;raisiug> a sloo,oo© defease-fund. In fetfs'tlia»'three weeks the Boot and ’ Shoe •Workers’' Ft amp hasbwn' granted l to factories iu Massachusetts employing 10,000 bands. . urv ..,, v . , Journeymen butchers - of Pasadena, Cal., have organized, and will demand a shorter work day. They now pyerage sixteen hours a day. , . Tho Natiooal.Trades Congress of Can- , ada has issued an appeal to organized labor to join. with if in advancing the interests of Canadian labor. >:• Miners at Nanaimo B. C-» have affll-i iated with the .Western Federation of Mipers, in direct antagonism to their old leaded Ralph Smith, M. P. (;: Montreal, Canada, journeymen bakers have decided to make apprentice? serve three years at the trade, and that they shall be controlled by the union.. By a referendum vote it has been decided that the 1903 convention of the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers shall be helil in Salt Lake City, Sept. 14. ■The brewery workers of Columbus, Ohio, have refused to accept the A. F. of L. decision that brewery engineers an<l firemen belong to their respective craft unions instead of the hrewery, workers’ union, and they have struek. It is asserted that ttte iecbnt parades of the London, England, unemployed that have drawn so much money from the, poekets of the charitable onlookers have been-largely composed of newly arrived alien paupers instead of • unfortunate British workingmen. -•-- :.nr. ... ’Newspaper Workers !n De«c Moines, lowd' will’fbrm a trttfon and affiliate with tM typdgraplhicai and'other organizations i# the Trades and Labor Assembly. > ! franchise was recently granted to a ntreet railway company at 'Zanesflile, Ohio, providing for a two and title-half zHPfllolf’&niVentttm at Buffalo is considering issuing an ultimatum to the crockera trust to unionise all its plants or face s strike. ,The factory in Chicago is now * union one.

Chicago carpenters get 50 cents an hour.