Connecticut western news., 1889-08-21
LABOR NOTES.

LABOR NOTES. Of Interest to Trade Unionists and
 Knights Of Labor.
 At San Francisco union cooks and walters get $2.5O day.
 A San Francisco cable company has raised wages to $2.5O per day.
 Farmers unions, with 1 ,5OO, ,OOO members, talk of amalgamating.
 New England factory operatives worked from 4.3O a. m. to 7.45 p. m., thirty years ago.
 The JOurneymen Barbers' International Union is working in good order, and has now fifteen local branches.
 The Amalgamated Machinists' Union of this city has sent out call for the formation of National Union of Machinists.
 There are number of Jewish trade unions ill New York city. The Jewish goldsmiths have formed an organization.
 According to the news from Maine, all the sawmills on the Penobscot are now in full operation under the new adjustment of wages.
 Socialism means the practical application of Christianity to life, and has in it the secret of orderly and benign reconstructiOn.-James Russell Lowell.
 On account of an insufficient appropriation by Congress, the government has made a reduction of four per cent. in the salaries of lighthouse keepers for the fiscal year.
 There were over 5000 men, women and children at the festival given by the French government in the Industrial Palace to the working people. President Carnot was there.
 After careful investigation the New York Sun estimates that there are in that city 10000 workingwomen receiving wages so low that they must embrace vice, apply for charity or starve.
 District Attorney Lyons of Pittsburg has reported to the government that he has evi- dence that % English glassblowers there were brought to this countcy in violation of the allen contract labor law.
 Calculations, based on the statistics of Carol D. Wright, show that the workers only receive on an average but per cent. of the fruits of their labor, the rest going to others in the shape of profits, interest, rents and taxes.
 Organizer Skeffington has during the past week organized new shoemakers' unions in Milwaukee, Toronto, Hamilton, Auburn, N. r., Athol and Danvers are ready for organi- zation.
 In 1886 five-eighths of the people owned their homes and only three-eighths were the prey of landlordism. In 1886 only three
  eighths were reduced to the rank of tenants.
 Several other cases in which the eight-hour rule has been established are reported from various parts of the country. The pattern makers are among the trades by which it is now desired. In New York the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters has joined the Eight Hour League.
 Progressive Carpet Workers National AssO- citation, has had successful tour of OrganiZ- ation in New England.
 At the last meeting of the Brooklyn Central Labor Union, George w. Murray, M. W. o1 D. A. 49 was given the privilege of the floor. He asked assistance in doing away with laundry work in State prisons to the detri- ment of 15 900 working people in New York and 5000 in Brooklyn. The legislative committee was given charge of the matter. Senator Gibson, after European trip says: All over Europe continental police men no longer browbeat the common people who are better dressed, better behaved and happier looking. Aristocracy he sees every. where declining, and he is satisfied that plutocracy will not be given chance of taking its place. The common people have also an air of self-respect, which was cer- tainly not the case 30 years ago. There were delegates from labor organiza- | tions as well as from agricultural bodies at the annual convention of the Farmers Union | of the State of New York, which was held in Syracuse lately. In this respect the con- vention was one of the novelties of these times of combination. It may be noted that | a new movement has been started for the purpose of bringing about an alliance be. | tween the Changers, the trade unions and the Knights of Labor, in opposition to the | trusts.
 There is now prospect of an amalgama- tion of the New York Central Federation with the Central Labor Union, and Of the settlement of the troubles that brought about the split between them. The conference | committee has again been in session with fa. vorable results. In the celebration of Labor | day the two bodies will unite both in the pa rade and in the picnic. l Congress. The International Labor Congress, which | met in Paris July 15, and has just completed it's labors,wa the largest distinctly labor con gress in the worlds history. Fourteen na | tiOns and 414 labor organizations were repre- ing directly upon the present wage conditions adopted were:
 1. Eight hours day to be the maximum of the days work fixed by international law
 ?. At least one days holiday to be giver | each week, and no work to be done on fete | days. 8. Abolition of night work as far as prac ticable for men, and entirely for women and | children.
 | 4. The total suppression of labor by chil dren below the age of IA, and the protection of children up to the age of IS.
 5. Complete technical and professions | education.
 | 6. Overtime to be paid for double rates and limited to hours in "A. | .. Civil and criminal responsibility of tht | employers for accidents, l 8. An adequate number of qualified inspec l Ors to be nominated by the workers them selves, and paid by the state or the commune | with full power to enter workshops, factories | or religious establishments at any time, anC to examine the apprentices at their homes. 9. Workshops to be organized by the workers, with subsidies from the municipai ties or the state.
 10. Prison and workhouse labor to be 1 conducted under the same conditions as free labor, and to be employed, as far as possible on great public works. Il. No foreign laborers to be allowed tc accept employment, and no employers to be | allowed to employ such laborers, at rates o1 wages below the trade-union rates fixed fol their trade.
 | 12. A minimum wage to be fixed in every standard of living. | 13. The abrogation of all laws against tho international organization of labor. IA. Equal pay and opportunities fol women and men for equal work