The sun., 1898-10-09
LIFE AMONG THE I0|LERS
Hammer Taps From Work
shops of the World.
WAGE FARMERS TALK
Pointed Paragraphs From Many
Lands--.Items of Interest From
All Crafts. t
WAGE FARMERS TALK

unions.
Duluth lumber handlers get so cents
an hour.
New South Wales has AZ cooperative
societies.
Ellicott City, Mo-, has abolished slot
machines.
TIE price of milk is to be advanced at
Denver.
Frisco shipwrights get S. for nine
hours work.
Retail druggists talk of forming
national union.
New York has a Bohemian Typo.
graphical Union.
The union label must be ON all Nash
vile city printing.
For selling adulterated milk Buffalo
dealer paid $25.
Initiation fee of New York Bill Post
ers' Union is $25.
Ten New Zealand districts have
adopted the single tax.
Dundee Textile Workers Union gained
300 members in three weeks.
Nashville union BARRIERS say that union
printers are shaved in "unfair" shops.
Buffalo building trades unionists struck
rather than work with four non-union
carpenters.
The Engling Amalgamated Society of
Engineers, notwithstanding the long
strike, has 100000.
Milwaukee, Akron and Sioux City
tailors have bad wages increased. Pitts
burg journeymen are organized.
Iowa miners decided to fix the scale
in the district at 30 cents per ton for
local or individual mines and so cents for
railroad mines.
Dundee, Scotland, joiners struck when
cabinetmakers were given the work hith-
erto done exclusively by ioiners. The lat
ter earn II cents an hour.
Cincinnati freight hands, getting $l.4O
for 10 hours, struck when the company
decided to pay them 10 cents for every
ton of freight handled.
A Milwaukee alderman advocates
municipal printing plant. Boston has
one, and now some OF the Hubs promi-
nent people want municipal coal yard.
Sedalia Typographical Union, No. =,
2O6, caused the arrest of the editor Of
the Sedalia Weekly BazoO on the charge
of using the Unions label without au-
thority.
President Guggenheimer' ordinance
provides that the steps of New York
street cars will not be less than eight
inches from the ground nor less than
nine inches.
Springfield Mass Central Labor
Union passed motion declaring that
Painters and Decorators Union 257,
with headquarters at Baltimore, was
the only one affiliated with the Central
Labor Union.
There are l,GOO employing druggists in
Greater New York and $500 clerks.
Average hours of clerks from IA to l6
per day; salaries less than $l4. Pre-
scription mistakes are happening every
day, declares the Druggists League for
Shorter Hours.
"1n Scotland" says an English paper,
"a modification of the Gothenburg sys-
TEN seems to be making headway. A
little village near Dunfermline, named
Hill of Beath, has municipalized its
public house, and installed the electric
light out of the profits.
The right of the representatives of or
ganlzed labor to act as pickets was clearly
established last week by Chief of Police
Devery OF New York, who will hold any
policeman strictly to account for arrests
of pickets who are quietly performing
the duty assigned to them.
Boston Central Union voted to urge
the appointment of practical baker
upon the Board of Health, in order that
the bakeshop inspection laws may be
better enforced. The letting OF state con-
tracts for steamboats, to non-residents of
Massachusetts was condemned.
The Indiana Federation of Labor in its
state convention passed resolutions con-
deming Congress for its failure to pass
the postal savings bank bill, and calling
upon all candidates for Congress at this
fall election to pledge themselves to vote
for the measure at the next session.
The joint committee of railway men
appointed from the five broUherhoods
and unisns, under the auspices of which
President Mckinley is to address a
meeting of railroad employees Thursday,
October 20, has arranged for three great
demonstrations, to be held in Chicago
during the two days following the iu-
bilees.
Cleveland clothiers agree to give the
clerks all evenings off, from O'Clock on,
for six months of each year. During the
same six months the clerks will have to
work Sundays. The other six months
the clerks are to work each Sunday from
8 till IL a. M, and will receive a half
day off during the week in compensa-
ton therefor, besides the regular even
ings off as usual.
1t is stated that the amalgamation of
the General Railway Workers Union, of
Great Britain, with the Amalgamated So
ciety OF Railway Servants, is now practi-
cally completed. The earnings of rail
way hands, based upon particulars fur
nished by the seventeen large companies
that employ nearly nine.tenths Of the
whole number in the United Kingdom,
form the subject of recent Labor De.
partment Report. In 1897 the total mum.
Der OF workmen employed was 327,269
by the English, 30,77G by the Scotch,
and 1902 by the Irish companies The.
average wages per man and boy, all
grades was 24s lO3d i'm England .22s sd in