Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1905 — LABOR NOTES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LABOR NOTES

There are 241 women paper hangers in the United States. Roanoke (Va.) street railway employes have received a voluntary increase in pay. There are about 800 girl waistcoat makers in New York, of whom 500 are in the union. Boston (Mass.) carpenters are seeking an increase of 25 cents a day. They now receive $3 for eight hours. Pastors of New Brunswick, N. J., have formed a union and are affiliated with the central labor body of that city. Plasterers at Montreal, Canada, have made demands for 40 cents an hour. They ‘are now receiving 33% cents an hour. Of approximately 300,000 workers in the engineering industry of the United States, it is said that only 40,000 are organized. A new local of the International Plate Printers' Union has recently been established at Albany, N. Y. It contains every man of the business in Albany and vicinity. ' One-third of the manufactures of civilized countries are produced in the United States, and our exports of manufactured articles have passed $500,000,000 a year, v Sheet Metal Workers International Union is the latest union to begin the discussion and advocacy of a home for aged members and a “health farm” for invalid ones. Street car men of Detroit, Mich., hare asked for a general increase in pay from 23% cents an hour to 25 cents. The men also ask for 30 cents an hour os Sundays and all holidays.