Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1897-02-19

y Burlington (Ia.) ice cutters get $3.50
Birmingham (Ala) has but one unior
y paper.
o New Yorks unions of coopers anal
g gamsted,
a Troy IN. " foundry has cut wages
10 per cent.
Fall River loom-fxers won strike
for $ra a week.
Norwich England shoe-workers have
struck for an advance
A proposed Illinois law requires yes
tibuIes on street cars.
New York unionists want state
printing Office established.
2 Brooklyn union hatters are charged
1 with eating unlabeled pies.
, Toledo stationary engineers and ship
? caulkers have organized.
Wisconsin bee-keepers want the office
Of bee-inspcctor created.
Seven Knights Of Labor assemblies
will be formed at Cleveland
Lon don railway workers demand a
weeks vacation annually with pay.
Washington ID. c. Master Painters
union donated $40 to idle journeymen.
Butte (Mont) railroaders lost a strike
for the reinstatement of one of their
npmber.
Washington, D. c., Central Union
wants the Congressional library open at
night.
lone Washington. D. C., nurses will
visit the homes of the poor without
charge.
Chattanooga Central Union opposes
the granting of public franchises in per-
Petuity.
Six unions of carpenters in New York
aggregating 10000 men. have consoli-
dated.
Denver BARRIERS kick against the pro-
posed repeal of the law prohibiting Sun
day work.
Houston printers have Endorsed the
proposed law requiring all State print.
ing to be done in Texas.
The Wisconsin Anti Convict associa-
ton will introduce bill similar to that
force in New York
Rochester Central Labor Union APP
proved the proposed law for the restric-
ton of immigration.
Paterson's 5000 ribbon-weavers will
organize. Wages have been cut so per
cent in six years.
Cincinnati railways have notified their
men that those who join the proposed
union will be backlisted.
Washington, d. c., railways will fight
the measure requiring street railways to
have lagmen at railroad crossings. '
The Toledo Liquor Dealers associa-
ion will recognize only union labor,
and will fine those who patronlze non
union concerns.
A bill before the Missouri legislature u
ixes strcet.car fare at 3 cents between
and S a. m. and 4 aud p. III.
Pittsburg unionists want a clause in
erted in the Finn antitrust bill ex-
'mpting labor organizations from its
fleets u
a large delegation of members of the
minneapolis tailors' union was enter
aimed by the St. Paul organization of >,
hat craft =
"A Birmingham, England, policeman
vas compelled to pay unionist $500 =,
OF preventing him from speaking at a .,
sunday outdoor meeting.
TAe United Suk-Weavers' Union of =,
america, recently organized at Pater- :,
on, \. j., has 5000 members. and an. :,
cipates 1900 within few weeks.
AT San Francisco the Stonecutters' -.
Mon rules require eight hours for FIVE -,
avs and four hours on Saturday at the =
tie of so cents an hour or s. day.
In Liverpool at present the working ar
eek of the dock labekers is only fifty y,
lree hours for which they get Cos a.
ages, while In Dd6hn dock laborers -, -
lily get 24s a week.
In Great Britain and Ireland there are ov
100000 workers, and there aresonly p m.
1900 of them who are members sof fe.
AIDES union societies. no