Omaha daily bee., 1893-11-19

Omaha TO the Thanksgiving ball to be given
by tho local union. IL Is expected that
about twenty-five couple will come IL proper
arrangements can be made.
Workingmen have recently been holding
Indignation meetings Mt Melbourne, Aus.
tralia, protesting against the employment of
kanokas and Cinnamon at what is claimed
is almost starvation wages.
Typographical union No. 100 will meet next
Sunday. The printers have a large member
ship in their union and send delegates to
every labor enterprise proposed. In fact
they are not backward about anything.
The English mine aud mine owners, after
al consultation lasting several days, have
agreed to form q permanent conciliatory
board. 1t is hoped that this will prevent
strikes in the future among the coal miners
OF England and result in much good to both
sides.
There is no one class Of mechanics who
have felt the depressed times more keenly
Than have the machine wood workers. Work
IN their trade has been exceedingly light all
this year, and many of the best wood
workers have been compelled TO seek employ
ment at something else.
Ninety per cent of the energy IN coal is
lost IN converting it into power. 1t goes OFF
in heat through the chimncys and is per-
ceivcd IN any room where there is n furnace
and boiler. A means of saving this waste
VIII vastly cheaper the cost OF everything
manufactured by electric or steam power.
Safety matches that can be used without
a box arc to be placed on tho English market
by q German inventor. The idea is to tip
the two ends of the wood separately with
those compositions which In the ordinary
way go on the pox and the other on the
match. To use, break tho wood across the
middle and rub the ends together.
The union men in Denver seem to know
the proper 'capcr to cut" They have pro-
visions in the contract for building the new
state capitol that the interior wood work
has TO be made and finished by Colorado
workrnen on an cight-hour basis. There is
a lesson fNt the Nebraska union men to
learn. More can be done for union labor in
looking after contracts than in most any
other way.
The international Cigar Makers union of
America is one of the wealthiest unions in
the country, ana has not lost q single local
= during the present depressed times. They
have a splendid financial system, which
might be patterned after by many other or
CARNATIONS with profit. Tho thorough dis
cipline and intelligent management of their
union is the admiration of all well posted
labor men of the country.
Joseph Scheid of tho Carriage and Wagon
Workers union is being talked of as a can
didate Tor tho Central Labor union presi-
dency. His friends say that he is entirely
impartial and well qualified to fill that inn
portant position. However, there are many
who think that lone good turn deserves
another" and that Lee Hartley should be
reelected. Out of something over a half
dozen candidates, all of whom are well
qualified, there should be no trouble in
securing a good presiding officer.
A telegraph operator, who was accustomed
to work from fourteen to eighteen hours per
day in Ohio, has sued the company that en-
ployed him for extra compensation for all
hours above ten per day. What is more he
has succeeded in recovering. This is u
righteous decision, and altogether in the in
teresJ of the public as well as the operator.
| Companies which ovcrwork their telegraph
operators or switchmen are apt TO have n
succession of bad accidents from the fact
that the employees break down under the
severe strain.