Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-03-17
LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.

Women work on French railroads.
Egypt uses American cotton goods.
Paris dishes are washed automatically.
Shoemakers in Galveston viii organize.
France announces incombustible Shoes
Stonecutters' union meets next Wednes-
day
New Orleans will lave an industrial
fair.
New York demands lower telephone
rates.
New Orleans has a business woman's
exchange.
Tho capital of the bank of England is
| 81, 765, 600.
Minneapolis made 1879 barrels of
!: -four in 1891.
Texas State Typographical Union will meet
| in Waco May %.
Factory girls have joined the Knights of
| Labor in Atlanta
For the unemployed at Erfurt, Germany,
the municipal council of that city has ap-
| priated $1,000
The United Brotherhood of Tailors will
celebrate their anniversary at Cooper In
| stitute on March Is.
Various st. Louis labor unions estimate
| that there are in that city over twenty thou
| sand unemployed workingmen.
The strike at the Blackwood colliery,
Tamaqua, Pa, involving about two hun
dred men, has been settled and work re-
sumed.
Two porcelain workers from Bremen, IN
der contract to work at Wheeling, w. Va,
were last week debarred from landing at
Baltimore.
The New York, Lake Erie and Western
railroad locomotive shops at Susquehanna,
Pa, have been placed on eight-hour time,
reduction OF one hour per day.
The temper of reformers is enthusiastic,
and hence they almost inevitably eXagger-
ate the evils they seek to correct. The fire.
eaters might learn lesson in this.
The hours of labor of walters in the
hotels of New York city are from ten to
sixteen per day, the average being thirteen.
The men are agitating for a reduction.
The Minnesota Eight-hour league is max
ing preparations for q grand short hour
demonstration on May l. Nearly every
labor organization in the state will partici-
pate.
Active agitation has begun in Fall River,
Mass., to get bills through the legislature
favOring reduction of hours OF labor.
They will be opposed strongly by the manu-
facturerS.
Business men and labor organizations of
Cincinnati are protesting against giving
also demand that gas and electric light
rates be reduced.
The initial number of the ''Texas
Printer lies on our table. This publica-
ton IS the latest aSpirant for favor at the
hands OF the organized wage-earner, and it
is paragon of neatnesS and beauty, typo
graphically, and sound and conservative
edltorially. The Texas Printer will please
those for whom 1t is intended, and it has a
broad field in the one Star state
Governor Markham of California, last
week Informed the committee of the Sacra-
mento Federation of Labor, that he had
decided to declare Labor Day, September l.
legal holiday.
Union carpenters say their trade is de-
cidedly on the improve in Fort Worth at
the present time, and they are anticipating
building boom before the springtime
mergeS into summer.
During monthly meeting of the Denver
Stereotypers' union last night Charles Ne
ander, head stereotyper of the Sun, shetland
badly wounded Frank Primrose, head
stereotyper of the News.
James T. Cooper, well known in Fort
Worth LABOR circles, now editing the Gaines
vile Register, was IN the city last week,
aud had many good words for the Labor
Department of THE GAZETTE.
The Shearers' Union of Australia con-
IT4CUeQ 0SDb OIL SSSO.UuU curing its recent |
strike, and now the members have assessed |
themselves s. each TO repay that debt, as
the notes are about to fall due.
Federal Union 55S5. 2. F. of L. diamond
workers, has its headquarters at present at |
25S West Houston street, New York. where |
the regular meetings take place every sec |
ond and fourth Friday of the month.
Twenty alien contract laborers were last
week 6ebarred from landing at New York, |
fourteen being Italians under contract to |
work in Richmond, and six Polish miners |
under contract 10 work in Pennsylvania.
There are, according 20 soma of the /
Chicago papers, $4,000 or 81, coo unemployed |
men in that city, which number is in |
creased by every incoming train. The rail-
read men are kept busy driving men Who
steal rides out Of box-cars.
Nicholas P Aiahon has been elected waIk
ing delegate by the Analgamated Society
of Carpenters and Joiners. The new dele |
gates to the Carpenters district council
are Henry White George Cavanauzh and
George Barry The society has with