The morning times., 1896-11-29
LABOR ONTES.

Chicago carpenters struck.
Paris employs 5000 bakers
st. PaCl has 20 label unions
Mapmakers favor bicycling
Buffalo hoiel men organized.
Austria has 0,G0O unionists
Ohio boa sts a girl w atchmaker
Pittsburg is to have a shoe mill
Negroes own all houses al Sardis Ga
American horses draw London busses
England has 10000 men making ex-
ploIves,
Americans use 2,1OO 900 tons OF sugar
annually.
Tnc South's yearly coal output is so, 600
tons
Federation OF Labor has gained 6s, 800
members i'll year.
Detroit carpenters will work eight hours
on and after January /.
The Metal Federation of America will
shortly be organized.
Engineers and bicycle workers will form
national unions.
Frisco Building Trades Council will act
play, Labor and Capital"
Minnesota teachers will probably be pen.
stoned after twenty years service
The Printers Home at Colorado Springs
will have Il hospital annex.
The American Federation Of Labor has
native organizer at work in Japan.
Boston stationary engineers organized
Los Angeles is to have Home Products
Exhibition"
Forty-five unions We're represented at
Tuesdays meeting OF the Central Labor
Union of Brook yn
The Hebrew Hatters' Union of Newark
has applied TO the Social Alliance for
charter.
Adrian, Mich, grocers will hereafter
close at 1880 every evening except Satur-
day.
Inc Boston Merchants Association de-
mands uniform rates from the West
Frisco master bakers will not permit deal
ers to sell a loaf for less than S cents.
Manstee, Mich, pressroom boasts a
forewoman.
Minneapolis is to have Building Trades
Council.
Boston BARRIERS want uniform pay after
january /.
Street Railway.
Baldwin Locomotive Works, Philadel-
phia, cut wages
The knitting workers and the embrodcr-
ers of Brooklyn have amalgamated and
adopted socialistic platform.
The biggest department store in San Fran
cisco have been forced b y a boycott to agree
to employ unonists
New Bedford weavcrs struck against the
| Introduction of the piece system in place
of SO a week
The Wood carvers' Union of New York
forced the police to stop Sunda work in q
factory.
A half.dozen cities have recently organ
lied Credit Mems Associations. War is to
waged on fraudulent bankrupts
New York city pays its policemen ST. 400
year: firemen, 81 200; street sweepers.
S12O, and its school teachers. $500
Conductors on Philadelphia United States
mail cars get 81 % day: street railway
laborers have been cut to 81.
Walters Union No. of New York has
instructed its secretary to submit a list
| of the mem bers who have failed to get
| their final naturalization papers.
Cleveland plumbers claim that some of
their craft are unjustly refused certificates
by the city examining board.
Grimna, saxony, paper firm not only
shares profits, but furnishes square meals
| for five cents and sells at slight profit
all goods except liquors.
The Brooklyn Labor Lyceum will cele-
brateit fifteenth anniversary a t the Lyceum
| grounds i'll Brooklyn, OH Thanksgiving Day.
: California State Miners Association wants
an additional Cabinet officer, whose duties
| i. will be to leok after mines and miners
| claims and rights.
| Illinois State Federation of Lator wants
| convict labor confined 10 manufacturing
articles for consumption in State institu-
| tions and in breaking stone to be used
| in making good roads through the State.
| The new rule adopted by Chicago
Plumbers Union, requiring all employers
who work at the trade to join the or
| ganiza lion, has created sensation among
| members of the Master Plumbers Associa-
| ton A rule OF the bosses Inion expressly
prohibits this.
AT Scala. Fla, in January will be formed
a national association of tobacco growers.
manufacturersan and handlers This smove has
become necessary since ncethepresenttroublou
conditicn of Cuba will not admit of this
country looking longer to that source for
her supply OF tobacco.
| "a cursory examination of the condition
| Of the working classes in all countries
I where there is a lack of organization on
trades union lines,'' says President Per
kins, twill disclose the fact that their So
cial and economic status is on a deplorably
low plane. and the workers are found to
be ignorant and Indifferent. Organization
| awakens the latent intelligence Of the work
er, opens his eyes to the possibilities Of life,
enables him to acquire more and more of
! its comforts. and gradually but surely edu-
Gates to such point that he will know
/ precisely what he wants and how to get
it, and through discipline and thorough
organization will be able to achieve the full
fillment of labor's ambition"