The morning times., 1896-11-01
LABOR NOTES.
Buffalo newsboys organized.
A brick trust is threatened.
Colorado has Italian miners.

America toerates 329 trusts.
New York peddlers will reorganize.
The world has 50,000,O0O unionists.
London has Al 800 pauper children.
| Nashville white BARRIERS organized.
| Electricity runs Derry shoe mill.
| Duluth is to have labor temple.
John Ball has l,30Olady postal clerks.
| Cleveland has cooperative grocery.
| Germanys railroads cover 29,032 miles.
| New York is TO have a oU-story DuilGing.
| There are 40 900 boot and shoe unonists.
San Jose, Cal, labor exc mango is dead.
| Atlanta StonecutterS struck for $2.7O
| day.
| White men took the places of Chinese
strikers ut Frisco.
| Cleveland has Il union of walking dele
| gates.
| Toledo hotel and restaurant employees or
| ganiZed.
| New York is to have u cooperative res
| taurant.
Syracuse unonists want no city fran
| chiSeS sold.
Union'sm is displacing Socialism IN
| Germany.
The Washington Lumber Trust has
| thrown l 200 men out Of work.
New York union hacknen viii oppose
the movement for lower fares.
Frisco lawyers have organized and
will recommend four superior judges.
Toledo has the only union OF carpet
| layers and drapers in America.
A New Yorker who was boycot,ed has
| sued the union for So 900.
Bellefontc, Pa, is 10 have n co opera
| tive glass plant.
In Switzerland telephone message
/ costs from = TO s cents.
Hop pickers at Puyallup, Wash, get
% TO 50 cents per 100 pounds.
Montreal bakers increased the price Of
| a four pound loaf . cents.
A cooperative cracker factory may be
established at Cleveland by the union.
In eighteen years the number of trades
| uniOniSts has jumped from IL 900 10 u
! half million.
Government employees in the classified
! service VIII form IL national organization.
The site for Dc;rcit's labor temple has
been selected, and Kansas Ciiy's Is also
a surety.
Rochester common council has decided
that all city printing must bear the union
| label.
| The Eight Hoar Herald suggests self
| spacing type as "A means 20 keep out
| machines.
Gompers joined the Cigarmakcrs' In
| terhalional Union when he was fourteen
/ years old.
The Midland Mechanic. Kansas City.
hereafter will be set by hand compo-
| sition.
New York carpenters union has do
| mated S25 10 a member of Union OF
! Brooklyn, who is old and infrm.
The Omaha ordinance compelling re-
| lail coal dealers to pay $40 a year tax
has been declared invalid.
Prince Hilkoff. now Russian minister,
once worked in "A Philadelphia locomo-
tive shop at 81 day.
Card-room workers of Fall River and
New Bedford have decided 10 boycott nom
union made goods.
California railroad commissioners insist
that they have the right to fix the street
railway fare.
IL is claimed that labor is better Or
ganlzed in the city of Detroit than in any
| other city in America.
Glasgow's municipal water plant yields
| profit of $500 900 a year. In London
Rrvate companies earn 81 900. 600 year,
The Washington Purity of Election law
| requires that every bit of election printing
shall bear the name of the office from
which it is issued.
Men at work on Portland, Me, elc-
vator struck for 20 cents an hour. Lost.
Wallham watch firm cut wages 15
per cent.
The 500 members of the Miners Union
of Telluride district have agreed to CON
tribute So each to the support of the
L.adyille strikers.
The st. Paul CCopers' Union is con-
| fronted with another labor-saying ma
chine hOop-uriving maCline-whicn is
causing them some concern.
In the last six months the CigarmakerS'
label CUrnmIttec issued 347 ,7ST union labels,
an increase of 100000 over the previous
SIX months.
Boston steamfitters won a strike ana
forced brother Of the boss to pay his
! back dues TO the union. only union Journey
men and helpers VIII be employed.
st. Paul's hricklayers' union is inter
ested IN the preparation of a bill providing
| Tor the appointment of a practlcaiand com
| petent brickidycr on the building Inspector
staff.
| Nyn Central Labor Union has Of
ficially invaded the domain of politics
| and VIII work to defeat legislative eau
| didates who have not been IN sympathy
| with organized labor and its aims.
| The New York Architectural fr1nwork-
| ers' Union has decided 10 fine every mc.i,-
Der who works on Sunday, So. One mem
Der who took the place of another member
| of the union who was on strike has been
| fined SIS.
The Saxon Land Credit Association IS
| ln institution, which. under government
| auspices and regulation, was established
some years ago, 10 provide farmers aud
other small property owners with facili-
es for obtaining loans upon long time
AT the convention of Frisco unions State
| labor commissioner Fitzgerald was elected
| n member eX-ofiicio OF every committee
| This was Done for the reason tnat Mr.
| Fitzgerald has the power to summon pcn-
| pie before the committees in the course %:
| Investigations necessary for establishing
| foundations for labor laws.
AT sundays meeting the New York Cen
| tral Labor Union indorsed radical resolu-
| tons regulating immigration from the
effete monarches of Europe, and considered
| u project for building government canal
| and railroad from the Atlantic to the
| Pacific coast. The immigration matter is
| Il scheme to limit the number TO $4,000
| a year.
An effort is likely to be made by Clevc-
| land, O., manufacturers and mechanics 10
| discriminate against the cheap lumber
products which have been shipped into the
| city during the past years. Union car
penters will refuse to handl,'any goods
| unless manufactured in Cleveland mills,
| or, at least. uIless the work was
| done by mechanics receiving 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 throughout the Northwest by inducing
| as many customers a s possible to substitute
! corn for fuel. Jti proposed to hold con-
| vention at Some central point where an
| organization can be formed and the boy
| cott made Complete.
| New York longshoremen have just been
! organized by representatives Of the English
| Union of Unions, a federation of the dock
| laborers', foremen's, scamen's and river
| slde workers unions in Great Britain, af-
| filiated with similar federations in Holland
| Belgium, Sweden, Germany, France, Spain
andItaly. The organ Of this body is printed
| in a half-dozen languages. I'VE organized"