The morning times., 1896-10-11
LABOR NOTES.


America has 80, 900 boOkkeepers.
London has $500 flower makers.
In China labor unions are glowing.
Macon, Ga, liquor license is 5000
There are 9,174 union cigar factories
The Krupp Works have / 500 furnaces
An English mauseoleum cost $75O,OOO
Boston garment workers Won u strike
Laundry workers convened at Toledo
Dosfish Oil is new California indus
try.
New York saloons must close on election
day.
Grand Rapidsi is TO have a Central Union.
Baltimore is to have u Credit Mems As
sociation.
Milwaukee shoe workers will get to-
gether
Paris department stores board employees.
New York boss BARRIERS will hold a State
convention.
New York has 500 A. d. T. messenger
boys.
Buffalo has an Italian Laborers' Union
convention. 1s
America now has 1,COO.O0b trade
unionists. 80
A CONGRESSMAN addressed Detroit News
boys Union.
Washington, d. c., stone masons want
alien labor prohibited.
City aborers at Adelaide, Australia, get
81 .66 per day.
Minneapolis Mattresses Union maintairS
a labor bureau.
Minneapolis walters won strikes for the
discharge Of non-union men.
Kansas City union stereotypers must not
work more than six days week
Chattanooga printers only patronize stores
equipped with union clerks.
Fan River unionists protest against work
ing overtime In a textile mill
CPlteryilIe Iowa miners lpYna nded 40
cents a ton and were conceded So cents.
Boston Central Labor Union kicks against
the closing OF night schools.
Detroit machinery molders won strike
for minimum wages OF $3.50 a day.
The convention of Retail Liquor Dealers
at Duluth decided to handle only union
cigars.
a Catholic priest addressed a mass meet
ing at Manistee, Mich, and advocated
unionism,
Minneapolis boss BARRIERS will be de-
prIyed of the union ard when employees are
not union men in good standing.
Brewery Firemep's Union, No. / , OF.
Brooklyn, has refused to join the Socialist
Trade and Labor Alliance.
The X ansas City Retail Clerks have
Ilued two oi their members for patroniZing
nonunion barber shops.
The United Journeyman Tailors' Protec-
tive Union OF New York. has suspended its
Initiation fee for six months.
Philadelphia stage hands struck for So
week and a boss carpenter for each
theater. One theatrical firm has but one
boss carpenter in its four houses.
dance for the uenefit Of unemployed
union stcreotypcrs will he given at st.
Paul on October 10.
\ deleg',ts ,f the Walters Union was
chairman at the meeting OF the New York
Central Labor Federation last Sunday.
The first international convention of the
AmalGamated Woodworkers OF America
wiS helj NJ Detroit last wcek.
Cleveland salcswomcn have organized to
dhlr5il Sunday work.
The Lnngshoremen's Union, of Manistee.
Mich, has sc members, among whom are
Swedes, NcrweguiDs. Danes, roiandcrs,
Irish, Germans, and Americans.
The brotherhood OF Railway Trainmen
has paid out since its organization So. 81 l.
9sS.s9 in sick and death benefits.
All night cars, free transfers. illumi-
mated signs, lower steps and other I'm
pruvements are guaranteed by the consol-
idatiun Of Cincinnati street railways.
The Surgical Instrument Makers Union
furnished the chairman for last Sundays
meeting of the Brooklyn Socialist Trade
and Labor Alliance.
y project is on foot at Chicago to place
public reading room and free cirCulat-
ing and reference library in tie building
occupied by the United Order of Brick
layers and Stonemasons.
Windsor, Canada, un ION bricklayers
struck for the discharge of Americans
The latter were union men, but the Canad-
ians insisted tuat they must join the Ca
madam union.
The Russian cooperative colony of Ten
ncssee sent long communication ON CO.
operation TO the cigarmakers' convention
and requested n SHARE of the interna tional
unions printing.
In New South Wales, Australia, 1T has
been suggested that if the free postag &c of
newspapers in the colony were discon-
tinucd tie department would soon become
sclf-Supporting.
The problem of State railways appears
to have become successfully solved in New
South Wales, where the annual report of
the railway commissioners shows that the
total traffic earnings from the colonial
railways and tramways amounted TO s3,-
109, ,5sS. and the expenditure to f1.7ss-
III, leaving n balance after paying work
ing expenses OF f1 ,321 ,427
MilW aukec coopers won an advance.
They had been receiving S "a cents for
aa FAt hoop barrel, hand work aud l-2
cents for six hoop barrel, hand Work.
For machine work there wasa difference Of
4 IL cents for eight-hoop barrels and 4
cents for six-hoop barrels. The men de-
manded that the difference betw cen ma
chine and hand Work be reduced onehalf
cent barrel.
The delegate from Typographical Union,
No. SS, asked the assistance OF the Brook
lyn Central Labor Union in getting an
OF opinion from the candidates
FOR Congress in this district on the aues-
ton OF the government Nv nership and CON
trol OF telegraph and railroad lines. The
International Typographical Union has had
a committee in Washington for the past
four years advocating this measure. but
so far has met With little success.
At a monster meeting of the cigaunak-
ers of Tampa, Fla, held about two weeks
ago, it was decided to strike in one fac
tory at time until the manufacturers
gave up their cheroot departments, where
regular cigars We're being made. In
many cases the manufacturers have agreed
to the request made by their men, and
Work has been resumed. The men are
determined to do away with the cheroot
business, and the Cuban and Spanish cigar
makers are standing up in the fight like
brothers.
At Paris the great department stores
have Il medical service for their employes.
which includes an infirmary and outing
IN the country or at the seashore In addi-
tion, when man or woman completes sew
EN- years of service at the Louyre, a sum of
900 francs is credited to him in the ren-
sion fund and afterward 200 francs year
up to his fiftieth year of service. The saw
ngs fund Of the Ion Marche amounts now
10 100000 francs, and 100000 francs Is
added annually, and in addition there is a
pension fund founded by Mme Poucicault.
who built up this immense business, which
now amountst 10 5000, 900 francs.
Loves Battle Ended.
No, Mr.. Spoonley and l have decided
hat We are not kindred souls. and 1 have
returned his ring.''