The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-06
LABOR NOTES.


LABOR NOTES.
Denver has tbirty-two unions.
Vienna boasts cork pavenents.
America has $50 street railroads.
Pianos are ma lie OF paper.
Indiana has fourteen WOODEN mills.
Brewers have 120 unions.
Saxony has wea wing schools.
| Saxony has forty commercial schools.
Racine has a cooperative paper
Boston has negro saloonkeepers.
The Dublin, Ireia nd, Trades Council
| represents 1000 men.
Boston street cleaners nave union.
Indiana Socialists have q State ticket
| in the field.
/ Plymouth, England, enjoys 2-cent car
fares and the employees the eight-hour day.
Wellington, NJ e., hasn't a non-dnion
printer.
| Employees OF many cooperative societies
| In Scotland work bnt fifty-two and one
half hours per week.
\ Spanish car drivers get SO week.
| Buffalo gives employment to over Co.
| 900 mon.
| Detroit has over 900 union carpenters.
| Advertising costs London firms So,
OOO, 900 a week.
| AT Wallace, Ida. wages range from
| $3.50 to 81 day.
| Negroes who own shops in Boston emf
| ploy white clerks exclusively.
All Grand Rapids barber shops will be
closed all day on Labor Day.
milwaukee, photographers will organize
| New Zeniand K Of L. want five-day
| week. .-
Prince of Wales pays $l2 for trousers.
Des MONIES policeman get $50 month.
A Chicago Engineers Union has increased
| its Initiation fee to So.
Maine textile workers want a law fix
! ing weeks work at fifty-four hours.
Frisco saloon men wish to abolish the
| free lunch.
Trunk and bagmakers are endeavoring
to form national union
State employment bureau is to be es-
tablished at Baltimore.
Fan River street car lines must water
the streets.
Frisco Slngle-taXers are arranging for
| series of Della ware" meetings to be held
i'll various parts of the State.
Los Angeles brickmakers have organ
lied and will attemptto have Chinese work
men discharged.
Wash, is considered to be worth only
40 cents per cord, says the Courier.
In every school in Paris there is! res
taurant, where free meals are served to the
children who are too poor to pay for them.
In Austria Cgarmakers are government
employees, and receive from 1.S0 to So
week.
In Bohemia textile workers get so cents
-at ry,
from Z to 20 cents a day.
The National Union of United Brewery
Employees will hold its annual conventional
Cincinnati on September 90
A law against unfair competition in
trade" has come into force in Germany. 1t
is aimed against false descriptions and
other forms of swindling by advertisements.
Not only the advertisers, but the news
paper publishing the advertisement, may
be prosecuted.
St. Paul BARRIERS Union has decided to
levy fine of 81 on any mem Der purchasing
barber coats without the label OF the Gar
ment Workers Union being attached.
The New York Architectural 1ronwork.
ers' Union fined one member $50 for re-
naming at work in shop while the other
members employed there went on STRIKE
lie DdItDntl CGuHcuiiuu vi l1t
hood OF Railway Track Foremen will con-
vene at st. Louis, No., Monday, October ).
The secretary OF the WQOdworkers' Union
says: .'The wages paid thousa nds of wood
workers are about SO per cent less than
European countries"
There are II merchants and storekeepcrs,
10 GLACIERS, 8 newspaper men, gentle
men, 6 lawyers, g agriculturists. mining
SPECTATORS, 3 auctioneers. 3 butchers,
stat.oners, . GraperS- diapers assistant,
a miner a blacksmith, an anialganatOr,
an iron founder, matchmaker, n coalmin
proprietor, and wharf 1aborer in the
new legislative assembly OF Queensland.
When reductions in wages are to be
made it is always the unorganized workers
who get the worst Of it. 1t makes no
difference that they are already miserably
underpaid and can least afford further
reduction. Their wages are the first to
be cut and seldom or never is the cut re-
stored.-AdvaDce Advocate.
In Sweden the education of journalists
is treated IFS a function Of the state. Under
this system the young journalist gains
knowledge Of the world by travelling at
the expense of the taxpayer.
Merchants will be allo wed to place
HUNS III lhc liiehdu"poiis Lawn LAY POI
rade, but no unfair goods will be al
lowed to be advertised.
1t is said that during the past two
years the bOilermakers expended less thaa
$1,000 for strike benefits and in ten of
the principal strikes secured advances In
wages aggregatiDg $50. 900 per annum to
their members. Probably thisssum would
be doubled by the advances gained without
recourse to strikes.
A Parliamentary co mmittee's report
classes twcnty-three trades as .'danger-
GUS" The dangers are various-constant
risk Of accident in some cases; in others !
the prevalence OF specific disease, such as
the peripheral neuritis affecting certain
workers in India rubber factories; and, in
yet another class of cases, such dis0rde rs as
headache, constipation, bad taste in the
mouth, loss OF appetite, extreme drowsi-
ness and lethargy, anemia, skin eruptiOns,
respiratory catarrh and general malaria.
August F. Fillum OF Mil waukee, proprietor
or one OF the largest tanneries in. the world,
says: II was greatly impressed with the
advantages of State and municipal owner
-thip of public utilities. In the states of fine
German Empire the government owns and
operates the railroad and telegraph lines
and fixes the rates so as to realize enough
for maintenance and a very small net in
come on the investment. The management 4
is entirely satisfactory. The express bust
ness is part ofthe excellent postal service of
the empire"
There is no more striking difference
between the negroes Of the North and
South than in the manner OF their Labor"
says Boston negro editor. Here the
negro carries the bod; in the South he
lays the brick and mortar; here he shovels |
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