The morning times., 1896-11-15

charged from the city works because ne
ralieu To contribute to the local Mckinney
campaign fund.
Ire Iruit gro owers of Summit township,
Mich, have formed the Summit Fruit
Package Company, with a capi,al stock
| OF $4,000 Tney nave purchased buiid-
ing and will Immediately tit IL up with
the necessary machinery Tor the manu-
facture Of fruit packages.
All the arguments in the printers diff
Guilty with the newspapers oi ST. Paui ana
Minneapolis have been submitted To the
| State board OF arbitration, and that board
Will file its decision within the next ten
days.
Frisco press feeders and helpers organ
lied. Cylinder prcSsmen will demand SS
per week and $40 for platform presses.
No strike or trouble is anticipated, aud 1T
is believed that The employers Will agree TO
the rate.
A strike occurred at n Tampa, Fla, cigar
factory. The hands quit because three IN
competent meu we're discharged, but when
the men We're offered work IN u lower de
partment ana refused 1t the remainder OF
the CigarmakerS returned to their tables
perfectly satisfied.
The executive council OF the National
brewery Workers donated the sum OF 500
every two weeks To tie locked out brewers
uf La Crosse, Wis, and Omaha, Neb., to DE
paid until the troubles are settled. The La
crosse brewers have been outtwo years ana
the Omaha men eighteen months.
1he Central Labor tniun, OF Washing
ton, at It's meeting last MonCay, by unaiu-
NOUS Vote, extended the olive branch TO
the other central labor bodies in The Dis
| trict and invites them to general confer
| cnSc Iur The purpose or formulating pIdIis
| by which they may all work together III
harmony for the enus which created them.
| Julian Sonutag, president of the Manu-
| facturers' and PRODUCERS Association OF
| California, is doing all III his power TO
protect the State from being made dump
ing ground for cOnN .cl-maue goods OF the
Eastern States His efforts are equally
directed against free labor OF this State
competing with the Convicts of California
! prisons.
When complaint was made against
cigar manufacturer at Washington, u. C.,
Tor employing u Chinaman he declared he
| was paying lhe Chnaman twice as much
| per week as the average cigarmaker was
able 10 earn, for the reason tnat the China
| man was able To make twice as many cigars
| iii The same length OF time as.the average
| tradesrnen of that craft.
| For the first time in the history of the
Chicago Building Trades Council that
organization during the past week called
| a strike against members of one OF its
| affiliated unions On behalf of another
affiliated union. For the first time, also,
the council's decision in trade dispute
| has been rebelled against, and one of
| the unions involved wants the matter
arbitrated outside of the Organization.
Should the 100000 able men," says
| Professor HertZka, OF Vienna, 'be Ell
gagged in work instead of 615, 700, they
| only need to work 36.9 days every year
| to produce everything needed for the
| support of the population of Austria. But
| should the 5,000,000 work all the year,
| say 300 days, which they likely have to
do to keep the supply fresh i'll every de-
| partlnent, each one would only work one
| hour and Twenty-Five and one-half ninu-
cts per day"
Simon Burns, president Of the Window
| Glass Workers Association of North Amer
| ica, upon leaving Pittsburg for Greenfield,
| Ind, this week, is reported to have said:
The manufacturers have thrown down
| the gauntlet. They have said it was not
| question of wages, but of supremacy,
| and the workers have accepted the chal-
| lenge. We Will make them pay for the
| time we are idle by demanding an addi-
| tional l o per cent over and above all ad-
| vances asked at the previous conferences y
| AT Frisco the Polk Street Improvement
Club will begin an energetic but consistent
warfare for greater street car facilities
| The first move in this direction will be
| formal request to the Suffer street company
to allow stop-over privileges of at least
half an hour on any portion of Polk street,
north OF Sutter. In conjunction with this
an effort will be made to have the COM
pany put in a cabl cline in place of the
| horse car system now employed from Pa
! cific avenue to Union street. An effort
will then be made to effect transfer ar
engagements between the Union and Polk
street lines.
| The number or railway employees killed
during the year ending June 30, 1896,
was ,S11, and the number injured 25,-
| 696, being decrease of 2 in the num-
Der of employees killed, and an increase of
2,214 in the number injured From the
above statement 1T appears that during
the year covered by this report one en-
ploye Was killed for each 433 employees,
and one was injured for each 81 men en-
| ployed in the railway service. or train
| men-that is TO say engineers, fircmen.
conductors, and other employees whose
service Is upon the trains-it appears that
one person was killed for each loo EN-
ployes OF this class, and one person in iured
| for each trainmen. The number of pas
sengers carried for each passenger killed
during the year covered by the report
was 2,9s4 ,S32, and the number of pas
| sengers carried for each passenger injured
was 213,651.