The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-11-24
Labor Notes

Toronto has no Sunday papers nor street
ears.
San Francisco hO $1,000 Chinese working
men.
London consumes 1000, 600 cigarettes
daily.
Detroit has the largest stove-works in the
world.
The bartenders of Londo work LOG hours
q week.
America manufactures $4,000. Ooo. 600 pins
annually
Local Assembly 1712 is stalking of an enter
taInment.
Massachusetts, law compels weekly pay
ment of wages.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
has 40i lodges.
The carriage painters of this city intend
to form q union.
A Detroit church was built out of the saw
ings of a hired girl.
Local Assembly 64S7 will initiate two
members at its next meeting.
The average salary of the 5,S74 fourth
class postmasters Is only S153 q year.
The most prosperous assembly in District
LOG. Is the new assembly at Anderson.
America makes the best brushes. but the
bristles come from Germany and Russia.
A New York furniture union will give
Christmas presents to the children of its
members.
A fraternity of the Printers Protect
i've Fraternity Is to be instituted In this
city shortly.
Mark Crawford. of Chicago. the newly
elected recorder of Cook county, was once
q union printer.
The Ohio miners elected two of their
number to the Legislature. One is a candi-
date for Speaker.
Local Assembly 9s9S initiated two men,
bers at its last meeting, and Will initiate
three more next week.
WI. Steiff, secretary of Local Assembly
liz, has zone TO New Orleans, where he has
accepted the foremanship in a large paper
box industry.
st. Par unions demand that all stores
close at ESQ p. NJ, except Monday and Sat
urday. the week before July 4, and from
Dec. Is to %.
A government report says that in Ger
operatives to do the same work as in
England and the United States.
Some California vineyard owners are dis
placing their Chinese hands by white labor.
claiming that the dear labor is the cheap
est Senator Stanford is among them.
The eight-hour problem has been the SUBJ
1ect discussed In Local Assembly 6437 for
the past two meetings. The subject for
next meeting will be the effects of such a
system of labor.
The United States ~encaustic tile-works
still maintains the Saturday half holiday,
In accordance with the agreement made
with executive board of ID. A. LOT, X. of l..
Brightwood Assembly, X. of L.. is in
creasing Its membership. Notwithstanding
several of its members have severed their
connection with IL on account OF their re-
moving To other cities.
+. V. Powderly's book, Thirty Years of
Labor" has been placed in the State, conn
ty and city libraries. The city librarian
has recently received q large number OF
books from authors. on the subject of labor
and political economy.
The New York Central Labor Union in
dorsed the ordinance that prohibits street
music. thus throwing hundreds out of work
and into competition with other laborers.
beside abolishing the only music ever
heard by thousands Of children of the poor.
Recently the sausage-makers of Pforz-
helm. Baden, raised the price OF s~angages.
the principal article of food OF the working
people ia that place. which is largely given
MP. TO the manufacture of jewelry. The
unions To which the journeymen jewellers
belonged met and decided TO boycott
eansases until prices were reduced. Men
VINO disobcyed the mandat wese fined.
Inc nght lasted several weeks. then the
sansage-niakers gave in and reduced prices
10 the old hgure. A lady, who arrived
from fforzheim recently. said the confess
caused GREATER excitement in that place
than dId the news of the beginning OF the
wal between France aud Germany.