The herald., 1893-10-30
THE VOICE OF LABOR.
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Affairs in labor circles are moVlnl
along in the even tenor of their way
without much to disturb their serenity
Work is improving in the city, although
many . echanics are idle. One crafty
ing feature this week in labor circle
was the order OF the Southern Pacific
Railroad company restoring the macsin
lists snd mechanics to full time OF eigh
hours and six days in week. Wher
thet retrenchment order was issued
some months ago, the men were cut tt
four days a week and six hours day
The new order means about $l0O,O0t
more month in wages to the mechan
ics.
The statement that the Sailors union
ia dead is absolutely untrue. Reports
from agencies at San Francisco, San Pc
dro. Seattle, Nansimo, B. c.; San Di'
400. Port Townsend and Eureka all
show finances in good condition, al
though, chipping ls dull. At San Pedro
and Redopdo scabs were arrested Tor
disordeily conduct. compelling their
ships tc, 90 to sea short-handed. Up to
date the police in San Francisco have
made no progress in connecting the
Sailors union with the dynamite out
rage In that city.
Conpeil of Labor meets next Wednes-
day evening".
The cooks union and the waiters'
union are both in a hourishing condl-
tion.
The coming ball of the walters union
promises to be highly successful affair.
LABOR NEWS.
Judge Toley of Chicago has decided
that a labor union has right to expel a
member.
Galveston (Tex.) 'longshoremen were
successful in their strike against re-
duction IN wages.
At Philadelphia and Phillipsburg, Pa,
p..ddling hae been cut down to S3.25 a
ton.
There are $4,000 typewriters at work
in New York, two-thirds of the mum beI
being women.
Bricklayers now have'3ll unions, hav-
ing issued 81 charters in the last elk
months.
Carpenters were fret employed to
make wagons, and their name has its
source in the old Roman name for
wagon.
Every gas-meter maker in New York
and vicinity, as far as Albany, are mem
bers in good standing in the union.
The employees ON the railroads Of
Pennsylvania have organized state
association to take political action and
to watch legislation.
Less than 40 per cent of the working
men OF Michigan own homes, and fully
one-half that do have mortgages to pay
off averaging $41S-51 each.
The Brockton Diamond: Take the
trades union from the wage Garner and
you force him to adopt more radical
measures as weapon of defense.
The members of all unions affiliated
with the Hudson county, n. Y, Central
Labor federation have been taxed 5
cents per week to assist the unem-
ployed.
The 500 men who struck work several
weeks ago in r. Hoe & Co.'S press works
at New York, have returned to work,
compromising on 10 per cent reduc,
tion in wages.
In one of the Saxton cloth mills at
Bsutzen belonging to the Siemnes (elec-
tricians) estate, electric shuttles have
been introduced, and the entire weav-
ing is done by electric power.
The Carnegie Thirty-third street mill
at Pittsburg, Pa; paid off all its laborers
in full and then made new rules
twelve hours days work at 10 cents
an hour, instead of ten hours at $l.25
per day.
A general lockout of steam filters has
taken place in Cincinnati, on account of
a disagreement between the bosses and
the local union, over the Interpretation
of recently signed contract between
both parties.
woman while waiting in line at the
Kopperal unemployed relief headquar-
ters, Chicago, had her pocket picked of
$780, On another occasion, at the same
place, a man Among those applying for
relief, was recognized a well-to.do prop
erty owner.
A Chicago report states the unem-
ployed of that city will make one more
appeal to the city for work, and if it ia
not given they intend to make up city
ticket, get the support of the labor or
CARNATIONS and elect every mothers
son of them.
The Boston printers have decided to
reduce the night machine scale from $25
to S23. 10 per week or 55 cents per hour,
~ hours to constitute a weeks work,
with g privilege of working 10 hours a
day if necessary, and at no time less
than seven; overtime 81 per hour. This
will allow for Sunday papers, long days
on Friday and Saturday, with a corre-
spending slide of one day to even up the
42-hour limit. The day scale remains
the same-$2l for AZ hours.
The attorney general of Pennsylvania
has for some time had under considera-
tion the right of factory inspectors to
visit places in which women and child
rem are not employed. Several Pitts
burg and Philadelphia. firms have re-
fused to comply with the orders of local
factory inspectors, declaring that the
law did not refer to them, inasmuch as
their employees were only men. 1t is be.
lieved that the attorney general will give
an opinion deciding that the law does
not apply to factories where men only
are employed.
Any persons desiring 10 hire carpen-
tors can tind them by leaving orders at
Carlson's cigar store, 2021a South Spring
street.
George Gould's Narrow Escape.
SEDALIA, Mo-, Oct. 29.-George j.
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