Omaha daily bee., 1894-01-03

Akron. o..
The Alabama miners are running a weekly
newspaper.
The miners at Beaver Falls, Pa. ,'are out
on n strike.
The knights of Labor number over 1000
in Pittsburg.
The shoemakers Of Boston are expecting a
cut in wages.
The Interna tional Bakers union has
adopted n label.
The miners at Elm Grove, w. Va, have
won their strike.
Ninety cents per day is the wages paid for
laborers in London.
The National Bricklayers union meets in
this city January g..
The poor of Cleveland, o., are being fed on
beans and bean soup.
Pittsburg has created work for about 5000
people who were idle.
A barber of Kansas City has been fined SD
for shaving on Sunday,
The weavers Mt Lawrence, Mass, have
accepted a cut in wages.
The brewers union has captured another
big brewery at Newark.
A window glass factory is to be estab-
lished at Laramie, Wyo.
A large knitting mill at Troy, N. Y, closed
down indefinitely last week.
The state labor congress of New York
meets IN Albany January o.
The unemployed at Minneapolis are being
fed soup at the police station.
The striking brewers at st. Louis have
issued 800, 600 boycott circulars.
A call is out for a meeting to form an or
ganization of the Texas unions.
The saloon keepers at Fort Worth, Tex,
have organized to help the poor.
The international Electrical Workers
union is gaining in membership.
The farmers near Columbus, Tex, are
helping chat city to feed the poor.
The cholera hospital at Cleveland, o., has
been taken 20 session Of by tramps.
A free labor bureau has been esta pllshed
by organized labor at Portland, Me.
The glass workers of Wheeling have de-
clded to start a cooperative factory.
The railroad shop hands at Washington,
Ind, are working nine hours per day.
Unions at Bridgeport are asking that
union wages be paid to city employees.
The two lecturers Of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor are paid $40 per week.
The BARRIERS at Philadelphia are trying to
get the proprietors to close on Sunday.
There is talk of moving the headquarters
OF the knights of Labor to Des MONIES.
A colony has been established at Roswell,
N. M. Several have gone there from Chicago.
The labor organizations at Brooklyn want
the contract system on city work abolished.
Hernsheim's cigar factory at New Or
leans has increased its number of employees
by 100.
The plumbers union at Denver fines its
members 80 who are found smoking %nonunion
cigars.
The Knights Of Labor of Montreal have
resolved to smoke none but union made
cigars.
The Machinists union Of Boston has
doubled its membership during the last six
months.
Seattle has established a free employment
bureau, 10 be conducted at the expense of
the city.
The striking matters of Danbury are still
out. Several have secured work at wood
chopping.
Twenty thousand collar, cuff and shirt
workers have signed petitions against the
Wilson bill.
The carpet workers at Worcester, Mass,
have protested against the passage of the
Wilson bill.
The locked out painters at Toledo have or
gained n cooperative painting and decorat-
ing company.
The boys working in Homestead glass
works struck before they would accept 40
cents per day.
The labor organizations of England are
more closely banded together than in any
other country. 7
The wooden workers at North Oxford,
Mass, have accepted u temporary cut of 10
per cent in wages.
Charles L. Carpenter of Grand Rapids,
Mich, has been elected president of the
Michigan Label league.
The people of Boston insist that citizens
only shall be given employment in the cree
tion of the puolic library.
Through the efforts of the knights of
Labor of Detroit u municipal electric light
plant has been established.
Three men were killed IN a fight whith
took place last week at Amsterdam, between
the unemployed and the police.
The proceedings of the last meeting of the
general assembly of the knights of Labor
have been printed in book form.
The Elevator Conductors union at Hous-
ton, Tex, will prosecute firms employing
conductors under Is years of age.
The American Railway union has 1,200
members at Toledo. This organization is
gaining rapidly all over the country.
Positions that formerly paid SIG per week
In the Plttsburg bolt and nut factory are
now paying only from So to IS per week.
The machinists union of Boston has abol-
ished the clause of its constitution prohib-
iting colored men from joining their union.
The fight against the Plymoth Rock
Pants company by District assembly 80 has
been endorsed by the general executive
board,
The garment workers union at Boston
has assessed all members 80 cents, which
will BIO used to fight the manufacturers
association.
Cigarmakers union No. $50, located at
Danbury, Conn, has secured an injunction
preventing n manufacturer from using coun-
terfeit labels.
Wages have been reduced from Z to 80 per
cent at the Ford City, Pa, plate glass works,
The proprietors say that competition is driv-
ing them out of business.
Since it's last national convention in July
the Clerks National Protective union has
gained 1926 in membership. This union is
growing fast in every large city.
The furnace ana stove dealers of Boston
have agreed that after January / nine hours
shall constitute a days work for all tin
sheet iron workers in their employ.
The business men and merchants of
Haley, Idaho, have decided to burn wood
this winter instead of coal. This is done to
help out the unemployed Of the city.
Tramps have struck q snap at Stonington,
Conn. They threaten to so to work in the
places of strikers and the strike committee
gives them money to leave the city,
The engineers of Philadelphia are com
planning that o part of them are made to
work overtime, in some cases nearly forty
days in one month, while others get from
eight to fifteen days per month.
Members of the Trade and Labor Assembly
Of Chicago lately visited the city hall, police