The sun., 1897-12-19
lH[ NORLD o. Labor.
Workmanship. Points From the
Shops Of the World.
TOILERS IN MANY LANDS.
Labor Union, Trusts, Employers ana
Employed From Many Points Of
View and In Many Lands.

View and In Many Lands.
There are paper floors.
Hair is cut by electricity.
Europe buys American ice..
Chicago las 300 policemen.
Envelopes are printed by machine.
Paper is made in thirty-four States.
Minnesota sends potatoes to Maine.
Toledo is to have labor exchange.
Oshkosh's city physician is.a woman,
Negro miners are multiplying in In
diana.
Massachusetts BARRIERS will form a
State Union.
St. Paul Tailor's Union has deserted
the national body. 49,
Pittsburg tailors organized. and will
fight sweat shops.
Pennsylvania miners are still being
gathered into the union.
Toledo Machinists' Union has decided
to demand the eight-hour day.
Washington's two brewers unions
have not yet buried the hatchet.
Duluth unionists want the city to es-
tablish fire insurance department.
Many New York book and job printers
have been conceded the nine-hour day.
Newark Labor Council has asked the
Board of Education to prohibit school
fairs.
A working girls singing contest at
tracted attention in London, Eng, re-
Gently.
One of 'Frisco's big breweries has not
only been unionized, but it will label its
barrels.
Cinnipnati German Printers Union
will celebrate its twenty-tifth annivers-
airy on January l.
A Baltimore Councilman wants bicy-
cles and all other pleasure vehicles taxed
500 a year.
A carpenter was the delegate from the
Chicago Federation of Labor to the con-
vention at Nashville.
Wheeling Trades and Labor Assembly
would not permit the BARRIERS and dairy
men to send delegates.
American and English unions may
amalgamate. Probably 100000 men
would be in the union.
Toronto, Can, retailers want; a grad
uated business tax. This is aimed at
the department stores. ..
A benefit is to be given at Boston by
The Girl from Paris" company, for the
unemployed printers.
The single tax has been the chief topic
of discussion at several recent meetings
of the Boston Central Labor Union.
In the past three weeks the Coast Sea-
mems Unionists, Of San Francisco has
paid out 500 in shipwreck benefits.
Baltimore unionists want policemen to
mind their own business, and not do
work about the stations that belongs to
carpenters, etc.
Pittsburg unionists have prepared a
platform which will be submitted to
candidates for local offices at the coming
municipal election.
Roston BARRIERS held a meeting to de-
mand law requiring an examination.
Boys must, under the proposed law,
serve an apprenticeship of three years.
The Social Reform Club, of New York,
in pushing bill making employers
liable in damages for injuries received
by their employees in accidents.
! Only 20 per cent. OF the 25O0 members
Of the marble industry unions in New
York have work, and demand that the
city authorities award all contracts to
home firms.
At Hamilton, CAN, last week the
County Council indorsed the report of
the Education Committee in favor vf
teaching agriculture and the kindred
subjects in the schools.
The New York alliances of the Socialist
Trade and Labor Alliance are voting
upon the question of introducing the
unicn label adopted by the General
Executive Board in opposition to that of
the International Typographical Union.
Boston Painters Union, through a
committee, investigated the work upon
the State House dome, and, upon the
report of this committee, claimed that
the work was not being done according
to specifications, and laid the matter be-
fore the commissioners.
Ohio Federation of Labor demanded
the abolition of contract convict labor.
An amendment was made to the consti.
tuition by which labor organizations may
become affiliated with the federation by
the payment Of 81, but will not be en-
titled to voice or vote.
Washington unionists want Congress
to give residents of the District of Co.
lumbia the voting franchise, At a mass