The morning times., 1896-08-02
Labor NOfas.

Duluth has thirtyfive unions.
Syracuse steIographcrs organized.
Atlanta blacksmiths will organize
Detroit has l,T5l potato patches
Wisconsin has a cheese exchange.
Atlanta painters now have a union.
Toledo lady clerks have organized.
st. Paul brickla yerS work nine hours
Iowa butchers held a State convention.
Chicago has trades unionist cycling
club.
Duluth has only four Don-union restau-
rants.
Wisconsin has a German editors assn
citation.
Erie, Pa. machinery molders will get
together
New York stenogra pliers viii hold State
convention.
Dehs will speak at Kansas City, Kansas,
LII Dor Day.
Duluth laundry workers now admit girls
10 the union.
Concord, n H., stone cutters struck for
20 per cent increase.
st. Louis cooperative paper, the jour
nal, has been enlarged
Detroit has zoo union molders, and u
strike fund of So 900.
Italians took the places Of striking boot
and shoe workers ut Lynn.
New Haven bakers struck for the rciD-
statement Of their foreman.
Wheeling unions want labor papers kept
on file in the public library.
New York city lad 60 900 unemployed
people prior 10 tie tailors' strike.
Rochester BARRIERS want the barber col
leges legisiated out OF existence.
Puget Sound oriental trade has increased
nearly 800 per cent III five years.
Chicago X OF l.. talk OF establishing
a cooperative colony in Alabama.
Lancaster county. Pa. farmers have or
ganized. They oppose tuhcrculin tests.
Saginaw Presbyiery has reduced 10
per cent the SHARES of its missionaries.
Anderson, Ind. mercla nts have donated
81 900 for big Labor Day demonstration.
The International Union of Glassworkers
convenes in London on Augusta. No Ameri
can delegates.
Toledo plumbers want good work done.
and will Join hands with health officials
for a sanitary law.
Recently most of the clerks in the great
London city Louses received formal per
mission TO wear straw hats.
st. Paul labor organizations will not
parade Labor Day. having agreed TO pa
rade with the G. A. r. encampment
The wages of the common laborer in
Lansing. Mich. have been cut down from
ST So to ST in less han two years.
workmen in the building trades struck
last week because non-union electricians
were employed on a Chicago building.
Two years ago the BARRIERS union of De-
trOit had GOO members and secured Sunday
closing. Today they have no union and
work on percentage.
Philadelphia carpenters will demand eight
hours and 30 cents an hour on May ]
| Hod carriers get higher pay tina II the car
penters in the Quaker city because they
are thoroughly organized.
The farmers residing along the line
of the Gainesville and Frankfort Ind ;,
, pike have entered into a league to resist
the further payment or toll demanded
by til e county CO mmissioners.
AtDuluth the East End strikers have sue
cecded during the past few days in getting
the contracts for Loading tramp boats at the
| flourmills which gave employmenttoneariy
| allthemen attha end OF the town
The strike of rive;crs at the ne W shipyara
| at Middlesbrough. England, by which about
| 30Omen werethrown out Unemployment. has
| resulted in the firm conceding the mems
| demands, viz: 15s per 100 rivets.
The cashier of a Grand Rapids bank was
| getting a salary of SO 500 year, and the
| jaDitor SIP week. or 1924 year. The
cashiers salary was cut last week to 3d.
| 900, while the taDtor was cut to So u W eek.
Debs has received q number of very fiat
| tering offers from amusement managerS to
make lecture tours and charge admission.
| Hesteadfastly refusessuch offers, preferrDg
| to talk to rich and poor alike from free
| platform.
In the gold fields of the Transvaal and
| Mashonaland the supply of native work
| people often falls short, although at Jo-
hannesburg a native can earn f3 tS15l a
| month besides his food and such lodging
as he needs.
The Hod Carriers and Building Labor
ers' Union of Chi Ca 90 b las given notice that,
| beginning August the rate of pay will be
| 80 cents an hour for members of that or
ganiZation-a substantial advance over
| present rates.
Employees of New York dressed meat
| company struck. The bumpers, who got
| 40 cents an hour were reduced to 80 cents,
and the dressers, hackers, splitters and
| floorers, who were paid $25 week, were
| brought down to $13.
Four weeks ago the stationary firemen
| of Toledo formed an organization. Already
| they have succeeded in reducing the hours OF
| labor in their branch OF work from twelve
| to eight per day, thus insuring work to a
| number of unemployed fremen.
The dominion government has given Off
| cial notice of its intention to extend the
| time for the free entry of mining and smelt-
| ing machinery into Canada to July l, 1897.
| This gives those interested in mining a year
| longer to bring in their machinery.
Before the settlement of the dispute be-
| tween the German printers and the proprie-
tors of the Toledo Express, through the good
| offices of arbitrators, the Brewers Union
| had announced fine of S. on any Of its
members who should read the Express.
The largest cotton mill in the world
| has been erected at North Adams, Mass,
| and now the proprietors find that they
I have not sufficient men in town to run
| the machinery. All kinds OF cotton oper-
| atives are wanted. Address the Berkshire
Cotton Company
| A Logansport, Ind, paper says: The
! young women employed in one Of the
large retail houses OF an adjoining town
are about to strike because the mana ger
| of the store has Issued an order bhat they
must recognize patrons Of tn establish
ment on the streets
The Chattanooga Central Labor Union
| will ASK the chamber of commerce and the
Young Mems Business League to help make
the Labor Day celebration o success.