The sun., 1898-01-30
AMONG TIE T0|LERS.
Hammer Taps From lEp Work
shops Of the World.
A TALK OF WAGE FARMERS,
Pointed Paragraphs From Many
Lands---Itcms of Interest From
All Crafts.

Oklahoma has Al banks.
Boston is promised 50.cent gas.
RonnIania has women hod carriers.
Hartford bricklayers get So. so day.
Rents have been advanced at Tacoma
Great Britain has Sl3,2OO,OOO wage
carncrs.
Cleveland plastcrcrs now receive s.. 5,
day.
Wheeling potters won an advance O
l2l per cent.
| New York granite cutters want 81 ;
day after April !.
Chinese took the places of the striking
laundry workers in New York.
Socialism VS.. Trades Unionism' was
debated at Duluth by unionists.
Edinburgh and Aberdeen (scotland)
joincrs want the eight-hour day.
Detroit Building Trades Council pays
its business agent SIS a week.
English miners want Parliament to
make eight hour a days work in miners.
New York macaroni makers have or
ganizcd. They get 60 to 70 cents for 4G
hours work.
New York cigarette girls effected the
discharge of a 'dude'' foreman by a six
weeks strike.
The Cornice and Skylight Makers
Union, of New York, has raised its in
itiation fee to $50.
At Auckland, Australia, an employer
who did not give an employe a half-holi-
day was fined S335.
New Castle, Pa. union of hackmeu
declare that no negro shall drive in a
procession with them.
The Caledonian (Scot) Railwayhas es-
tablished a savings bank for1ts en-
ployes. 1t contains $2,500,O0Q
Dundee, (Scotand) tailors have noti-
fled employers that $l.75 must be pad
hereafter for police patrol jackets.
The Griswod Manufacturing Com
pany, of Erie, Pa, has received a large
order from Japan for the Erie aluminium
hollow ware.
The Coopers' Union, of Evansville,
Ind, refused a cooperage firm the label
on the ground that its kegs are being
made by machines.
Toledo Central Labor Union has
adopted resolution in favor of limiting
the age of girls employed in factories to
is years and OF boys to l6 years.
In New York city there are 509l cloth.
ing shops and $500 workers, rs per
cent. OF whom are Jews. Some are
paid cents for making a pair of trousers.
At Duluth the Populists and the Re-
pnblicans have both declared in favor Of
the eight-hour day on city work and in
favor of municipal ownership Of the
principal franchises.
A measure will also be introduced in
the Kentucky Legislature urging the City
Buyer to award the contract for the city
horscshoeing to the members of the
llorseshUers' Union.
"Givc no more franchises away" is
the title Of an editorial in Maryland's
foremost newspaper, the Baltimore
Herald. 1t wants railway franchises, ETC.,
given to the highest bidder.
Secretary L. G. Henry, Of the Clcvc-
land Bicycle Mechanics Union, said the
amount of labor needed in the produc-
ton OF a bicycle has been reduced bv
machines nearly one-third in the last
three years.
Cleveland Retail Grocers' Union de-
nonnced the trading stamp, and mcr.
chants at Erie, Pa, are being prosecuted
for using them. The Retail Merchants
Of New jersey want it cXtcrnllnatod BY
law.
An ordinance submitted to Baltimore
City Council prohibits milk wagons US
ng the streets on Sundays between 8
|. m. and ZIP. M, and forbidding them ,
Using their gongs or bells at all on the ,,
sabbath.
Canadian Pacific Railway trlcgraphcrs ,
work now twelve hours and are to BE- :
Xcmpt from Sunday work whenever
possible From Cartier to Fort William .
agent and operator. with dwelling, fuel &
nd light, $41,50 per month: do, without u
w"Iling fuel and light, $50: relieving T.
gent $50 Il month aud 80 cents a uav ,
expenses \
Montreal Trades and Labor Council -
All submit questions to candidates Ii
hey insist hat labnrcrs on city work be q
aid Sl.25 Il day Are You in favor of "
lc abolition of property qualification +
" Mayor and aldermen? Are you in y
lvor OF having law passed that not g.
lore than one horse owned by the same y y
,rson be employed by the corporation Il
lille there are others TO be had? y, y,
Whenever the Governing Board of the D,
cw York Consumers League finds that N
retail store is dealing Justly in every pl
ay by its employees, that store is put on N
e "whitc list" and is recommended to m
neral favor. There are now about tn
irty-seven New York firms on the ar
,agues's white list Mrs. Nathan
He'd attention to the fact that members n,
the League are expected to refrain W,
IN shopping after o'clock p. m. and liu
Saturday afternoons. They are also
pected to refuse to receive packages of
ods bought during the day after 6
clock p. m.
The girl wcavers in Wilson'S mill. at DC
enton, n j., have achieved by mere th
'manly pcrsuasion-coaXing, in word nG
hat W hich wan sisters in New Bedford ~
: starving for. Good Mr.. Wilson I" IL
lear Mr.. Wilson" " "Kind Mr.. vii. Sp
~ were some OF the CALCULATIONS "a
tn which the plea OF the committee M' M.l'
$ punctllatcd from the main body. A si'
TX of mock CONSERVATION oversprcad III
lace OF the nantlfacturrr as he gazcd no. .
o Inc eyes, some roguish and some en-
'tf'll, of his dependents. He saw that WI
ny Of them were pale and thin, and on ,.
II made him serious again. Then he nc
'anccd their pay 10 per cent. ca'
It Wellington, Australia, the Arbi- p'
lion Board decided that union baker, !
st be employed when any are idle in Ma