The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1890-05-16
INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.

On April IL Rev. ID. w. +. Bliss an
Episcopal clergyman. of Boston, inau-
gurated series of regular Sunday even
ing lectures on "Christian Socialism" in
the Chapel Of the Carpenters. The full
vesper service Is observed at these meet
ings.
There are rumblings of a coming con-
fiict between the cigar manufacturers
and union of that industry in New York
city. The union may demand an in
crease Of wages and the eight hour day
on May 1.
Boston will be the center of the eight
hour fight.
The cigarmakers' unions of Chicago
have closed all shops in which non-union
men are employed. That is, union men
will no longer be allowed to work with
non-union men.
The stone quarrymen of the Illinois
valley have secured an advance of
twenty-five cents a day without a strike.
After the carpenters come the miners
that there are nearly SOC, 900 members Of
the miners ORGANIZATIONS.
There are several strikes of painters
on hand at the present time for less
hours and more pay.
The Toronto Empire is responsible for
the statement that the Liberals in parlia-
ment are taking decidedly hostile po-
sition to labor organizations.
Chairman Dannmeyer, of the Laun-
drymen's association, is vigorously push
ing the anti-Chinese agitation in New
York. He is visiting the various labor
organizations asking them for moral
support. He says that 200 Of the $50
white laundries in the city are comprised
in the association, which proposes to
fight the Celestials through boards of
aldermen, legislatures and congress.
The New York Cinnamon have re-
solved to fight the combination to blot
their twelve hundred laundries out of
existence. They hint at reprisals on
Americans in China and the Chinese
consul says he will take every measure
for the protection of his countrymen.
At the farewell dinner given the del
egates to the labor conference in Berlin
Baron Won Berlepsch proposed toast to
the sovereigns of the powers represented.
Jules Simon, French delegate, offered q
toast to Suffering Humanity"
London tailors have appealed to the
queen TO aid them in getting free from
the miseries induced by the remorseless
sweating" system.
1t is said Edward Bellamy is dramatic
ing Looking Backward"
There is tradition among English
workmen that it takes three Frenchmen
to carry brick.
Lack of work is felt so keenly by the
laboring classes of Italy that the govern
ment is calling upon property owners to
devise some employment for the unoccu-
pied.
Massachusetts, sells the products of her
convict labor in the markets.
Attorney General Kitchener, of Indi-
ana, has declared officially that the state
eight hour law is constitutional. He says
labor, just as it has the power to send
children to school or to enact sanitary
measures.
A number of European manufacturers
are trying the profit sharing system as
an experiment. A Norwegian manufac-
turer, who paid his men S158 per year
for wages, recentlysgave each of them
$105 as their share of the annual divi-
dend.
The unions of Boston pay $4,000 a
year for rent, and this fact has led their
members to consider plans to enable
them to erect hall.
The branch Of the Federation of Labor
in Washington, d. c., after discussing
Senator Stanford's resolution providing
for loans to the people by the govern
ment at very low rate Of interest, unan-
imously adopted a resolution approving
the proposition.
The grand council of the Steam Rail-
road Mems Protective union has petit
toned Congressman Lodge to introduce
and advocate bill to insure greater
safety in the management and handling
of trains.