Omaha daily bee., 1895-12-28
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.
Printers have $4,000 in their natl

Printers have $4,000 in their nationa
treasury
Baltimore clothing cutters withdrew from
the knights Of Labor and Joined the carmen
workers. ,5-
General Master Workman Sovereign of thu
knights of Labor has made his residence a
Sulphur Springs, Ark. H.
Headquarters of the Journeymen Tailor'l
International union will be moved to Bloom
ington, H.. January L. t''"
Women are now being taught silk ribbon
weaving In the Pennsylvania mills, the trad
having been exclusively confined to me hith'
erto. 70
The English Wholesale society, whose 80,
900 members get all their goods at wholesale
prices, made sales in 1894 amounting to sat-
900, 00e.
Good progress is being made in the effort
to bring all woodworkers in the United
States and Canada into the international or
gan!Zation.
In the factories Of Pennsylvania inspected
there were 26O 1856 employees; "a, s45 were fe.
males, of whom % ,397 were from Is to II
years Of age.
There is a large surplus of weavers, and
the Philadelphia district council of Textile
workers has prohibited any more learners
being taken on for the next twelve months.
Conartcts have been made with the Mid
dletown Car works for the construction Of
$50 cars, fifty of which will go to Mexico.
The building of these cars will put a large
number of idle men to work.
A conference will soon be held in New
York to prepare a bill for introduction in
congress providing for a postal or federal
system of savings banks, the same as was
Endorsed by the American Federation Of
Labor at its convention last week.
The Relief association Of the employees Of
the Pennsylvania railroad lines east Of Pitts
burg and Erie, paid out $39, 619.85 during
October. of which $15,666.67 was for deaths
md $23, 953.1S on account Of disability by
sickness and accident.
The semimUnthly pay roll of the Pennsyl-
vania Steel company Saturday amounted to
s1O1, 14s, divided among 1872 employees. The
plant is being run to its full capacity and
is enjoying one Of the most prosperous sea-
sons in its history. This is the third or
fourth payment this year, which has exceeded
the highest record made before the late panic.
Mrs. Richard Gambrill. New York, i'm
ported a lot of house decoration from
switzerland and five Swiss workmen to put
them in place. They were stopped at Ellis
island, and sent back under the contract
labor law. 1t was disclosed at the investlga-
tion that they were to receive $1.20 to $40
a day, for what Americans are paid S. to
$3.50 a day for doing.
Labor COMMISSIONS Fitzgerald has been
collecting statistics in relation to the influx
OF Japanse5 laborers into this country since
he assuemd the Office som emonths ago.
Mr.. Fitzgerald claims to have indisputable
evidence Of a wholesale attempt to import
Japanese laborers. He has in his posses
sion letters and documents coaNscated from
immigrants by the immigration commits
sioners.
All labor organizations s;em to be heading
for the American Federation, with the pros.
pect th?t there will sobn be but one grand
army, all under one management. Within
the last few weeks the national organization
of agents, boot and shoe workers, printing
AMI grants cutters have affiliated
with the American Federation of Labor. The
clethingii cutters are the last to
withdraw from the Knights Of Labor and join
the American Fedsrstion of Labor.
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