The herald., 1896-09-21

creased applications for membership
Journeymen carpenters are uoe1r14
Of a movement among the c0ntrActc14
to form an association Of their oX4
which will not only help the 5ourneyme4
LOCAL LABOR NOTES.
The 50 scale for carpenters for -
eight-hour day IS becoming gonot4@
throughout the city. Ia 100.
The grievance committee OF the C1ts'
penters' union now constitute Chafleg
Fisher, A. Vinette and +. r.. HaWley.
The Bricklayers' union has Joined The
Council of Building Trades and VIII -
the working card. The council II nov
complete.
The friends Of labor in the RepubIicaa
convention said they would stand BY the
union label resolution. Among the NUM-
Der were Major E. e. Danf0rths p. -
Meserve and others.
Now that the union label has been ene
dorsed first by the Democratic c0nveu-
ton and latterly by the Republicous
everything Is lovely and the emblem =
coming to the front in good shape.
Union men are making great e6oFt
this year to secure q mechanics lien
law that will do justice to workinGmens
The committee in charge Of the matter
Beard, Vinette and Steffen. have ~.
ceived copies Of the New York, New Jer.
sey and Nebraska laws, and will soon
present the result of their work to the
two councils.
There are $4,000 union cigarmakers In
this country.
A Chicago cigar manufacturer was
fined 800 for wrongfuly using the label
City council of Rockford, H., resolved
that hereafter all city printing should
bear the union label
A number of railway officials have
given their employees to understand that
they must vote for the Hanna combine.
Canadian papers are raising q hue ana
cry against allowing Americans to work
in border cities unless they become sub
jects of the queen. The new govern
ment is called upon to act.
John Burns writes to Chicago friend
that trades unionism Is on the increase
at a rapid rate in England.
In Austria constant strikes are nee
essary in order to force recognition OF
the unions and the conditions under
which they suffer
The Eight-Hour Herald says that
there Is a factory In Chicago where tin
boxes are made for the shipment of the
regular products of the factory. These
boxes are made by young girls. So In
Cessant and uniform are the motions
of the body in this work that the clothing
of the girls wears through wherever
the clothes touch the work-benchee.
The worker must be alert for the pay
is only % cents per 1000 boxes. When
girl makes 1000 in a day her fingers
are bleeding at night. When want or
other circumstances forces her to work
at high pressure, she can make as many
as 5000 boxes in a day. Then her fingers
are not only bleeding. but flesh, as well
as skin, Is torn. For 1000 boxes, % cents
and bleeding fingers; for 5000 boxes, 06
cents and fingers cut to the bone And
thousands of dollars made at these
benches and in this factory have gone.
and are going, to fit out an actress who
cannot act. And still people wonder
at and condemn the girls who lose their
grip on an honest life. eah
The great New York tailors' strike
resulted in big victory for the work.
men.
The combined wealth Of the Roth
schilds is over $4,000. 000,00 1t IL esti-
mated by Prof. Meyer this sum will
double every fifteen years. lnt
The splendid growth Of the "A. r. U.
during the month Of August Is cause for
hearty congratulations. Eleven new
unions have been added to the directory,
and the reports of alrOur directors and
organizers are full Of good cheer. The
principles upon which the order IL found
ed are correct and are bound to pre-
vail. Steadily the union grows strong
err, and with unerring certainty 1t will
reach its desired port. No good argu-
ment can be made against unification.
New converts are being made every
day. and these are representatives of
every class in the railway and tele-
graph service. Men are thinking, and
as result they conclude that through
a complete union of forces alone Is there
any escape from the present slavish
conditions.-Railway Times.