Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1904 — LABOR NOTES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LABOR NOTES

Fall River (Mass.) waiters recently organized. Arbitration may settle the shoe lockout at Quebec, Can. Efforts are being made to reorganize the tin workers at Boston, Mass. Japanese ’longshoremen are paid 20 cents and sailors from 15 to 25 cents a day. Servant Girls’ Union at Montreal, Can., will act upon the regulation of wages and hours. Enginemen and firemen on the Great Western (Eng.) railway have petitioned for an increase in pay. Continued reductions in wages of New England cotton mill operatives have now affected 88,000 workers. Cook County, 111., has eight local unions of railway clerks, with a membership of nearly 10,000. A bill for a national arbitration tribunal will be introduced in Congress by Senator Culiom of Illinois. Charters were issued recently for new locals of railway clerks in San Francisco, Cal., and Lawrence, Mass. A bitter labor war is expected at Spokane, Wash., resulting from a strike of the plumbers for $5.50 a day. Less than a decade ago trade unionism was almost unknown in Japan; to-day the little country has 300,000 organised workers. A Waiters’ Union, a branch of the Hotel and Restaurant Employes’ International Alliance and Bartenders’ League, was organized at Toronto, Cap., recently. Two thousand men have been thrown out of employment by the railroads centering in Chicago, 111. The list includes machinists, car workers, blacksmiths and boilermakers. Union bill posters have had a conference with representatives of all the big circuses, and an agreement has been made that none but union men will poet tiiiia for anv show next rear.