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Show tplon painters st Buffalo. N. Y have struck because of the refusal of the master mas-ter painters to grant their demands for arj increase of 60 cents a day, ' . i iployers st- Minneapolis, Minn., win prvt grant the new schedule of the glass fforkers, to go into effect May 1st. The schedule calls for a slight rncreaee, . Employing printers at Atlanta, Ga., have received a formal offer from the unions concerned In the present strike to submit the difficulties to a board of arbitration. arbi-tration. Carpet workers at Chicago, TH., have made arrangements with all firms in the ctty for a new scale of wages. Measures will receive 15 a week, cutters 321 and layers 118. ' "'.. The Trsdes and Labor Council of St Kltts. Canada, has passed a resolution , viewing with alarm the request of ths manufacturers to Parliament for the importation im-portation of foreign labor. Grand ' Rapids' fMIch.1 union painters, paperhangers and decorators have refused to work unless the contractors agree to an eight-hour day and a Hat journeyman rate of 3 per diem. Shoemakers were among the first to or-ranise or-ranise fn this country. The first Shoe Workers' union was organised in Philadelphia Philadel-phia in 1732. and there was a strike In all shops in that city in 1796. I 'Olympla (Wash.) carpenter threaten to strike, there being a disposition to demand an eight-hour day Instead of nine and an Increase of 0 cents a day. The present scale la $3.50 a day. Chicago union milk wason drivers now number 2000 members.. They work front eight to ten hours a day. Previous to the formation of the union they worked, from fourteen to eighteen hours. |