Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-11
GENERAL LABOR NOTES.

Onaga, Kan. hasn't 4 lawyer.
Wood fibre underwear is new.
India has forty women doctors.
Our railroads cover III, 600 miles.
Chicago has woman's baking company
A light steel telegraph pole has been pat
ened by Wisconsin man.
Only citizens who can read and write are
allowed TO vote in Bolivia.
a home for aged tailors is talked of by
the International Union of Tailors.
The Harness makers national union
meets in Louisville, KY, next June.
Poor persons are supplied with spectacles
free of charge by Boston society.
Kansas City freight brakemen won
strike for extra pay for extra switching.
The pin factories of the United States
manufacture about1S, 900, 600, 000 pins a year
There are 10000 women in the United
Kingdom who earn their living by nursing
The recent strike in Southern France
cost $3.50 600 in lost wages, though it only
asted fifteen days.
a strong movement is on foot in Chicago
to thoroughly organize all the mill BEECH
carpenters OF that city.
Central labor unions have been formed
last month in Altoona, Pa, Austin, Tex,
and Sioux City, Iowa.
A new lead-headed nail for use on cor
rugated roofs has appeared in London. The
head fiattens under the blow of the hammer
and prevents leaking.
It is reported that an English shipbuiId-
ing firm has received an order for steam
ship to carry 5000 tons cargo, the largest
freight vessel yet constructed.
The approximate cost OF all the rolling
stock on air the railroads in the United
Stats foots up Sl,500, 900, a sum much
more than enough to pay the national debt.
The postal card factory in Shelton, Conn,
is turning out 2,500,000 cards a day. The
biggest days output so far is one of few
days ago. when $500, 600 were printed.
The Lancashire miners have now in their
union between Il, 600 and ~, 600 miners.
The union miner wears medal. hence the
comparatively few goats are easily picked
out
During the mill carpenters strike in New
Orleans, La, last spring, the Cotton screw
mems union donated $500 and the Cotton
yard mems union gave $780, This is practi-
cal fraternity.
The December report of the Amalgamated
carpenters shows they have 543 branches
and 30, 429 members. The award of the az
bitratOr in the carpenters strike IL London
has conceded a reduction in the working
hours from ffty-two and one-haH down to
fifty hours per week.
The trades and labor unions of Indian
apolis, Ind, are arranging to build large
labor temple to cost S100, 600. The money
is to be raised by issuing 10000 Shares OF
stock at $40 per share, payable in install
meuts. The carpenters unions Of that city
are active in the project
All the engineers, machinists, etc, on the
northeast coast of England are out on the
question of overtime. Thirty thousand
men are involved. The employers at first
locked out % per cent of the men, and the
powerful Amaigamated Society Of Engi-
neers called out the rest.
The semi-annual report of the Flint Glass
Workers National Union shows a member
ship of 710S, with 442 mem oers unemployed
and 21S locked out. There is $780, 97 in the
national treasury at headquarters, which
is nearly ST. per head for each member.
This is accumulated by high dues and
large tax to head quarters.