Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1903 — LABOR NOTES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LABOR NOTES

Cincinnati tailors may strike. It is proposed to extend the New Zealand arbitration act to the other Australian colonies. Railroad men last year were paid $570,028,502, as compared with $445,608,251 in 1805. An experiment ir being made at Sioux Falls, S. Ib, in employing Sioux Indians as day laborers. Amalgamation of the Journeymen Tailors and the Garment Workers' National Union is proposed. Damage suits aggregating SBO,OOO have been filed against labor unions and members at Chicago, 111. On Sept. 14, at Wheeling, W. Va., International Union of Steam Engineers will meet in convention. Union Pacific firemen and engineers have secured an increase of from 3 to 5 per cent in their wages. The Order of Railway Telegraphers reports 8,071 members admitted in the six months ended July 31. Headquarters of the International Union of Journeymen Barbers have been established in Indianapolis. A plan is contemplated for the federation of nil the commercial travelers' associations of the British Empire. Journeymen bakers in New York City have been unsuccessful iu their efforts to have the marter bakers accept their new wage scale , and adopt the union label. s Unable to reach an agreement .as to wage scale for the Knoxville (Tenn.) district, the joint conference of the miners and operators has adjourned until Sept. 10. Without n dissenting vote, the introduction of Asiatic labor to the Rand mines has been denounced by the Cape Parliament as a thing not to M tolerated at any cost. Hatters in Austria, are well organised. The hours of labor in their trade ranga fwm nine to tea daily. The weekly wages of men are from $4 t» SB, woman from $2 to SO. -I