The sun., 1898-06-12
'uFE AkONG THE T0LRS
Hammer Taps From Work
shops Of the World.
WAGE FARMERS TALK
Pointed Paragraphs From Many
Lands.-Items Of Interest From
All Crafts

| {uCUCC Has sllOc ldCVOTles.
Japan has 45 match factories.
i Denver team owners organized.
4 China imports American stoves.
4 England uses American yarnish.
Germany has 642, 1000 working women
| TIE States contain over SO, 600 miners
i Fayette City, Pa, drivers demand So /,
day.
Federation of Labor has 43O organ
izers.
4 Russia announces aluminium horse
shoes.
New York butchers held State con
vention.
St. Louis bridge workers enjoy the
eight-hour day.
New York printers sent money tc
Frisco strikers.
Boston grocery clerks demand Wednes.
day half-holiday.
Staten Island IN. Y. carpenters won
1915 and eight hours.
California Socialist Labor party has
nominated State ticket.
Racine wis. hod carriers won a
strike for 20 cents per hour.
Buffalo mason contractors conceded
the S-hour day to 1900 men.
All Maryland Socialist-Labor party
printing carries the union label.
The eight-hour day has been adopted
at Guinness breweries. Dublin.
Competition OF convict printers with
free men has been abolished in New
| York State.
The engineers employed on all the
daily papers of Boston are working on an
eight-hour basis.
The Mayor Of Helena, Mont, wants
free water for the city depaItments-or a
municipal plant.
The Clerks Union was fined $475 for
not sending delegates to the Belmont
Central Labor Union.
Helpers and chargers in a Pittsburg
iron works struck for an advance. The
helpers earned $l.35 day and chargers
$1.lO.
For 81, to be paid by the Central La
given medical aid by the Emergency
Hospital Association.
The Knee Pant Workers. Union of the
Knights of Labor intend to enlarge the
cooperative factory they have established
at Cleveland.
The Caledonian Club has informed
the Boston Central Labor Union by
letter that in future all OF it's printing
would bear the union label.
The sixty-third annual report of the
United Society of Boiler Makers and
Iron Ship Builders of England an
nounces that the Union is worth $780,
600.
The initiation fee of the New York
Pavers' Assemblies is now $40. The
Rammernen's Assemblies charge $50.
The PAYERS receive $3.50 day and the
rammermen 81 less.
One hundred laborers in the employ
OF the New York Park Department have
organized local assembly of the Knights
of Labor under D. A. 40 and named it
the Klondike Labor Club.
Newark printers denounced railway
workers for ordering picnic printing at
non-union shop. Boycott their railway
and boycott the picnic' was the senti-
ment of the majority of the delegates.
Cleveland's Board of Control turned
down an ordinace providing that it
should be unlawful for grocers, butchers,
druggists and others to keep their places
of business open between the hours of
a. m. and 10 p. m. on Sundays.
In accordance with resolution adopt
ed by the General Assembly Of the Or
der at the convention, held in Louisville
in November, the Knights OF Labor will
keep the last Sunday of this month as
Memorial day for all the dead of the Or
ganization.
The United States Court has declared
unconstitutional Milwaukee ordinance
that provided for 4-cent car fare. In
one company operates over
the entire city and universal transfers are
given, SO that passenger may 60 from
any part of tn, city to any other part for
4 single 5-cent fare.
In the appeal addressed by the Single
Tax League Of St. Louis through Mr.. Nc
Gamma to the State Board of Equaliza-
lion it was shown that the steam rail
ways in Missouri we're assessed at $74,-
L53, 730, while the actual value, accord
20 Poor's Manual and other high authori-
les, was 1921, 1896.
Preparations are being made by the
International Typographical Union to
establish the nine.hour day in all job
printing offices in Cleveland, 0. A re-
erendum vote is being taken by all the
members on the question of assessing
very member per cent. of his earnings
or three months to build up reserve
und.
In regard to the threat of the Ameri.
an Glass Company to declare an open I
market unless the independent manufac-
urers cooperate with them on the com.
ng wage settlement, President Burns, of {
he Window Glass Workers Union, said
hat the threat contained in the circular |
ent out by the wage committee of the /
combine would be all the better for the !
yorkmen. r
A new law adopted in Italy requires Z
hat every employer shall, at his own
ost, provide for his workmen compenaa- ,
ion for all accidents the consequences 5
which last more than five days. The /
under the law is as follows: '
there shall result from the accident /
isablement Of a complete and perma- 4