The sun., 1898-11-06
There is a stoneware trust.
Denver has laundry trust.
England has eleven distilleries.


flooring logs the other day.
Under the laws of Arkansas fine Of
$25 is assessed on the company permit
ting colored people to ride in the
sleepers
Probably the cheapest railroad fares in
the world are TO be found in Switzerland,
where the Government owns the rail
roads.-Sdcrdne1lto Bee.
indianapolis painters were locked out
because they boycotted firm that EN-
ployed men who owed the union money
Taev get 25 cents an hour.
London has taken up the experiment
of municipal street railroads. The South
London tramways have been bought by
the County Council for 81, ,250, 900.
The movement for the establishment
of the ten hour day for bakers and the
abolition of the prevailing system of
boarding journeymen is now fairly on
foot.
The eighteenth annual convention of
the American Federation of Labor will
be held at Kansas City, NO., December
l2. The K. of L. will meet at Chicago
on November l5.
The third of the series of conferences
arranged by the Journeymen Bakers and
Confectioners' International Union for
the shorter workday movement in 1899,
was held last week.
The famous Federal Labor Union, of
Kane, Pa, has gone into politics to the
extent of getting all the labor organiza-
tions in Mexican county united on
labor ticket in the State campaign.
A Cleveland ordinance provides that
the cash fares on street railways shall be
4 cents, and that the tickets be sold at
the rate of seven for a quarter The
present rate of fare is 5 cents, with
tickets at the rate of II for so cents.
The Indiana BARRIERS Protective Asso.
citation was formed last week. The pur-
pose OF the organization is to prepare
and have introduced in the Legislature a
bill licensing BARRIERS and requiring bet
ter sanitary conditions in barber shops.
A movement has been inaugurated in
Pittsburg by trainmen in the interest of
better wages. The demand has been
placed in the hands of grievance COM
mittee, and will be presented to railroad
officials. P. M. Arthur, chief of the
Brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers,
says that his organization is not involved
in the movement.
Members of the Cleveland Retail
Clerks Association, who were looking
for evidence yesterday against violators
OF the Sunday labor law, did not haye
any trouble securing it. Nearly all of
the clothiers who have been in the habit
of keeping their places of business open
Sunday morning from to - o'clock did
SO last Sunday.
The delegates of the New York Cen
tral Labor Union, who have looked upon
Clarendon Hall at a labor fortress since
1882, when they first moved into it, have
decided to move to other quarters on
January /. The union charges that the
present manager employs non-union
walters, bartenders and musicians, the
latter forming the orchestra in a music
ball annex Of the building.
zone of the most effective speakers on
the stump in this State is Hon. Robert
Bridges. Land Commissioner of the
State" says one of the leading fusion
organs. The Republicans are beginning
to coincide with this view, for Mr.
Bridges argument in favor of the Single
Tax and insstence that he is an ardent
Single Taxer are making votes for the
Republican ticket.-1dcoma Wash.
Ledger I Rep.).
New York society women have sub
scribed $4,000 to start a cooperative
shop for the striking ladies' tailors. The
fashionable women in New York will be
in a sense partners in this enterprise
The Vanderbits, the Sloanes, the Astors
the Duers and scores OF others whose
names are synonymous with great wealtl
and social prestige will be the patronesses
of this shop; in fact, kind of silent part
ners. The ~tailors ran against their first
snag when they went to buy cloth. Pres
ident Schimmick, Secretary-Treasurel
Topstatt and Peter Cain went to the two
principal woolen houses in New York tt
see what terms they could make. They
were told that the firms could not sell tt
the cooperative shop. The reason wa
given frankly. The firms said that thu
trade Of the fashionable tailors having
shops in and near Fifth avenue is wortI
more to them than that of the men who
are now on strike, and they could no
have both. This does not trouble us,
said President Schimmick "We Cal
buy Goth Of big retail houses who also d.
wholesale business"
The Social Democracy colony in Wash
inglon is now an accomplished fact. Th'
Cooperative Brotherhood which was or
ganized and Incorporated under the law
of the State OF Washington by nationa
officers of the Social Democracy of Amer
lea, to carry on the work of colonizing il
this State, has made the selection of
colony site and secured its land. Th
officers of the company were elected at
recent meeting OF the Board Of Directors
and resulted in the selection of the fol
lowing: President,J. s. Ingalls,, Of Mime
sofa; vice president, j. G. De Almond, Q
Colorado; secretary, Cyrus Field Will
lard, Of Massachusetts; treasurer, P. H
McKernan, OF Washington; auditor, ]
B. Fowler, of of-Washington. An offic