The morning times., 1896-12-27
LABOR NOTES.

Ohio BARRIERS held a State convention.
They viii demand the creation of State
board of examiners, before whom appli-
cants for BARRIERS license III ust pI owe three
years apprenticeship.
The New York Central LaLor Union has
referred the plan # the MaChinists' ASEocia-
ton for an inter oceanic canal to the
Secretary of the Treasury, in Washing
ton.
The cx foreman of the composing-room
of the Superior wis Telegram, has sued
The union for not accepting him IA
member since the office has been union
lied. He places damages at $4,000.
Amalgamated steel metal workers of
Chicago not onl y won a strike for the dis
charge OF non union men, but the manager
| of the building advanced $25 to the work
men to pay their dues to the organization
President Cowdry, OF the state Central
Labor Union, is in active correspondence
with the centennial commission, looking
TO the setting aside OF Il day during the
| big show 1T Nashville to be known as
| Labor day.
The regular staff for Maine barber shops
| tcXcepting hotel shops is as follows: SHAY
ing, 10 cents; hair trimming, B or 20
| cents: hair cutting. 25 cents: shampooing
| 25 cents. The BARRIERS are now organ
| lied to do away with five-cent shops, etc.
| change. A person producing an article
| of value to others can deposit and get a
warehouse receipt, with which he cal Sc
cure some other article of equal value that
has been deposited by some other producer.
The factory laws of Massachusetts, limit
ing the employment Of women and minors
| To fifty-eight hours per week, and pre-.
| venting the employment OF such persons
| more than ten hours in any one day, are
being violated in many workshops in Bos-
! ton. Central Labor Union wants the
| chief Of police to enforce the law.
The Federation or Labor of the State of
Minnesota calls upon the working people
ofthat Stateto organize both on economical
and independent political lines for the
purpose Of establishing the cooperative
coinmonw ealth, based on the collective
| ownership of the means of production and
their operation for the benefit of the
| people.
The State Labor Bureau of Minnesot q
| VIII seek amendments in the interest OF
| child-iabor. Eight hour laws, amendments
| to the arbitration law, and the repeal of
| the struck jury law Will be asked for.
| Miners want mine inspectors elected by
| popular vote, and the corporation to take
| out bodies OF entonhed miners. Broom
makers and shoemakers want convict w or K
| labeled.
1t now looks as il the Liquor Dealers
! Association of Cleveland would be vic
! torious in their application for the ap-
| pointment of special examiner to smell
out the violators of the Dow Law. Their
| anxiety over the matter has been in the
| fact that they cannot afford to compete
| with saloOnkeepers who do not pay the
| tax. Therefore they come to the aid of
| the law.
! ut is the many who toll and Starve
| and suffer-" says Bjornsterne Bjorsun.
| whose lot have at heart it is the poor
| the small, who cannot rise and assert
| their rights it is those | love; and | be-
| leve that the country is the strongest
| the greatest and the most civilized which
| is covered with millions of modest hut
| contented homes: not that in which the
| splendor Of a few hundred palaces is sup
| ported by the wrctchedness OF a million
| novels"
| The Garment Workers Union of St Paul
| is not having success III its endeavOr to
| persuade the lady superior of the House
| of the Good Shepherd in that city to re-
| frain from competing with the girls of
the union, and thereby reducing the prices
and wages. The garment workers com
| plain that they cannot make an honest
| living on the prices made by that inStitu-
| ton, and contend that in the end they, too
| may be forced into the II louise of the Good
| Shepherd if that institution continues its
severe competition.