The sun., 1898-11-20
lFE Ak|M TN TONER'S
Hammer Taps From Work
shops Of the World.
WAGE EARNERs' TALK
Pointed Paragraphs From Many
Lands---Itoms Of Interest From
All Crafts.
England sends coal to Manila.
In France coal costa % per ton.
Saginaw leather workers have organ

s., Louis tobacco workers struck
gainst cut.
Coyington. KY, has . cooperative
lass factory. f$
Baltimore Union tailors' wages have
,een increased.
Naser,own, N. II. hasn't a non-union
~
Canada's mineral output last year
Welded S2S, ,OO0, 900.
In Chill and Peru coal oil is the chief
fuel for locomotives.
Kansas City milk dealers were fined
SO for selling deficient milk.
Contractors attended the union
carpenters open meetings at Ottumwa,
Iowa.
Duluth Clerks Union prosecutes mer-
chants whose stores are open on Sun
day.
New York architectural iron workers
exact double pay for work on election
day.
The annual tonnage Of all the railroads
in Russia does not equal that carried on
railways entering Chicago.
In 1897 the United States bought from
China 81, ,556, ,525 pounds OF tea, at cost
Of $7,Ol7, ,92l, or a fraction over IA cents
per pound.
The next biennial session OF the To-.
bacco Workers National Union will be
held at Wheeling. Nine women were del
epates at the recent convention.
President Sabine, Of the United Gar
ment Workers of America, was elected
member Of tho New York Legislature.
A former business agent of the Bricklay-
ers' Union was reelected.
Brewers sent S25 to Oshkosh wood
workers and Chicago seaman's union
donated $25 to E. W. Clark, the Jeffe r
son Borden sailor who is serving life
sentence in Thomaston, Me-, prison for
mutiny.
On August Of this year the average
wages per day of working men and ar.
tisans in Chile we're as follows: Ordinary
laborers, 81 cents; masons, II cents; car
penters, 93 cents; gasftters, 03 cents;
painters, 70 cents. -,
The New York Central Labor Union
has appointed q committee to welcome
the delegates from the British Trades
Congress who are coming to attend the
annual convention of the American
Federation of Labor, to be held in Kansas
City ON December l2.
The motive power (steam) Of Europe
amounted in 1897 to 3,42l, 1874 horse
power, equal to the energy OF more than
S2,OOO,OO0 men. The estimated steam
motive power OF the United States is
2,623, $50 horse power, or more than
two thirds that of all Europe.
Massachusetts mental healers, Chris.
tian Science physicians and others OF
their ilk, are just at present deeply in
terested in the threatened passage OF q
law through the State Legislature tt
prohibit the practice OF any physicians
save those having medical diplomas.
Europe consumed in 1897 from Africa
British India and Ceylon l,763,6S(
pounds of ivory. Practically all OF thi
passed through the markets OF London
Liverpool and Antwerp. The ivory i'm
ported at Antwerp came from Cong
Free State. The number Of animal
killed TO furnish this supply is estimated
to have been IS, 1856.
"You who are not in 4 trade union,
saws President Tobin, OF the Boot an
shoe Workers Union, care enjoyln
wages to-day that would be much lowe
we're it not for the fact that the trad
union, by hard and persistent work
makes the work of tearing down wage
rather unproGtable for indi Iidual firm
or corporations, and even large assocl'
tons OF capital hesitate before going INT
conflict with wc'l.disclplned trad
union.'
The Burnley Seli-IIelp Cotton Mani
featuring Society is cited in illustrate
OF the working Of the cooperative sy
TEN in England. The management
this concern is vested in u committ
elected bv the work people. who numb
three hundred and twenty, all contribu
ing to the capital and sharing pro rata
the profits of their labor. The trade
this single institution, in 1893, aggl
gated $685. and the profits $1,000
the share capital being nearly $4,000.
According to the British Board
Trade returns for the year 1897, the co
ditions Of labor in the tight little islal
: are showing unmistakab!c signs OF il
provement. During the year name
$50, ,7O7 workingmen had an increase
wages, the increase aggregating abe
$225, ,OCO. Reduction in the hours
labor affected Co.'S men, the net redr
ton amounting to 2S4, 4,G75 hours.
the opposite side OF the ledger we fl
some 1900 persons suffered reducti
in their pay, and about 1000 had I
working day heightened.
At last Sundays meeting OF the n
York Central Labor Union neleg
Brown, of Cigarmakcrs Union, ia, sa
There are 10000 cigarmakers in
Philippines, and if we annex the
ands those men, who work for next
nothing, would come into compctit
with American cigarmakers.' .l
cigarmakers are not the only pebb
On the beach, said Delegate George
Warner ''lt is true that the Gig
makers might be wiped out, but OF
unions might be benefited, as. for
stance, the machlnists and tin and sht
iron workers" ''Thcrc would be a gr
opening for machinery" remarked ID
gate lIawkesworth.
Tie secret Of victory in war is org
zation, discipline, tenacity OF purp'
unity. The knowledge OF h,w to tigh
more important than the desire to
battle. The day is more than hall