The morning times., 1896-11-08
has distributed $500 among its unemployed

brooklyn has a trolley express system.
New York is importing Belgian blocks.
Buffalo has an Italian laborers' union.
/ Copenhagen shoemakers won advances.
Cripple Creek has 500 mining companies.
American farmers represent $13,OOO,-
000, 900.
Wages of New Hampshire spinncrs are
being reduced.
The Culinary Council is a Cincinnati
| union Of unions.
| Brookiyn's two unions of knitting work
ers may consolidate.
Frisco has a Draymen and Teamsters'
| Independent Political Cub.
| y New York ladies' tailorS' union has
opened u free employment bureau.
Tile Free Labor Congress Of Manchester,
Eng, has denounced the Socialists.
Nearly every town in New York will be
| represented at the BARRIERS convention i'll
Syracuse. Means to abolish BARRIERS schools
| will be discussed.
On and after January L 1897, tie initia-
| ton fee of New York Machinists' Union, No.
,, will be raised to 81 so.
There are 500 members of trades unions
in Los Angeles county, Cal.
1t has been decided to make an immediate
effort to organize the spinners in the South.
At Barnoldswick, Eng, "A strike Of 500
| weavers has been on thirteen months Half
| of the strikers have secured work III other
| factories.
Chattanooga is to have a branch of the
National Postal Clerks Associ3fion.
Fines of New York union cigar makers
have been restricted to SO.
| New York union BARRIERS are hunting up
violatorS of. the Sunday closing law.
hobo now serving ninety days ut Kern
City, Cal, speaks six languages, including
Chinese.
| Nomechanc has thus far applied for work
| at the Baltimore free employment bureau.
Il
who refused to sell him beer.
The New York Cabinetmakers' Union the
other night agreed to lend So to a member
| whoi i'll and unable TO work a present.
The Ceputy State factory inspector of
| PENNSYLVANIA wants children under sixteen
| kept out of factories. The law now admits
children aged thirteen.
At Frisco Judge Campbell decided that
| it is misdemeanor for passenger to
| give a transfer street car ticket away.
Welsh steelworkers won 10 per cent adj
vance.
Circuit judges at Grand Rapids threaten
to resign If the cut in salaries stands.
| The convention of Wisconsin chiefs of
| police decided to introduce civil service
methods.
The window glass workers start two
| idle Indiana mills on the cooperative
| plan. The Workers Association will pro-
| tect them from the Manufacturers AS
| sociation.
AT Frisco the law prohibits work in
| Chinese laundries after 10 p. m.
Hamilton, Ont, unions b eld n mass
| meeting to promote the use of union
| made goods.
| New York retail grocers want Jobbers
| to cease supplying department stores.
I'VE propose says the Socialist party
| of Manchester, n. H., Ito ask the legis-
| lature for power TO establish or buy ont
Enf ..la fr,. ll..l,N
the street railway plant, a fuel yard, a
| drug store and city repair shop equipped
| for all kinds of work.
The Salvation Army's Industrial farm
Tor discharged convicts is a 312-acre
tract in San Ramon Valley, near Mount
Diablo. Contra Costa county, Cal
The Wheeling Railway Company declines
TO grant Communication ticket privileges.
rms was request of the Ohio Valley
| Trades and Labor A ssembly
Sw edish Machinists' Union, 323, of
Brooklyn, has withdrawn from the Inter
national Association to join the Socialist
Alliance.
Frisco newsboys struck because the
papers abolished the check system They
held parades, meetings, etc.
The Carnegie Steel Company last week
lost big order by reason Of its not en-
| ployinS union labor. President NJ M.
Garland. OF the Amalgamatcd Associa-
| Ton of Iron and Steel Workers, com1ns-
nicated with the lodges of the conn, les
where the new buildings are TO be erect
ell and by their influence n clause was
inserted in each of the contracts that the
work must be done by union labor.
Inc Buffalo board OF supervisors has
| acceded TO the requests Of unionists that
an elSht-hour clause be put IN all county
contracts.
delegate from the Detroit Street
Rdli way I'm Moves
PROSECUTOR Frazer and asked that he
take steps To enforce the law that re-.
quires Street railway companies to YES
ubule their cars in winter for the pro-
lection Of the mUtormen.
commissioner OF Labor Statistics Nc
| bohonSh announces that he Will begin
ms investigation on November 8. in Ncw
YORK city, into the conditions of wort
ing WoInen and tie system of irnportine
Ieiiities into This country for immoral
and other purposes.
a movement is well under way a.
.NhshVihe TO have introduced in the next
general assembly n bill providing for
tile examination Of bari ers ana tn c,as,i.
thelr avocatlon as profession.
Il Mr. Dale, harrister sued the on-
' 'oii anu Northwestern Railway Companv
pecduse OF The annoyance he suffered
e'liouSh the hon-enforccmcnt of the COM
pahE by-iaws in not preventing smok
% ~ waiting room ana in the non
siiiokihS compartment OF railway c,r
riage. IN allowing overcrowdinI INA -,
permitting an intoxicated person In
traFei. A verdict was given in his favor
damage being assessed at f1O.
lWehty-nlne new local branches of tba
Journe yman Tailors' Union of America were
founded last month by one organizer. In
an 'nti' 'efs "c'e granted to thirty-two new
branches.
iptn,
policeman, two members of the Hoboken
Dranch cf Workmen's General Benefit Union
nave been expelled frcm that organization
whose members are socialists.
Ihe delinquent book" is To be issued to-
| morrow by the Cleveland Retail Grocers'
| Association. Tho grocers will call this
| book the official black list" and it VIII
occupy prominent place among the books
OF the groccrs of the city. The books will
Contain 5000 names and will represent
debts amounting to 100000 or more.
Il move that not n single favor he
granted the Cleveland Electric Railway
| until It repairs its tracks on Wade Park,
Cedar and Euclid avenues" Mayor Nc
KisSon made the above motion at the meet
ing Of the board of control Monday.
Tampa. Fla. cigarmakers have forced
all hut nne manufacturer to abolish the
cheroot department.
Philadelphia journeymen bakers want
egisla,ion for shorter hours and cleanli-
ness The Women's Health Protective As
sociation have taken the matter up, and
with the ministers, will work for reform.
The New South Wales minister of A Sr
culture has high opinion of the value of
model OF State farms and announces that
the government will tablish them in
suitable localities, whenever the necessity
arises.
The compositors' is the Oldest trade union
in America.
Detroit painters and decorators anticipate
the eisht-hour day on March 1.