Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-11-29
IN THE LABOR WORLD.
Items of General Interest to Those Who Earn Their Bread
By the Sweat of Their Brow

Paris employees 5000 bakers.
St. Paul has twenty label unions
Winnipeg printers struck.
Chicago carpenters struck.
Frisco uses Chinese coal.
Mapmakers favor bicycling.
Austria has 10000 unionists.
Buffalo hotel men organized.
Montana leads in wool growing.
Ohio boasts a girl Matchmaker
There are pumice stone lfeboats.
Pittsburg is to have a shoe mill.
Paris police carry dark lanterns.
American horses draw London buses.
England has 10000 men making explo-
sives.
Americans use 100000 tons of sugar
annually.
The south's yearly coal output, 90,000,-
600 tons.
A Manistee, Mich, pressroom boasts a
forewoman.
Minneapolis is to have building trades
council.
Boston BARRIERS want uniform pay after
Jan. 1.
Wages have been cut by the Minneapo-
lis street railway.
Baldwin locomotive works, Philapel-
phia, cut wages.
Washington, d. c., butchers now dis
play union card.
Federation of Labor has gained 68,300
members in year.
Detroit carpenters will work eight
hours on and after Jan. 1.
The Metal Federation of America will
shortly be organized.
Engineers and bicycle workers will
form national unions.
Frisco Building trades council will act
q play, Labor and Capital"
Washington printers will probably es-
tablish an out-ofwork fund
Minnesota teachers will probably be
pensioned after twenty years service.
The printers home at Colorado Springs
will have a hospital annex
The American Federation Of Labor has
q native organizer at work in Japan.
Boston stationary engineers organized.
Los Angeles is to have home product
exhibition"
Forty-five unions were represented at
Tue sday's meeting Of the Central Labor
Union of Brooklyn.
The Hebrew Hatters' Union, OF New
ark, has applied to the Social Alliance
for a charter
Adrian, Mich, grocers will hereafter
close at 1880 every evening except Sat
urday.
Boston Merchants association demands
uniform freight rates from the west.
Frisco master bakers will not permit
dealers to sell a loaf for less than 8
cents.
The knitting workers and the embroid-
erers of Brooklyn have amalgamated and
adopted socialistic platform.
THE Guillotine of the Compostor" is
the apt term which the Australian print
ers apply to the linotype machines.
The biggest department store in San
Francisco has been forced by boycott
to agree to employ unionists.
New Bedford weavers struck against
the introduction of the piece system in
place of $40 week.
The Wow Carver's Union of New York
forced the police to stop Sunday work In
q factory.
A half dozen cities have recently or
ganized credit mems associations. War
Is to be waged on fraudulent bankrupts.
New York city pays its policemen
81,400 year, firemen $1,000, street sweep
9rs 1920, and its school teachers 1904
Conductors on Philadelphia United
States mail cars get $1.25 day; street
railway laborers have been cut to 81.
Walters Union, No. 1, of New York
list of the members who have failed to
get their final naturalization papers
Cleveland plumbers claim that some of
their craft are unjustly refused certifi-
Gates by the city examining board
A Grimma, Saxony, paper firm not only
shares profits, but furnishes square
meals for cents and sells at a slight
profit all goods except liquors.