The morning times., 1897-01-17
WITH Drawn AND BRAIN.

Deny said Erastus Wiman, 1.-THE cx-
pectation of property in the shape Of a
Eome of ones own to i large mass of
citizens is to impcril selfgovernment, and
in no city in the New World is this denied
in SO large proportion as in New York,
where, to its reproach he it said, 80 Fer
cent of it's populace pay tribute to the
other 10 per cent for the privilege of
shelter"
There are at lea st half dozen organiZa-
tons in Dublin having for the object Of
their existence the promotion OF the use
or Irish manufactures and the encourage
ment of home industry.
Louisville unionists want the street rail-
way company's franchise revoked. They
demand two-cent fares, vestibules, etc.
In New York and surrounding cities and
towns fully two-thirds of the men IN the
woodworkers' trades are idle.
The st. Paul Hack and Cab Drivers
Union, through one of its members has
won victory against the city, which, by
an ordinance, sought to prohibit hackmen
from allowing their teams and licensed
hacks to stand on asphalt streets for n
greater continuous period th an thirty
minutes.
During the past year." says Secretary
Howard. 1.-The Spinners' Union has been
its members armory, savings bank, aud
benevolent society, all in one, as the fol-
lowing amounts paid in benefits will
show: Stoppage pay, So, ,S26.10; accident
pay, S165.65; lockout pay, S56; burial
dues for members. $500; members wives,
S175. Not solitary dollar has been
paid for strikes" 2"
Students of the University of Washing
ton, at Seattle, have struck for the con-
tinuance of the sale Of fifty tickets for
So by the street railway company
Manufacturers and unionists of Chicago
have prepared bill to prohibit competi-
ton OF convict with free labor
Wheeling BARRIERS organized and ad-
vanced their rates. A dozen shayes for
81 and shampooing now costs 20 cents.
Last years sales of English co-opera-
tive societies amount to the sum Of $780,
100000. These enterprises employ 7,14S
people.
Says E. ]. Connolly of Cleveland: Labor
organizations should amaIgamate closer
T.
In this day of combinations in the busi
ness world, labor must of necessity com
bine and form gigantic trust to retain
its standing in the Industrial world"
The Initiation fee of the New York
branch Amalgamated Association Of Cloth
ing Cutters and Trimmers has been re
duced from $10.S5 to $2.S5. An ex
arnining physician was elected to attend
to all sick members. The minimum wage
for sheer cutters was fixed at $40 q
week Of fifty-four hours, and long knife
cutters, $24 a week. st
Every organized port on the Atlantic
coast was represented at meeting of the
executive council of the Atlantic Coast
Seamen's Union, at Boston, last Sunday
when the subject Of Congressional RELIEF
for American sailors was vigorously urged
A new clause, permitting Jewish work
men to toll on Sundays to make up fol
lost time on Saturdays, will be introduced
in the factories and workshop bill Of Aus
tralia.
The National Stogie Makers Union is the
| outgrowth Of fight against stogie rollers
by the International Union OF Cigarm akers
The Pittsburg branch has 900 members
The new superintendent the State Fret
Labor Bureau at Cleveland says he .'in
tends to make his office what the law o.
Ohio intended it should be, means o.
furnishing employment to union men,