Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1890 — LABOR NOTES. [ARTICLE]

LABOR NOTES.

The Pacific Coast Seamen's Union has 4,200 members. One factory at San Francisco has put ' an onion molders. .t, , Wilton weavers at Palmer, Mass., now get 14 cents a yard. Chambersburg, Pa., molders lost a strike for an advance. Grand Rapids stree-car men won twelve hours and $ . 75. Cincinnati stair builders won nine hours with ten hours’ pay. The book and job men of Boston are going to try for nine hours. Boston cloakmakers have struck. They average $4.50 a week. It is said that there are 75,000 women typewriters in the Slates. - The Molder’s Union has out a day’s work from twelve and thirteen to ten hours. The Ashland (Wis.) mill hands will work ten hours a day, at ten and a half hours’ pay. , The Butchers’ Labor Bureau at San Franci6QO can not supply the demand for men. The Georgia Farmers’ Alliance has forced another Congressman to withdraw from the race. The Brotherhood of Painters has,* 75,000 members and talks of eighth hours for May 1, 1801. ■ They say that the eight hour day is ’ in force in South Africa by order of the government. St. Louis Unions will form a central organizations, and unionize all nonunion occupations. The New York cake bakers won two strikes. The boss ordered his men to join the union.. .. The Jacques Cartier Union, of Montreal, proposes a National Typographical Union for Montreal. On Day a monument will be erected at Scottdale, Pa., to labor leader William Mullen.

Pittsburg and Allegheny toby makers get from $2.75 to $4.00 per I*ooo.] They waut twenty-five cents advance/ Over 100 of Denver’s leading barbers have decided to close at 11:30 on Saturday night, and all day on Sunday. It is said that tho Springfield Federation of Labor is boycotting clothing houses who will not join the esJ|y closing movement. The Central Labor Council, of Cincinnati, have requested the City Council to put laborers on an equal footing with policemen on the pay roll. At Cincinnati 1,000 carpenters wilt be qoncedod nine hours and ten hours pay. The rest will be supported by an assessment of $1 a week on those employed.