The morning times., 1896-09-13

League OF Musicians will be held in Ia nsas
| City in May, 1879.
| A Boston contractor dscha rged engi-
neers who refused To work on Labor Day.
The Carpenters Brotherhood gained 500
| members in il month.
at Detroit 700 wOrkingmen were in line
| on Labor Day.
A London society secures employment
| Tor pensioners
New York Painters Union will suspend
any member who joins the State militia.
| Chicago unonists insist that a million
aire carpenter must Join The union. This
| fellow is contractor.
| A dry goods store will be opened by
| Brooklyn Workncn Consumers Associa-
| ton.
| Dcs Moincs poll-tax laborers demand
| the eight hour day.
| IL Is said that the Brotherhood of Loco
motive Fircmcn Will join the Federation
| of Labor.
| The Central Labor Union OF Brooklyn
| last Tuesday examined the hats OF its
| delegates and found two of its members
| wearing non-un MON headgear.
The brickla ycrs OF Buffalo now have a
| uine-hour work day ana receive more
wages than they formerly received for ten
| hours.
Pittsburg unionists want the Legislature
| W uIdkt lht insl III StpttlllbeT
| Labor Day, instead OF the first Saturday.
Kansas City street car lie, nse is SIS.
ard the aldermen have refused to duubl.
Ii.
A. Terre Hautc Labor Day picnic no
| into xicating liquors were sold on the
grounds.
A law of the American Federation of
Labor expressly prohibits any union affiii-
| ated with IL 10 also have membership in
| the Knights of Labor.
y Toledo cycle fitting company has de
cided to wofk on eight hours per day un
Ill the busy season to enable IL to give
| empioymcntto more men.
\ st. Louis landlord has notified union
that it must vacateits quarters or remove
a sign announcing boycott ON certain the
aterS.
In Switzerland, where the government
owns the telegraph and telephone, The I =
for the use OF the former is l cent for
places near by, and only = cents for those
most remote.
CALIFORNIA; Labor bay is Ociober's first
Monday, according to State law, but the
national day is observed PenrSyl, ania 5
legislature selected the first Saturday in
September, and in the Keystone State both
days are observed.
Fail River weavers adopted a resolution
that every financiaal me- IN ber IN good stand
ing, who shall be thrown out OF work
ton industry, four weeks or over, shall re
ceivc from the funds Of the association one
week pay, according TO the scale.
Al New York the Gcrman MA nIerican ty-
pogr pnic a ! unions are about to dema nd that
the hours o + labor for compositions employed
by morning newspapers be reduced to forty
hours per week. 1t is intended that mem
Dcrs snail work only five days "A week to
reduce the large number nfihe unemployed.
One Of the marshals aids in the Detroit
Labor Dag parade was Miss Kate DoOdy,
president Of the Garment Workers Union.
perhaps the only lady who ever rode a
horse ahead of labor's ranks in this co untry.
ChattanoOga's Labor Day parade in
Ciudedover luominers, drivers and rappers
with 80 mine mules. The men were in their
mining clothes, with lamps in their caps
and picks over their shouldsrs.
The bakers OF London have recently been
thrown into some agitation, owing to the
prosecution of several OF their number by
order of the county council for selling
bread without weighing it.
Workingmep, there are lots of theorists
who promise you everything, but do you
know of any one OF them whose theory has
doBe hundredth part so much for Ia
Dor as trade unionsm has" Boston Labor
Leader.
At Frisco all business houses have agreed
to close at 8 O'Clock Saturday evening, cX-
cept one.
In one of the largest paper mills in
Russia the hours OF labor have been re-
duced from twelve to eight, and the
manager writes to an exchange as fol
lows: Instead of increased drinking by
the workmen, the only drinkshop in the
place had to give up business. Between
900 and 800 of the operators regularly
attend lectures, and orchestral, vocal,
and reading unions have been formed
These things were impossible under the
old tweive-hour SYSTEM
The Macon Telegraph makes the aston
ishing statement that the city OF Glasgow.
Scotland, will levy no taxes of any kind
after January l 1897. This pleasing con-
dition of affairs is due to the city's own
ership of the street railways, gas, elec
tric light, and water systems, aud the
increased revenue derived from their op-
Grafton is now sufficient to defray the
expenses of the municipality.
Every labor organization in Yonkers, n
Y, was represented Monday at the la ying
OF the cornerstone of the hollywood Inn.
The inn will he magnificent 100000
building for the entertainment and free
enjoyment of the workingmen.
In line with the work of the Consumers
League, through which many prominent
charitable women have tried to help the
workers in shops iDNew York, a new COM
mittee has been formed in the Social Reform
sist on having the union label on every ar
ticle he or she buys. This label already can
he had on cigars, clio thing, shoes aUi bread.
Among the notable Instances in New
York where free meals are served to en-
piOyes are the Mutual Life Insura nee Com
pauy, the, New York Life Insurance Com
pany. the Chase National Bank, the Home
Life Insurance Company. the Fourth Ma
tional Bank, the Merchants National Bank.
the German Amer. can Bank and ut hers. The
Central Railroad of New Jersey also has a
contract with restaurant keeper in the
Jersey Central building whereby any en-
ploye of the road may so and buy a meal
for about h alf OF what il would cost outside
the building. In order to eat outside tie
employees must take time to wash adjust
his or her clothing, walk to supposedly
nearby dining room, run the chance of de-
layed service, hastily bolt the meal when
it is served, and hurry back to the place of
BUSINESSMAN amount of time which is lost
to the employer rather than to the employe
1t is this loss which the large insurance
companies, banks and other financial insti-
tutions seek to retrieve.
Important to Those Interested in
Real EStafo