The sun., 1898-12-04
'llIFE AMONG 1HE I0|lERS
Hammer Taps From Work
shops of the World.
WAGE FARMERS TALK
Pointed Paragraphs From Many
Lands--.Items of Interest From
All Crafts.

Tennessee is to have limbless cotton.
Michigan loggers welcomed the snow.
The Philippines boast fifty varieties OF
wood.
Belgium has $4,000 liquor establish
ments.
London, Ont, garment workers organ
ized.
:. Greater New York has 23s idle union
printers.
Newburg, Ind, miners struck for S5
cents ton.
MANY Sonora Mex. schools are closed,
owing to lack Of teachers.
Utah farmers will form State union
to obtain better prices for products.
Albany maltsters have been conceded
$1l week, and only unionists are to be
employed.
Ruskin, Tenn, a cooperative town, is
to have sash and door factory added to
it's industries.
Cleveland, O., liquor dealers will fight
the ordinance that compels the closing OF
saloons at midnight.
The New York Legislature will be
asked to pass law compelling brewers
to manufacture pure grade OF beer.
Short Brothers, shipbuilders of Pal
lion, Eng, declare that their employees
under the eight-hour system do more
and better work than when the day was
longer.
st. Louis brewers boycotted firm five
years, and last week its employees were
conceded union wages and the eight-hour
day.
The Philippines derive their greatest
wealth from the growth and export OF
sugar. The cane grows on practically
every island in the great archipelago.
In the reign of Edward III all the
brewers and bakers were women, and
when men first began to engage in these
occupations it was thought so strange
that they were called men brewers and
men bakers.
The most costly leather in the world
is known to the trade as piano leather
The secret OF tanning this leather is
known only to the family of tanners in
Germany though the skins from which
it is tanned come almost entirely from
America.
EsBoton Hall, second son of the Rev.
DR.. John Hall, whose enthusiastic ad-
vocacy of Henry Georges theories and
support of labor unions are said to
have been the reason prompting his
father to discriminate against him in his
will, is bankrupt. Mr.. Hall is a
lawyer.
Terre Haute miners struck for an ad-
vance OF 10 cents per ton. The demand
for Indiana coal is better than it has
been for number of years. One OF the
noticeable facts about the increased de-
mand is tina; inquiries are coming from
the natural gas field, which has not
been buying coal for some years.
A bill that will be submitted to the
Alabama Legislature is to regulate the
hours Of labor in factories and mines and
to regulate the employment of children.
1t provides that ten hours shall consti-
tute days work ard that children un
der eight years OF age shall be prohibited
from working in factories and at Other
employment.
The labor unions of the country
though they include less than 10 pei
cent. of the wage workers, have been {
power for good. Let those who derldt
the result of trades unions keep in mlnt
the fact that so small portion OF th'
workers in the country support the or
carnations whose mission Is the uplltt
ing and the upholding Of the man VIII
tolls. 1t will be well also to remembe
that the beneficial effects Of organization
are not confined to members, tor tn
laws that have been enacted through tn
influence of organized labor touch alik
the interests of union and nOn-urlo
men, and the wages and conditions O
emplovment of the unorganized are bel
ter because of the standards set an
maintained bv the unions. - Josep
Buchanan.
The monthly returns that have so ft
been issued by the engineering trad
unions of Great Britain show a acontlnue
reduction in the number of uneinploye
members. The Steam Engine Maker
has now very little over = per cent. of i
total membership on donation, while
the Manchester district practically
''clear book" is reported. In the Unite
Machine Workers Association there a
now only 81 per cent on donation, al
it is interesting to note that three-fouftl
OF the total number Of unemployed a
members of the Oldham and Bott
branches. Throughout Lancashire tn
society has about 5 per cent. on donatlo
while in the Manchester district the
are only 1-3 per cent. on this benet
as compared with per cent last mont
The returns as to the state of trade CO
tinue OF most favorable charactt
activity being reported from practical
all the leading centres.
The Indiana BARRIERS Protective AS
citation met in indianapolis last week
perfect its organization, for the purpc
of securing the passage OF BARRIERS
cense bill at the next session OF the Ii
isature 1t is directed toward drivi
ont Of the business those cheap she
which do not comply with sanitary LAY
and whose owners are unfamiliar W
the trade. Tke chief provision is the c
restricting the granting OF licenses
those VINO have had not less than t
years experience, are in good health, a
are able 10 demonstrate that they
competent to manage shops OF their oV
BY tie and OF the week 1900 petite
asking zoe the passage OF ~ bill will
il process Of circulation through
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