The Washington times., 1894-11-18
In Lab0r'S World.
Tacoma newsboys struck.

Tacoma newsboys struck.
six-hour day is agitated-
Missouri has 355 coal mines.
Austria talks of taxing eats.
Kansas City grocers organized.
Russia demands shorter hours
Detroit moulders will build hall.
Cincinnati has 400 union BARRIERS.
British unions may amalgamate.
Our railroads employ 100000 men.
Seattle is to have a labor temple.
st. Louis has 1000 Swedish voters.
Baltimore has sanitary league
New Lisbon miners accepted a cut.
Detroit has a Polish labor alliance.
Terre Haute ushers have organized.
Boston upholsterers won nine hours.
Philadelphia has lady undertaken.
Tacoma reports pure-mIlk crusade.
Kansas City has 127 union musicians.
Cincinnati plumbers get So to 81 a day.
Zurich will operate its street-car lines.
Cincinnati iron molders work ten hours.
louisiana has 100 lady sugar planters.
Cincinnati horseshoers get 80 day.
virginia Is 10 have cooperative colony.
PIttsburg brickmakers have organized.
Cincinnati gets bread for three cents a loaf.
Detroit is to have an iron moIders' council.
At Birmingham, Ala. coal is s1.50 and g
ton.
Texas single takers held State conven-
ton.
Portland, Ore, has a cooperative COM
pany.
Tarentum, Pa, has cooperative glass
shop.
hree Cincinnati BARRIERS unions will con-
solidate.
Providence hackmen and expressmen have
Grand Rapids furniture drummers have or
ganized.
The use Of iron in buildings is displacing
brickayers.
Three teamsters were candidates for sheriff
in Frisco.
Pittsburg garment workers are unionizing
shops.
New York Brotherhood carpenters favor
single tax.
Molders have struck at Tacoma, Seattle,
and Cleveland.
st. Joseph city council killed an anti-free
lunch ordinance
Minneapolis unions are pushing university
extension work
Danville en- coal miners struck against
rs cent per ton.
Lexington (Ky.) BARRIERS are fighting a
Sunday-closing ordinance.
Providence dry goods house furnishes
free lunch to patrons.
London pays AZ per cent Of the income tax
of England and Wales.
Minneapolis ciga' makers have induced an
OtueF uEn 10 employ union men.
Traverse City, Mich. lathers will not work
for less than 21$ cents per yard.
Pittsburg auctioneers say the sherif-s en-
ployes are encroaching on their business
In the country districts of France 81 per
cent. OF the agricultural lRborers are idle.
Minneap poiis mail carriers will not deliver
letters at houses where vicious dogs are kept.
Indianapolls Engineering Club discussed
the elevation Of tracks and a viaduct sys-
TEN.
Saginaw street railway men threatened 10
strike because three leading union men were
discharged.
Salem CO.) saloon-keepers have organized
and will prepare list Of deadbeats. habltual
drunkards aud minors.
Railway Conductors Insurance Association
has disbursed ! 600 900 among widows and
orphans OF memberS-
At La Crosse, Wis. the secretary Of the
Brewers Union was heavily fined for dis
tributin: boycott placard.
Brooklyn clothing cutters say as much
clothing was made in Sing Sing prison last
year as in all New York city.
The principal labor organizations Of the
United States have declared for the free and
unlimited coinage OF gold and silver.
Toronto fruit dealers and grocers have
asked the local lawmakers to see that the
methods Of fruit packing are improved.
In Paris when local shopkeeper adver-
tises TO sell lat cost he has to keep his word
or the government knows the reason why.
Tampa Fla cigar-makers struck for the
reinstatement OF a man. and when the trouble
was adjusted the fellow refused 10 return 10
work.
In the Leadville rock-drilling contest the
worlds record was broken the first night. a
Leadville team drilling thirty-two and one.
half inches in Gunnison granite.
Buffalo Central Labor Union is after con-
tractors on city work VINO do not observe the
eight-hour day and pay less than the prevail
ing rate of wages.
Cincinnati printerss scale: Compositors or
cases. night. As cents per 1000 ems; day. Il
cents per 600 ems; job, 50 per day. on type
setting machines, day, S2S per week; night,
/ S26.
! The fare on Saginaw horse cars has been 8
cents, and cents has been charged on the
electric lines. but the competing companies
talk of consolidating.
Savannah street railway companies have
| decided that washerwomen with bundles
/ must pay cents. The regular fare is q
( penny, and one line gives two rides for 6
/ cent.
| Pittsburg garment workers scale calls fol
! the following: For Jean and cotton pants, 9;
cents per dozen pairs; woolen filed jeans
! S1.20 per dozen pairs; corduroy. SLIGO pei
/ dozen; wooden jeans. S1.s0 per dozen; eordu
roy knee, 45 cents per dozen; cotton knee, Il
cents per dozen pairs
The objects of the Yehicle-Ow Associa
! tion of ST. Louis are: To protect the rights o
vehicle-owners; to protect the use of th'
streets of the city; TO correct the abuse o
public drinking fountains; to prevent unjus
taxation OF vehicle-owners; to prevent dis
elimination by railroad and transportation
companies in receiving and delivering freight
SLAVES IN HAREMS.