The morning times., 1896-08-16
NOTES ABOUT LABOR.

| W0eeunS DutcDerS paraueu.
A Frisco cat washes Windows.
| Austria has female bod carriers.
| There are paper carriage shafts
Milwaukee brewers won strike.
No Sunday street cars at Toronto.
No typesetting machines in Austria.
Parisians ate 80 900 horses last year.
'Frisco's tax rate is $1.Oo on the $780,
Detroit carpenters unions analgamated.
Broon-makers kick against convict labor
Georgia florists held a State conveu-
| ton.
Newark carpenters want $2.75 for eight
hours.
Evansville, Ind., common laborers get 81
. day.
Texas Populists want State Labor
Bureau.
Horsesboers now have q union trade
mark.
Toledo printers entertained Columbus
compOsitors.
Bloomington, Ind, stoneworkers struck
| against d cut.
At Pasadena. Cal, 60 per cent OF the
workers are idle.
Wales, Mass, wooden operatives won a
| strike against a cut.
Lansing unionists will spend Labor Day
at Saginaw mining.
In the Connelsville, Pa, coke region
IL 900 men are idle.
Other union men took the places OF
striking walters at Cincinnati.
-Four unions OF bakers We're organized in
New York last week.
Tie Virginia State Federation OF Labor
was formed the other day.
\ Wheeling firm last week decided to
handle union cigars exclusively.
Denver engineers struck for eight hours
and 81 instead of twelve hours.
Duluth freight handlers have joined the
'Longshoremen's International Union. n
Cleveland custom tailors will Join the
United Garment Workers Association.
New potatoes are bringing cent and
half pound at New Castle, Colo.
Newburyport, Mass, sboemakers struck
for the reinstatement of the union leader
Chicago Brickmakers' Union has dwinc
died from 2 800 toless than /, 1,400members.
Wheeling unionists insist that the chief
of police should be elected by popular vote.
Los Angeles cigar dealers protest against
the shutting up of their shops on sun
day.
Atlanta negroes are boycOtting a street
railway that compels them to occupy rear
seats.
The State railroad commission of Georgia
wants the managers to show cause why coal
rates should not be reduced.
A Pueblo mining company has notified
its men that the man who joins union
will be discharged.
Organization has reduced the black
smiths day in Denver from twelve and
thirteen to nine hours.
Union musicians of Chicago say they
will not work on Labor Day il any nom
union musicians shall be engaged.
Some Baltimore clock factory workers
asked for an advance and they were cut
to Sc and 81 week. They struck.
st. Paul union printers want the inter-
national body to establish newspapers for
the employment of men displaced by ma
chimes.
Toledo aldermen have decided that all
city printing must bear the union label, and
only citizens are to be employed on city
work.
Agents of an Alabama car company are
in Pittsburg endeavoring to secure nom
union men. They offer the union pay for
pudding.
The Brown Hosting Company strikers
at Cleveland want grocers and other mer-
chants to boycott men who have taken
their places.
The New Jersey Federation of Trade
and Labor Unions will open its eighteenth
annual congress at Trenton on Monday,
August Is.
Kansas City Building Trades Council has
asked architects to insert union labor
clause in contracts with master builders
and contractors
Letter carriers will hold convention at
Grand Rapids ON Labor Day, and the Chi
cago postmaster will head a delegation in
the parade of 200 men. =
Two years ago Sacramento street rail-
way hands organized and secured the ten
hour day. Then they dropped the union
Now they work twelve hours.
Pittsburg has two unions Of painters.
Burns brotherhood men work for $275.
a day, while the members of the McKin-
ney local labor for cents day less.
The Introduction of a new grade of
shoes at a st. Paul factory displaced
many men. The rest won strike for
the abolishment of the grade in question.
Terre Haute musicians recently organ
lied and demanded $40 per week OF seven
days They desire So for oDe-night shows
or SIS for engagement covering three sue
cessive nights.
ington, H., Cigarmakers' Union will not
take place, the members of the other
branches of the Cigarmakers' International
Union having just voted not to give their
AID to the movement.
In consideration Of franchise new
telephone company is to pay to Indianap-
oils 81 900 in 1896 and an increase yearly
of 81 900 Rntil the maximum Of Sc 900 is
reached. The city is also to have free ser
vice for the municipal departments.
The Union Clothing Company of New
York has obtained twenty signatures out
Of fOrty-six firms to its new agreement,
whereby ten hours is to constitute days
work in the Bay stores during the busy
season and nine hours during the slack
period.
At recent meeting the hosting and
portable engineers were given the right
OF the line of the building traties on
Labor Day at Boston. 1t was announced
that $S7b of the 81 900 set aside for
Labor Day by the city government wSs
voted to be given to the three bodies
parading.
brooklyn brewers won two months
strike. The brewery win now be union
from cellar TO roof. Every nan in the 4
brewery must belong to the resDective