Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-10-22
LABOR DEPARTMENT.
$. J. BRowNsoN, EDITOR.

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tuting their wages 10 Der cent.
Chicago union bricklayers have appeal
ed 70 the governor 10 call an extra ses-
sion OF the legislature, to provide work
for the Unemployed.
/ Mr.. rDwde-y's plan for uniting all the
I labor Ofganzl lions of the country Is
4 being fav0rably received.
Ten thousand men Will bc needed IN
/ CallfOuiin's rliein ceater, where two
/ m0lths' work will be available. The
| wages PAID IS % cents a day and board.
or 81 10 without board Chinese are he
lug dumped there by the carload. TO the
rl.lgrin of thousands vi idle white men
III the nearby cities
The labor ORGANIZATIONS OF Pennsyl-
yania are doing tine work, especially for
free coinage.
About 800 skilled men and 1910 Ia.
borers nre affected by the United States
GAS cOinpany's strike IN virginia.
The Fn-mers State Alliance OF South
Carolina has issued an address 10 cotton
planters anh members Of the Alliance IN
cotton states. II &. pointed ont that the
cotton crop is short. American spinners
am ont Of the market owing 20 q short
ness Of inonpy. The address says; Hold
on 10 every bale Of cotton when you can
possibly do 80 without injury to your
credit Or until the price advances"
New York state has 10000 uui0n liquor
dealers.
American Mechanics bur saloonkeepers
from membership.
In eighteen states ten hours Is the legal
day for children.
A stone saw placed in use at Rutland,
Vt, does the WORK OF 100 men.
td,e Poles auI Italians visited the
Buffalo pOormaSter and demanded work
The National lIorseshoers' Protective
association has Just held It's second annual
meeting ia Chicago.
The BIZ -Four. railroad company at
indianapolis has backed down, and viii
reiustate every discharged inan who did
not participate in the recent riot. 4
strike with tho maciin.sts is thus
ayeItcl
In San Francisco the homeless hun
deeds have been provided with soup
kitchen Ia their camp on the old sand
lots.
In one Of the Cincinnati meetings for
the unemployed II was found that thiity
men present had had nothing 10 eat for
three days. Some Of them were 50 weak
they could hardly walk. On receiving
bread, the Cincinnati Enquirer said:
Most Of them attacked the bread like
r1tycnOus wolves. ono miu took two
lplyes aud hurried away I have seven
children al home was the explanation he
gave, and i was enough
There are not far from 1,U0O,OOO rnil-
way employees in the United States.
Not more than 10000 OF these are in
Is the design Of the American Railway
union, now being formed by Eugene Y.
Dcbs, 10 embrace all thcse labortTs.
Among the Advantages To be gained by
this union. besides the doing away with
strikes aud b1ycltls. the New York
World gives the following.
INSTEAD Of score of annual conyenr
tons. one will be- adequate. In thc
place OF an army of suhry-draWiug Olh-
c-lls therc VIII be but dozen The IN
trigucs Of employers to create dissuu-
s,ons among lhe ranks VIII be baked hy
Tue unity OF the order.
The union will have u department of
eduraiiOn, the main feature Of which will
he lectures upon subjects relating 20
cegngmha, such rs wages, expenses, the
relations Of employer and empl0yc,
strikes, their moral aud financial us.
poets aud allied themes
PoEtich action will also be sought IN
the interest OF all, and an Insurance. de
pariment VIII be added
The places from which laborers are
urged 10 stay away because they ARE al
ready oYerrun with the unemployed
IRE already too numerous TO inenIi0n
a large number Of Idle miners from
the Michigan Upper PCninauiar districts
afc leaving for the mines Ia Alaska.
HE life insurance feature OF the Both
crhood OF Locomotiye Engineers is now
extended 10 nearly 1000 mpmiu,rs
field, ILL.,. struck last week They de-
nand 10 cents a ton and the operators
uaer but 40 cents.
BrocAon, Mass, has shirt factory
which opens and closes with prayer.
The wages paid tn women in that shnp
auumt to not more than ~ cents per
dozen.
Thirty girls employed in a laundry ut
Louisville, took "a hnnd in ihe Louis
aad Nashville strike by refusing 10 wash
tue linen of the mcu who tool, die strik.
crs' places"
The Nuh1ning Valley rolling mills
closed un July LIST, and the 1000 uro.
pie who were thrown out of work ace
suffering for the necessities Of life.
The King Ihillip mills of Mnssarhu.
sets allowed their men house REM free
for tht, time HE mills were idly
Railroad mems wages are boinu re-
duced almost everywhere. and ibrri, il n
good deal of talk about sirikiup hnr, mi
there. hut there viii he ma pNtpniri mil
road strites ,iy,yhsrr hcc1nsn H., ,"',
who arc Organized know fbai tb,ir MIN"
would go 10 piece. II thpy We're Il, siriIe
and th0sr Win h,vc M uninps ,.,nn,t
strike anyway 1lr ne,ind ~ sf,ll,,' ,,,,
rniir,,n,s hts n,s.no u,t1 hi.,.,r,,.' ~,
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