Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-21
LOCAL LABOR NEWS.

Fort Worth BARRIERS are prepa ring to or
ganize a union.
Sunday is the natural holiday Of the
working man.
Considerable interest is taken in the COM
ing St. Louis convention.
No disturbances to speak of in Fort
Worth labor circles at present.
The Brotherhood of Boiler Makers report
everything prospering in their line.
A union labor building and lean associa-
ton will be organized in Fort Worth.
The man who pays his bills is the one
who can obtain credit in dull seasons.
Street car men report travel heavy. Es-
pecially is this true of the suburban lines.
Several members of Fort Worth trades
unions will attend the convention in St.
Louis.
The regular meeting of the Fort Worth
Union of Tailors occurs tomorrow night at
Hufman'S hall.
Division No. 81, Order of Railway Con-
ductors, will meet Tuesday afternoon at
p. M, in the K. P. hall.
The big hotel at Arlington Heights will
give employment to number of carpenters
and other idle workmen.
The Junior Orderof American Mechanics
met Thursday evening. The lodge is rap
Idly increasing It's membership.
The percentage of idle workingmen in
Fort Worth is perhaps less at the present
time than for SIX months past.
There are at the present time more than
seventeen hundred members of various
trades and industrial unions in Fort Worth.
Stonemasons' union, No. 4, "a branch of
the international union, met last Friday
evening in the hall of the Knights of Labor.
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meets tomorrow evening at the knights of
Labor hall. This is the regular semi
monthly meeting.
A fancy dress ball soon to be given at
Hufman's hall under the auspices of the
SwitchmeniS mutual aid ASSOCIATION prom
ises an enjoyable time for deVotees OF the
Terpsichorean art.
The Fort Worth Advance is one Of the
late candidates for favor among trade Jour-
nails. It has a very neat typographical APP
pearance, and will doubtless please those
for whom il is intended.
Unless correspondents sign their true
names in addition to nom de plumes, their
communications will not be printed This
is The aGAzETTE's imperative rule. "a
Laboring Man, will thus understand why
his article fails to appear to-day.
The photographer who says to you, when
you go TO sit for picture: ut is rare, in
deed, when have subject who can ac-
quire such graceful pose, and strike such
perfect attitude, - always wants his pay
iusadvance, mot necessarily for the proof,
but as guarantee of good faith, etc.
The ball given by the Brotherhood of
Painters and Decorators at Huffman's hall,
while not entirely satisfactory in a financial
way, owing 10 the inclement weather, was
a social success, and the fortunate ones
present speak very highly of their treat
ment at the hands Of those who had the
affair in charge.
A prominent labor man who went to a
Fort Worth dentists Office last week to get
tooth extracted was advised by the
dentist to submit Losthe use of gas 70 allevi-
ate the pain, which he agreed to do, and
Immediately began fumbling with some
silver in his vest pocket ''Oh, never mind
that now" said the dentist. That's all
right, podner," reiterated the labor man I;
/ '.you go ahead; III see how much I've got
before the gas takes effect"