The Washington times., 1894-10-28
LABOR NOTES.
Chicago has 298 unions.

New York has 600 unions.
Boston has an actors union.
London has 12,6OO policemen.
Wichita cigarette tax is 500.
London tailors get so cents day.
The Federation claims 5000 unions.
Buffalo has an iron trades council.
Master hOrseshoers met at Boston.
Kansas City has an engineers club.
San Jose has Mexican social club.
New York tenements house !, 500, 900.
Lord Rosebery favors the single tax.
Pittsburg has twenty blast furnaces.
Idaho is to have Norwegian colony.
Uncle Sam has 80, 900 union musicians.
Columbus, Ohio, has tax reform league.
New York has culinary trades council.
Buffalo electrical workers will organize.
Cincinnati has 1000 union shoe workers.
New Orleans has 400 union bricklayers.
New York has 1900 union custom tailors.
Buffalo laundry workers have organized.
Indiana photographers have organized.
United Brewery Workmen number S, 700
New Zealand advances money to settlers.
Detroit has a railway teamsters' union.
New Britain, Conn, has labor party.
There are 80, 900 union railway hands.
st. Louis is to have cooperative bakery.
Farmers organizations have 5000, 900 mem
bers.
Day laborers on Southern levees get $1.5O a
day.
Wisconsin woodmen get from s16 to s26 a
month.
Nashville is to have a cooperative shoe
factory.
Londoners pay cents for pound of
bread.
In Germany employers must insure their
lahorers.
Texas federation wants national banks
abolished.
Ala Crosse plumbers supply company
shares its profits.
St. Louis has Vehicle Owners Protective
Association.
The California winemakers' corporation
has been formed.
New York Italian marble mosaic workers
have union.
Early closing of stores is gaining ground
at Jersey City.
Texas Federation of Labor wants postmast-
ers chosen by popular vote.
Chicago ex-polcemen have organized to
take a hand in the coming election.
The Market Gardners' Association of St.
Louis intends to eXterminate the office of
inspector of weights and measures. but the
Retail GEocers' Association will give battle to
the gardeners on this question.
Alexander Dumas advocates a tax upon
diners out for the benefit of the poor.
ST. Paul trades and labor assembly wants
the city to acquire the gas plant.
St Paul union clerks are endeavoring to
secure the cooperation of lady clerks.
In Minneapolis. ST. Paul and Duluth the
percentage Of foreigners in trades unions is
smaller than those OF native birth.
The Metropolitan Gas Company of London
shares its profits with its employees.
Omaha women are organizing a laundry in
order to provide work for poor women.
The unemployed of New Zealand have been
assigned so 900 acres of land by the govern
ment.
A Maryland law requires mechanics to have
proper life lines on scatTolding they may be
using.
The Amalgamated Society of Carpenters
and Joiaers. OF Great Britain and Ireland, Is
thirty-four years old.
New Orleans is making preparations to re-
ceive the convention Of the international
Bricklayers' Union.
Detroit machinists in abrass and iron works
won strike against making one man do the
work of two.
Four Denver Republican machine operators
have issued challenge for speed contest
for 500 side.
The "Catholic view of the labor question"
was the title of an address by Father Furlong,
Of st. Louis.
The Cooperative Construction and Supply
Company has been organized at Norwalk,
Ohio, with a capital OF $4,000.
SeYenty-seYen per cent. CT the bakers and
nearly ell the tailors in st. Paul, Minneapolis,
and Duluth are Of foreign birth.