The morning times., 1896-10-18
LABOR NOTES.
A machine paints.


| Japan contains 80 SEQ teachers
| The South has 476 cotton mills.
| Vienna has an embroidery school.
| Duluth is to have Il labor temple
London has gu, 900 costermongers
Minneapolis horseshocrs organized.
| Australia will export frozen flowers.
| Mexican tobacco is invading Florida
There are 2S roo union cigarmakers
blotting paper towel is announced.
kchmoni has negro BARRIERS union.
minneapolis bartentlers will organize.
Boston saiimakcrs demand nine hours
Inc worlu employs 100000 locomotives.
| Virginia City has Chinese liquor dealers.
Kansas City is to have an undertakers'
| school.
america has 7 L Al union cigar factories.
| uHcle Sam pays his sailmakers So for
eight hours.
Aew York architectural iron workers
| strike was compromised.
| Philadelphia shoemakers have adopted a
label.
organized.
| fAau..,,s City building trades council has
n union label.
Chicago X. of L. will join the Brother.
| hood.
| Detroit liquor dealers will organize to
counteract the anti-saloon movement.
st Louis bakers have established a paper.
/ H.
Plasterers now pay 500 to the family of
| a dead member.
All union cooks at Minneapolis are en-
ployed.
| a chicago cigar dealer was fined 500
for counterfeiting the union label.
| New York has Church Association for
the advancement of the Interests of-Eahor
Minneapolis barber shop was deprived
of the union label for polishing shoes free
of cost.
Halifax delegates bayc appealed To the
| Canadian government for lower freight
| rates.
| The Historian government has decided
| that convict labor must not compete with
| free labor.
| Workers Union will be registered in New
| York.
Pacific coast manufacture are invited
! to display their products ut an exposition
| at Los Angeles.
There are now $50 buildings in process
of construction in the city of New York
lsnpemins. Mich, miners nave been cut
TO an average Of $l.15 per day; iaborcrs,
Si.25.
The Wheeling Public Library has acccd-
ed 10 the request Of unionists that TWO Ia Dor
| weeklies be kept on file.
Greater New York was represented by
20 delegates at the Cigarmakcrs' Inter
ndtlOnal convention.
Only one Fan River textile mill was idle
last week. One firm is running Till 0p. IN.
AT Frisco the DoaId OF health has refused
to employ any but union Ia Dor in whitening
and painting srhpulhDuSes.
st. Luuls cigarmHkers have decided to
inaugurate a local out of work benefit fund
FOR those who are unemployed during the
winter.
iu New York there's enough food always
h2 nd Wi.hStt "a, nf, he Sia
Hamilton, Ont, street car employees now
get from u 1 . to l3 . cents per hour
The commercial travellers have taken
the initiator! step for fight for c-Cent
fare on the railroads of Indiana.
Des Moines Council VIII inaugurate pub
lie Works for the unemployed and change
the force every two weeks.
The maximum price for natural gas for
the next five years has been fixed by
fouugstown, Ohio, Council at % cents
per / 900 feet.
New Orleans street car workers want
ten hours 10 constitute days work at
eighteen cents per hour, or ten hours per
day at S54 per month.
New Haven women employees of n New
Haven rubber fac;ory struck against
cut TO 81 30 day.
The miners at the Black Jack mine at
Silver City, New, are erecting a school
house in the vicinity of the mine by pop
ular subscription.
Bluff on, Ind, demrstics' union is thirty
| ing. They want -four nights off n week and
posses sion of the parlor Sunday nights
THE Laborers' Union OF Brooklyn fur
| nisiled the chairman for the meeting of
| the Central Labor Federation of Brooklyn
| last Sunday.
It!c !,rO nerhood Carpenters minimum IN
itiation fee has been raised to So, and the
inlniinum monthly dues raised 10 I5 cents
for benefit members.
The Central Labor Onion of Brooklyn
Sunday detected one OF the new delegates
ofthe Journeymen Painters and Decorators
Union wearing non-union hat.
The Frisco Election Commissioners did
not award the contraction printing TO the
lowest bidder because 1t was feared that
his bid did not insure the employment of
union labor.
TIE president of a big Brooklyn brewery
told a Central Labor Union committee that
| he had no objection to his engineers Joining
| a union.
The Minneapolis. st. Paul & Sault Ste-
Marie Railway has tried the experiment of
letting each locomotive engineer hire his
own fireman, and the plan is said to have
worked very well. 1t is now proposed to
let each conductor hire his own brakeman.
The yield of Detroit potato patches is
$4,000 bushels, an average of 2G bushels
per family. The cash value of the pota-
toes is estimated at $4,000, a profit of
900 per cent on the 1880 invested.
In the 10 trades unipns. With an aggre-
gate membership of 429 ,621, making re-
turns to the English Labor Department,
l4.592. or 3.4 per cent, are reported as
unemployed at the end of August, com
pared With IL per cent in July. nd with
5.2 per cent in the ST unions, With a mem
bership of 393,001, from which returns
were received for August. 1895.
The proceedings of the cigarmakers' In
ternational convention, at Detroit which
are expected to occupy about three " eeks,
Will be much after the manner of Con-
gress or a legislature. The delegates re-
ceive So day and the pages So a day,
and 1t is estimated that the convention
VIII cost the International upward of $4O,-
900.
The Kansas City Mechanic was enjoined
on May Ii, 1896, from issuing. publish
ing or promulgating" any OF the acts of
the Armour strikers, and from publishing
the boycott which was declared. The writ
Was made returnable in three DAYS. Al
most five months have elapsed, and yet the
case has not been heard.
Since the organization of the Brotherhood
OF Carpenters, wages have been raised
in 531 cities to such an extent that So
100000 more wages annually have been
paid the carpenters in those cities. IN forty
SIX cities the hours OF labor have been re-
duced to eight per day. and nine hours con-
stitute days work in 393 cities. About
432 cities have adopted the eight or nine
hour system on Saturdays.
Dublin. Ireland, painters asked for an
increase of half-penny per hour in wages,
but the master painters conceded a penny
per hour, and decreased their working time
by SIX hours week, so that painters now
only work fifty hours per week. at 3d.
per hour. The master builders would not
concede that; they wanted the painters to
work nfty-four hours at 1-2d. per hour,