The sun., 1898-01-30

IL !oavcs; second hand lot less than
Slo.5O per week, with l3 loaycs, and
any others not less than $ll.45 per
week, with Is loaves; all hands to re-.
ce've dry pay: No workman to com
'nencc work before a. m, except Sat
urdavs, when he shall start at 2 a. IN.
Nine hours and a half constitute DAVIS
labor, including half an hour for break
fast and one hour for sponging Ap-
prentices must be under lG years OF age
) and serve five years.
The fourth annual report of the Labor
department Of the English Board of
Trade for 1896 shows that the number of
trade unions making returns was 1880,
with total membership at the end of
the year of l,4S7, ,562. The income of
loo principal unions, with member
snip OF T6, 1853, was l,G75,645 pounds,
and the expenditure I,239, 23O pounds,
the membership in 1895 being 921, ,6S6,
the income l,573,923 pounds and the ex-
pendlture 40S,D5 pounds. The funds
in hand at the end Of 1896 of those 100
unions amounted to 2,l50, ,9S9 pounds.
against l, 1872 ,574 pounds in the previous
year, the income per head being l pound
l4s. 3d., against pound l4r. I'D, the
expenditure per head / pound IS. I'D.
against ! pound los G2d. and the funds
per head, pound 4s. load., against /
pound Us. I'd.
A woman Of New Bedford, who has
worked patiently for sixty years here and
in England, is working patiently still.
With the admirable fighting spirit that
unles working men and women all over
the world, she has gone out on strike
against 10 per cent. reduction in wages.
1t really does not matter much to her.
She must die pretty soon, and the so
cents of her wages that the employers
want to take each week would make
little difference. Perhaps she would take
tea without sugar, perhaps she would
use up part Of the money that is saved to
crafty morbid desire for decent burial.
She has saved nothing for her old age
except the grave money. She could not
possibly have saved any other money.
She is rather old to fight against a com
blnation of millions and starvation. But
out she walks with the other strikers,
and she will not walk back until all the
strikers 60 back. Rather fine spirit is
shown there.-New York Journal
Ii ~ Uc ttue tllat llle executive COM
mittee of the striking English engineers
in the important London district have
recommended the acceptance of the en-
ployers terms, trades unionism has re-
ceived severer blow than has befallen
it in the hundred years and more since
Turgott abolished the French guides. We
recall no previous instance wherein a
whole trades union organization, muir
bering $4,000 men, was obliged not only
to forego the object of its demand, but
also to surrender the principles Of it's
order. In the defense Of their posi-
ton this association had expended
such sum as would have financed
goou.sized eighteenth century war and
paid for a number of modern punitive
wit, 81, 100000 in cash
and $l3, 100000 in labor represented by
lost wages since the middle of July. It
kept their huge army for months on the
high pay-for so large a number-of
4.25 and 81 week. The larger sum,
went to its own members, the smaller TO-
the non-unicnists who we're thus hired
not to work. $30,00O,0OO in home and
foreign money has gone into foreign
hands as a consequence of the demand
for the eight hour day.--New York
Press.