Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1903 — LABOR NOTES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LABOR NOTES

China coppersmiths earn $1 a day. England has nearly 4,000 female butchers. \ , Columbus, Ohio, freight handlers will organize. Longshoremen at Providence, IL L r will organize. A law legalizing strikes is in preparation at St. Petersburg, Russia. Los Angeles plasterers won a $1 increase. They now get $6 a day. The deinand for skilled white labor is steadily increasing in South Africa. New Orleans, La., has nineteen negro labor unions, numbering 11,000 men. In the German Parliament there are over eighty representatives of workingmen. Seamen on native river craft get $3 a month in China; on seagoing Chinese vessels, SB. Mine owners of Sonora are arranging to employ Chinese laborers in place of Mexicans. A strike of bricklayers at St. Joseph, Mo., has been settled and the men have returned to work. A union of paper box makers in Chicago, 111., composed exclusively of women, numbers 5,000. ’ »’ Scotch shale miners have agreed to ask for an advance of Is. a day or 4d. a ton on their wirges.. # International Typographical Union will make a determined effort for a general eight-hour day, commencing Jan. 1, 1905. Painters at Chattanooga, Tenn., after being out three weeks, won their strike for an eight-hour day and cents an hour. Naeaimo, B. C., miners art strongly considering the question of severing connection with the Western Federation of Miners. New Orleans, La., horseshoers have presented demands calling for recognition of the union and a new scale of wages and hours. The headquarters of the Amalgamated Leather Workers’ International Union has been removed from Olean, N. Y., to Philadelphia. A colored man was elected as international vice-president at the convention of the longshoremen held at Bay Ci<y, Mich., recently. incurred by the strike of the workers at’ the naphtha .wells, Baku, Russia, amoaui to no less than 1,400,000 pounds to the owners alone. - The marble workers’ union threaten* a general strike throughout the United States, in order to force the Employers’ Association to sign a scale fur the ensuing jenr. Boston, Mass., union bricklayers, after being on strike since July i.'ha’k returned to work, securing a rate of 55 cents an hour, and full recognition of the union. The popularity of Germany’s railway minister (Herr Budde) is Illustrated by the fact that needy 20,000 laboring men bought his latest portrait—a lithograph costing 15 cents.