Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-07
GENERAL LABOR NOTES.

Onaga, Kan. hasn't q lawyer.
Wood fibre underwear is new.
India has forty women doctors.
Our railroads cover III, GOO miles.
Chicago has womans baking company
A light steel telegraph pole mas been pat
ened by a Wisconsin man.
Only citizens who can read and write are
allowed TO vote in Bolivia.
A homefor 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 a
strike for extra pay for extra switching.
The pin factories of the United States
manufacture about.lS, 900 600, 900 pins 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 1attens under the blow of the hammer
and prevents leaking
1t is reported that an English shipbuild-
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 all the railroads in the United
Stats foots up 81, 500, 900, 600, 4 sum much
more than enough to pay the national debt.
The postal card factory in Shelton, Conn,
IS turning out 2,500,00O cards 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 1900 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 $500. This is practi-
cal fraternity.
The December report of the Amalgamated
carpenters shows they have 543 branches
and 50, 429 members. The award of the ar
bitrator in the carpenters strike in London
has conceded reduction in the working
hours from tifty-two and one-half down to
fifty hours per week
The trades and labor unions of Indian
apolis, Ind, are arranging to build large
labor temple to cost 800, coo. The money
is to be raised by issuing 10000 shares OF
stock at SO per share, payable in install
meuts. The carpenters unions of that city
are active in the project.
AL the engineers, machinists, etc., on the
northeast coast of England arc 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 Amalgamated Society of Engi-
neers called out the rest.
The semi-annuaI report of the Flint Glass
Workers National Union shows 4 member
ship of 7i0S, with 442 mem oers unemployed
and 2lS locked out. There is S96, 397 in the
national treasury at headquarters, which
is nearly Sl4 per head for each member.
This is accumulated by high dues and
large tax to head quarters.