The sun., 1898-10-02
LIFE AMONG THE T0|LERS
Hammer Taps From Work.
shops of the World.
WAGE FARMERS TALK
Pointed Paragraphs From Many
Lands...Ifems of Interest From
All Crafts.
FARMERS TALK

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The oldest industry is corn milling.
Beer costs dime glass in Oregon.
London has a sandwichmen's home.
Chicago has 1910 union musicians.
London factories make ancient coins.
Our watches are sold in South Africa.
Germany contains 403 beet sugar refn-
cries.
Lima co., PAYERS won strike for $l.5O
a day.
In France $9.65 is exacted for ton
of coal.
Connecticut bakers held state con-
vention.
Nashville Unionists want tenders on
street cars.
Sacramento has railway employees
political club.
An international labor congress was
held at Antwerp.
Unionlsts operate six cooperative win
dow glass plants.
Aberdeen (Scotand) masons struck for
II cents per hour.
Washington Cd. c. Union granite cut
ters get $500 a day.
New York PAYERS won a strike for the
discharge of non-unionists.
English and Welsh miners demand 10
per cent. advance in wages.
When Abba Ia. miners struck the
company abandoned its mines.
A home for barkeepers is to be es-
tablished at Waukesha, Wis
Joseph Leicester has been secretary Of
the English Glassworkers' Union for 46
years.
President Barter, of Michigan Fedora
tion OF Labor, urges Unionists to enter
politics.
Solus IN. Y. saloons closed at 7.3O p. Z
m. last week on account of the revival
meetings.
Brewers censure Gompers for speaking
at the Omaha Exposition. Non-union
beer is sold there.
Montreal retail dealers in novelties,
salers selling at retail.
New York unions have contributed to
fund to secure a pardon for Berkmann,
the Pittsburg anarchist.
The English Trade Union Congress
delegates included two representatives of
Japan's $4,000 Unionists.
Clothing, food, money, ETC., is being
gathered at Toledo for idle miners and
their families at Jobs, o.
Prominent Houston negroes requested
the celored men OF that city to not take
the place of negroes on strike at Calves
ton.
Eleven hundred Unionists at Newark
have protested against the nomination
for Freeholder of boss halter, who has
been opposed to unions,
By majority of 1900 the miners of
Fife and kinross Scotland, have agreed
to accept the 5 per cent. advance offered
by the coal owners and to continue at
work.
The Minnesota Iron Company has vol
unfairly raised the wages of its employees
to take effect October l. After the date
mentioned they will receive 50 day in
stead of $l.75.
British unionists oppose the renewal
VI refreshment and amusement licenses
unless the licensees agreed to pay their
employees trade.union rates and grant
them six-day week.
Chicago woodworkers struck last June
for aminimum wage scale OF $500 a day,
and the nine-hour day. Last week the
employers asked the Circuit Court to pre-
vent the boycott.
In New York any person who gives
street car transfer to another or any per-
son who accepts one from an unauthor-
lied person and offers it for use is guilty
of misdemeanor and liable to imprjson-
ment and fine.
Nothing is more certain than that or
ganized labor will in the end control the
destinies of the world. Even today it is
the only really effectual weapon against
the dishonest combinations of wealth
that legislation has been unable to re.
strain.-New York Journal
A department store bill passed by Dem
yer Aldermen will abolish these places. A
store selling dry goods, clothing, furni-
ture, crockery, millinery, shoes, athletic
goods, books and pictures, very few de-
partments for one of the big Denver
stores, would have to pay license of
500, ,6Ol per annum, and each department
added, no matter how insignificant,
would be just 5000 added to the license
account of the firm.
The formation of tremendous inter-
national organization OF seamen, dock
ers, stevedores, railway employees and
trainmen, comprising the longshoemen
and transport workers Of all the large
commercial centres of the world, is about
accomplished. This announcement was
made last week when it was reported
that the longshoremen OF New York
have decided to join the great inJerna-
tional union, together with 30, longshore-
men OF the Pacific coast, OF the Gulf of
Mexico and of the great lakes There are
10000 longshoremen in the metropolitan
district alone. These unions were
branches of the F. of /.
l pledge the Journal to the support of
all good measures proposed by other
newspapers. urge upon the men whose
power gives them such great RESPONSE.
bility the Importance of formal ed itorial
union.-not for private profit, but for the
public good. There can be no question,
for instance, that workmen should be
treated fairly, that unions should be en-