Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-12-20

Ohio BARRIERS held a state convention.
They will demand the creation of a state
board of examiners before whom appli
cantS for barber'S license must prove
three years apprenticeship.
Nashville Federal Labor unions don't
want Pinkertons in that state. The del
egate to the federation convention was
ordered to vote for the $1,000,000 defense
fund.
The ex-foreman of the composing
room Of the Superior (Wis) Telegram
has sued the union for not accepting him
as a. member since the office has been
unionized. He places damages at $1,000.
Amalgamated Steel Metal Workers of
Chicago not only won strike for the
discharge of non-union men, but the
manager of the building advanced $25
to the workmen to pay their dues to the
organiza tion.
Boston bookbinders will hold mass
meeting to protest against the long
hours imposed upon the women and chill
dren employed in binderies where the
public school books were being bound
and where extremely low wages were
paid.
President Cowdery, of the State Cen
trail Labor union, is in active correspond
ence with the Centennial commission,
looking to the setting aside of day dur
ing the big show at Nashville to be
known as Labor Day.
The regular tariff for Maine barber
shops excepting hotel shops is as fol-
lows: Shaving, 10 cents; hair trimming,
Is or 20 cents; hair cutting, % cents;
shampooing 25 cents. The BARRIERS are
now organizing to do away with scent
shops, ETC.
The Federation of Labor of the state
of Minnesota calls upon the working peo
pie of that state to organize both on
economical and Independent political
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cooperative commonwealth, based on
the collective ownership of the means of
production and their operation for the
benefit of the people.
The state labor bureau of Minnesota
will seek amendment in the interest of
child-labor Eight hour laws, amend
mentS to the arbitration law and the re-
peal Of the struck jury law will be asked
for. Miners want the inspectors elected
by popular vote and the corporation to
take out bodies of entombed miners.
Broom makers and shoemakers want
convict work labeled
1T is the many who toll and starve and
suffer" says Bjornstern Bjorson, "whose
lot / have at heart; it is the poor, the
small, who cannot rise and assert their
rights-it is those l love; and 1 believe
that the country is the strongest, the
greatest and the most civilized which is
covered with millions of modest but con-
splendor of a few hundred palaces is
supported by the wretchedness of a mil
lion novels"
The Garment Workers union of St.
Paul is not having success in its endeavor
to pursuade the lady superior Of the
House of the Good Shepherd in that city
to refrain from competing with the girls
of the union, and thereby reducing prices
and wages. The garment workers COM
plain that they cannot make an honest
living on the prices made by that insti
tuition, and contend that in the end they,
too, may be forced into the House Of the
Good Shepherd if that institution con-
tinues its servere competition.
Milwaukee is to have a labor exchange.
A person producing an article of value
to others can deposit and get warehouse
receipt, with which he can secure some
other article of equal value that has been
deposited by some other producer, limit
ing the employment of women and min
ors to fifty-eight hours week, and pre-
venting the employment of such persons
more than ten hours in any one day, are
being violated in many workshops in Bos-
ton. Central Labor union wants the
chief of police to enforce the law