Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1898-06-11
Montreal Central Labor union In

1880 ~1t St6iL-ubut udy.
Dundee tScotland) drillers struck for
30 cents per dozen rivets.
Frisco Sailors union demands $40
per month as minimum pay.
Several Frisco firms conceded the
nine-hour day to job printers.
Duluth street-railway uniforms this
spring will bear the union label.
Coyington Ky Ladies' Union Label
league has 600 members.
At Cleveland public improvements
Will furnish work for 1000 men.
After May Cleveland carpenters
VIII not work with nonunionists.
Troy nnionists protest against the
employment OF girls in foundries.
New York stereotypers are on strike
for a nine and one-half hour day.
The congress of miners at Salt Lake
VIII be attended by 1000 delegates.
Boilermakers and iron shipbuflders
on the Clyde want per cent increase.
Detroit grocers and butchers kick
against wholesalers who sell goods at
retail.
Hartford union printers get from SIS
to vi per week; nonunicnists 81 to SIP.
syracuse painters now get s2.75 for
nine hours; paperhangers $3.50. No
strike.
Greenville tPa.) Tube company vol.
unfairly increased wages from 10 to 20
per cent.
Ballard twash.) knot sawyers
struck for $3.50 per day. The packers
demand cents per thousand.
Westminster tMd.) merchants organ
ized. They oppose the running Of low
rate excursions to Baltimore.
Boston Building Trades council has
asked brewers to employ only unionists
IA the construction or repair of build
fngs,
Remarks President Mulcahy OF the
Woodworkers' National union: Il be-
lieve the report OF the American Fed
Grafton OF Labor at the next annual
convention will show i've times and
perhaps ten times the gain In member
ship OF the previous year"
Cleveland unionists went to the legis-
lature TO urge the passage OF the Bram-
ley Dill. abolishing prison contract la
Dor.
Boston common council refused to
pass the ordinance recommended by
Mayor Quincy providing for a depart
ment OF public music.
Rochester Woman's Christian Tenn
perance union requests that the cigar
be omitted from the cuts illustrating
new stylish suits OF gentleman's cloth
ing.
New York has Calcium-Light On
orators union. They complain because
members Of the Stage Hands union are
handling the lights in one OF the the
aters.
Cincfnnati's street-railroad compa-
MES have reduced the fare between the
hours OF and z In the morning and S
and In the evening to 3 cents. In fu-
ture every passenger will be provided
with seat.
the question whether the telephone
system should be placed in the hands
OF the municipal authorities has been
discussed during the recent inquiry into
the telephone exchange service of Glas-
gov.
Both the fiints and manufacturers are
now figuring upon plan to have the
union label recorded upon all kinds of
nnion-made glassware to distinguish it
from that in the nonunion factories.
The retail grocers OF New York have
formed exchanges and pooled their in
f9rPefE IN - a.
supplies in wholesale way and dis
tributing them among the members Of
the exchanges.
An Ottawa firm used white label
In the shape Of heart as trademark.
Another firm. which wanted to use
white label in the shape of kite. was
refused the privilege, on the ground
that 1t was an infringement.
The Personal Liberty league. COM
posed of the majority OF the saloon-
keepers of Kansas City. held a meeting
and protested against the ice trust The
independent companies charged 17h
cents per 100 pounds. Now they must
pay 30 cents.
The new city repairs department Of
Boston is working eight hours ner day
and seven on Saturday, for from e. x,
to 81 a day. The city is now putting nm
its own mill machinery for the con-
struction Of doors. posts, window
frames and sashes.
The horseshoers' national conyen-
ton will be held at Detroit. May ia
The greatest victory Of the horseshoers
for the year is the success of the big
strike in st. Louis for nine-hour
workday. Fifteen cooperative shops
were opened by the strikers and these
have practically captured all corpora
tion work previously controlled by the
Master Horseshoers' association.
There is $4,000 invested in the
largest brewery in Cleveland" saws the
Rev. ]. w. Allen. About the same
amount is invested In the largest SHIN
yard business in the city. About 500
men are employed in the brewery and
about $500 men in the shipyard.
The Swiss election was held on Sun
day. Feb. 20, and at $3.50 o'clock that
f,.er