Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-12-06


Anderson, Ind, clerks organize.
San Francisco has Chinese shoemakers.
London prefers wood pavements.
Maine is cutting Christmas trees.
A machine makes 5000 pins hourly.
America has 100000 freight cars.
Pittsburg is to have negro firemen.
New York has women gold heaters.
Glasgow has municipal lodging houses.
Butte, (Mont) has 5000 union miners.
Tine worlds armies use 4,500000 men.
Indian miners average $201 year.
London has 44S, 300 inhabited houses.
Newark N. j., prohibits slot machines.
Kendrick, Idaho, hasn't vacant
house.
England makes copper coins for Rus
STA.
Some Brooklyn cigarmakers get 81 a
day
Port Huron musicians have formed a
union.
Marinette, Wis, is to have Polish
colony.
Florence, Ala. has prohibited Sunday
shaNss.
Mrs. Potter Palmer has a $4,000 brace
let
Detroit now has a building trades coun-
Gil.
Duluth has a Scandinavian printers
union.
Aberdeen, Wash, has cooperative
company
Detroit printers talk of adopting a nine
hour day.
5Yorkvile bakers will give benefit for
idle unionists.
San Francisco commercial travellers
have just organized.
Revival meetings" are held by Oneon-
to IN. " unions.
Building trades at Cincinnati will make
stand for eight hours.
Brooklyn bakers want public institu-
tions TO buy union bread.
Leadville saloons and dance halls now
must close at midnight
Prison output in New York must be
marked convict made"
Hartford City Qnd.) glass workers may
establish a cooperative shop.
Cleveland unionists want people TO rent
and buy only union made houses.
Tampa Qla) cigar factories are in full
blast and working on Sundays.
Pittsburg BARRIERS organized and Pueblo
journeymen want the percentage plan
abolished.
Detroit unionists will establish a CO.
operative colony in North Carolina.
Chicago strike was caused by con-
tractor working at the gas fitting trade.
The colored physicians of South Caro-
lima have perfected a state organization.
Long Island BARRIERS object to shops
that furnish a ''shine" with each shave.
Many Washington, D. c., plasterers are
idle because they will not violate the
union scale.
Metal polishers, platers. buffers and
brass workers of Greater New York will
run a cooperative shop.
Michigan BARRIERS convention want
law that will compel men to pass an ex-
animation before being permitted to
shave.
Detroit street railway workers refused
to send a delegate to the Michigan Fed
Grafton of Labor meeting.
Two trustees of a New York pla ster-
ers' union are charged with having
robbed the organization of $4,000.
The circuit court has decided that the
Lansing (Mich.) City Railway company
will have to employ conductors.
Six hundred Savs left Pitsburg Mon
day for different points along the new
Butler and Pittsburg railroad.
The United Garment workers report
that all the large overall manufacturers
in the United States are using the union
label of the organization.
New York piano makers recently an
nounced a special meeting at which no
charge would be made for Initiation.
New Orleans roustabounts get $40 a
month They forced the discharge Of
two cruel bosses by demanding 500 If
they should be retained.
In New York city 106 of 2192 bake
shops employees were born in the United
States. over $50 are naturalized c1ti-
zens. and LAPS aliens
Federation of Labor walters at Mime
apolis protest against the Knights of
Labor giving charter to a new union of
their craft.
There are many stores in Brooklyn
that have promised the Consumers
league to handle union goods exclusively.
Brooklyn musicians have appealed to
the Central Labor Union to force hall
proprietor to allow them place Of stor-
age for base drums.
The Metal Polishers' union kicks
against the bringing to Toledo of dis
charged convicts from the state peniten-
tiary at Jackson, Mich.
There is some fear among steamship
people that the strike of dock laborers
in Hamburg may extend to the large
ports of the United States.
Sixteen cities were represented at the
state convention of New York BARRIERS.
colleges" were denounced and license
system advocated.
Labor saving machinery was recently
Introduced at Limerick, Ireland. docks.
Bishop O'Dwyer's appeal for the dis
placed men secured gift of $1,000 from
the firm.
In the last two years the international
brotherhood of Boilermakers and Iron
Shin Builders expended less than $4,000
i'm strikes. while its members gained over
$50 GOO a year in increased wages.
The mayor OF Cleveland was chairman
of a committee which recommended work
in local parks, ETC., for the unemployed:
free employment bureau is proposed
and employers seeking hands are advised
to take heads of families.
Wire nails were selling at 80 cents a
keg when the now defunct trust was
formed, and their makers were reaping
good profit. Cut nails were selling at
10 cents, also with a satisfactory profit
to the makers. They put up the price of
wire nails. worth so cents a key, to $2.55
a keg. and that of cut nails, worth 70
cents. to 49, % a keg.
Springfield meat dealers organized
against a cut-rate house, and forced the
wholesalers to cease selling to the OBJ
jectionable firm.
Butte, Mont, miners get $3.50 day;
piasterers and stonecutters, So to 81; prin-
tiers, 81; smelters, ST. In other Montana
cities the scale Is about 81 day less.
The total number Of plasterers in