Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-04-26
LABOR NOTES.

LABOR NOTES.
Michael Dayitt Is q member of the
Knights Of Labor.
An eight-hour ordinance Is in force at
Rock Island, I'll.
The tobacco business in Italy is run
by the government.
The printing business Of Denver, Col,
is reported good.
The Labor Record, OF Williamsport,
Pa. has suspended publication.
A late-comer in the field Of reform is
the Midland Mechanic, published at
Kansas City.
A firm in Germany is making dyna-
mos Of l,OcO-borse power capable of
supplying a 1000 glow lamp.
The boycott on St. Louis beer has
beer raised in Washington, d. c., by
District Assembly &c, knights 81 Labor.
During the last month new unions Of
Brotherhood painters we're organized at
Beaver Falls, Butler and Greensburg,
Pa.
Stone Masons' union No. Q, of Penn
sylvania, is in a healthy condition, with
a membership Of over 800 in good stand
ing.
c. Sherman, treasurer OF Denver Plas-
terers' union No. 30, has d~ecamped with
800 belonging TO the union. The loss
will not injure the union, as 1t is one of
the strongest in the country.
The Postal Telegraph compsny's lines
are being extended in every direction.
A year hence this company will be the
strongest competitor the Western Union
has ever had 70 contend with.
Typographical union No. 6s, Keokuk,
Ia, has joined the ranks OF those who
ask that the wages in the government
printing Office be restored 70 the rate
prevailing previous to March 5, 1877.
The Pennsylvania railroad will dis
card its cabooses and substitute a car
thirty-four feet long with sleeping ac-
commodation for four men and the
co~nveniences of a modern boarding
house.
As much as So. 50 has been taken in
the way Of fines for bad weaving from
the Sc. 50 wages earned by employees in
the textile establishments in the state
OF Massachusetts,. A bill TO abolish this
practice is now before the Legislature.
j. Eastmen, known throughout the
country as a vindictive enemy of union
labor, has locked out all his union plas-
terers in Chicago. He is now trying TO
hire non-union plasterers, and plaster
ers throughout the country are notified
70 keep a close watch on him.
The wages of Cleveland, O., molders
have been cut 40 per cent. in three
years. The union controls one shop,
and contains only 200 of the l,2OO
moulders In hat city. The men were
afraid to attend the mass meeting on
Sunday for fear they would be dis
charged.
Edison has loaned the New York Ex-
change for Woman's Work his exhibit
at Paris, and donated a check for IS, 900,
The exhibition will include a "a Peep
ct the T~aentieth Century" IL win
show a piano hat plays by electricity
and electric air ships.
Knoxville, Tenn, tailors struck for a
scale that will give the average man
slI a week. A few years ago a strike
for the dismissal of women succeeded,
and women are employed on nothing
but vests, The women say the men
| make from SIS 10 SIS a week and 50 a
day item hOursl on week work.
Texas can produce as much cotton as
the rest OF the country. The Textile
Record saws the best cotton in the world
Is grown In the south, and that section
has the largest area for its growth.
Egypt comes ext In output, but has no
effect on our product. Neither has
China or South America. All Egypt's
output is not SO large as n of our
states.
The San Francisco striking molders
sued a firm, claiming that il kept Park,
q Philadelphia, a prisoner in the shop.
SAYS the PhilaG elphia Record,
The firm in court showed an affidavit
from Park saying he was satisfied with
his place. The contract or agreement
the men signed don't hold under Cali
fornia law. II called for a years work
at SO a day, and the fare to California
was to come u Of the wages. Some
Of the Philadelphians dropped of in
cities on the road. When they joined
the strikers they claimed they did o
know there was a strike. Notice of the
trouble was given in this column weeks
before they left this city. A third of
them never saw molding before. Our
union molders read about the trouble in
the Record and did not bite at the offer.
At San Francisco all but six Of the
molders from this city left the shops
when they heard the strikers side.
They were fed and slept in the shops.
Ten jumped from a twenty-foot root TO
get out, and Mr.. Berger broke his leg.
The union offered TO pay the fare back
to Philadelphia, and some jumped at
the opportunity after they took in the
town. After the failure OF the bosses
to hold that catch they bluffed the men
by telling them that as many more were
on their way from this city. The men
said: LET them come"
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Much charity that begins at home 10 too
feeble to get out of doors.