The morning times., 1896-10-25
LABOR NOTES.

TeCtorium is Il substitute FOR glass.
SucZ Canal cams Slo.utu.Uuo yearly.
There's Il thought weighing machine.
California boasts llS-pound squash.
English railroads employ 100000 men.
Germany has chimney I4O feet high.
Chicago electric roads cover 76O miles.
Tie Sogth's cotton crop Is 10000 bales.
W. c. Whitney has S1O,OUu bcdstead.
Worlds railway capital Is $50 600, 900
900.
New York city has 5000 union brick
layers.
AL Wayne. Mich. milkis 2ccnts quart.
New York State has thirty machinists'
unions.
Tennessee is.to have a State Federation
of Labor.
ruKers have 30 unions in and about Ne W
York CITY.
Massachusetts stationary engineers will
form State union
Brooklyu's three trainers unions VIII
amalgamate
Tue business agent OF a New York bakers
union gets SO week.
HorncllSville, \. Y, banks now handle
Canadian coin only at a discount.
Nashville Trades and Labor Council has
Joined the Federation OF Labor
Buffalo is TO lave u daily labor paper.
A labor fair will b. held in Buffalo.
Dublin (lrelandl bricklayers' uiliCn has
Dliiu VI
New York has sixty branches of the
BricklaycrS' and Mas, II In ernational Union.
New York has Chinese cisarmakcrs.
jamestown, n. Y carpet workers wages
were cut 10 per cent
Frisco unions held convention to pre-
pare laws TO be submitted to the leeisla-
turc.
Buffalounions have appointeda committee
to ask the municipality to furnish work to
idle men.
Boston Building Trades Council discussed
the unsafe condition of public schools and
the danger to lives of little ones.
The Amalgamat led Society OF Carpenters
maid S193,232 out-of-work BENEFITS IN its
last fiscal year.
AIiinen,Ders of n New York bakers union
will be assessed 81 Il month for the pay
ment of the out-of- wotk benefits.
An Anaconda, Montana, woman mas sueu
The CarDeuters' Union for 81 3Uu damages
because boycott was placed on her property.
The Brotherhood of Painters and Deco
raturs New York unions are voting upon
proposition to admit contractors To member
ship, and make them eligible for election to
office in the unions.
The merchants of Helena, Montana. are
giving 20 per cent of their cash sales for
the Bryan campaign. Salt Lake Tribune.
Newark machine stoucutters secured the
discharge of non-uiiion men. The con-
tractors offer to pay So Il head as initia-
ton to the union was rejected.
The Detroit branch of the N ational Asso-
sociation of Stationary Engineers has de-
cided TO go through il thorough course the
study of electricity, with Profs. King and
Stoddard as instructors.
The dry goods clerks want the ladies OF
Augusta to bovcott the merchants who will
not close their places of business at 6
O'Clock. as desired by the clerks.
Scotch tradesmen have uni,ed in war
upon CO operation and refuse to buy goods
of manufacturers who sell to co-operators.
and threaten To discharge employees Who
support them.
AT New York the old trouble between the
Board of Walking Delegates an the Unit
ed Brotherhood of Carlenters has broken
out again. and strikes and counter strikes
of one union against another are likely to
ensuc.
It's a matter for regret that though the
public has been again and again appealed
to, foreign dc baskets, the work n many
instances of convict labor, are still being
patroniZedin n this country. Irishmen appar-
emily are becoming obliyous to the interests
of their native land altogethcr.-Dublin
Ureland) Independent.
At a public meeting held at Waterford
Ireland, on Sunday, September 13, it was
decided that public subscription be raised
to meet The expense which will he incurre,
by the holding of the Trades Congress in
1897. 4 Belfast firm of shipbuilders con-
tributed $500 and Sir James Haslett sent
$3.50. The mayor of Cork contributed 5000.
AT recent meeting OF the Clcvcla and Cen
trail Labor Union 1T was decldet that an cr-
fort be made to organize an arbitration
board for the adjustment of lator troubles.
the board to consist of seven members Of
he Central Labor Union and the same mum
ber from the Chamber OF Commerce.
The New York Outside Iron Finishers'
and Helpers Union has taken a new de.
parture in the metbod of keeping up the
standard Of the men in the organization.
physical examination is now made of all
applicants for membership by a physician
and If they are found not to be sound
in physique they are rejected.
The German Painters Union of New
Yori; has established a school for learners
at its labor bureau, in Fifty-seventh street
near Lexington avenue. Instructions will
be given on evenings and on Sundays. The
cost Of the instruction is $5 for /, term
of three months