The sun., 1898-06-19
LIFE AMONG TIE 10LERS
Hammer Taps From Work
shops of the World.
WAGE FARMERS TALK
Pointed Paragraphs From Many
Lands.-.Items of Interest From
All Crafts
FARMERS TALK

Cripple Creek boasts writer's union.
Glasgow furniture workers won strike.
Germany has 642, 900 working women.
Newark horseshoers demand nine
hours.
Brooklyn has German Plasterers
Union.
Germany has 10000 union shoe
makers.
Greater New York has 5000 union
cloakmakers.
Wages of Dubuqu, (Ia. coopers were
increased 50 week.
The English Federation Of Enginemen
consists of 10000 men.
Shoemakers in Germany average So. 81
per week, and work 10 hours day.
Montreal builders protest against the
practice of giving contracts to outsiders
The International Typographical Union
established branch in the British West
Indies.
One of the many branches of industry
which is suffering seriously from the
stagnating influence Of the war is the
manufacture Of pianos.
The Amalgamated Society of Painters
and Decorators has been suspended by
the New York Board Of Walking Dele,
gates. This organization of 5000 men
was doing work which the varnishers
claim.
BThe United Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners has list Of fifty-fve EN-.
ployers in New York and vicinity who
manufacture union house trim, and o1
contractors using the same.
The Gasworkers' Union of England,
has 16, 77S members. Its recent conven.
tion decided to set aside $l250 yearly tc
secure the election OF direct labor repre-
sentatives on public bodies.
The government eight-hour law has
been upheld once more, the jury having
found a verdict of guilty in the case OF
the San Francisco Bridge Company in
the United States District Court.
Tie attendance at the convention Of
Minnesota unions was larger than ever
before. 1t was the first time in the his
tory of the federation that the Farmers
Alliance co-operated with the Fedora
ton.
Wendell Philips said: II rejoice at
every effort workmen make to organize.
| hail the labor movement. 1t is my
only hope for democracy. Organize and
stand together. Let the nation hear a
united demand from the laboring voice.
Toronto Retail Merchants Associa-
tion wants the license fee for peddlers in
creased: Two-horse peddlers wagon, $50,
formerly $40; one-horse pedlers wagon,
$50, formerly $40; peddler with hand
wagon, SIS, formerly $40; peddlar selling
by hand or with basket, $l5, formerly
$l0.
INTERPRETATIONS are in progress in
Des Moines for the purchase of the Des
Moines water works, on the understand
ing that the city is willing to pay
SS5O00O. Dubuque considers $500, 600
too large a price to give for its water
works, now owned by a private COM
pany.
Judge Spencer, of St. Louis, has de-
cided that while it was true that the
city has general ordinance prohibiting
street cars from running at rate greater
than einht miles an hour in the city, the
Municipal Assembly could by express
contract or ordinance permit any par
ticular road to run its cars at rate ex-
ceeding that.
The miners of Fife and Clackmannon
have secured an advance of u cents a
day; the Scottish ironmoulders an ad-
vance OF half cent per hour, and the
Northumberland miners an increase of
seven and one-half per cent. The boiler
makers and iron shipbuilders of Sunder-
land, having asked for five per cent.
advance in wages, the masters offered a
lower increase.
As a result of the strike Of the dock
men at the Missable dock a short time
ago, when they We're successful in their
demands fer an increase in wages, the
dockmen of the Iron Range road at Two
Harbors are also enjoying an advance of
wages. he new scale was put in effect
there June /. The day men earn $l.5O
per day, and the men on the night shift
get SLIGO. Overtime is paid for at the
rate of 20 cents an hour.
The annual report of the Amalgamated
Society of Railway Servants, of England,
has just been issued. The number Of
branches has increased IRON 4S9 to ego,
and the membership from A, 700 to S5,-
92S, showing an increase of III branches
and l,219 members. No less than l3, 53333
members were struck off the books dur
ing the year. The total balance to the
society's credit at the close of the year
was $9s9,6l0.
There is land enough to give work to
all. There is food enough to supply all.
There are men enough needing clothing,
houses and all the rest of it to keep all
the artisans of every kind busy. If we
could get together, each man working
and getting the benefit Of some one else's
work in return for his own, we should
not know poverty; at least, the willing
workers would not know it; the others
do not count:-New York Journal.
At the Fifth Annual Congress of Irish
Trades Unions, Mr.. Wortley boldly ad-
vocated the establishment of judicial
tribunal with compulsory powers OF arbi-
tration. 'The resolution" says the
Dublin Independent, declaring that it
is the duty Of the Government to provide
works for tn, unemployed in Irish
cities, towns and rural districts is one of
undoubted relevancy at the present mo-
ment, when we are confronted with a
threatened famine in the West and South
OF Ireland'
RThe Windowgass Workers National
Association has started ON its plan of