The sun., 1898-04-10
LIFE AMONG The I0|LERS
Hammer Taps From Work
shops of the World.
WAGE FARMERS TALK
Pointed Paragraphs From Many
IIands...Items Of Interest From
All Crafts.
WAGE EARNERs TALK


Mexico has one typesetting machine.
United States have SOC, 900 telephones.
Detroit mattresses will be organized.
Detroit has only Is idle cigarmakers.
Boston garment workers will reoryan-
Ze.
Pittsburg plumbers want the eight
hour day.
Brooklyn truck drivers struck for 81. IS
a day.
Junk dealers license in New YORK
costs $3.50.
At Woonsocket. X. l., ice cost 35 cents
a 100.
The Scottish Clerks Association has
$35, 900.
Galveston Longshocmen's Union has
$l9, GOO.
New York Granite cutters get 81 for
eight hours.
Springfield, Mass, municipal laborers
get 81 so a day.
Chicago derrickraen want 37s cents an
hour on May l.
Cleveland Central Labor Union is OF
posed to Sunday baseball.
Ground for Detroit Labor Temple will
be broken on Labor Day.
Troy, N. ", contractors who do city
work must employ unionists.
Chicago electricians now get $3.75 q
day: an advance OF Is cents.
New York House Framers' Union fines
men who work for Jumpers.
Memphis, Tenn, carpenters, negro
and white, won the eight-hour day.
Governor Tanner addressed the Spring
field, ILL.,, Federation Of Labor.
Boston Central Labor Union may ex-
cude forcmen in shops as delegates.
Kansas City, Kan, and Kansas City,
Mo-, Central Labor Unions may unite.
Most of Newark's painters have been
conceded eight hours and $3.50 day.
The Amalgamated Grain Lab )rers'
Union, o, England, returned $3.50 as
dividend to its members.
Chicago architectural iron workers
new scale was signed. 1t secures double
pay on overtime.
New York steam engineers want $2l a
week go hours and 50 cents per hour
for overtime. ..
The fifth annual congress of Irish
trades unionists will be held in Belfast,
Oh Whit Monday.
The Brotherhood OF Locomotive En-
gineers will hold its biennial convention
at St. Louis, May l.
Two Nacomb, Ill.,. merchants will pay
$50 to the organizer Of the first labor un-
ion il that town.
Boston Park Department employees
have withdrawn from the X. Of L., and
will join the Federation.
The Detroit Board of Assess.rs has
made an increase OF $l55, 900 in the valu-
alton Of the street railways.
The small merchants of Chicago pro-
pose to combine and start department
store Of their own.
A New York Iron NIolders' Union is
charged with meeting in hall in which
non-union cigars are sold.
Bay City. Mich, riveters and settlers
get $3.50 for 10 hours; thanks to the
State Board Of Arbitration.
1t is proposed to reduce the postage
on letters from three cents per ounce to
two cents throughout Canada.
Detroit Musicians Union objects to
the competition OF the bands formed by
the street railway employees.
indianapolis Central Labor Union de.
cided to aid the smaller oil companies in
the battle against the Standard Oil Com
pany.
There is not in Milwaukee today all
idle mechanical engineer, pattern maker,
machinist or iron moulder, who is worth
his salt.
Brooklyn knights of Labor favor the
borough authorities doing public work
in the borough, and also abolition of the
contract system.
Boston Machinists' Union refuses re
quest to desert the International AssOcia-
ton and Join the Socialist Trade and
Labor Alliance.
Anderson, Ind. Socialists will put a
Socialist Labor ticket in the field for the
city offices. They claim to control 100
votes in Anderson.
The.London Cabdriyers' Trades Union
are strongly opposed to sixpenny FIRES
which they point out, were. tried in 1888,
and proved failure.
Carpenters in nine cities were con-
ceded their demand iii March. This
spring shorter workday will be re-
guessed in nearly 60 towns.
l.. u. Lewelling, State Senator and ex-
Governor OF Kansas, is in favor OF
George M. Munger's scheme for State
ownership OF stock yards.
An Atlanta ordinance preventing the
use Of trading stamps has been declared
unconstitutional. Some Wilmington
(Del.) printers takes them for adver-
tising and job work.
New York printers did not indorse the
resolution submitted by the Minneapolis
Union that the International Union
withdraw from the Federation OF Labor
Detroit Trades Council refused to
accept the proposition Of Mrs. Martha
Moore Avety, the Boston Socialist, to
affiliate itself with a sociaIistic trade and
labor alliance.
Galveston street railway conductors
and motormen get l5 cents an hour,
carpenters and painters 20 cents, truck
men 10 cents. boiler washers and oilers
l3s cents, tiremen 30 cents.
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