The sun., 1898-04-03
LIFE AMONG THE TO|LER2
Hammer Taps From the Work
shops Of the World.
TALK OF THE WAGE EARNERS
Pointed Paragraphs From Many
Iands-ItemS OF Interest From
All Crafts.

America mas lO.UOO union BARRIERS.
Detroit has a landlords ASSOCIATION.
Detroit carpenters get s. for eigh
hours.
New York has ii Hebrew trades Conn
ell.
! Cauada's pottery trust has been re
organized.
Connecticut ice dealers have Stat,
union.
Detroit chair makers, earning 81 a da,
struck
Debs' Social Democracy is represcnteC &C
in 81 States
Michigan embamcrs formed State
association.
Minnesota negroes will form State
organization.
New York granite cutters want 81 q
day on April I.
The land tax (single taxi is the only
legal tax in China. 'i
All union men in st. Louis buili,ne
trades are employed.
A Denver LAWYER was dsbarr,, Il fol
CTltIclSlnS JuuSe.
Montreal cigar makers earning IS to >.
Il week, struck.
Detroit machine workers won strike
for s. 80 a day.
Pueblo, COL, will build Ievcc and
pay - for eight hours,
Atlanta unionsts want convicts EN-.
plOyed on public roads.
New York probate loisting engineers
want S. day on May |.
Alderman Tossy of Detroit, is an or.
ganizer OF the Federation of Labor
Cleveland nnionists kick against the
employment OF convicts on street work
Washington Cd. C.) Chinese labor
union pays its walking delegate $50 a
week.
BY act OF the Georgia Legislature all
convict camp preachers are Paid 81 a
sermon.
Detroit BARRIERS ask clergymen to aid
them in keeping their shops closed on
sundays
| There are now nearly 100 Topographic
cal Unions working under a nine hour
scale or les.
! Albany and Poughlicepsie, n. ", city
printing must hereafter Lear the union
label.
Proprietors of Baltimore tailor shops
were arrested for using oil stoves in over
crowded houses.
Missouri's Supreme Court d, cided that
insurance must be paid 10 the family Of
! Il suicide.
Employees of Milwaukee sash, door and
blind factories want the eight hour day
ON May /.
Wages of Erie Pa iron works en-
ployes were voluntarily increased 10 per
cent. on April |.
Indiana Master Plumbers Association
want a law requiring plumbers to pass an
examination.
l he average pay of skilled masons, car
pcnters and other tradesmen in China is
cents Il day.
! Both candidates for Mayor OF Charlotte,
Mich, favor municipal ownership of the
lighting plant.
Only two contractors lave not signed
the scale submitted by the Denver Build
ing Trades Council.
The gross earnings OF the Government
railways OF Canada for the last fiscal year
amounted to $3,060,O7+.
Cleveland clothing cutters have warned
the Police Board not to allow anon-union
firm to make uniforms. -.
Canadian Gov rnment Railway has
discharged all colored porters employed
between Halifax and Montreal.
The Ohio House Committee on Taxa
ton nnearthed $5O,OOO, 600 worth OF un-
taxed corporate property in Cincinnati.
The window-glass workers have in.
dorscd the proposition to establish CO.
operative factories by u handsome vote.
The Mayor OF Springfield, Mass, has
prohibited night lunch wagons. People
wv ho pay rent protest against them.
The books of the Boston brewery
wurknen's unions are at present closed
to membership. The admission fee is
$40.
Agents yof Washington store were
arrested at Laurel, Md. for soliciting
trade without peddlcr's license. Fined
500.
ToroMto's Mayor las ordered the street
railway company to increase its number
of cars during the hours OF congcsed
traffic.
Despite Kansas City ordinance and
the protest Of the Democratic party, the
poll books will be printed by Il non
union firm.
An ordinance before the Rochester
Council will prevent undertakcls from
locating in residence districts on near
school houses.
\ Mt. Clemens, Mich, Judge sustained
an ordinance which cDmpels Detroit firms
that solicit orders to pay the local ped
h.el's license. "A
l'lca butchers'scalc was signed Eleven
hours will constitute IL day. Double pay
ior Sunday work. Agreement will last
five years.
Ihe" is law preventing the crying Of |
newspapers on the streets of Washington, |
DC, on sundays and on week days aitcr
nlginitIl.
New York Actors Protective Union.
notified the Central Labor Union that
atiiiatrd unions employ non-union actors
1T entertainments.
4 committee appointed by Denver Ciyy
Council has decided to report favorably |
All ordinance taxing departments stores !