The Advocate and news., 1898-06-01

DSSh oA9ANM W W. ANSNAHs
Foreign labOrers are leaving Hazleton,
< Pa. as rapidly as possible.
Label leagues are being established
In every ward In Chicago.
Texas unlOnists are after the Chinese,
who are invading the State.
The Brotherhood of Railway Train
men has paid out $40OO,O0O for death
and disability claims.
Governor PingTee's popularity Is
largely due to the fact that he is an en-
ployer of union labor.
A bOx-making machine which will
turn out 1000 boxes an hour has been
invented by Philadelphia man.
Michigan's contingent of volunteers
al Island Park has among It's number
253 printers, most Of them being union
men.
Better wages are paid to American
shoe operatives than in Germany, yet
the labor cost is less here than in the
old country.
The Colorado Federation OF Labor,
III addition to pledging 5000 volunteers,
protests against bonds and faVors free
coinage and greenbacks.
The Pueblo Courier protests against
tho government working employees over
time. It insists that the extra work
should be given to additional workers.
Roger McDermott has given the West
ern Federation of Miners a thirty-aCre
tract near Pueblo, Col, upon which to
build home for aged and INDECENT
members.
The Donohue & Henneberry Compa-
ny's goods are not the product Of trades
unlonists. No member OF a printing
trades union finds employment in its
large establishment.
The oldest living railroad conductor
In the United States Is Edward Miller,
who runs on the West Chester division
OF the Pennsylvania railroad He was
borT. in 1924 and began railroading in
1S4Z
All sorts Of legislation tending to
protect the laboring man against impO-
sitiOns Of employers are attacked by
the latter on the plea that they inter-
feye with the individuals right OF con-
tract.
At Syracuse, N. Y, the school board
rejected bid from DonOhue & Henne-
berry, Of Chicago, Ill Thomas NJ Gaf-
ney, printer is member of the board,
and recognized the firm as being scab
Z and that settled 1t.
The employees Of q glass factory at
Pittsburg, Pa, to the number Of 200 are
on q strike because the owners have not
placed flag over the buildings In which
they are employed. All Of the neighbOr-
Ing factories have them.
Business men with ordinary business
Judgment and common horse sense
ought to be the strongest friends Of or
ganized labor 1t helps to improve con-
ditiOns, holds up wages and makes Of
the laborer a better customer and a
better citizen.
A New York cigarmaker furnished In
formation which led to the discharge
OF two fellow employees The union ex-
PEELED him. He brought suit for re-
instatement but the Supreme court OF
New York holds that the union acted
within its powers.
The total product Of cigars of the
United States for the month Of March,
1893, was 365,607,2 ,277; as compared with
\ 1S9T, 32S, ,225.6 .62S; increase, S7,SS1, ,654; for
nine months ending March 81, 1898,
" S,211, 1926, 40; as compared with 1897,
S,O2O, ,924, $50; increase, 196,4O4,51O.
Motorman and Conductor: AS a result
Of the war the butchers, millers and gro
Gerry keepers have gone on strike and
Increased the price of meat, -four and
groceries. The strike has affected every
table In the land. Yet there has been no
injunction issued or militia called out.
A. g. Roberts. locomotive engineer
has brought suit against the st. Joseph
~ Grand Island road for $4,000 for
blncklisting. He was appointed by his
follow employees to present a grievance
and was later discharged on charge