The sun., 1898-03-13
AMONG THE 1O|LERS
Hammer Taps From the Work
shops Of the World.
A TALK OF WAGE FARMERS
Pointed Paragraphs From Many
LaIltls...Itcms of Interest From
All Crafts.

A~'AS3e lIttN on ullIOlIGs
One wooden mill in Mississippi.
Japal. boasts commerc ial schools.
Detroit mattresses may organize.
Savannah police work eight hours.
indianapolis BARRIERS will reorganizc.
Detroit makes stoves for South Africa
New York has 500 union shoeworkers
Utah florists have State association
Springfield has needle workers union
Milwaukee is to have school for cash
girls.
Detroit NIanufacturers' Club debated
single tax.
Springfield, Mass, fathers want /:
cents bunch.
Pittsburgh structural iron workers vii
organize.
Toledo liquor dealers union want
dives abolished.
Cleveland sailors and freight handler
will organize.
Illinois and Wisconsin coal dealers
Iciu u CoH> >cItiOIl.
Chicago and indianapolis have no idl.
union printers.
New Jersey unionists want compan,
stories abolished.
Chicago +. Of l.. wants swimming
tanks in public schools.
Colorado unionists will hold Stat,
convention on May ,.
Detroit cigarmakers' union paws idle
members $3 a week.
South Fast Lancashire, Eng, has
10000, 600 cotton spindlcs.
A mass meeting to denounce black.
listing was Veld at Chicago.
Ohio commercial travellers favor the
accent railroad fare bill.
ToIedo unionists want new office
created-city seaIer Of weights.
Duluth Chamber of Commerce asks
citizens to buy homemade goods.
Wages were advanced in Japan re.
Gently when machines. .:were. introduced
At Milwaukee bricks costs S.. q
thousand. Lime is now 50 cents barrel.
Chicago's horseshOers' anion wants all
city horses tD wear union labeled shoes.
An Italian is a shoeworkers' delegate
to the New York Central Labor Union.
A bill before the New York Legisla-
tnre will not permit grocers to sell bread.
When employees of the Union Pacific
road are 90 years of age they are dis
charged.
Springtieds bartcnders union forced a
big hotel t" discharge Il non-union bar
tender.
The city OF Toronto will test the right
Of the street railway to overcrowd the
cars.
Bay City, Mich, bricklayers organized
and at once secured 81 u day and she
day.
Members of the Chicago Lady TaiIors
Union struck for eight houls and SIS a
week.
The salary of the treasurer of the BEL
mont (O.) Trades and Labor Council is
II Il year.
Utah has Il soap trust and one factory
8 to make all the soap. Prices have
,een advanced.
Detroit musicians were fined 81 for
playing in an orchestra containing one
Massachusetts weavers run eight looms
orkshlre, eng weavers protest
gainst two.
illinois Steel Workers at Bay View,
Wis, work eight hours. Some of the
oilers corn $500 month.
Kansas Plumbers Association will be
dissolved If the Attorney General shall
lecide that it is trust.
A girl was discharged by Duluth
aundry when she was elected second
ice president of the union.
J. Milton Turner, Il st. Louis negro.
mploys white labor exclusively in his
,ctory. He was born a slave.
Ex-Governor Brown, of MARYLAND,
ays that "Denver is the most progress
i've looking Of all the Western cities"
Detroit Central Labor Union has fixed
larch l6 for the celebration of the an
iversary of the Paris commune.
The citizens OF Sandwich, Mass, on
uesday last voted in favor of the con-
ruction of the Cape Cod canal by
)nviets.
President Barry, of the indianapolis
pntral Labor Union wants convicts to
employed in improving country roads.
Missouri State Barbers' Protective As.
'ciation wants baber schools driven
1t Of business. A law has been pre-.
,red.
The convention of the National AL
ancc of Hotel, Restaurant and Barroom
mployes is to be held in Detroit, be-
nDing April 25.
One Of Pittsburgs big department
ores will build a $4,000 annex on
hich only local union labor will be
nployed, All material will be union
ade.
Buffalo boss bakers are opposed to the
tablishment Of u now office-city in
,ector of bakeries. There is also talk
taxing bakeries $ a year.
Granite cutters unions OF New York,
rooklyn, Jersey City and Hoboken, N.
, have been consolidated. They de-
and 81 for eight hours after April.
A receiver has been appointed for the
ew York Stonecutting Association.
n expelled member failing to secure
Ork was awarded $4O5. 5.96 damages by
e Court.
Chicago Federation of Labor has
edged its support to only such candi-
ties for the common council who will
tie for the municipal ownership of the