Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-02-21
EDITED By NJ. b. JOHNSON.

$125, but the case has been appealed by the
, employer.
Baltimore unions have introduced a bill
in the legislature making nine hours day
on city work
For the state labor bureau Of New Jersey
5000 have been appropriated by the legis-
lature OF that state this year.
In 1856 only eight trades had the eight
hour dag in Melbourne, Australia; to-day
ouer sixty trades are working only eight
hours.
Candidates for municipal offices have been
nominated BY the unions affiliated with the
Trades and Labor Council OF Montreal,
Canada.
A cooperative cabmen's society has been
formed in London. The first to take shares
70 the amount of $3.50 was a tramway con-
ductor.
Grand Secretary Sheenan of the Brother
hood of Railway Trainmen, is compiling
statistics on the rate of mortality among
railway employees.
l. T. Bondreau and Joseph Beland are
the Candidates for members of the NUM-
cipal council of Montreal nominated by the
trades council of that city
Packer Gallery No. 3 at Shenandoah, Pa,
suspended operations on Saturday for an
indefinite period, throwing 600 men and
boys out Of employment.
Twenty three immigrants, who arrived at
New York on Friday last in the steamer
Aller, were debarred from landing under
the alien contract labor law.
Several miners in the Southern coIlieries
OF New South Wales have been fined from
50 to SO for failure to give forty-eight
hours notice before going on a strike.
A dispatch from London states that 5000
engineers employed IN works on the river
Wear, Tyne and Tees have struck in eonse-
quence OF dispute regarding payment for
overtime.
The agitation for legal eight-hour day
among the miners of Great Britain is pro-
crossing with unabated vigor. Over 200-
600 organized miners are in favor of the
measure.
The New Jersey legislative committee,
appointed to investigate the grievances Of
the Oxford iron works met at Oxford last
week, and heard the evidence of a number
of the workmen.
One hundred and twenty whiteners in the
Milwaukee tanneries struck on last Thurs
day because OF an ettempt on the part of
the employers to equalize wages in all the
tanneries OF the city.
The walters of Italy will hold a national
convention at Milan in April to discuss q
proposition to establish trade school. de-
maud weekly holiday and organize the
women in the trade.
A telegram from ST. Louis says the ex-
press companies have combined with
view of quashing in its infancy the new or
ganization under the name of the Express
Messengers brotherhood"
One of the most extensive of the minor
industries IN Russia is the manufacture of
wooden spoons, Of which 80, 900, 900 are pro-
duced every year in the cars domains.
They are made Of brentwood.
According to a Nashville dispatch,
twelve men on the Cincinnati division of
the Adams Express company have been
dropped because they are members of the
Brotherhood of Express Messengers
The United Mine Workers Of America
met in annual convention at Columbus,
Ohio Thursday last Governor Mckinley
delivered an address of welcome and the
annual address was made by President Rae.
Forty-eight contract laborers were re-
turned to Europe on Saturday from the
immigrant station at Ellis Island, N. Y
The total number returned during the week
was 124. Most of them were immigrants
bound for the Pennsylvania coal mines.