The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-05-22
LIFE AMONG THE lO|LERS
Hammer Taps From Work
shops of the World.
WAGE FARMERS TALK
Pointed Paragraphs From Many
Lands--- Items of Interest From
All Crafts

Chicago coopers struck for an advance.
Japan contains II English newspapers.
Spain has. 81 ,225 professional beggers.
Scotland has 100000 trades unionists.
Denver Unionists want labor tenn
pie.
Detroit German cabnetmakers organ
lied
Chicago boilermakers struck for nine
hours. ....
, In China telegraphers get $3.50 per
week (gold).
Cleveland unionists want sweat shops
exterminated ...
Duluth plumbers were conceded the
eight-hour day.
New York master horseshoers held a
State convention.
At Stephens Point wis potatoes
cost rs cents a bushel.
Tallapoosa, Ga, is to have co-opera-
tive glass factory.
A Brooklyn walters union has raised
its initiation fee to $40.
International Typographical Union
has suspended its Honolulu branch.
OF Great Britian's 100000 working
men but 5000 are unionists.
Green glass bottle blowers want ad-
vances ranging from 10 to 20 per cent.
Dundee (Scot. shop assistants union
wants stores closed earlier on Saturday
nights.
Employees of a Chicago can factory
struck for from 81. % to $1.50 per day Of
ten hours.
Cohoes Tube Works has voluntarily
increased wages 5 per cent, the men
now earning as much as they did in
1896.
The city Of Dublin, Ireland, conceded
an advance OF rs cents per week to the
men employed in the cleansing depart
ment.
1t has been decided by the Washington
Central Union that only the product of
union labor be sold on the Labor Day
excursion.
Resolutions were adopted by the Chi
cago Federation of Labor opposing the
City Councils proposed reduction of the
cigarette license.
An ordinance licensing street pianos
at 81 year and restricting them from
PLAYING between 10 p m. and Ia m.
passed Baltimore Council
A rapid increase in business. due to
the war, las necesstated an addition
being built to the United States seamless
tube works at Pittsburg, Pa. The plant
is being enlarged by an extension OF 100
feet.
New York Mixed Trades Local Assem-
bly,. 1924, Knights of Labor, has adopted
resolutions requesting employers gener-
ally to raise wages because OF the in
creased prices for everything on account
of the present war.
DR.. Kenny, City Coroner, in his evil
dence before the Licensing Commission,
attributed large amount of the intern
perance which prevails in Dublin, Ire
land, to the unsuitable and unsantary
dwellings of the workers.
The gardeners in the city parks of
New York were organized as Knights OF
Labor in December last. Before that
they received as wages $50 per month,
less deductions for time lost on account
of bad weather. Now they get $65 a
month. and the new regulations include
pay for every day that that they report
for work, rain or shine.
Boilermakers and iron shipbuilders
have 200 unions in the States and Can
ada. The New York lodge claims juris.
diction over all watertght ironwork. 1t
has over 400 members, who are now as
sessing themselves % cents week for
the benefit of the men who are on strike
in Erie Pa. The initiation fee since the
first of the month is S..
Oshkosh (Wis.) woodworkers struck
for general advance Of % per cent, and
in such cases where the increase will not
make the wages $l.50 per day for all
over Is years of age an additional ad-
vance is requested. Adjustment of
woman and girl labor; recognition of the
union; weekly pay day.
The States contain 10000 union horse
shoers.
Members OF Denver Bread and Cake
makers Union have been receiving, it
is said, only $40 per week and working
twelve to eighteen hours per day. Their
new scale calls for ten hours and pay, as
follows: Foremen, "Sl6; second hands,
$14; third hands, $l3. The men say
grocers are selling bread at 3 cents loaf,
and this yields profit to the middle
men Of 40 per cent.
The mistake that influential news
papers sometimes make-and a mistake
which one suspects they sometimes make
ihtentionally--is in holding the working
people at large responsible for every no.
ton, however dangerous, that anybody
assuming to speak in labor's name may
chance to make. Communism anarchy
and all of that brood are frowned upon
by the bone and sinew of the land as
severely as they are frowned upon by
the so-called upper crust. National
Labor Tribune.
The final breakup Of the Knights OF
Labor in the building trades Of New
York city is said to be assured by the
action OF General Master Workman
Henry A. Hicks in suspending from the
order oyer 1000 members. The cause for
these wholesale suspensions Of Local
Assemblies was the refusal of their mem
bers to 60 out on sympathetic strikes in
support OF the members of the Metal
Polishers' Union, which was refused
by the Board OF Walking
Delegates and the Central Labor Union.
Organized labor of Boston has de-
,lared for law limiting the hours of
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