The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-30
LABOR NOTES.

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Clerks have 200 unions.
st. Paul has 40 unions.
Canada has 80 street railways.
There are aluminium shoe pegs.
Chicago has 54.21O Bohemians.
An asbestos towel is announced.
Austrian brewers get So week.
Germany reports stone shoe sole
America has go 900 freight cars.
Indian enples are electrically lighted.
Uncle Sam has OF savings banks.
Our railroads extend so ,64S mixes
New York has no electric railways.
London makes 2,8G0 pianos Week
PENNSYLVANIA Labor day is September ..
Los Angeles bricklaycrs are organized.
st. Louis has newspaper writer's union.
In Japan watchtna kers get &c cents Il tia Y.
Duluth laundry girls talk OF organizing
St Paul platers and buffers have organ
lied.
Los Angeles has an educational labor
club.
NAMES has had compresscdair cars for 20
years.
In Austria women bod carriers get IS
cents a day.
Washington tPaJ street car men COM
promised strike
All hut IL miles CT street railway In
Canada Is operated by electricity.
At Terre Haute all peddIers and la wkers
must pay license OF $40 "A year.
Boilermakers will hold a national con-
vention at Milwaukee next month.
Union bakers who do not parade at ST.
Paul on Labor Day will he fined 81
st. Paul BARRIERS will probably wear
their shop coats in the Labor Day parade.
Cigarette license at Shelbyvil.c, Ind
is 81 900. and none can be sold to minors
over $4,000 men are now working
nearly 2.5OO mines IN thirt y-four counties
in California.
Lawrence, Mass, business men are
quoted in favor of scheme of public works
for the benefit of the unemployed.
Employees OF the Erie STOPS ut Hornells-
vile, n. Y, have been put on five hours
time. They work from Z to IL O'Clock.
The pastor OF a Los Angeles church
called a meeting at his church for the
purpose OF inducing men to join labor
unions.
A cartman was chairman and cigar
L
ing Of the Central Labor Union of Brook
lyn.
St Paul HacS AMI Cab Drivers Union will
carriages for members of the Bind
cry Girls Union who wish TO participate
in the Labor Day para It..
Frisco union shoemake-s want people
TO buy home made shoes and will probably
adopt n label that will Indicate that the
goods hav c been made in California.
Hundreds of coke workers are leaving
the Connell Sville, Pa. region for the
West Virrini fie Ids, where work is
said to be more plentiful and wages better
The ci-armakers' national convention
at Detroit next month will discuss the
question OF establishing cooperative shops
in cities where strikers fail To secure their
demands.
The editor and publisher OF the Maury
County, Tenn. Democrat has issued Invi-
tationS to the seventh annual excursion and
picnic given in honor OF the correspondents
u that paper August 20 at Summertown.
Swiss watChmakers are now manufac-
turing watches whose hands move from
right to left. They are intended for the
markets of Turkey, Japan and other
Oriental countries where the natives
read from right to left.
The Journeymen Painters Union, No. 1,
OF Missouri is said to have been the first
union organization OF painters, so far rs
known, established in America. 1t was
chartered under the laws OF Missouri and,
has been in existence continually since
L S62.
A Los Angeles Call firm of building
has concluded to abandon the
nine hour system of work aud adopt the
working day. They also
agreed to abide by the scale of wages
fixed by the carpenters union for August
81.
st. Pani bindery girls sent financial all
to striking sisters in New York.
Mayor Doran OF st. Paul has issued
l proclamation advising the closing down
If all manufacturing plants, as well as
he closing OF all business houses in tae
city on Monday, September Labor
Day.
The saloon men of Great Falls have conf
bined, agreed 10 not pay their licenses,
which have been increased by the new
Of the city from $500 to
$500 per annum each, and have employed
to test the validity of the appoint
nent OF the census agent, whose figures
resulted in Il raise in the classification of
he city.
The Great Northern has put into effect
/ special tariff between Great Falls and
! large number of stations in the vicinity.
A reduction of nearly 80 per cent has been
made in The rates, which will make 1t
possible for Great Falls merchants and
to compete with Helena snd
other distributing points.
"a certain use OF the streets by car
iages," says Judge O'Brien. in a recent
iecision. 'eithcr in front of private resi-
iences, or in front of hotels. clubs, thea
ers, churches and similar buildings, ia a
legitimate use CT the streets as such, and
when they arc occupied temporarily and
by licensed cabinen OF by private
the practice does not amount ton
nuisance"