The sun., 1898-10-30
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shops Of the World.
WAGE EARNERS' TALK
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The English Boilerlnakers and Iron
Sllipbuilders Union has 44,OoU mem
bers, 464 unions and over $l,OOO,OOO in
its treasury.
more anarchists are manufactured
every yesr in this country by the short
s;Rhtedness of capital aud the mistaken
policy Of employers uf labor, than by all
other Influences combined. &C. B.
Thomas, in Denver Ne'rs.
Owners oi Chinese aundries have or
ganized, There will be uniform scale oi
prices in all Of the tlirty-eight Chinese
laundres in the city. Collars will be
laundered for two cents each, and cuffs
for four cents per pair. ss
The local unions Of bakers in the city
If New York who belong % the Journey
men Rakers' and Confectionery lnterna.
tional Union, have issued q circular de-
Vclaring that they will demand ten hour
\ day on and after the next Fourth OF
July.
At the convention of the American
Federation OF Labor which will be held
in Kansas City in December, II VIII oe
proposed That all bo, colts now IN 'oTce
against corporations and firms be de-
cIared utf, and that general light be
made tu increase the sale of articles bear
inp the union labels of the trades by
which they are manufactured.
The Tin and Sheet Iron Workers and
Cornice and Skylight Makers Unions, OF
New York, have anlalgamated. For some
time the two unions were at war with
each other over the right to do certain
kind Of work. As a matter Of fact, the
men in each trade can do the same kind
uf work, and il was decided that it was
best for the interests Of both unlOns that
they amalgalnate. r &
It is officially stated that there are in
Germany three women employed as
chimney sweeps, 80 as skaters, seven as
guHsmitlis, 10 as brass and bell founders,
so as paviors. l47 as coppersmiths, 379 as
farrier. and nailefs, 800 (including girls
as nasons, Gig It as stone cutters and
1000 in marble, stone and slate quarries.
Even in sewers and playing houses
women are employed.
In late issue of the Nineteenth Gen.
tury Lord Brassey gives statistics show
that from 1865 to 1894 the number Of CO.
operative societies in England had
doubled, and the membership had IN
creased from $50, 600 to 100000 From
$4,000, 900 the capital stock had gone up
W SIS, 100000, the annual trade from
Sl5,OOO, 600 to $25O,00O0O0, and the
profits from 81 100000 TO $25, 900, 600 a
year. The manufacturing Industries, es-
pecially tlat OF cotton fapri s, gave the
most satisfactory results. Cord Brassey
en,eitains high hopes that the labor
question VII largely lind its true solu-
ton III cooperation.
The eight-hour workday, if it We're
universal, said Henry Lloyd, would, by
creating demand ior labor, give work
to omanv thousands of men now unem-
pioyed. There were near.y 1000, 0OO
children and 100000 women employed
iii factories throughout the country,
while 100000 men, willing to work,
were idle The children should be put
to school, the wives remain at home and
the tranlps should be put to work lie
said the shorter workday should not be
restricted to an eight hour workday or
seven-hour workdav, but should be so
shortened that every man willing to
work could have worked.
Convict labor has been abolished, in.
famous child labor mininized. labor
bureaus and factory inspectors appointed
all over the United States to protect the
health of the white slaves Of the mills
and the city stores. A thousand laws in
the interest of labor have been placed
among the statutes, State and National
Governments, while preachers, profess
sors and lawyers are pushing forward to
Champion the movement with more radi-
cal energy than the workers themselves.
Magazines and book stores TEEN with ex-
positions and defenses Of our cause, and
are revoutiunizing the convictions Of the
vast middle classes OF this nation. All
this since Labor Day was born. - Ed,rard
King.
The English Analgamated Society of
Engineers Is picking up the ground lost
in the recent prolonged dispute at The
rate OF e., 900 per week ave ended the
late dispute" says statement just is-
sued by Mr. George Barnes, the general
secretary, with Gl34.00O as the rem.
nant of the G360, 900 we had in hand
when 1t commenced, and we have now in
hand about GlSOOO0 OF course, l do
not 8 y it in any boastfnl sense. 1t will
take us about couple OF years, If trade
continues good, to recover our former
strong financial position. Just now trade
is very good all over the country with
two experimentation and Oldham
where the employers seem rather vlndlc-
tive. Apart from these two places we
have nothing to find fault with, The
employers are apparently generally dis
posed to treat us fairly, recognizing that
It is for the best that both sides should
work tremendously. There has been an
advance Of wages generally all over the
country"
Speaking OF the hours of labor j. E.
ThOroId Rogers asserts: I'm the fifteenth
century the workmen had an eight-honr
Gay, probably by their own concerted
acapn, asslredly to the advantage OF the
employers" And again: "In the tif-
y teenh century, and in the teeth Of re-
straiIlpg statutes, the worknlen secured
an eigt. hours Way. am sure that an
eigilt-hiurs' dayis worth more to the
employee than a ten-hours' days
cheaper 1t the same money. But |
would faArather tNe workmen got ii by
( their owncombinatiurs, and by their
own exeriOns, than by a gift of the