Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-07-19

q lawsuit TOT Jno money. 1ho uhion
compelled the payment by threatening
to strike on all their jobs.
These New York unions enjoy the
e%ight-hour day; Carpenters and joiners,
trainers. artificial stonemaso ms, plaster.
ers, paper-hangers, wood cartfers, stone
cutters, fresco painters, and cigarmak-
ers.
The Labor Tribune says Pittsburg
iron and steel firms have enough work
on hand to run all the mills ON double
time TO the end Of the year, and some Of
the leading one for more than a year.
The miners of Butte, Mont, own a
big hall, have 5000 members in the
union and s25, GOO. The 12th ami
yersary of the organization WAS cele-
brated BY a parade and mass meeting.
At Los Angeles, Cal, laborers have
formed a cooperative company, and
they are getting contracts. The eight
hour day is the rule.
New York blacksmiths and railing
makers won nine hours from a boss who
said he would rather throw away SIS, 0Of
than accede.
The New York Workipgwomen's so,
ciety Is agitating a Wednesday b ali
holiday in places where Saturday trade
il busiest.
O'Donovan Ro3sa's twenty years. ban
ishment will soon expire. They talk
of giving him a purse to go home for
life.
Quicksilver miners in Spain get 20
cents a day. In five years the msn are
physically unable 70 continue the labor.
New York boss union brewers refuse
to sign the new scale which CD Is for a
reduction from ten TO eight hours a day.
Brooklyn tin and sheetiron workers
struck for 80. SO for outside work, 81 for
inside work and eight hours.
Columbus, o., street railway conduc-
tors struck for 10 cents an hour, drivers
IS and barn men si.5 so a day.
The Warren, Ind, Farmers union
asked for bids to supply its members.
No merchant made q bid and the union
has boycotted the town.
Great Britain's cooperative societies
have 1000. 6oo members, a capital of
$50, 900, 900, sell $3.50, O0O, 600 worth q
year and make IS, 900, 900.
Cohoes, Waterford, Schenectady, Am.
sterdam and Little Falls, N. Y, knit
goods firms talk OF a trust.
The Workingmen's Improvement as
ISOLATION Of Chicago boards women lux
~uriously for a.. 25 a week.
The Cleveland journeymen BARRIERS
say they will spend 81, oso to keep the
shops closed on Sunday.
New York paper-box makers will re-
organize. Their wages have been cut
from SEQ q week to $40.
1t is said that Editor Jones, OF the
New York Times, was offered SIS, 00o, 00O
to o expose Tweed.
The Cleveland switchmum struck for
25 cents per honr, with ma and 291(
cents for conductors.
In Boston, Someryille ana Cambridge
5000 building laborers have struck for
nine hours and Be-. rs.
Birmingham, Ala, stonecutters struck
against a cut from 81 and nine hours to
40 cents an hour.
Members of the typographical union
having cases must not work over six
days a week.
A Brooklyn employer settled a strike
by paying $500 owed the union by eight
of his men.
Boston railroaders will prosecute a
company for violating the weekly pay
ment law.
At Calumet, Mich. LOCO miners
struck for eight hours and 10 per cent.
advance.
Philadelphia glazed kid is crowding
the French article out OF the American
market.
The places OF striking Liverpool tail
ors were filled by women at half wages.
Washington (O.) shoe workers struck
to aid girls whose wages were reduced.
San Francisco stairbuilders kick
against the use Of Chicago made STAIRS.
San Francisco will send delegates to
the seamen's convention at Glasgow.
st. Paul BARRIERS want early closing
and paper hangers have organized.
New York has o Hebrew Plush Case
Makers and B~ookbinders' union.
Vancouver tB. CO. miners working by
the ton struck for eight hours.
New York drivers for an asphalt COM
pany struck for ten hours and "a.
There is talk Of the amalgamation of
all New York painters unions.
Cleveland conductors threaten 10
strike for 81 and twelve hours.
San Francisco ccopers compelled six
non-union hands to join.
Brooklyn beer drivers now get SIS .
week; stablemen, Ga.
Brick kilns are burned with kerosene
instead Of wood.
Henry George Is the biggest man in
Australia these days.
There are 6s5.O 900 women voters In
England and Wales.
New York Italian stonemasons won .
strike for Ca day.
The Fall River weavers have CONSOLE
dated their unions.
The culinary Alliance Of the United
States is growing.
B~oycotting wins shops TO unionism in
San Francisco.
A trombone played by steam can be
heard four miles.
Cincinnati's bar association will ban.