Omaha daily bee., 1896-05-24
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.

Valencia has &c, 600 lawmakers.
There are 2,3SS different kinds OF velcci-
pedes.
The International Bricklayers' union now
has on hand a reserve fund CT S29S, 500, which
is constantly increasing.
The city council Of Davenport, Ia, has
adopted a regulation that all city printing
must bear the union label.
The international Typographical union has
arranged during the rast week to register
It's label in twenty-four states.
Coal mining pays better than gold mining
at Yukon, Alaska. where an excellent vein of
coal has been found, and wood is $14 a cord.
Two Of the largest zinc smelters in Kansas
have been shut down by the combine which
controls the fifteen large zinc smelters of the
country.
All the campaign buttons in the country are
sad 20 be made at one establishment in
Newark, n. ]. The proprietor was a poor
man when he began the business. To-day
re is a milliona re.
Grand Master Workman Sovereign of the
Knights of Labor claims that So, 600 of salary
is due him and that OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Hayes has refueed to pay him. The order
still owes T. v. Powderly $4,000. 1t is gen.
orally conceded that the order is nearing
dissolution.
1t is estimated that in Boston there are
So, 900 wage earners who are affiliated with
organized labor. There are 100 organized
bodies affiliated with the Central Labor union
and between twenty and thirty attached to
the Building Trades council, while many are
allied to the knights Of Labor.
The census report of 1890 shows that the
| previous year there was paid for salaries and
wages to the working classes in this country
| 50, 2S3, PIE, 500. This immense sum, amount
ing to more than all the banking capital
of the country, was distributed among
so, AMMAN in tho fnllnNyinU nmnnnfg'
Salaries to officers, firm members and
| clerks, 1891 1888, POS; wages of skilled and un-
skilled operatives, 81, 500, SIC ,997; wages to
piece workers, $500, III 1874; total, 2 ,2S3, 215,.
500.
The second attempt within eight months tC
fraterniZe the trades unions Of Chicago has
proven a failure, the plan to am~algamate the
Trades and Labor ascembly and the Labor
congress having last week been wrecked or
the same old political rocks that caused tht
secession movement a year ago. Inc grea
bricklayers' union, which recently affiliated
with the American Federation of Labor, haV
ing aligned itself with the anti-socia list fac
ton, makes that element much the large
and it alone will be recognized by the Ameri
can Federation.
The Creek and italian fishermen OF th'
Columbia river have some ideas OF trades
unionism peculiarly their own. They haV'
made a rule that no fisherman may catcl
WI tNNEDl " hio "
Il he takes more than he can use he mus
divide the epoils with his ne ehbor fisher
men who have not been out. No fishermen
will be allowed to sell to the markets or t
priyate trade. 1t is further ordered tina
all nonunion fishermen shall refrain from
casting a line into the river either for pleas
uTe or business.
The compulsory contributions Of the Ger
man working people to the national insuranc
funds have grown in a few years to enormou
sums. The last reports show that the FUN
for insurance against accident was 1900
600 marks at the end Of 1894: that for insur
ance against Illness, 113. 643, 600, and that TO
insurance, against invalidism and old age
303. $40, 900 marks. The sum total OF 6lo,
OOc. 900 marks, or more than Sl25, OOO, 900, !
so great that the German government Is EN-
barragsed to find satisfactory investment 10
it. The last suggestion is that as much OF tn
money as cannot be lent on real estate sha
be used to build model houses for work ne
men, which shall be let at low rentals |
industrial workers.