The sun., 1898-03-06
LIFE AMONG TIE IMLERS
Hammer Taps From the Work.
shops Of the World.
A TALK OF WAGE FARMERS
Pointed Paragraphs From Many
I4an(lS.--Itcnns Of Inlercs From
All Crafts.

Trenton is to have dollar gas.
China raises dogs for their fur.
One glass factory in California.
London has many electric cabs.
Alabama sends coke to Mexico.
Sheffield has an 1880. blade knife.
Butte has cooperative laundry.
Chicago clothing clerks organized.
Europe has textile Sunday schools.
Londoncrs spend ST, 100000 day.
Hartford has Union Label League.
Rochester shoemakers won strike.
Philadelphia has Chinese bricklayer.
Detroit moldcrs struck for $3.50 a
day.
Detroit Clerks Union now admits
women.
There are ~ 600 union locomotive fire
men.
Detroit elevator conductors will or
ganize.
Germany sent s25,o0 to the English
engineers.
Indiana photographers held State
convention.
Detroit has theatrical advertising
agents union.
There are 900 Union broommakers in
the United States.
New York painters want the eight
hour day on April 4.
Philadelphia Untel Labor League is
opposed to war with Spain.
A big Boston grocery has promised 10
handle union cigars exclusively. ~.
Chicago Gasfitters' Unions initiation
fec has hcen $50 since March |.
A Milwaukee hardware company
shares its profits with employees.
Trades unions are the bnlwarks o
modern democracies. Gladstone.
Several Frisco druggists were tinec
500 for selling bogus liver pills.
Chicago architectural ironworkers wo1
strike for the discharge of a non.union
ist
Denvcrunnnsts who attended f,ner
al refused to March behind Il nnn-unior
band.
The nine hour day has already beer
established in several Boston printing
offices.
New York machine stone workers, rub
bers and helpers want the eight hon
day on June !.
The three wire jra wers' and die max
ers' unions OF Cleveland held Il joint
olen meeting.
! Montreal la,trrs who struck for an in
crease have been told that machines vii
b. introduced.
A bill before the Maryland Legislature
will increase the cost of a retail liquor
license to 500.
About ,hue-fnu,ths Of the New YorI
clak manufacturers have now granted
the new wage scale.
Chicago painters want - cents al
hour till March l, 1889, and -! cents fo
the year following.
'Frisco's Mayor declares that his tow
pays - per cent. Of the entire taxes OF
the State Government.
Tacoma Mill Men Union won a strike
a week after the association was formed
Yardmcn get $50 day.
The l:W employees OF IL Detroit iurlli
turr manufactory will be unionized in 9
body by order of the firm.
At Sunderland, England, union car.
pcnters struck when they were requested
10 "hurry up and work faster"
The editor and manager of the Los Al.
eelcs Herald advocates Government con-
troll Of all public utilities.
The National Union of Glass Workers
and General Laborers of Great Britain
has 40,Ol2 members and is worth $,5,-
600.
Washington Building Trades Council
says neither of the two plasters' unions
will be recognized until they shall have
amalgamated.
Carroll ID. Wight. United States Com.
missioner Of Labor, has been elected an
honorary member Of the Imperial Acade-
my of Science of Russia.
All the products of the Cleveland brick
yard arc to be sold through an agency
The price OF brick is now 1925 for build
ing and $3.50 for sewer brick.
An Ontario Canada, law provides that
any agreement expressed or implied, by
which an employe relinquishes rights
under "labor" legislation is void.
New York is to have Henry George
and library is to be estab.
lished in the house in Philadelphia in
which the single taxer was born.
Illinois unionists want the garnish-
ment law repealed. The new law re-
duo.s the amount exempt from garnish.
lnent from $50 on any one pay day to $S
a week.
Thank God! We have system Of la
Dor where there can be a. strike. What.
ever the pressure there is point where
the W0rkmen may stop-Abraham Lin.
coln.
Detroit Central Labor Union will pc
tition the Park Board to insert in the
Belle Isle Casino contract a clause re-
luiring the employment of union walters
and bartcnders only.
Des Moines occupies Sunday after.
Moons in the discussion OF municipal
its people getting together in
the Court House to listen to volunteer
orations upon subjects of city admins.
tration and policy.
We cannot increase the hours OF labor
and lesson the pay of labor without in
hictlng al injury upon large class OF
citizens which would be also an injury
to the Commonwealth itsclf.-Boston
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