Birmingham state herald., 1896-12-13
IN THE LABOR WORLD.
Items of General Interest to Those Who Earn Their Bread
 By the Sweat of Their Brow.


 the substitution of partisan politics. for
 political action" in the list of tabooed subjects.
 The members of the Silver-Workers' Protective association, of New York, are much opposed to the electrical clocks in the shops, which tell the exact time every employe enters and leaves.
 The Independent Shirt Ironers and Laundry Workers union reports having
 secured an increase in wages of 10 and 15 per cent. in a number of shops in New
 York.
 At Chicago the other day the so-called "blacklist" of discharged employees. said
 to obtain among railroad corporations
 was practically held by Judge Windes as entirely legal.
 Pittsburg barbers want the board of health to inspect shops The legislature will be asked to establish a state board of barbers, for the examination of men desiring to engage in the business.
 At Hartford City, Ind, a committee of glass workers waited on the merchants and restaurant keepers, and from each extracted a promise that they would not handle the stock of non-union picking
 company. They will also have the CO., operation of all the local unions in this city against the company's goods.
 The French, who have built up large
 colony known as Little Canada" at
 Lowell, Mass, have become jealous of
 the increasing number of Greeks and Armenians who have been taking their
 places in the big cotton mills in the To- cality, and for some time there has been much ill feeling between the two par ties.
 Glasgow and Manchester, not to men, tion other English and Continental cities, own and run their own tramWays, gas works and partly their water works and electric plants, with the result that fares
 are reduced in some cases as low as Z cents, gas and water bills are cut in two, the city lights, the streets, squares, railway stations and other public build- ings free, leaving a surplus revenue from these sources, while the tax rate is re- duced to fraction of what 1t was. The state board of arbitration has filed
 its decision in the controversy between the Dual City Publishers association and | the Typographical Unions of St. Paul and | Minneapolis. The board decides that | $20 and $23 for day and night work re- | speotively per week of fifty-one hours
 should be paid by the publishers on time | work This is $1 lower than was con tended for by the employees. The latter | are favored as to the number of hours | constituting a week, the publishers hay | ing insisted on fifty-four hours. A movement to provide healthfel | homes for the poor by replacing exist | ing foul tenements of New York City by | | to succeed. In London more than 16O,- | GOO of the poorer and poorest classes live today in the highest standard model tenements, while a far larger number have been transferred to cottage homes in the suburbs. All important British cities are fully abreast and some in ad- vance of London in the important re- | form.
 England will have two delegates at the | federation of labor convention at Cin- | cinnati. We have no politics in our i order," said a delegate. We put labor | first. We have eleven members of par | liament who are direct labor leaders. l We have over fifty justices of the peace | who are members of trade unions. We | have over forty county and district town | councillors, members of local boards, and | we have ten magistrates who are mem- | bers of trades unions. There are none | but bona fide workmen members of our | congress. Some of our members of par | liament cannot become members of the | congress because every member must be | a workman, working at his trade at the | time of his appointment. Members of | the congress are paid by their own un- | ion, the secretary of the congresses is l the only officer paid by the congress.