Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1893-12-31

place for It is in the veins and arteries
Of commerce.
Unemployed members Of labor unions
In New York city have organized q Gun
o IS Lafayette pace, where q billiard
table, books and papers are kept for
them.
typographical Union No. So, Of CleYe-
land, Ohio, has declared q general am
uesty 10 non-union printers, and has com
menced n work Of education aud reason
ing.
A large Central l4nbor Council has been
organized at Portland, Ore, and one OF
It's main features is the discussion Of po'
litcal AMI economic questions.
Nearly 1000 operatives in the potteries
.of Trenton, N. j., have been disehareen
during the past few days. Work has
come almost to d standstill.
1t is stated that 100000 will be
needed for the poor of Brooklyn. The
firm Of Abraham g. Strauss have given
$4,000 for the cause
The annual convention OF the Oper
alive Plasterer's International associa-
ton will be held IN Detroit, Mich, com
mencing January 8
Tramps are working strikers at
Stonington, Conn. They threaten TO 60
to work, and the strikers pay them to
leave the city.
Union printers have been locked out by
the Cumberland Presbyterian publishing
house at Nashville, Tenn, and cheap la
Dor employed.
The wheat crop Of the United States
is short 1O0OOO,OOO bushes this year
and the farmers are short more than
S100,00O,0OO
Chicago city authorities have deter
mined To superiuten1 the raising Of
charity fund to aid the unemployed of
that city.
The superintendent of the Carnegie
hands which will be reduced about 40
per cont.
Girls in Plttsburg bolt aud nut fac
tories who formerly were ia d SIG per
week now get 81 and IS for the same
labor.
Two Of the SHIFTS of the Lake su.
pcrior company, at lshpm.ng, Mich, re
sumed work with full force on Mon.
day
The Wabash Iron company of Terre
llaute, Ind, employing 800 men, will re-
sumo operations ON part time next Mon
day.
Complete returns from Kansas show
that the P0pulists hnye grown - per
cent there since the election Of u year
ago.
Many European laborers who have
been NJ work here are returning to th1
Old country On account OF the depression.
OF 100 improved applications for in
creased wages made by cignr makers in
the past two years IS were successful.
The BaltiGore AMI Ohio shops ut Gar
rot, Ind, have started up inter fuui
months ill'ncss employing $50 men.
The strikers Of Bcrair Il Co., hatteIs.
at DauburN Conn, have gained a vic
tory and h1vc gone back 10 work
The Barbour Flax Spinning company
has shu. down its mill at Paterson, n.
b. on account Of overproduct!on
In 1887 there WIS Si1l, 400 invested In
cotton mills in South Carolina; today the
Investment is over Sl2,OOUOOO.
j. G.. Schoufarber assumes editorial
control Of the Knights of Labor Journal,
A. w. Wright having resigned.
Wages have again been reduced II
per cent on narrow goods at Srangc's
SILK min In Paterson, \. j.
The next national alliance meeting will
be hed in February, but the place has
not yet been fixed upon.
Chief Rumsry Of the Photographers
order, has been y,nlicatel of the charges
prclcrrcdtRgaiusl him.
Fifteen now dist.llorips have recently
resumed operation In kentucky, altcr d
( rest of several months.
a union has been perfected between
the Alliance aud Federated Trade.
Unions OF California.
The large Pittshurg tanncrcs, which
have been idle since early summer, are
resmming operations.
The Kansas aud Texas Coal company
imported 100 more Alabama negroes tC
work ut their mines.
The Georgia farmers congress declaret
itself in favor Of many practical an,
economic reforms.
A state convention of Jellcrsonlai
Democrats and Popultsts will be hcl,
IN Alabama soon,
The Alliance people of South Dakot,
have arranged to hold meetings all owe
the state
A Troy knitting mill employing Hon
hands viii shut down this week In
definitely
There Is pending 10 per cent rcdue
ton on the Chicago and Great Westcri
railway.
The American lace workers ON Lon
lslaud have resumed work with 3Ol
hands.
The Lchigh railroad company lost owe
SlOnOoO In smash-ups. etc, during tn
strike
The increase Of child labor in IEnoi
from 1850 TO 1870 was nearly 90 pc
cent
Homestead elassworts boys sruc
against q cut 10 forty-liyc cents day.
St Joseph Mo-, makes It's own electrl
light for fourteen cents pcr lamp.
4 10 per ccut reduction takes place i
the Frye factory in Massachusetts,.
A lSausas City barber was fined So
for shaving ono man on Sunday.
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