The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-05-08
LIFE AMONG THE 1O|LERS
Hammer Taps From Work
shops of the World.
WAGE FARMERS TALK
Pointed Paragraphs From Many
Lands-.-Items Of Interest From
All Crafts. ..

Fife Scot miners demand an advance of
% per cent.
Russia holds third place among the
gold-producing countries.
Chicago stonecl.tters struck against a
cut from 81 to $3 a day.
A Hartford man was fined Sl,l74.s2
for selling liquor on Sunday.
Portuguese plantation laborers at Hon
oluu get ST. to $40 a month.
Textile workers held national con-
vcntion in New York last week.
The New York German Cigar
Workers Union has a fund OF over
$4,6sl.
Platers' helpers in Dundee (Scot-
land) shipyards struck for n cents an
hour
In four OF the five boiler shops in
Toledo the new scale of wages has been
conceded.
Tie war with Spain has furnished en-
ployment to every patternmaker i'll the
United States.
A big battleship has on board an cleo
trio plant capable of lighting town OF
5000 inhabitants.
The Toledo Brewing and Mailing Com
pany voluntarily granted to tremen the
eight-hour day.
indianapolis stereotypers organized.
At indianapolis every union painter and
carpenter is working
A bill to prevent false and misleading
advertising has been signed by Governor
Black, of New York.
The indianapolis laundry workers
union makes it a practice to buy 800
present for a member when she gets
married.
Detroit Team Owners Union has petit
toned the Common Council to have
none but union teams employed by the
Boards and Commissions.
The New York Plain and Ornamental
Plasterers' Society wants to be paid for
Il full day On Saturday, although they
quit work at noon.
Cleveland painters and deco rators de-
mand ~ cents an hour, time and one
half for over time, and double time for
Sundays and holidays.
Kansas City journeymen plumbers are
paid $ 90 per day, and want $40. The
gas and steam filters get $500 at pres
ent, and want $3.50.
Piusburg carpenters have been doing
a great deal of structural ZION work and
at a much lower rate than the iron work
ers would have taken the work for.
In a speech before the Social Democ-
raey Club at Topeka Chief Justice Eos
ter. of the Supreme Court, adocated the
absolute and complete abolition OF debt
At Cleveland delegate from the Car
rage Makers Union made complaint
against man who had purchased a
bread delivery wagon made in a non.
union shop.
The Labor Exchange Cooperative Coal
Company, of Aladdin, Pa, through
which it was believed the workmen
would find remedy for all their trou-
bles, has demonstrated itself failure.
The marine docks at Portsmouth, Eng
land are the largest in the world cover
! ing more than 300 acres and employing
some 10000 men. Two of the largest
docks are 600 feet long and IS broad.
Pittsburg steamftters have made de-
mand for So day of ten hours, payment
of time and half for overtime and
when sent out of the city or to distant
parts of same, car fare in addition.
Toledo has 1926 union newsboys. The
union in its short life has cared for sew
eral Youngsters who are i'll and has come
between some of the boys and their par
cnts, who are worse than no parents at
all.
Chicago Federation of Labor decided
that employers o. labor, men who are
salaried officers in their unions, walking
delegates and others. who are not work
ing az their trades shall not be eligible
as delegates.
The twenty.third convention of the
International Union of Horseshoers will
assemble in Detroit May Is. There are
eighty affiliated unions in the United
States and Canada, with total member
ship of some 10000
Tie st. Paul business houses, compris-
ing the jobbing houses, insurance offices
and coal companies, will close their
places of business on Saturday afternoon
during the summer, as usual. from the
first Saturday in May until the first Sat
urday in September, inclusive.
The New York Pasterers' Society, one
of the labor organizations to which the
Board of Walking Delegates recently
sent an ultimatum to the effect that it
must either leave the board or the Build
ing Trades Council, rival central or
ganiza,ion, has defied the board.
Judge Walker has decided that the
representatives OF Eastern houses who
have been making regular visits to Mon t
tana cities, selling all sorts of goods,
will either discontinue their visits or en-
rich the treasures of the cities and coun-
ties of the State to a considerable eXtent
by paying a license fee.
Street railway workers at Duluth,
Mimi, get $50 per month, and work
from 10 to u hours, Denver co. to u! {
hours, 20 cents per hour; Galveston. | | \
hours a day, Is cents: East Liverpool o., t
10 hours, Is cents; Toledo, nine hours S
Is cents; Worcester, nine hours, 20 cents; {
Detroit nine hours. 20 cents. c
b ston Central Labor Union defeated ,
The proposed amendment to the consti- t
5uiun excluding from membership en- c
plovers, snperlntendents and foremen. {
In regard to the report of the Cigar
makers Union that non-union cigars t.
were Icing sold on the baseball grounds, g