Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1903 — LABOR NOTES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LABOR NOTES

Chicago porters have organized. Denver tinners receive $3.75 a day. Spain controls the Cuban shoe market. Toledo has a blacksmiths’ helpers’ onion. The constitution of Mexico forbids monopolie^ The o\v smiths will meet in S(? Louis next year. The best laundered peopl? are the Americans. Wheeling tobacco workers want the nine-hour day. Cincinnati’s building laborers have formed a union. India exported $46,000,000 worth of cotton last year. On many railways cement ties are displacing wooden ties. Mexico will employ Chinese coolie la-borers-in the hemp fields. . The coal teamsters of Paterson, N. J., ■truck for increased wages. One concern in Wufrtembiirg exports C,000,000 harmonicas per annum. At Reading, Pa., 200 hat finishers went out because of a disagreement over wages. . Mexico rah'-es 50,000 bales of the 100,000 bales of cotton used each year in that couutry. Kansas City, Mo., cignnnakers have ■ecured an increase in wages of $1 on each 1,000 cigars. Master builders at Boston, Mass., have agreed to the demands of the carpenters for an advance in wages of 20 cents a day. There is a movement on foot nmpng the school teachers in Council Bluffs, lowa, to combine for imifkal benefit. It is proposed to make a dekuuMi-for a general advance in salaries. At San Antonio, Texas, the threatened ■trike of the San Antonip Brewery employes over the wage contract for 1003 la off, through an amicable settlement of the controversy. Brantford, Canada, a city of 10,000 population, did not know what a labor organization wan a few years ago, nnd now she has thirty, nearly all organised In the past two years. The strike of the linmessuinkers at Walsall. England, is «u a large scale, some thousands being idle. The dispute is over the new piecework rates. workmen ouggest arbitration. e