Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1903 — LABOR NOTES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LABOR NOTES

Syracuse machinists struck for a ninehour day. Toronto painters won the 35 cents an hour demand. Chinese may l>e imported into South Africa to aid in working the mines. ► The Providence Street Railway owners voluntarily increased the 1,300 employes’ pay. i Hebrew printers in New York City have won their strike. Hereafter they will receive sls a week for four hours’ work each day. Representatives of lalxir unions in New York are teaching the advantages and benefits of organization to the Italian immigrants ns soon as they land on American soil. Walker County. Ala., miners have received a general increase of 10 per cent for twelve months, dating from April 1, making the prices 55 cents a ton instead of 50.. Seventy French firms manufacture motor cars, and their combined output last year was 12,000 cars. Tiie industry employed 130,000 workmen, earning on an average of S3OO a year each. An increase of wages will naturally result iu Alabama Vi-lien the new child lalior law’ goes into effect. In one factory iu Huntsville 300 children under twelve will have t«, quit work. - Other institutions throughout the State will he similarly affected. A central organization of structural iron manufacturers has been formed in New York to resist demands of structural iron workers for an Increase in wages. Forty concerns, with a capitalization of $1,000,000, are represented. The first victory of the Employers’ Asrociation of Chicago has been recorded. In the strike of 1,000 tanners the main issue was union recognition and this was refused, in accordance with the plan o| the association to give no onion recogs nition. The men accepted a nine-hour day with no reduction in salary, and returned to work. •