Birmingham state herald., 1896-11-01
LABOR NOTES.

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 London has 17.5OO pauper children. Electricity runs Derry shoe mill
 New York peddlers win reorganize. Duluth is to have a labor temple. Nashville white barbers organized.
 Cleveland has a cooperative grocery. San Jose, Cal. labor exchange is dead.
 New York is to have thirtystory building.
 There are 4o,OOO boot and shoe union ists.
 Atlanta stonecutters struck for $275 a day.
 Washington, D. C., plasterers have or
 ganized.s, n
 Cleveland has a union of walking dele gates. @ e@ <
 New York is to have a cooperative res- taurant. sS eE Syracuse unionists want no city fran chses sold.
 Unionsm is displacing socialism in Germany.
 Waltham watch firm cut wages 15
 per cent. s.. X ss.-
 Bellefont, Pa, is to have cooperative
 glass plant.
 Washington unionists will prosecute
 Sunday barbers.
 Toledo hotel and restaurant employees organized. -. White men took the places of Chinese strikers at Frisco. A New Yorker who was boycotted has sued The union for S2000. Hop pickers at Puyallup, Wash get 50 to S5 cents per 100 pounds. Toledo has the only union of carpet lay CTS and drapers in. America. Montreal bakers Increased the price of
 a four-pound loaf cents.
 New York union @hackmen will oppose the movement for lower fares. Frisco lawyers have organized and will recommend four superior judges. Gompers joined the Cigarmakers Inter- national union when he was 14 years old. In eighteen years the number of trades unionists has jumped from 41,000 to 5OO,- 000
 The Eight-Hour Herald suggests self | spacing type as means to keep out machines.
 Rochester common council has decided | that all city printing must bear the union | label ti--.e
 The site for Detroit's labor temple has | been selected, and Kansas City's is also | surety | Washington unonists have asked the
 government to pay navy yard bricklayers | $4 day.
 It is claimed that labor is better organ | ized in the city of Detroit than in any | other cityin America. Prince Hilkoff, now Russian minister once worked in a Philadelphia locomotive | shop at$1 day. Card room workers of Fall River and | New Bedford have decided to boycott | non-union made goods. In the last six months the cigarmakers' | label committee issued 347,797 union la l bels, an increase of 100000 over the pre- l vious six months. The St. Paul coopers' union is confront | ed with another labor saving machine-a hoopdriving machine-whioh is causing 1 them some concern. | Boston steamfitters won a strike and | forced a brother of the boss to pay his | back dues to the union. Only union jour- 1 neymen and helpers will be employed. St. Paul brickayers' union is interested | in the preparation of bill providing for | the appointment of a practical and com petent bricklayer on the building inspec- | tors staff. l cially invaded the domain of politics. and l will work to defeat legislative candidates | who have not been in sympathy with or | ganized labor and its aims. | The Saxon Land Credit association is | an institution which, under government | auspices and regulation, was established I some years ago, to provide farmers ana | other small property owners with facili- l ties for obtaining loans upon long time and a low rates of interest. ] At the convention of Frisco unions, | State Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald l was elected a member, ex-officio, of every l committee. This was done for the reason | that MT. Fitzgerald has the power to l summon people before the committees in | course of ofinvestigations necessary for es- tablishing foundations for labor laws.
 At a recent meeting the New York Gen. | tral Labor Union indorsed radical resolu-
 tions regulating immigration from the l effete monarchies of Europe, and con- | sidered a project for building a govern
 ment canal and railroad from the At
 lantic to the Pacific coast. The immigra- | tion matter is scheme to limit the num-
 Der to 50,000 year. 4'', l An effort is likely to be made by Cleve- | land, O.. manufacturers and mechanics
 to discriminate against the cheap lumber
 products which have been shipped into
 the city during the past years. Union
 carpenters will refuse to handle any goods unless they are manufactured in | Cleveland mills, or, at least, unless the | WOrk IS QODe Dy .necnaHlcS recelVlnS the
 union scale of wages.
 Among the business men of Yankton,
 s. D., an organized general effort is be-
 ing made to boycott the hard coal com
 bine throughoutfthe northwest by induc- | ing as many consumers as possible to
 substitute corn for fuel. It is proposed
 to hold a convention at some central | point where an organization can be
 formed and the boycdtt made complete. | The condition of the Florida cigar trade | Is becoming alarming to manufacturers,
 and they are husbanding their Cuban leaf
 in every way possible. This is, of course, | due to the continued war in Cuba, which has prevented the growing of the tobacco, and also to General Weylers orders for bidding the exportation of any more to- | bacco from the island.- A Jacksonville manufacturer says: Tt will be at least | two years before we can hope to get any | tobacco from Cuba" New York 'longshoremen have just been organized by a representative of the l English Union of Unions, federation of | the dock laborers, firemen's, seamen's l a,d r;x,o oroi1o xuorkarc' unions in Croof