Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1903 — LABOR NOTES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LABOR NOTES

Canton, Ohio, will build n (60,000 labor temple. Painters at Washington City will demaud an inereuse in wages from (3 a day to (3.50. Blast furnace workers of the United States will demand an eight-hour day on May 1, 1904. The total number of new industries established in the South during the past quarter is 1,316. Furniture workers at Grand Rapids, Midi., have demanded a nine-hour duy jvitli ten hours’ pny. United Garment Workers of America has increased its membership from 3,000 to 00,000 in twelve years. • Middlemen” being abolished in the Lancashire and Manchester, England, collieries, the men being engaged directly by the colliery owners. The treasury of the American FVsiwatkm of Labor held (02,940 July 1 last, of which (55,894 was credited to the defense fund, and (7,040 to the general fund of the body. . Siuce the United States mail wagon drivers of New York City have formed their organization their wages hare been increased 50 per cent and their Working time reduced by one hour. Officials of the Iron Molders’ Union of North America are said to be considering the advisability of moving the headquarters of the organization from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Washington, D. C. On account of numerous sum. 11 strikes by the Smoking Pipemakers’ Union for recognition and other demands s general lockout of 700 men employed in the trade in New York City has taken place. The passage of the anti-boycott bill by the Alabama House and the certainty that It will be passed by the Senate, ha» created a stir in union labor circle*, and it la said that the result will be to solidify the laboring element and make their proceedings more secret. Capitalists claim that the pannage of the law will result In ■ great industrial boom la Alabam a.