The sun., 1898-02-13

to file into Il saloon Al d order beer
! iiefOw the beverage Wa- touched Ont
should order tItiinn made cigars, and il
hey were not iortiicu.iin. all should file
"nt, leaving the beer ~! t!' counter un.
touched.
Three Thousand New York .,ltnlakers
struck on Tuesday last. They make from
T. to l6 hours a day. They say that
each operator was expected to turn out
from Twelve to eighteen pairs Of trousers
d uay and each presser to press from
eighty to ninety pairs i'll the same time,
They worked sixteen hours day ana
earned from s. to 50 Il week.
Mayor Quincy, of Boston. has created
a new department. Hereafter the city
will conduct Il municipal carpenter busi
ness The city will do its own carpenter
ing. plumbing painting and glazing and
will doaway with contract work. Quincy
established a municipal printing plant
during his first term. Some Bostol
unionlsts say he should be President o1
the United States.
Detroit unionists are opposed to the
introduction OF street railway mail cars.
"ln Cleveland" said delegate, 'there
/ Is not even an attempt at organization
made now. The men cannot strike.
Every car there has IT.. :. NJ on it, and
the minute that ,hc men quit work it is
a conspiracy, and the company has an
| injunction ont against them. They have
to go to work then or 90 to jail
The goods guards and shuntcrs on the
/ Mtiland Railway, oi England, have
secured the cight-hour day all the year
round. The locomotive men, who have
also been IN cominunic;it with the
general manager have Lecn granted a
tcn-hour day. BY Il new rule the fire.
men will receive after two years service,
and until passed, $I.0G per day; when
passed SLIP and after three years al,23.
A bill before the Maryland Legislature
provides that no person shall conduct,
be employed in, a pharmacy, unless he
has obtained pharmacist license.
Physicians are permitted to compound
their own medicines, however, and
traders may sell patent medicines, pro.
vided these have been put up by licensed
pharmacists, and such drugs, spices and
chemicals as are used for culinary pur.
poses and in the arts, if not sold fo'
medicinal purposes.
One hundred thousand men are look.
ing for work in New York. The New
York Evening Journal has opened here
and there public halls where the man in
search of work may rest for moment
and find a cup of hot coffee ready for
him, and piece Of bread, if he will eat
it. When tales OF distress come to the
Evening Journal office as many reporters
as can be spared are sent, not to investi-
gate, but to,reiieve. If a man says he is
hungry he is Welconl,'to eat.
President Mahon, OF the Street Rail.
way Employees Association says: "The
conditions Of the aboring people IN the
south are terrible, and it is the most
Important subject in my judgment before
til" wage carners of this country. Some
thing must be done to increase the wages
of the South if we hope to obtain high
country Talk about sweat shops in our
great cities; they're not in it compared
TO the cheap labor Of the South. | found
that children were working in the cotton
mills of Atlanta for 81 cents per week; |
found that young women were working
in the cotton mills OF Macon, Ga, for as
low as u cents per day. | found street
railway men working Is hours per day
for y cents an hour
Michigan unionists are up in arms
against shirt making by convicts.
Governor Pingrce says the output must
not be sold for less than the product Of
free labor. Michigan hasn't Il shirt
, factory
The Massachusetts Single Tax League
last Monday gave a dinner to representa-
tives of the Massachusetts clergy and
women at the Nendome. One Of the
speakers was Rev. Charles d. Williams,
dean of Trinity Cathedral. Cleveland.
THE many,' said Dean Williams ARE
crushed and ground to pieces between
the upper and neither miI'stone' OF
enormously increasing wealth and the
private ow ncrship Of those natural op-
po,tunitics from which that wealth is
produced. We have today white
savery worse in some respects than black
slavery lefore the war. Indeed, it Is
doubtful whether chattel slavery would
cx-ist in our present social conditions
even if there had been no war. 1t would
not pay. 1t is cheaper to hire a man at
starvation wages when you want lin,
and discharge him when you do not
want him. with no feeling OF RESPONSE
bility for his fate, than to maintain him,
feed him. clothe him and house him, in
work and ont, us the southern planter
did his slave