Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1903 — LABOR NOTES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LABOR NOTES

Ogdensburg, N. Y., servant girls have formed a union. Bakers at Albany, N. Y., have inaugurated a movement to abolish night work. Schenectady, N. Y., has 8,856 trade unionists, an increase of over 6,000 in two year?. Electrical workers in Ohio met In Cleveland recently , and formed a State association. In Austria women are employed as hod carriers, and receive from 25 to 30 cents a day. Bricklayers and masons employed on State contracts in Holland receive 7 cents an hour. Blast furnacemen in Lancashire, England, have been given notice of a reduction of 8% per cent. Laundry workers nt San Francisco, Cal., will insist on a nine-hour day, with no decrease in pay. Iron and steel workers in Wales have been granted an increase of 3% per cent, datiug from April 1. Of the total number of skilled workmen in printing trades in Qermnny, 25 per cent are organized. Textile operatives in England hare formulated a new wage schedule calling for an increase in wages. A movement has been Inaugurated la Germany for the restriction of night work in some laborious Industries. Peoria, 111., painters demand 40 cents an hour and a forty-four-hour week, instead of 81 cents an hour and a forty-eight-hoar week. Another new political labor party has been started in Greater New York. It is a branch of the "United Protective League of Labor of the United States of America,” which was organized June 10, 1802, and has ita headquarters in WarhIngton, D. C. Richard J. Waldron, flnancial secretary es ths Amalgamated Painters and Decorators, is the organiser for the boroughs of Manhattan,' Richmond and the Bronx.