The morning times., 1896-07-26

OF artificial light when compelled to work
! overtime.
The emancipation of the working people
must be achieved by the working people
themselves. Wendell Phillips.
| Bridge water, England, Dockers' Union lost
a strike for higher pay. They had $685.
coo In treasury before the strike.
The Bohemian Turnyerein will lead the
| parade on Labor Day at Cleveland, and the
police will be asked 10 keep away.
| Dillonville tO) miners won u strike.
| The management informed the nonunion
men that they must join the union and pay
| up their dues
Troy IN. " Typographical Union has
| adopted the percentage plan of collecting
| dues. The percentage is per cen on the
| amount earned.
The members of the st. Paul Coopers'
Union are all employed in the present time
anu at an increase in wages over those OBJ
| tanned last year.
| strikes of metal polishers at Toronto and
| Hamilton, Canada, were compromised.
| Unions have just been formed at Locgport,
N. Y, and Peterboro, Canada.
| A large mass meeting of Russian Hebrew
workingIneD was belu In New York the
other mig mt. unuer the auspices OF the United
| Hebrew Trades, to express sympathy with
| the SO 900 striking workingiuen In ST.
Petersburg, Russia. Money will be for
| warded.
\ strike fund OF round million, to
| be useu and maintained in connection with
the consolidation OF all the metal. workers
| unions or the united States, Is proposed.
In Massachusetts there is law Ito
prevent fraud safes OF goods, wares and
merchandise at public or private sale, by
itinerant venders, and ~ regulate sucn
sales.''
The Building Trades Council OF Boston
wanls uniou men 10 get liie preference or
employment upon all buildings erected or
repa,re at the expense oil religious organi-
cations.
The Typographical Union has requested
the Boston Central Labor Union tnat all
political printing not bearing the printers
label, forwarded 10 affIliatang bodies, be
returned.
They talk of organizing special officers
at Cincinnati. Ii an organization Is per
fected the special officers Will agree To
remain neutral in the event OF a strike or
lockout.
the last New York legislature enacted
law establishing free labor bureaus TO
receive applications for labor and also
TO receive all applications On the part of
those desiring to employ labor.
All the rcsta urant keepers in Duluth
with but one exception have signed the
new scale presented by the Walters
Union. The night men are advanced
81 a week and tne women SOcents week.
week.
AT Fall River the Slashers' Union has
decided TO exempt all members from paying
dues during the time the mills are stopped
<,F Dnrs fhs4f ~,
tailment no members will be entitled TO
stoppage pay.
The electrical workers reported at a.
recent meeting OF the Duluth Trades
Assembly that they have it now arranged.
SO that it takes an apprentice six years
to learn the trade, instead OF about sixty
da VS., as formerly.
All attempts to settle the fight between
the New York Local Union No 3, of the
Brother erhood of Electrical Workers, h.
OF l., and Local Union, No. D, OF the National
Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, A.
F. of L., have ended in failure.
Girl pickets are the latest and they are
credited with winning a New York strike.
The girls did not pursue aggressive meas
ures They were Smiling and wheedling
in their ways, and were successful in this
way in keeping many nom union people
out Oh INC ldtlOTs.
Forty-two local, three national a nd three
city central charters were issued by the
American Federation of Labor in June, this
year, against twenty local;and one national
issued in the same month last year. Tile
National Building Labofers' Union is voting
on question OF affiliation with the A
F. OF l.. G8G sses-
There has been three strikes of stove
moulders at Detroit in the past sixteen
years, and every strike has been followed
by new stove works coming into ex-
istence. "A general strike at present.
says a unionist would be followed by an
other-a cooperative stove woTks-and The
establishments now in the field don't want
that
Buffalo horseshoers won their strike.
Three dollars a day for firemeD; S2.I5
day to fit and drive, and So. so day for
floormen. Ten hours are to coDstitutea a
days work for the first five days Of the
week Nine hours will make a days work
on Saturday. Fifty cents an hour will be
paid for overtime and there will be no work
on Sunday.
Notwithstanding the injunction issued by
Judge Ludwig, restraining the street rail-
way officials OF Milwaukee from beginning
action in the United states court to pre-
vent the city from enforcing the 4-cent fare
ordinance, an order was obtaincd in the
United States court that virtually annuls
the order of Judge Ludwig, which simply
ehioined the street railway officials, but
said nothing about the Central Trust Com
pany, OF New York, trustee for the stock
holders.
Il learned few things while abroad"
said Manager Brady, .'of the. Actors and
Managers Association in Lonuon that we
W pi IN. off
is unison OF feeling, and they associate
together to remedy abuses. Recently they
forced the united railwa Us OF 6 Grcat Britain
to reduce their rates, and received other
concessions There is very little litigation
or disagreement between the actor and
manager, everything being more or less,
actually settled by their protective associa-
ton"
At the election of st. Paul Typographi-
cal Union, No. 80, which takes place July
90, the following proposed amendments
to article of the constitution will be
voted on: To make salary OF secretary
treasurer $3.50 per year; recording sece-
.tary, SIP; sergeant-at-arms, Sc, without
extra pay for special meetings; delegates
to International Typographical Union,
$25 and transportation: if convention is
held In st. Paul, no allowance; committee
men TO receive 40 cents per hour for lost
time.
The $500 locked-out miners OF Indiana
have appealed to indianapolis unions for
aid. They recall the fact that in the winter
OF 1S9394 that city had many poor people
who were unable TO obtain work at any
price, and could not buy food and fuel for
their families. The owners of the coal
agreed TO give all the miners would dig
for the purpose, and the railroads agreed
to transport 1t free. The miners set aside
certain days on which they worked for