The morning times., 1896-12-06

Aberdeen, Wash , has a cooperative com
pany.
Detroit printers talk of adopting nine
hour day.
Yorkville bakers Will give a benefit FOR
lille uniOnists.
San Francisco commercial travellers have
Just organized.
Revival meetings" are held by oneonta,
n. Y. unions
Building trades at Cincinnati will MAKE
stand for eight hours.
Brooklyn bakers want public institutions
to buy Union bread.
Leadville saloons and dance halls now
must close at midnight.
Prison output in New York must be
marked convict made
Hartford City, Ind, glassworkers may
establish cooperative shop.
Cleveland .unionists want people to rent
and buy only union-inade houses.
Tampa, Fla, cigar factories are in full
Jlast and Working on Sundays.
Detroit unionsts will establish a CO.
operative colony in North Carolina.
A Chicago strike was caused by con-
tractor working at the cas-fitting trade.
The cClcred physicians of South Caro-
lima have perfected State organization.
Long Island BARRIERS object to shops
That furnish free shine with each
shave.
idle because they will not violage the union
scale.
Metal polishers, paters, buffers and
brassworkers of greater New York will run
u cooperative shop.
Detroit street railway workers refused
To send Il delegate to the Michigan Fed
Grafton of Labor meeting.
Two trustees of New York piast erers'
union are charged with having robbed the
organization of Sc 600
The circuit court has decided that the
Lansing, Mich, City Railway Company
will have to employ conductors.
Six hundred Siavs left Pittsburg Monday y
for different points along the new Butler
and Pittsburg Railroad.
The United Garment Workers report that
all large overall manufacturers in the
United States are using the union label
OF the organization.
New York piano makers recently an
uounced n special meeting at which no
charge would be made for initiation.
Michigan BARRIERS convention want a law
that will compel men to pass an examina-
ton before being permitted to shave.
New Orleans roustabouts get $50 q
month. They forced t,e discharge of twO
cruel bosses by demanding 500 if they
should be retained.
In New York city l06 of ., 1872 bakeshops
employees were born in the United States.
Over 600 are naturaliZed citizens and
1,426 aliens.
Federation of Labor walters at Min
neapolis protest against the X. OF L.
giving IA charter To a new union OF their
craft.
There are many stores in Brooklyn that
have promised the Consumers League to
handle union goods exclusively.
Brt oAlyn musicians have appealed 10 the
Central Labor Tn on TO force hail pro-
prieiur to allow them a ilace of storage
for bass drums.
The Metal Iolishcrs' Union kicks against
The bringing to I oledo of discharged Com
vicrs from the State penitentiary at Jack
son, Mich
There is some fear among steamship peo-
pie that the strike of COCK lahorcrs in Ham
burg may extend To the large ports of the
United States.
sixteen cities were represented at the
State convention OF New York barhcrs.
Colleges Were denounced and license
system advocated.
Labor saving machinery was recently
at Limerick, Ireland, docks.
Bishop o. Dwyer's appeal for the displaced
men secured a gift Of 81, eco fIom the firm.
In The last TWO years the Int .onal
brotherhood of Bollermakers and Iron Ship
Builders expended less than $1,000 in
strikes, while its members gained over
Sop-p'' a III Hl'itdsNu "uEts
Springfield meat dealers organizeda gainst
cut rate house, and forced the whole
salers 10 cease selling to the objectionable
firm.
Butte, Mont, miners get $3.50 a day;
plasterers and stonecutters, So to 81;
printers, 81; smeltcrs, 81. In other Mon
tana cities the scale is about 81 day
less.
The total number Of plasterers in this
.it fhng nr in
Assembly, 1914, so, and in the Plasterers'
Operative Union, $50.
r The New York State branch of the
American Federation OF Labor and the
State Congress of the Knights of Labor
have set a movement on foot to amalga-
mate.
Philadelphia United Labor League wants
a law guaranteeing the right to Join labor
unions. Bakers law for regulation and
inspection of shop was indorsed.
English boot and shoe workers want a
minimum wage fixed FOR those between
eighteen ard twenty years Of age. One
apprentice to every five employed is also
desired, Instead OF one to three.
The banks of the United States, says
the New Orleans Picayune, lose more
money in single year through the dis
honesty of trusted officials and agents
than they do in twenty years from out
side robbers.
The mayor of Cleveland was chairman
of committee which recommends work
in local parks, etc, for the unemplo we'd.
a free employment agency is proposed
and employers seeking hands are advised
to Ike heads of families.
Michigan unionists demand legislation
from the coming legislature. They want
convictS placed On farms and their work
confined TO raising vegetables, etc, for
prison inmates.
Dublin, Ireland, Grocers' Assist ants
Union recently adopted this: Resolved
l nat We the grocers and winners as
sistants of Dublin, do hereby respect
fully call or our employers 10 close their
establishments on Christmas Day the only
entire day we ask for in three hundred
and siXty-five.
Chattanooga City Council has decided
that applications for peddlers' licenses
shall be referred 10 the Retail Grocers'
Association for investigation before being
finally passed upon by the council. Free
licenses are issued only when the appeal
is signed by ten business men and two
aldermen.
Wire nails We're selling at so cents a
keg when the now defunct trust was
formed, and their makers Were reaping
a good profit Cut nails We're selling at
10 cents, also with IL satisfactory profit
TO the makers. They put up the price of
wire nails, worth so cents a keg to So. 90
a keg, and that of cut nails, worth 20 cents,
to S2.25 a kcg.
President johnson, of the Minneapolis
Union, saws that builders are
satisfied to have their men work eight
hours instead of ten, if all of them would
do 1t, and the matter rested entirely with
the workingmen themselves. A Building
Trades Council may effect this.
AT a meeting of a London vestry the
chief point in dispute, and the one which
lvided the vestry into two opposing par
ties, vas whether employment should be
given exclusively to the parishio whn
Were members of trades unions or whether
all the persons out of work should have IN
equal chance.