Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1897-12-29
THE FIELD OF LABOR.

Troy metal polishers organized.
Boston negro voters have organized.
Dublin, Ireland, has 10000 unionists.
Philadelphia longshoremen organized.
Toledo has Ladies' union label league
Japanese carpenters get 80 cents day.
Boston has a Chinese laundrymen's
union.
In Germany some machinists get $l4
a week.
Cleveland's city clerks want to tax
clairvoyants.
London brass founders want the eight
hour day.
Belfast, Ireland, engineers won the
eight hour day.
Orange, N. j., is to have cooperative
hat factory.
Walters will hold convention at De-
troit on September 81.
The price Of bread in London has been
increased rs per cent.
One hundred Pittsburg puddlers have
gone to Birmingham, Ala.
Elwood, Ind, tinplate and window
glass workers are on a strike.
Trammers at the Negaunee, Wis, mine
struck for $3.50 per day.
The American federation of labor has a
balance of over $3,259.
The English shipbuilding trades feder-
alton has l7S,00O members.
Columbus printers were the guests of
the Toledo union last Sunday.
Meetings of the unemployed will be
held in several Kentucky cities
Carson Valley, New, farmers will es
tablish a cooperative grain yard.
X. of L. District Assembly No. 40, Of
New York has 10000 members.
The Scottish miners federation de-
mands an advance Of IL cents per day.
Mayor Perry of Somerville, addressed
the socialistic labor party Of Boston.
Nearly 1000 barrels Of sugar cane have
been raised on Tennessees state farm.
Illinois state federation of labor held
its annual convention last week.
Three branches of the American rail-
way league have been formed at Cleve
land.
A working girl is financial secretary OF
the central federation of labor at Troy.
New York's socialistic and labor alli-
ance have nominated a candidate for
mayor.
A shieldhall, Scotland, cooperative
factorY's output for year amounted to
$2,300,O00.
English employers are importing engin-
GERS from Germany to take the place OF
the strikers.
Northumberland, England, miners have
been conceded an advance of two and
one half per cent
New York Cornice md Skylight work.
ers now receive $40 per day, an ad-
vance of so cents.
The brotherhood of locomotive fremen
has contributed $l.400 to the striking
coal miners fund.
The central labor federation of New
York has suspended bartenders' union
No l, for not holding regular meetings.
Dunfermline, Scotland, joiners won an
advance of one cent per hour and next
March another penny will be added.
The musicians union claim that nom
union men were Employed in one Of the
bands on labor day at Milwaukee.
A United States district Judge has de.
clared unconstitutional a law of San Ma
Geo City, CAL, prohibiting Chinese laun.
dries.
Why, one sells ladies' shoes two sizes
witch, England, have thus far cost the
national union of boot and shoe operat-
ives $4,000.
The first colony of New York tenement
poor will occupy land on the Bessemer
ditch, east of Pueblo, Col, by the first
of the year.
The American fint-glass workers
union is endeavoring to secure an agree
ment to have union labels blown in the
bottles they make
The Foresters' national convention de-
cided that the union label shall be used
hereafter upon its printing. Money was
appropriated for the striking miners.
Brewers union No. l won the ivory
gavel and case for being the best rep
resented labor organization at the labor
day reunion of the New York central
labor union.
From the thirty-fifth half yearly report
of the amalgamated society Of litho-
graphic printers of Great Britain, just is
sued, it appears that there are now g.
205 members.
Street car men in Butte, Montana, re-
ceive So for eight hours work. It is
said that every one who works for the
city must belong to the union, from
street laborer to Office clerk.
The ratio representation in the nation
al convention of the knights of labor, to
be held in Louisville, in November, is
one delegate to every 1000 members
whose cards were clear June l.
The committee now working with the
J druggists association and secret socie-
ties, says the Duluth News-Tribune, will
operate in conjunction with all cigar
dealers in the interest of union labels.
The national brewers union, F. of t..
! has at last succeeded in forming a small