The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-05-01
.L|FE AMONG THE I0|LERS
Hammer Taps From Work
shops of the World.
WAGE FARMERS TALK
Pointed Paragraphs From Many
fLandls.--Items of Interest From
All Crafts.


Illinois has SO, 7sS coal miners.
/ Russia buys our steala valves.
Denver master builders organized.
Uncle Sam has one tea plantation
Europe has 10000 match factories
China has a 1000-year-old newspaper.
Frost hinders ore digging in Minne-
sofa.
Springfield, Mass, brewers won nine
hours.
Cincinnati municipal lahorers get $50
a day.
! California is to have Il school OF
mines. "..
Massachusetts BARRIERS formed q State
| Union.
indianapolis telephone girls will or
game.
/ War, says Gcmpers, means setback
| TO unionism.
Dublin Ireland) is to have a co-opera-
tive boot mill.
Scarborough (Eng.) plumbers get is
cents an hour.
Americans pay SlO,0o0,OOO year Tor
collar buttons.
Boston printers will work nine hours a
day after May !.
South Milwaukee will purchase its
electric light plant.
Tie Scottish Master Bakers Associa-
ton has 200 members.
Buffalo Times demands three-cent
fares during "labor hours
Detroit retail grocers have forced the
wholesalers to stop retailing.
Walters held their international con-
vention at Detroit last week.
New Jersey printers held a state con-
vention to discuss the nlne-hour day.
Denver Chamber OF Commerce wants
$50, 900 to advertise the resources OF Col
olado.
st. Louis Retail Merchants Associa-
ton held an anti department store mass
meeting.
Sixty new members were initiated at
recent meeting Of the Detroit wood
workers.
johnson Manufacturing Co., North
! Adams, Mass, voluntarily increased
wages II to 20 per cent.
Cleveland baseball club is being boy
cotted because a non-uniun contractor
was employed on its grounds
Pttsburg unionists will send a dele
cation to Washington to protest against
convicts making clothing for soldiers.
The Blake bill, making the malicious
aduteration of pottery ware material a
peniten iary offence. is now u law in
Ohio
In Wales 100, 600 coal miners are idle.
Many were ON April IL offered an adj
vance OF u cents per day to return to
work.
Washington druggists union kicks be-
cause they are to be deprived of tele
phones when they don't earn $40 q
month.
Lincoln was a clerk in country store.
Edison was a train boy. Andrew Jack
son never saw college. Grant was a
tanner.
The seventh annual convention of the
International Longshoremen's Associa-
ton will take place on July y at Size
boygan, Mich.
Thanks to the Newsboys and Boot
blacks Union, after May there will be
no free polishing of shoes in the shoe
stores Ct Toledo.
The Denver X. of L., Single Tax
League and the Jeffersohian Democratic
League warts the war tax to be placed
on land values alone,
Pittsburg street railway workers have
decided to contribute cent each per day
and hand it over to the wife OF each
member OF the National Guard
Boston Building Trades Council voted
to insist that no union man shall work
upon jobs where's non-union paper
hangers, painters or housesmiths are en-
ployed.
A boycott ON a Westfeld Mass. J, BIZ
cycle firm, growing out of the employ.
ment Of girls in the butfing department,
has been removed. The girls were dis
charged.
Gompers advised his audience, at Buff
fAIo, not to buy 3 cent broad, and said
the reduction was made to drive out of
the business the small dealers employing /
An Atlanta, Ga, Judge refused to
grant an injunction to restrain the city
from enforcing the ordinance requiring
canvassers for orders in the city to pay
$25 license fee. :"
The manufacture OF matches is u very
strict state monopoly in France, and il
fine OF one franc per match is ruthlessly
imposed on all contraband imports of the
kind from abroad.
A law passed by the Ohio Legislature
provides that when street railroads con-
solidate they shall not charge more than
one fare for continuous trip over the
consolidated lines.
Professor Peabody of Harvard Uni
yersity, wants the State to establish
State labor colonies which shall not be
penal institutions. but to which Magis-
strates shall sentence Migrants and those
convicted Of minor crimes.
Chicago's Mayor has issued written
orders to every foreman in the Bureaus
OF Streets and Water-Pipe Extension,
prohibiting the use Of profane language
toward the laborers under them under
penalty OF instant discharge.
County Councillor Red o. Kansas
City, says that all corporations enjoy ing
public franchises NAV he taxed ,lp,l the