WAIST AND WRAPPER MAKERS. NEW YORK. On November 14, 1894, the Waist and Wrapper Makers' Union won a strike in a shop in Norfolk street, New York city, and the employes secured an advance in wages. WAITERS. BUFFALO. On the 19th of February a girl was employed as waitress in a restaurant in Niagara street, Buffalo. The other waitresses, who claimed that she had taken the place of a girl who could not collect her wages, objected to the newcomer and demanded that she be discharged. The proprietor of the restaurant refused to comply with this demand and the next day, at noon, the waitresses went on strike. The proprietor employed other girls to take their places and the strike was not successful. NEW YORK. On the 6th of October the waitresses in a downtown restaurant in New York city went on strike because they had been ordered to wear white aprons and white caps. The next day their places were filled by other waitresses, who complied with this requirement of the employer. WOODWORKERS. NEW YORK. On or about December 9, 1894, the wood carvers and modellers employed in a shop in Thirty-seventh street, New York city, struck for an increase in wages of 20 per cent. Three days later their demands were granted and they returned to work. About the 1st of May differences arose between a firm in New York city and the United Woodcarvers' Association, in reference to the number of hours labor which should constitute a day's work. The firm insisted upon its employes working nine hours per day, and the woodcarvers refused to work more than eight hours. This disagreement resulted in a strike of the woodcarvers which lasted over three months. Soon after the strike took place the Social Reform Club and the New York Council of Mediation and Arbitration made unsuccessful attempts to settle the trouble. About the 10th of August the firm granted the eight-hour day and the strike was declared off. The settlement of the trouble was due to the intervention of Judge Dugro, for whom the firm in question was doing a large amount of work in the Hotel Savoy. On the 23d of July 10 cabinet makers, one woodcarver and one varnisher, employed in a shop at 53 Chrystie street, went on strike because they had not received their wages on the 22d of July, the regular bi-weekly pay day. The employers promised to pay the wages on Thursday, the 25th of July, but this promise was not satisfactory to the workmen, who claimed that on one occasion they had to wait seven weeks for their wages. The firm agreed to be more punctual in its payments in the future, and the employes returned to work. About the 24th of August the Machine Woodworkers' Union ordered a strike in a shop in New York city where its members received less than the union rate of wages. Two days after the trouble commenced the employer agreed to pay his machine woodworkers 32 cents per hour, and he also required his nonunion employes to join the union. |