Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1904 — LABOR NOTES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LABOR NOTES

Fall River (Mass.) waiters recently organized. Arbitration may settle the shoe lockout at Quebec, Can. Efforts are being made to reorganize the tin workers nt Boston, Mass. Japanese 'longshoremen are paid 20 cents and sailors from 15 to 25 cents a day. Servant Girls’ Union at Montreal, Can., will act upon the regulation of wages and hours. Enginemen and firemen on the Great Western (Eng.) railway have petitioned for an increase in.pay. Continued reductions in wages of NewEngland cotton mill operatives have now affected 88,000 workers. Cook County, 111., has eight local unions of railway clerks, with a membership of nearly 10,000. A bill for a national arbitration tribunal will be introduced in Congress by Senator Cullom of Illinois. Charters were issued recently for now locals of railway clerks in San Francisco, Cal., and Lawrence, Mass. A bitter labor war is expected nt Spokane, Wash., resulting from a strike of the plumbers for $5.50 a day. In Western Australia, out-of a total, population of 214,805, 20,470 men nre engaged in the gold mining industry. Section men of the Hocking Valley Railway, at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, will have a nine-hour May after Jan. 1. Two thousand nlen have been thrown out of ciiiplo|-mentlby the railroads centering iirChlcago, 111. The list includes machinists, car workers, blacksmiths and boilermakers. Men employed in the Denver, Enid and Gulf machine shops, ct Enid, Okla., have ffone on a strike because of n refusal of the company to continue to pay extra sor 1 overtime. Union bill posters have lind n conference with reprbseutatives of nil the big circuses, and an agreement has been made dint none but union m-n will post bill* sot any show next year.