The sun., 1898-01-09
TALK OF THE WAGE FARMERS.
Pointed Paragraphs From Many
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Detroit has $4,000 Polish residents.
Japan boasts an engineering school.
Duluth is to have Il Labor Exchange.
Only negroes inharit Langston, Okla
Ireland has 5000 linen operatives.
z Fall River has 3,OOo,0O0 cotton spin
ners.
America has forty-four women plumb
ers t. t..
Japan buys. South Carolina phos
California has Il State free employment
bureau. -..,
Belfaste, O., Unioni.ts want postal
savings banksa
Wisconsin life insurance, agents have
formed State union. :- -. -
N,Today the art of becoming rich Iis the
art OF keeping your neighbor poor.-Rlls-
kin.
A debate is a feature of each tmceting
of the Potters' Brotherhood, of .Whcei-
ing, W. Va.
The Charlottesville, Ind, Federal
lnlon has among its members the CITY
Clerk and other officials.
The ironmoulders are taking a refer
endum vote for and against holding an
international convention in July.
The next convention of the Custom
Tailors' National Union will be- held in
August 1901, and thereafter national
meetings will take place every four
years.
A bill before the New York Legislature
is to exempt real estate from taxation to
the extent OF the Indebtedness against
it. Another proposed law will prevent
government by Injunction"
An effort will be made during the
winter to get the ore handlers OF Duluth,
Superior and two Iiarbor| in the inter
national organization OF 'longshorcmen
Every central labor body in California
except the Building Trades Council Of
San Francisco, has adopted ringing rcsp-
luti"nS a%alnst the proposed annexation
of Hawaii,
Al present 90 per cent. ui the textile
operatives at Lancashire, Eng, are or
ganizcd. The operatives get from 24s
to :O>. week, while in Belfast they
earn from r. to ln9. In Belfast there
is no tMldrsunion.
A business agent may BE- placed in
the field by the Knights Of Labor ui
Northern OHIO. "A, the present time, =
said IN organizer. ''wr have morp-Iocal
assemblies in tine district assembly than
we ever had before
Central Labor CuunJiI ui Cinrin-
natl, and vicinity, la, instructed it,
committee on law ANA legislation to
enter inlo Il vigorous agitation for the
construction of the new Water works
by day labor a. against contract labor.
~ -Four tcn-yrar old boys in u }Iuncir
Ind, glass works won II strike for =
per week. Three boys employed in
another factory struck iur the same
pay. The State Labor Commission hired
a HAIL ipr the boys u hold their meetings
in.
Ei@hty-right per cent. oi1Stllo union
men 0l tn" state OF Minnesota are en-
piovrd. This Information il IF peculiar
siguit aUrr when it Is considered that
there was lc.s than - per cent. uf the
menbcr, Of organized labor employed Il
year ".".
The monument selected by the grand
Lodge officers ui the International A-~o-
citation oi M@chui.t> to b" placed over
the grave pi T. ". Talbot. the founder ui
The aS.onjaljon, will b" pat in position
with appropriate r"!"noni"> early in the
spring
"Thr trust benefits II very limited
group Of people, says ". +. kaur,Il. OF
The Eirvc.c Workers international tn
ion, ''whc1rAs the trades union spreads
it, benefits to an unlimited nlnhr".
Even the non-unipni-t gets tii' benefit.
In that way it Is nut comparable to II
trust.
Another bill modiics the conspiracy
law by permitting the peaceful assem-
bling Of Wurkingmcn, and allowing them
t" Try t" lndGcr Il workman to leave his
employment by request and argument.
Such at- ON III" part uf wurkingnru are
not TO- Np punishable as conspiracy.
Typ~--rItlI@ ma"hincs are to be used
hv thr Philadelphia Public Ledger
tGrorgo ". Chiid-}. Eighty-scycn men
are no" employed and 100 ''sHbs,tutrsn
ar" also on lt5 composing room salary
!l-t. twenty men vii! do more work
with the machines HAN was formerly
accomplished by eight y-srycn men.
III lSIA, at Kpchdac, England. -
wcuVcrs with Sl4O started a cooperative
store, Today in Great Britain there are
over 1900 societies, with I,5NOOOO mem
5rrS and il capital Of S'Sj.ODO,OOO. Tie
ssl"s i'll 1896 amounted to So ,UDO. OpD.
The manufactures include shoes, SOAP,
furniture clothing, biradstuffs. etc.
The law Of the province Of Quebec as
It now Stands prevents grocrr- from
handling and selling what are termed
dr1lg@ with two exceptions. viz, Paris
green and London purple. The sale Of
all other drugs by grocrr~ was prohibited
in 1883 through the inStnlnontnIi,v Of
the drug trade. The Whp!rSaIc Cir Ger
Association wants the law killed.
Fl" prcssnrn, oi New York, rypcct
% get nine and II half hour work -1av,
beginning ON January -, and the
stcrcmypcrs and olcctrotypcrs beginning
April !, According to the unions inter
pretation of the settlement with the w.
pothetac, it is understood that as soon
as the international Typographical Union
gave II date for demand for the nine
hour workday in all cities east of the