The sun., 1898-11-27
l|FE AMONG TIVE 1NlERS
Hammer Taps From Work
shops Of the World.
WAGE EARNERS' TALK
Pointed Paragraphs From Many
Lands.--ltcms of Interest From
All Crafts.

Women sailors in Finland.
Montana hasn't paper mill. .
Russia has cooperative societies.
Shanghai, China, has ten cotton
mills.
Butte, Mont, hasn't a non-union
clerk.
ltaly's vineyards aggregate 5000, 600
acres. ..r
Marion, Ind, hasn't non-union cigar
factory. -
England has $1,000 union boot and
sih1 operatives.
On the Bowery, New York, shave
Costs cents; hair cut, 5.
Al The Strozzi palace, in Rome, there is
book made Of marble, the leaves eing
Of nlaryelous thinness.
Boys have been substituted for men on
Nasnvll,e street cars. The boys earn $b
per ~teA; men were paid $40.
re journal OF the United Mine
Wur~er,' Association is now being
p,n.,u IN two Ianguages-English and
Say man.
rue uals on the Philadelphia City
Han cl"cK will be q feet in diameter. 1t
il 10 u, II monster CLOCK, run by eIec-
trcuy or hydraulic power, aud viii run
ohrI cncks. tl,rougtmut the building.
I,r cnrk will require winding only once
nit",.'h. 1t .will'cost $2S, ,O0U,
y.It.r AlAalgamated Association of Street
RanNaA Employees Of Amer.ca, call upon
the coming. contention oi the American
Euv, allu.. Of Labur, to be held i'll KAN
sas Guy in. December, to adopt fnan
cial loncy'that will guarantee to every
All 'I,vu organization in con-
tc>t for shorter hours and better conui.
tI,l-, ETC., at least ten cents per week
from each member affiliated with tile
Anrllcan Federation OF LABOR.
Minnesota,' North Dakota andsSouth
Dakola l'aveproduced this year crops,
tue value of which is estimated to be
$l5O,WO,UO0. The three States have
i is, u 2UO, ,0OO, 0W bushels oi wheat, 75,-
0OU OOU bushels vf corn, 10000 OUO bush
e.s "l oats and several miiilun bushels of
bar'ey, fax, potatous, a large crop Of hay
and several million dollars worth OF
hcss, cattle and horses.
Lab ,r IS prior to AMI independent If
capl,a. Capital is only the lrut of Iao,r,
aud could never have +xls,eu # labor
had no. first existed. Labor is the super
lor vi capital ard deserves much the
higher consideration. No men
living are more worthy to he trusted
than those who toll up from poverty;
none less inclined to take or touch a,lgIt
they have not honestly earneu.-Abra.
hum LucoL,.
English cooperative societies have
own Annual and they nave also some ~
or more monthly and other publications.,
One ot which clrCu'ates to tie extent Of
l4,OOO per month; the general news.
paper AZ, 100 per week. aud anr,her 2i,-
OOO monthly. Then the co-operal ors ave
tlurarles and reading rooms in conllec-
ton with a. large number Of their sLu,ts,
and co nlnlttee Of education which ar
ranges lor classes and lectures.
II'anksto unionislIi, every piece of
work done for the city of L. lldon has
this slipnat'on: Thai trades union price
shall govern ali wages paid. Ntariy all
work Is done directly by the city; they
select their own fDrenan, who gives Il
bond and RECEIVES only the same wages
as t others, the CITY 'oking 10 HIM DIS
security for the GLASS; Uf work done. The
low est bid from contractors fUr d sewel
in York road. London, was $5s,0OO. The
Guy did the wo for itself for $26, 900,
ana paid Sl.G5 per day, when the c',n-
tractors paid $l.25 for similar work. IL IS
claimed to have been better than Was
done unuer the c"ntract SYSTEM.
The introduction Of blowing and press
ing nlacIlAllcs in various branches ui the
glass industry has not only displaced
MANY wur kmen, but is constantly tend
ing to reuuce wages propOrt"ned t" out.
put. The finishing machines at Mckee d
Bros, the lruit jar machines AT Washing
ton and M lncie, the Owens machine at
Toledo, the Cleveland linisler at various
factories, tine AEiuser press at Cicero,
the chimney machines at the Wts'lng
house, and the globe making machine AZ
the Fort Pitt, have all made serious in
roads on the glass workers trade in
Pltt-burg. In Germany the Grote bottle
blowing machine is likely to as thor
dughly invade that craft in Europe as
does the Prayer machine in the United
States.
The total consumption OF coffee OF the
world in 1897 has been estimated at
l,45S, 800 900 pounds. In quarter of a
century the. consumption has doubled.
The business of coffee growing IN Brazil
is 10 very bad condition, owing to the
fall in price in, 1897. The total exports
Of Brazil in 1895 amounted to $l8O,OOO,-
600, and of this coffee made $l4C, 900, 900.
Everybody went into coffee raising, and
even the lecessaries Of life were imported
vegetables, meat and fruit from the
Rio Platte, onions from Portugal, pota-
toes from France, wheat and hog pro.
ducts from the United States, etc. The
huge crop of last year, l,32O,0OO 0OC
pounds, brought only $77 ,00O,oOO, while
the comparatively small crop Of 1895, oI
7000,OOO bags, when coffAe was worth
$50 bug, sold for $l40, 100000.
The most enterprising merchant in q
city i. generally the man sought by
large concerns requiring loca! represen
tatlves. The most enterprisng merchant
il invariably y the largest advertiser. This
recngnitl"n as ''the most enterprising
merchant in town." or "the most sue
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