The sun., 1898-02-13
AMONG )>JHE T0|LERS
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Hammer Taps From the Work
shops of the World.
A TALK OF WAGE FARMERS
Pointed Paragraphs From Many
IIandS---ltcms of Interest From
All Crafts.

Denver iia- frrlt pcddlcrs' union.
Ice laborrS at Rondout, y. v, dc
mand 81 a day.
New York State Grange advocates
State income tax.
In Tokyo, Japan, there is union o
1000 ironwprkerS.
New York engineers are opposed to
bill requiring licenses
Cleveland unionistS will act a play
called "Thc Miners Strikr.'
Chattanooga foundry employees won al
advance Of per cent.
Six thousand people sleep in the opel
air in London every night.
a Chicago ordinance requires city
horses to be shod in union shops
All officers OF the Cleveland Centra
Labor Union must furnish bonds.
The United States Grand Jury is tt
act on the local coal dealers "Trust.'
A Cleveland Councilman has prepared
an ordinance for four-cent car fares,
Members of the Ohio Wholesal,
Grocers' Association who cut rates arr
fined $2:1.
Wisconsin hardware men at their State
convention decided to fight department
stores.
Cleveland unionists declare they vii
not recognize a new painters union or
ganized by the Baltimore faction.
Frisco has new tailors' union, anC
it will join the national body.
The astonishing statement is mad,
that $50, ,OOOO 900 Of bonds were sold il
New York during the month OF January
New York elcctrotypers on Tuesda,
last struck agains, handling matter SCI
by non-unionistS.
The Boston Cigarmakers Union con
tributed $500 to the striking operatives .
New Bedford.
In Mexico miners get 81! cents Il day
Mexico has yielded $4,000, ,OOO,OOl
worth OF precious metals.
Lord Provost McGrady presided at ;
meeting OF the Dundee lS.otIand) Car
penters' and ,Ioincrs' Union.
Cleveland tin, sheet iron and cornic,
workers on April's first Monday WANT
eight hours and - cents per hour.
Washington ID. G. bakers say that
machines are being introduced that will
dispIace half the men employed il
bakeries.
Buffalo Aldermen have passed an or
dinance imposing license fee OF SlOO'
H. nI,t, # ri ,,nJ I,
store.
Chicago master carpenters say cut
throat competition has ruined their busi
ness. They have organized and will EN-
ploy onl y union!sts.
Dundee (Scotland) shop Assistants
salesladics and mem Union has induced
many merchants to close their stores a
op. IN. on Saturdays.
Chicago lnioniStS propose to have ;
say in the matters Of river improvement
and the expenditure Of water taxes fol
purposes other than those authorized by
law.
Residents of the District of Columbi;
have no vote, and uniohiSts will this
week hold Il meeting to demand the
suffrage Senator 1iI.man will speak
Chicago sheet metal workers get 3
cents per hour and double pay for over
time. One apprentice is permitted It
every iour sheet metal workers EN-
pI"yed.
Mayor Quincy'S proposed scheme tc
erect building by union day labor in
stead OF contract labor was unanimously "
indorsrd by the Boston Central Labor
lnon.
The question of Sunday labor in the
stceI mills is the paramount problem now
confronting the Anna gamated Associa.
ion Of Iron and Steel Workers.
Tie United Wood Carvcrs' Association,
Of New York, reports that quite num-
brr OF employers have already agreed to
substitute the day wages system for the
old system OF paving the men by tie
hour.
South Cardinals Legislature is con-
sidcrng Il bill to provide for the taxa
ton of telegraph, telephone, palace car,
sleeping car, draWing-room car, dining
car, express and fast freight joint stock
The first nominating convention to be
held in the United States by Social Dem
ocrats, the followers of Eugene Y. Debs,
was held at Milwaukee last week. Can
didatcs for Mayor. Comptroller, City
Treasurer and City Attorney were nomi-
mated.
At Boston the other day G;ompcrS cx.
pressed his belief that the failure Of the
textile workers OF New Bedford to win
the present struggle would mean cores
pondlng reductions in wages in the
South, and that nothing would be gained
by the New England manufacturers.
On May next $50 members Of New
York Typographical Union No. 6 Big
Six will commence cultivating garden
produce on the 25O.acrc trac! at Pelham
Park. Tie union has appropriated $500
for the venture, and Il similar amount
has been contributed by the Mayor
Committee.
Mayor Ralmsdcil, OF Lynn, speaking
before the Workingnen' Political League
the other evening, said it was Il sad COM
mentary that in city like Lynn, COM
D)SCU largely VI W VI hiioilltll, IlNICildiitS
and real estate men were chiefly selected
as representatives at HE State House.
1t is said that 80 per cent. of the
custom laundry work Of New York is
now done by machinery. The shirt
ironcrs' union has decided to request
Congressman Sulzer to prepare Il bill to
prohibit goods manufactured or pre-
pared in penal institutions Of any one
State from being sold in any other State.
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