The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-02-27
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I.anGs---Itenns OF Interest From
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leNa. boasts d god mine.
! France has 200, 600 lace workers.
( France had l7G strikes in 1897.
| 81. Louis servant girls organized
Dublin has seven carpenters unions.
ncle sam has ] beet sugar factories
No New York town owns its gas plant
Virginia is to have Bureau of Labor
CItyof Mexico is to have bicycle works.
Troy union coal handlers wear a badge.
! krnpp's factories contain lighthouses.
Minnesota groccrs !'cld a State conven-
ton.
New York has a Swedish maclinists'
union.
Canal, Dover, o., iron workers are on a
strike.
German railway engineers get SIPS
Il day.
Detroit hasn't an idle union garment
worker.
Iron molders pay % cents week to
the union.
Virginia has abolished the trading
stamp by law.
Garment workers have l4G unions with
$4,000 members.
Broomlnakers issued 100000 union
labels last year.
Scottish miners dcmard an advance
of T. cents per day.
The Pacific Northwest Labor Con-
gress is thriving.
Non-unionists are called "black legs"
in Great Britain.
4 cooperative store at Oshkosh h s
given up the ghost.
Prison made chairs are killing Indian
apolis chair factories.
/ Dundee butchers boycott members OF
the cooperative societies.
Nashville unionists demand the nine
hour day for city laborers
Money to build Detroit's labor temple
will be secured by selling bonds.
| Every member Of the indianapolis
garment workers union is employed.
In indianapolis the typcsctting scale
ranges from $3.50 to so a week.
| Wheeling unionists Endorsed IL cand-
date for Mayor, OF Martins Ferry.
The Union label is to be the weapon
used to cxterminate prison.made goods.
| X. "f i. pants makers at Cleveland
threaten to establish Il cooperative shop
| Washington has an organization that
demands a reduction in telephone rent
/ California miners threaten to establish
co operative works to fight the powder
trust.
X. of l.. defeated Federal ionist> at New
/ York Central Labor Union meeting last
Sunday.
| Newark lnioniStS are preparing Il new
union label law. one has been declared
unconstitutional.
/ Detroit street railway workers get
from ID to u cents an hour. thanks to
President Mahon.
tnionists have prevented the intro
ductlon OF mail cars at Detroit. City
Councils and a Congressman aided the
unionlsls.
The Anal ganlntcd Society of Carpcn-
tiers and JoIners of Great Britain has a
l"ta membership Of ;n'0l1 and 737
b'ahci!,S.
The Royal Alcanum of BROOKLYN is
considering a plan for the formation Of
an employment Bureau to provide work
for its members.
Cleveland Building Trades Council
wants u labor lvccllm Of its own. The
Central Labor Union also desires Il labor
iycum OF its own.
Toledo unonists complain that very
few OF the pupils pi the Manual Training
School in that city are the sons and
daughters OF workingmen.
The experience Of the n. Y. State
Labor Bureau is that the ordinary farm
aborrr has passed his period of useful
ness when hc reaches the age OF ~
1t is said that there will be about 100
candidates for each office in the forth
coming referendum vote for officers of
the international Typographical Union.
A New York bakers union has or
dercd all members who are eligible for
citizenship to procure their papers of
naturalization and produce then, at the
next meeting.
At Cincinnati Judge Murphy held on
demurrer that promoters of commercial ,
enterprises are liable to stockholders who |
invest by reason of any damage caused .
by misrepresentation.
The event Of the season in Duluth was
the fair given by unonsts. Twenty six .
unions has booths and the business men
were also represented. Speeches, con-
certs, etc, were extra attractions.
Chicago X. of i. passed resolutions
the practice OF public Off
Gals giving banquets costing $lO0a plate,
'When thousands Of American citizens
are ON the verge of starvation.'
The Secretary Of State, of Washington,
threatens to enforce that provision of =
5he law requiring commission men to
keep an extra set Of books for the benefit
II the farmers and others who ship pro-
luce to them.
A complaint has been made by Bar
endcrs' Union No. !. of New York, that
he Workingmen's Educational Associa-
ion employs non-union bartendcrs at its
,lub rooms. The latter says its own
members act as baltellders.
klingenberg ann Main in i'ranconia as .
! result OF the municipality engaging in