The sun., 1897-12-26
Hammer Taps From the Work
shops Of the World.
TALK OF THE WAGE-EARNERS.
Pointed Paragraphs from Many
Inuds-.-Iiems of Interest
From All Crafts.

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Dcbs has been ccturing in Canada.
st. Louis Tribune has been unionized.
A st. Paul theatre has been unioniz ID.
Manchester, n. H., has municipal
blacksmith shop.
Atlanta iron molders struck against a
cut of 10 per cent
Frisco Beard of Health closed several
Chinese lalndries.
Fort Wayne, Ind, is to have II Wo-
mems Central Labor Union.
Debs' Social Democracy has - branches
in and about Chicago.
Kansas City trading stamp" com
pany has been visited by the Sheriff.
Five hundred Italian canal laborrrs at
Byron, n y, struck for Is cents per
hour.
Bridgcton, n. J Glass Blowers Union,
will wage war against company stores.
Hartford Central Labor Union held Il
mass-necting to discuss Municipal
Franchises.
New York Cabinetmakcrs' Union is
discussing the advisability of demanding
the eight hour day.
The steam shearing plant put in at
Wolton, Wyo., has been taken out, and
slearing will be done by hand next
season.
Milwaukcc's electric railway company
has offered to light the city, the charge
exacted for each arc light being $o6 per
year.
Fifteen hundred people attended Il
New York massmcetlEg in aid OF the
striking English engineers.
New York Elevator Conductors Union
want u member Of that body appointed
as inspector of elevators. They also de-
mand law requiring elevator conduc-
tors to be over q years Of age.
Buffalo Board Of Aldermen has ordered
that all printing for the city must bear
the union label.
Half of the employers OF New York
book and job printers had conceded the
nine-hour day, when Typographical
all the employers that 8! hours should
constitute Il working day.
A veterinary surgeon who established
Il scientific hor>cshpcing shop at Kansas
City was expelled from the Master
Horscshocrs .Asspria,ion He claims
that boycott followed which ruined
his business, and he has sued the Mast
crs' Union and the Jpurnryrmrn'S As
sociaion ior so, 900 damages.
Mayor Quincy, Of Boston, who was lr-
clcrtc,! last week, established Il munich
pal printing plant last year. th" only
place OF the sort III America.
Ion. Martin body" wan.s It state
Electric Railway in Dhio, and advocates
the aboIi-Ilmcn, of Canals.
The AmnIganAtcd Society OF Journey
men Plumbers and Gas Filters, OF New
York. has notified the employers that
all wrought iron pipe from tw" inches
up must b' cl,t on the job by nlcl.brIs
oi the society and not in the shop. All
lead pip" work appcItainin% TO drainage,
vents ur back areas and trutun supplies
must also be done on the job. Members
vioiatin ing these tive rules "lII h' sISprni-
cd from the shop in Whi ;h"y are en-
ploN"d iUr one wear.
Cnirago'~ 5000 bicyc'c makers d'c'aYr
that the ,mpl yc's have organized t." r'n
wages from II to 10 per cent There H'r
now Polish and Bohemian unions, bat
thool,h organization is contemplated
There has D,'pll on, strike, bat hers
may follow.
The Dlhin Imland) Dock L'bovrS
Union has decided that ''thr practice ol
cxtinguiShing the city lamps 1t or before
O'Clock on mu-winrr mornings is I'M
f,,r -, n, f., I. ,.E a
city, who have, in most eases, to travel
long distances to reach their work III
proper time
Pttsburg Electrical Workers Union
demands that all wi"rmrn shall re-
ccivc not less than SOD per day OF .
hours, and that there shall not be b'it
one helper or apprentice to tW" wlrmrn
and that all contractors signing such
agreement shall employ none but
brot hrrhooI men, and that all cmyloyrS
bound by said agreement shall not be
permitted to contract for themselves, or
,lO work for any contractor not comply
ing with same agreement. The said en-
ployc to be fined SIS for violation Of said
agreement"
Previous to the recent strike the
United Mine Workers Of America. had
less than 10000 members. To-day there
are SO, 900 in the union.
On January ,, a vote will be taken by
Detroit printers on an amendment to ne
scale of priccs--striking out "iity-siX'
and inserting 'tifty-iour,' II reduction OF
two hours per week in the book and jnb
scale also, on reduction o1 30 cents in
the weekly scale paid book and JOB
hands-irom Sl5 to SI4.1O on day work
and from SIG to $l5.5O for night work.
Cleveland plumbers may strike ON
January |. Recently their employers
promised the eight hour day and time
and half for overtime. But at Il recent
meeting they rejected the agreement
submitted by the journcymen. Two Of
the principal demands made by the
plumbers were that the masters do away
with all helpers ard employ union
plumbers only, and that they divide all
io,lrncvmcn into two classes, one to be
paid So day and the other - a day.
The Omaha Water Works has notified
the city that it will furnis water for tie
Trans Mississippi Exposition if its fran
chise be extended five years. The Cen /
tral Labor Union says the franchise must
not be extended.
New York girl cigarette makers struck