The morning times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1897, 1896-09-20

Canton printers run a cooperative daily
Ohio's State Liquor League met last
week
Cleveland unions talk Of securing labor
temple.
Delaware single takers held State con-
veDtion.
No new underground bakeries can lie con-
structed in Ohio.
Ohio brewers convention fixed the bar
rel rate for beer at SIS.
Los Angeles negroes at recent meeting
denounced trades unions
Ohio miners wages during the past year
averaged 81 S.4S Il month.
Salvation Army, OF Oakland, Cal, will
Furnish farms for the unemployed.
The business OF the New York Union OF
the Marble Mosaic Workers is conducted
in Italian.
Two Philadelphians walked to HobOken
100 miles-in quest o0Eork. They were
machinists, but failed to secure employment.
Members OF the Chicago fire depart
ment will not he permitted hereafter to
manufacture bicycles for sale to the general
public.
The Masons' and Builders Association
OF Chicago has agreed to recognize the
Hold Carriers and Building Laborers'
Union.
In 1873 there was no such thing as n
telephone; there was no such thing as an
electric light; there was no such thing as
an electric motor.
BIacksniths' Union, No g, New York,
recently engaged in il ug-orwar with the
Liberty Dawn Association of Coach Drivers.
The coachnen won.
Southern Pacific laborers at Algiers, La.
successfully resisted a cut from 30 cents
to 25 cents an hour. They get Az cents
an hour Tor overtime.
1t is said that there is body OF non
union strike breakers. They are brought
in when Il strike occurs, and receive higher
pay than the men on strike.
The Gcrman-American Typographical
Union, which is Il branch OF the Intcrna-
tional Typographical Union, has now ,115
mem bcrs belonging to 22 local unions
A recent order OF the commissioner of
police of Savannah forbids both long boards
and long mmsraches. and requires that
these appendages. when worn, shall lie
neatly trimmed.
The total value of goods produced or
work done IN the United States for the
various States and Territories in all the
State prisons and penitentiaries for 1895
was Sl9,O42,472.
Tie cooperative movement in Great
Britain has assumed such proportions that
MERCHANTS and manufacturers are making
war omit. Manyeniploycs hI We beenordered
to sever connection under pain Of dis
niSsal
One OF the cardinal planks of the pro
grain nr the new International Union uf
Scamen and Riverside Workers will be
ers 1T the docks shall be Increased from
od. TO I'D. per hour.
Mr. Gompers says that he has sent an
invitation Ia the Canadian Dominion Fed
Grafton of Labor To elect fraternal dele
gates To the next meeting OF the American
Federation of Labor. which Will occur in
IN Cincinnati
The Dublin Trades Council recently
adopted resolution expressing their
warinest thanks To Archbishop Walsh for
the manner IN which he has brought TO
Il happy termination the unfortunate dis
putc which so long existed III the Dublin
trade"
Il look forward says Gompers, ITO
the time when the five railroad urganiZa-
tons VIII i,e federated in one orGaEiZa-
lion. perhaps, To l.. known the Brother
hood of Railroad Employees, and in the
vi "iiA
give way to anIalcamation.'
A proposition will he submitted II the
Typographical Union when
II meets next month at Colorado Springs
10 Remove the headquarters of the I'Iiun
from Indianapolis to Washington. aud 10
buy the building the local union Of pri:t-'rs
erected i'll the latter city four years ago.
During the year the p!astercrs OF De-
troit added go cents per day to their
wages: Norfolk. Va. IS cents, with nut "a
strike; indianapolis. 20 cents. after d
three days strike: Des Moincs. Ia, 10
tents. The most remarkable advance was
IN Minneapolis. where the rate WIS in
creased 81 per day.
New York carpet workers struck against
cut OF 10 per cent The strike is the
esult OF the action OF the twelve men
Employed rs card cleaners at 81 40. They
were followed out ur the mills by the
color mixers and color boys
The printers get about $40 a week, the
dior mixers Sl.35 ii day and the color
boys $3.50 week.
The Fall River textile unions will form a
central union. In regard to the eNcur-
'ion, the committee thought il letter in
future to hold the annual excursion in
July and the third Thursday in the
Ionth, which is the anniversary of the
pa tI lli' I'lul i'i9i was Ntlttleu
II was also decided to hold Il parade
every Labor Day.
y right is on in the -i..mbing business
If indianapolis, owing to a combination
# the leading firms with the johbers in
plumbers goods, whereby the iobbers re-
use 10 sell firms rot in the plumbers
association. one OF the rules Of the as
has the effect of preventing any
plumber fro III iaining the asst ciati on
whose place of business is not ON prin-
,ipal street
Al "A recent meeting OF the Frisco CeE-
raj Labor Union it was reported that
shipmaster had tried To evade the adj
;ance law by signing his crew at Port
townsend for So per month and paying
hem $50 in advance. Although the crew
was Donunion, the Sailors Union took
heir case to the courts. resulting in the
hip having to pay the an ONT paid in
Idvance second time
An Ottuwa dispatch says: \ large depu-
alton of railroad men waited on the
government this morning and asked for
prohibition tax against Chinese, for the
lien labor law against the United States
nd that representative of the labor
lass be in the Senate. In reply Mr.. Laurler
lid not commit himself ON the Chinese
Question. He promised an alien labor
NV If tine United states did not modify
Is legislation.
At Detroit there is a movement on foot
% consolidate the different large milk
of the city and freeZq out the
mailer dealers. II Is ammo unCed that
his has caused the peddiers to lately
rganiZe a protective union. In case
he proposed consolidation ever matcria-
ICES it is the intention Of the peddlers
o form cooperative association and
inter- directly into a contract with the
for a supply of milk.
Negotiations in the City Of Mexico BE-
weeD the government and representa-
ives of the Japanese Colonization AssO-
iation have been concluded Tor a cGnces-
ion of 300 900 acres of land in Chiapas.