The sun., 1898-05-29
LIFE AMONG THE T0|LERS
Hammer Taps From Work
shops of the World.
WAGE FARMERS TALK
Pointed Paragraphs From Many
Lands--.Items of Interest From
All Crafts

France has 10000 unionists.
Dublin has hair dressers' union.
Detroit peddlar's license costs $25.
Cleveland has servant girls union.
Canada has 5000 shirt and collar max.
ers.
Cleveland coremakers want $3.50 a
day.
Russia has 100000 factory opera
tives.
Greater New York has 27O paper box
mills.
Newark bluestone cutters won eight
| hours.
Electric railways are multiplying in
Japan.
New York has 5000 union painters and
decorators.
Oshkosh asphalt laborers struck for
$l.50 day.
Covington (ky.) Union label league
has 500 members.
The majority of Milwaukee's plumbers
won their demands.
Japan has 1929 telegraph offices and
1861, ,922 agriculturists.
Cleveland hot water filters want the
eight-hour day on June /.
A Denver dealer was fined $25 and
costs for selling impure milk.
Denver merchants refuse to post in
their windows anti-saloon bills.
! Twenty-seven unions of the horse
shoers enjoy the nine-hour day.
One hundred printers are at work on
''Big SKIS" farm, near New York.
Buffalo electricians declare that the
lO-hour day shall not be rentroduced.
Each Omaha printers-so soldiers family
will-b paid s. week during the war.
Houston, Texas, liquor dealers organ
lied. They want the price of beer re-
duced.
Frisco musicians forced a department
store to employ union musicians en-
clusively.
Northumberland. Wales, coal miners
have accepted an advance OF seven and
one-half-per cent.
Eight Boston coopers, imported to
take the places of Chicago strikers, have
returned to the Hub.
Three New York city servants dis
charged from their positions have begun
suit for reinstatement.
All jewelry stores at Tacoma, Wash,
and all shoe shops save one, are closed
at & p. IN. every day.
Chicago Electrical Mechanics Union
have succeeded in increasing the wages
OF its members IS cents a day.
Racine (Wis. hod carriers struck for
20 cents an hour. Mayor Graham con-
ceded the advance to his emplo yes.
Pittsburg negroes will establish four
big cooperative department stores, and
only colored people will be employed.
The New York Master Horseshoers'
Association declares that the work of
the State Engineers is unsatisfactory.
Toledo Filers' Union is considering
new bylaws, including an increase OF
dues while working and no dues when
idle.
A Dundee (Scotland) law will force
cab drivers to exact but II cents for a
ride in the business section of the town.
Rev. S. J. Grove, D. d., secretary OF
the Pennsylvania State Sabbath Asso-
citation, protests against Sunday street
cars.
A New York bricklayers' union de-
mands more rigid examination of
buildings in process of construction by
building inspectors.
The National Union OF United Brew.
erv Workmen has decided by vote Of
1866 against 2675 not to establish an out
of-work benefit fund.
The old quarrel between the painters
and varnishers' unions because of paint
era doing the work of varnishers has
cropped out again in New York.
The Cleveland BARRIERS Association
(Knights OF Labor) proposes to compel
the city authorities, if possible, to keep
the barber shops closed on Sunday.
The New York Workmens' Political
League has decided to renew this year
its efforts to have workingmen noni- |
mated and elected to the State Legis-
lature.
The present season is one of the most
for painters and decorators
that Toledo has ever seen. Every shop
in the city has all the work it can do.
The New York Hatters Union com
planned last week that the Government
mad given orders for soldiers hats to
lon-union firms in Danbury and Fall
River.
1t looks as though the city officials OF
indianapolis do not intend to take any
teps soon to secure a decision in the
hree-cent street car fare case pending in
he Federal Court. ;
beginning June every Union carpen-
er employed by the department stores,
re Werics and in office buildings of Chi )
ago must receive 40s cents an hour, or
,e called out on strike.
Judge Richardson, of the Superior
'oult, of Boston, has handed down de.
ision restraining the Mayor from carry
ng out the law preventing contractors :
rom employing non-union labor on city
,orks. !
"Our marvellous Inventions" says Her +,
ert n. Casson, "have been monopolized =
, that in spite of the daily miracles OF
lr machinery, the hungry still lack food =,
nd the homeless wander through the !
reets.' +
In New York city at present 5000 men /
re idle in consequence of the general /