The sun., 1898-12-18
l||E An06 I'M 1OllIlS
Hammer Taps From Work
shops of the World.
WAGE FARMERS TALK
Pointed Paragraphs From Many
Lands--Items Of Interest Frefa
All Crafts.

Ireland has cooperative dalrles.
Oakland (Cal. unionists paraded.
India contains 495, 900 acres OF tea.
Venezuela hasn't an electric railway.
North Carolina has 20 knitting mills
California boasts 25,OOO-acre whea
field.
Great Britain has 1OS,5l womer
unionists.
Watertown, N. Y, hasn't non-uniol
printer.
Manila has ordered American barbe
chairs.
Honolulu blacksmiths get from $40 t.
$15 month.
Limerick, Ireland, tailors won STRIKE
that lasted six months.
Fall River Loom Fixers' Association
has established textile school.
Houston, Tex, clerks want storel
closed at 7 p. m. daily and all day Sun
day.
Springfield MASS. printers, pressmer
and electrotypers are forming an alice
trades council.
Edinburgh, Scotland, bakers insist that
no uniouist shall be paid less than q
shillings per week.
Spain has greater mineral resources
than any other country in Europe, in.
cluding iron, copper, zinc, silver anti
mony, quick silver, lead and gypsum.
1t is reported that in the biggest pot
terry in Akron, o., machines are being
introduced. and the s. and 81 a day
skilled mechanics have been told to &c
to make room for 81 and SLIPS a day
handy men.
The average day wages Of workingmen
and artisans in Chile are: Ordinary
laborers, "a cents; masons, AZ cents; car.
penters, 90 cents; gasftters, 90 cents;
painters, 70 cents.
Boston printers union is so years old.
Washington unionists will ask the
National Building Trades Council to send
delegates to the centennial celebration of
the establishment of the national Gov
ernment, to be held in Washington in
1900.
A letter from England to The american
Manufacturer says that the bolt and nut
industrustry of T. W. & j. Walker of
that country, has been ruined by the
low prices quoted by producers on this
side of the Atlantic.
The American Miller of Chicago, de-
clares that a much larger area in the
South than ever before is now being
planted with wheat, and as a result there
will be a lot of grist mills all over that
part of the country. The -four industry
OF the Northwest will be sensibly affected
by the change, our contemporary be-
lieves.
The white laundrymen who compose
the Landowners Protective Associa-
tion of New York, have given up all idea
Of joining the Don Sang Kong Saw, or
Chinese Laundry Association. At first
the white laundrymen were eager to
form an agreement with the Cinnamon
by which prices would be kept up, but
after several conferences the white laun-
drymen suddenly decided to have moth.
ing to do with their almond-eyed COM
petitors.
At present Barnsley England iron and
steel moulders work 81 hours per week
for $685.; they ask 37s. per week for SO
hours.
A meeting of the Sheffield (Engand)
and District Engineering Trades EN-
ployers' Association was held to con-
slider letter received from the work
men. The men ask for an advance of
2s. per week and reduction of one hour
in their time. The employers offered an
advance of Is. per week and no change
in the hours. This offer the men re-
fused to accept.
Glassworkers and coal miners of
Charleroi, Pa, have formed an assoca-
tien to conduct cooperative store. The
first and second floors will be used for
the mercantile and grocery business and
the third floor for public hall. Sue
cessful cooperative stores are in opera
tion at Banksville, Carnegie, Shanor
station on the Baltimore & Ohio Rail.
road, and there are some in Pittsburg.
These not only pay all running expen-
ses, but cle4r enough to pay hand
some profit to the stockholders. The
Banksville store also supports a reading
room free to the public.
Said Harriette A. keyser, secretary
and organizer OF the New York Church
Association for the advancement of the
Interests of Labor: There should be a
prohibition against goods made in tene.
ments. Ask where your goods are made.
The time has passed when man can say
to you: "Stand back, I'll manage my
business as l please" You can now
say: "No, you cannot. When you starve
your employees body and soul and carry
disease and contagion over the whole
country, it is the peoples business
Pm glad to tell you that many ladies
have subscribed, and over half the stock
has been taken in the Ladies' Tailors
Cooperative Shop.
Fifty-four fresh trade disputes occurred
in Great Britain in October, involving
l2,57 workpeople. The corresponding
number of disputes for September was 50
involving 7G4i workpeople, and for Oc
tober, 1897, 80 disputes, involving S70l
workpeople Eight disputes took place
in the building trades, y in mining anc
quarrving, 5 in iron and steel manufac
ture, u in engineering and shipbuildinf
trades, 4 in other metal trades, in the
textile trades, 2 i'll the transport groul
and s in other industries. OF the 81
new and old disputes, involving 14,34t
workpeople, of which the settlement il
reported; IS, involving 1880 persons
were settled wholly in favor of the work
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