The sun., 1898-06-05
|L|FE 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
WAGE FARMERS TALK


Union brewers number 1850.
| Spain has IS women physicians.
England buys flowers of France.
American desks go to Germany.
Havana has 400 idle cigar factories.
The union label has supplanted the
boycott.
Denver cooks may strike for a six-day
week.
New York has 1000 union marine en-
gineers.
New York stone masons get $3.50 for
s hours.
Denver has a Direct Legislation
League.
Boilermakers have 200 unions, 5000
members.
New York Hebrew egg handlers have
organized.
Long Island City carpenters won the
eight.hour day. 49,.
Peoria, ILL.,, sugar refiners struck for Is
cents an hour. ..
West Bend, Wis, buttonmakers won
a strike for higher wages.
Frisco BARRIERS have joined the crusade
against school for BARRIERS.
United Mine Workers decided against
establishing defense fund.
Cleveland butchers want their employ
ers' shops closed on Sunday.
X. of L. has 25, 900 members in Greater
New York and Jersey City.
Debs' Social Democracy will drop poll
tics and press the colonization scheme.
Paterson IN. J.) cigarmakers have
formed unions OF horseshoers and brew
ers.
Fall River Central Labo. Union does
not believe that policemen should be
pensioned. .
Very few Brooklyn carpet stores are
open after 3 p. m., except on Mondays
and Saturdays.
"a Bill for the Regulation of the Art
of Barbering" is to be submitted to the
Colorado Legislature.
Chicago has notified company that
makes desks for the city that only union
labor is to be employed. .....
The F. of L. has captured all the X.
of L. breweries at Rochester, and the
union scale has been signed by employ
ers.
Premiums are awarded employees of
the Cincinnati, New Orleans & Pacific
railroad for 'freedom from accidents"
etc.
The International Brotherhood of
Bookmakers has appropriated $1,000
for the movement for the nine-hour
work-day.
Jersey City non.unon compostors
struck because their boss wouldn't dis
charge girl compostor. Then they
joined the union.
New York hoisting engineers were
conceded the eight-hour day, but the
machine stone workers battle has been
suspended for year.
Minnesota State Convention of Union
lists inaugurated its sessions on June
4, ard the State Convention of Wis
consn Unions will open at La Crosse
shortly.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, contractors did
not pay union wages. Now the city has
dropped the contractors, the munich
paity engaging whatever men are
needed, and pays laborers II! cents an
hour
John L. Sullivan, the ex-champion
pugilist OF the world, made speech be-
hind the scenes of Miners Eighth Ave-
nue. Theatre, New York, denouncing the
scene-shifters for refusing to join the
Theatrical Protective Union of Stage
Mechanics.
The sandwich man decently garbed is
not very useful citizen, perhaps, but,
says the New York journal, he is quite
spectable-very much more respecta-
BILE, foi instance, than the great lawyer
hired to annul just legislation for big
fee.
The Boiermakers' Union OF Chicago
enjoys the eight-llour day, and the high
est wages are paid in San Francisco,
where the men receive 1924 day. The
rate in Chicago is $2.75. Buffalo, Pitts
burg and Boston are nine-hour cities, the
pay being at the rate Of 10 hours, or
about s. 80 day. The Pacific coast and
the West are the best organized sections
of the country. Coored men are ineligi-
bic for membership,
The Stonecutters' Union declares that
the padrone system is pIacticed in their
trade, and that foreigners are employed
TO work on Government contracts at such
low wages that Americans cannot com
pete with them. In order to offset this
he National Union has filed request !
with Congress asking for the passage of a
aw providing that only qualified citizens
If the United States be permitted to work a
IN Government contracts.
The Scottish skaters recently held ,
at Dundee. 1t was decided
hat a member rendered unfit for work t
hall receive 5000 and 81 week indef- s
litely. Apprentices who have served II
i've years are to exact the standard rate
# wages. The skaters of Glasgow "
dOpted thi ''In the event of mem
yer being unable to follow his employ b
nent as slater through old age and has a
cen member for thirty years continu- "
nsy, he shall, by applying, receive the ..
um Of 500 from the Central Board in Il
eu of all claims, the sum to be levied Ii,
n members at II cents 5,
To be placed on the white list OF the L
League, an organization in 7
nding the most prominent women Of fo