The morning times., 1896-11-22

coming convention. Eight hourS VIII De
leading topic.
Denver is pr"mis ed cheap phones by a
new company.
North Carolina is TO have a cooperative
colony.
Minneapolis is to have a building trades
council.
Toledo Street Railway Union is the big
gest in that town.
Custom tailors have gained thirty-two
unions since January /.
Ten unions compose the new Fall River
Central Union .i-
The Socialist labor party, of Buffalo, has
woman's auxiliary.
An ohio oil company cut wages Of pump
ers from $50 to $50.
New York walters object tn cigarmakors
working as walters.
A big Detroit printing and stationary com.
pany has just been unioniZed. az.
The New York uphoisterers' Unfonsecured
seventy new members last week.
Brooklyn theatrical stage employees are
charged with meeting in a non.union hall.
Each Chinese labor union has its holiday,
when employers banquet the craftsmen.
All Leadyille letter-carriers struck be
cause the department refused TO entertain
u grievance.
A roof garden FOR the poor OF New York
is to be constructed in New York, along the
water front.
Nearly 800 new men have been added this
year TO the New York police force and IS5
more are 10 be appointed.
The International Association OF Ma
chinisls now mas twenty-five uis.rict lodges
in the United States.
The Wholesale anu Retail Liquor Deal
ers' and Brewers League, of San Fran
cisco. is opposing woman suffrage.
Minneapolis grocers secured the defeat or
Alderman who favored the issuance
of free licenses to peddlers.
The Boston Union Tor Industrial Progress
is composed entirely of women.
Boston Building Trades Council kicks
against the employment OF non-residents
and non-unionsts on municipal work.
AtLima, Ohio, the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne
aud Chicago railway has reduced the
wages Of section men 10 per cent
In West Virginia neither party now nomi
mates Il legislative ticket without giving
a place to representative OF iafor.
The Architectural Iron Workers Union,
of Brooklyn, will give benefit on NoTem-
ber 2S for the unemployed members.
Illinois factory inspector suggests
compulsory education law. Women are
dsplacinE men, and children women; new
machines displacing all three
The English postmaster general has tried
the eight hour day iur teIeeraphers and l.
enthusiastic over the benefits derived for
the service and the men.
Berne. SwitZerlaud. has a ysteIn OF III
surance against involuntary idieness. Mer
pay y cents per month and the city con
tributes less than 81 900 a year. Singl,
members unemployed get 20 cents da,
married. 80 cents.
Secretary Howard OF !'al! River
Spinners' Union will invaGc llc south mex,
month in the interests OF unionism. The
plan is to reOrganiZe the textile workers
of the States below Mas on and Dixon.
line. Several other attempts in this wis'
have been attempted, but We're not bril-
liant success Sos. Mr.. Howard Will he as.
sis ted by Columbus ,Ga.l man, and he
expects 10 do good work toward the or
ganization Of the textile operatives i'll tho
South.
ine movement made by Montreal re.
laIlers in opposition to the city bylaw
recurring shops TO he closed at S p. m, is
being vigorously combatcd 10y the clerks
uf the city, who assembled the other even
ing to the numLcr Of five hundred and
declared Tie necessity OF the early closing
bylaw from the point If view Of their
educational, sanitary and aesthetic needs
The Retail GrOccrS' Association held a
special meeting. and agreed upon u form
of petition asking the city council to sus-
pend the operation of the bylaw until
Judgment upon 1t is given by the Supreme
Court
California labor convention has prepared
q batch OF proposed la WIS under these heads:
Eight hours, bakeries, bond protecting la hnr
on public works, creating labor bureau,
regulating employment offices per diem uI
public work, bakers hours, time check syS-
TEN, identity of prison-inade goods, remit
ting advance cost of suit, cullusinn with
employment agents, employment Of citizens,
boiler inspectors providing for payment OF
employees. cost OF workmen's lawsuits, to
pass n mecha MICS lien law, recommending
the repeal of the poll tax, law to fix
state Labor Day the first Monday in
September, to furnish the primary and gram
mar grades of the public schools textbooks
free to all pupils.