Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-01-31
EDITED By NJ. b. JOHNSON.
reaching a settlement on the wage question

reaching a settlement on the wage question
is expected.
Contract Labor Inspectors Conkling and
Osborne, who were sent by the treasury
department to the mining districts of Penn
sylvania TO investigate the workings OF the
alien contract labor law, has made report,
alleging the discovery of evidence of whole
sale violations of the law.
DON'T talk much about yourself when you
want to be interesting.
There is something as good as bravery in
getting scared in time.
The man who can do his work better than
anybody else can do it is never out of job
very long
The shoe factories of America use 1,000,-
600 kangaroo skins yearly Australians
have begun to raise and herd kangaroos as
they would sheep.
1t is pity to see capital and labor con-
tlnually warning against each other. 1t IS
TO be hoped that some day they will better
understand that their interests are mutual
-[Luling Herald
San Antonio, Tex, viii organize Print
ing Pressman's Union.
Bookbinders in Galveston, Tex, viii or
ganize.
Labor organizations in Dallas, Tex, will
petition the municipality 70 give its work
TO union men.
At present, there is no strike going on in
Texas in any branch of labor.
Indianapolis bookbinders have the largest
union of the kind in the United States.
Brickmakers at Shreveport are organ
izing
Six hundred girls are on strike against
the introduction of starching machines in
the Troy, n. Y, laundries, because each
machine would displace six or eight girls.
The collar girls think that if they don't
stand up they will be turned down.
Chicago has woman's baking company
that has been incorporated with a capital
stock of $3.50, 900. The company is composed
of Christian Temperance Union women,
and they expect not only TO run the concern
on strict business principles, but also to
use only the purest materials, and to have
the work done entirely by women.
The labor statistics of Colorado show that
1864 persons are employed in the indus
tries of that state who last year earned
Sl2, 951, 1885, or an average of about 50 per
day, which is very good showing as COM
pared with the average in the Eastern
states. The aggregate value of the manu-
featured product was $40, or, S5+ so.
The kid glove industry in France gives
employment to about twenty-five thousand
persons within q radius of forty miles,
women and girls. 1t is one of the few
trades that have remained lucrative for
women, and can be followed by women in
their own homes. and out of the sum Of
81, 600, which represents the value of
the gloves made at Grenoble, about .e600, 900
goes in actual wages.
The sympathizers with the electric street
car strikers III Pittsburg, on Saturday, con-
tinued to annoy the company by placing OBJ
structions on the tracks and occasionally
throwing stones from dark alleys. About
thirty cars were running. each with two
policemen on board, but thew were not well
patronized. To prevent trouble all the
saloons in the lower portion of Allegheny
were closed, and an extra force of police
patrolled the streets. The cars were again
attacked by mob last night and a woman
passenger and policeman were seriously
hurt by stones which were thrown. For
time travel was suspended, but the police
dispersed the mob. The strikers disclaim
all responsibility for the riotous conduct of
the mob.
New Orleans has seamstresses' union.
Brooklyn stonemasons' union is building
their own lodge hall.
Texas has more typographical unions
than any other Southern state, and is third
in the list in the United States, New York
being first and Pennsylvania second.
The union printers on the Memphis
(Tenn.) Commercial were locked out by the
proprietors last Monday, and on Tuesday
n0n-union printers were secured on Tues
day, but when the forms were ready for
the press it was found that the pressmen
and feeders were also union men, and had
gone out with the printers, and no paper
came out Wednesday.