Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1903 — LABOR NOTES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LABOR NOTES

The Investment in the government printing office is $2,429,000. One factory has marketed 60,000 electrical flatirons this season. The Democratic Labor-Union in Manila has a membership of 15,000. In shipbuilding. Pennsylvania stands first and New York second, while California is a good third. Returns of British trades unions show a gradual decrease of unemployed members in the engineering trades. Although one-fourth of the world’s sugar crop is consumed in the United States, but one-twentieth of it is grown here. An industrial census of Bohemia shows that of its 2,000,000 population of 469,327 are engaged in manufactures and of these 201,539 are women. Most of the work Is done by hand and at home. The Chicago Printers’ Union has taken steps to increase its members’ benefits. The union now sets aside $250 a month, from which sum every member who for twenty years has been a contributing member of the union, and ■is physically unfit for work, will receive a pension of $3 a week. Skilled labor In Indiana controlled by corporations average $2.43 a day and unskilled labor $1.33, boys 71 cents, girls and women 93 cents. New York City will no longer take its refuse to sea and dump it, but will make it into briquettes, with a bituminous flux, which will probably be burned in a municipal lighting plant. Publishers of San Francisco dailies have entered into an agreement with the Newspaper Writers' Union of that city, chartered by the Internationa] Typographical Union, and providing for a minimum wage scale. „ „