The sun., 1898-01-23
AMONG THE IO|LERS
Hammer Taps From the Work.
shops Of the World.
A TALK OF WAGE FARMERS
Pointed Paragraphs From Many
Lands.-.ltenls OF Interest From
All Crafts.
America has 3O2 tinplate mills.

America has 302 tinplate mills.
Albany negro caterers organized.
Iowa Unionists want the poll tax abol
ished.
Cincinnati hasn't non-union ciga
factory.
.>ew York union holsesmiths ant
brIdgemen get 81. rs day.
Detroit Single Tax Club has compiled
a list OF 10000 vacant lots.
Boston's Merchants Association de
mands that fire insurance rates be re
duced.
Virginia's Legislature passed bill t.
provide seats Tor women workers II
stores.
Some Denver people want bill boards
abolished. An ordinance has beer
prepared.
The office of financial secretary of the
Window Glass Workers Ass )ciaLiun has
been abolished.
A bill to prevent the manufacture u
all classes OF goods in prisons is before
the Ohio Legislature.
The constitutionality OF Colorado law
requiring hOrseshoers to pass an exanii.
nation VIII be tested.
| Nearly Y 200 Chattanooga negroes have
gone to the works Of the Colorado Coal
and Iron Company, Pueblo, Col.
All the factories controlled by the ce-
nent trust are closed, and the few indie
pendent mills are running overtime.
1t is said that in Chicago the hod car
riels receive Is cents an hour more than
many of the carpenters in Buffalo. Rea-
son, thr ugh organization.
Chicago Milk Shippers Union has
fixed TIE price OF eight-gaIlon cans IA,
80, IS and 50 cents, respectively, for the
months OF February, March and April.
Twenty-Five delegates to the joint con-
ven ion Of the Workingmen's Assembly
and the Federation of Labor stopped at a
non-unlon hotel at Albany.
A jury OF farmers acquitted Utica
Daruer who worked on Sunday. This
shop is the only non-union place in
Utica, and the only one that has deiieu
the law.
Montreal knight of Lsbo held its tif-
teenth annual banquet the other night.
several Aldermen attended. The Mayor
sent $25, and Lord Statchcona presented
500.
The Typographical Union has entered
the Iowa Legislature with proposition
to have all school books nanufactllr, d
within the State, This is aimed at the
Book Trust.
Bellaire, o., Central Union requested
the Butchers Union to not hire u band
until one OF its members, who took
factory strikers place, is expelled from
the band.
Washington's State Printer has sued
the Seattle Typographical Union lol
$4,000 damages. 1t circulated a card
charging him with making the plant al
unfair, non-union Office, etc.
Chicago Building Trades Council may
ask the city to use concrete instead of
brick in order to injure union of brick
layers whose members worked on
building where carpenters had struck.
Kansas City Industrial Council ar
pointed Il committee to visit the mer-
chants OF Kansas City and request that
none but union labor be employed II.
making repairs.
The Young Mems Business League, Of
rhattan' oga, declined to adopt the reso-
lution calling for constitutional amend
mel to exempt manufactures from tax
alton for Il certain time.
Every strike, won or lost, ties the
wurkingmen closer together, and adds to
their chances OF victory in the next
strike. Workmcn in the end are going
to get what they produce.-New York
journal.
Considerable Indignation is tct by
white carpenters and mechanics in Homo
lulu at the employment Of Chinese and
japanese mechanics alone on the con-
-truction Of their cost y residences by
several Government officials.
The Slate and Metal Roofers' Union,
of New York. is at war with the CornIce
and Skylighl Makers Union, which it
accuses of invading its field Of work. A
slate and mental roofer said that his Or
ganization would retalate by sending
rooicrs to do cOrnlcc work.
Typographical Union, No. %, at one
time one Of the strongest unions III Mill
waukcc, is on the verge of dissolution
because of its greatly diminished mem
bership. Cards are hereafter to be Sc
cured from the international union.
Charter is to be surrendered. Typesetting
machines killed the body.
Many of the radical delegates severely
criticised the election of Samuel Com.
pers to the presidency OF the American
Federation OF Labor. they suggested us
il remedy that all the officers should be
elected By Il referendum vote OF all the
Of affiliated unions.
Newark unionists want unconstitutional
SO that laws OF New Jersey
may be revised. The system OF Senator
ul representation, as nov existing, is
stamped as unfair, in giving one-third
the people power to rule the State. They
leclar that every labor bill introduced
in the Legislature has been amended by
corp ration attorneys to make it of no use
1r imperative.
The war between the department
stores and the newspapers of Denver
asted week. The newspapers won the
victory, but the injury to the stores may
ccvcr be remedicd Never were these
stores SO roundly abused. Everything
hat could injuru them was exploited.
Even the Board of lIealth's guns were
;urned upon them. All small stores
Nrre permitted to air thci" grievances.
secret societies decided to uoycott the
Big houses and members of labors unions
we're fined for patronizing them.
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