Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1903 — LABOR NOTES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LABOR NOTES

Carpenters of Boston and vicinity get $3 a day. Cincinnati city hospital nurses work eight hours. Holyoke, Mars., girls formed a Housework Girls’ Union. Philadelphia bricklayers receive a dent a minute for day's work. San Francisco building laborers won |2.25 per day for eight hours’ work. Minneapolis, Minn., building laborers have made a demand for 25 cents an hour. Bricklayers in Germany receive from 7 to 1) cents an hour and work ten hours n day. Building laborers at detgeland, J3hio, have asked for $2.40 a day, an increase of 40 cents. Eleven flourishing labor unions have been formed in Winona, Minn., in the past month. Blacksmiths at Wheeling, Bridgeport, Martins Ferry, Bellaire nnd Bemvood, W. Yu., have formed a pnion. There is a movement on foot among manufacturers fit Findlay, Ohio, to employ none but temperance men. Providence, It. 1., labor unions plan to raise $20,000 before Jan. 1, UXK>, with which to build n labor temple. Bricklayers at Toronto, Caada, have made a demand for weekly pnynienl of jvagw. They are now paid semi-weekly. Newspaper men of Spain have formed a union, nnd will demand a minimum wage of S3B a month and one day oil a week. Textile workers of Lancashire, England, have determined to run labor candidates for Parliament nt tbs coming election. , There-are 1,750.000 boys and girls her tween ten and fifteeu years of age at work in factories nnd mines in the United Ktutes. There Is n great scarcity of labor among the iron workers, boilermakers, macliinifts, pattern makers and luolders in British Columbia. The wages of boileryiakers U $3.50 for a nine-hour day and /or pattern makers $4 for a ninehour day.