The sun., 1898-12-11
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WAGE EARNERS' TALK
Pointed Paragraphs From Many
Lands-.Items of Interest From
All Crafts.

AT Dawson City lamp costs $2O.
Boston has Cuban land company.
Africa has many American bicycles.
indianapolis butchers won strike.
Masons in Chile earn AZ cents day.
Iowa claims to have LOOP creameries.
Federation of Labor has 400 organ
izers.
indianapolis has successful co-opera-
tive laundry.
In Mexico cotton mills skilled weavers
earn 80 cents day.
Hartford Drivers Union has indorsed
the garmentmakers' label.
Wisconsin BARRIERS will ask the Legis-
lature to pass a license law.
Port Angeles, Wash. is to have CO.
operative glass factory, capitalized by
unionists.
Duluth unionists want law that will
compel street Car motormen to pass an
examination.
Duluth unionists contributed $25 to
the support of the widows and children
of miners that were killed in the recent
strike at Virdin, III.
A New Britain, Conn, printing com.
pany has notified its employees that on
November q, 1899, they will be conceded
the 9-hour day and 81 hours pay.
An ordinance submitted to Seattle
Councils by member imposes Q penalty
OF 500 on contractors working men
more than eight hours a day on city
work, and also imprisonment OF 80 davs
If the Courts think the case merits it.
Alderman Thuering, of Milwaukee,
Wis.,, is pushing his no-seat-no-fare ordi-
nance, which is now in the hands of the
City Attorney for an opinion, and on
Monday last introduced an ordinance
requiring the company to run car on
every line in the city every five minutes
all day.
Omaha master plumbers will test the
constitutionality of an ordinance that re-
qulres that master plumbers when they
file an application for permit must file
a bond of $1,000. They are examined
as to their competency by board, con-
sisting of the city engineer, building in
spector, a master plumber and journey
man plumber, to be selected. The
penalty for refusal to comply with the
regulations is subject 10 penalty of
from $40 to 500.
The thirteenth annual social meeting
OF the Dundee, Scotland and District
Mill and Factory Operatives Union was
recently held. The honorable president,
Kew. Henry Williamson, presided. After
tea the chairman said the Union had be n
the means Of increasing the wages of the
mil and factory workers of Dundee by
~ per cent, and he did not know how
soon they might have to inquire wheth
er the masters could afford another ) per
cent. They bad 5000 of mem bership.
and had no less than $1,000 to their
credit.
Jlassworkers and coal miners of Char
leroi, Pa, and vicinity have formed an
association to conduct cooperative
store. A site for upward Of $1,000 has
been purchased in Chareroi upon which
q large three story building, 80 by 70
teet, will be erected. The first and second
floors will be used for the mercantile and
grocery business, and the third floor for
a public hall. Successful cooperative
stores have been founded by the miners,
and are in operation at Banksville, Car
negie, Shanor Station, and there are
some in Pittsburg proper. These not
only pay all running expenses, but clear
enough to pay handsome profit to
the stockholders. The Bankville store
also supports reading room free to the
public.
A good deal has been said lately about
trade union discrimination against COL
ored workmen, and the statement has
been made that organized labor does not
recognize the negro. So far as the Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor goes that is not
true. The Cigarmakers' Union, the
American Federation of Musicians, the
National Tobacco Workers, the Hotel
and Restaurant Employees National
Union, the United Mine Workers and
several other unions, all affiliated with
the Federation, have colored members,
and the obligation OF the Federation,
taken by all intending to become mem
bers, includes the following clause: "You
also promise X never to discrimi.
nate against a fellow-worker on account
vi ilo SlStNi, COlbi VI IdllDllhlltV.
Furthermore, colored delegates have been
members of at least three Federation
conventions, and the Machinists' Union,
which once had color line clause in its
constitution, abolished it some years ago.
This organization is composed largely of
SOtherners.
Richard Edmonds, a well-known bar
rister in the North OF England has de-
vised scheme OF miners pensions
which he has expounded to meetings of
coal workers. 1t aims at giving every
miner who has attained the age of 60
and is unfit for other work a pension of
$3.50 a week for life. Further, any
miner who shall become incapacitated
for further work owing to an accident
while following his employment, shall
be entitled to the same SUN per week
for life. Lastly, every widow who shall
have lost her husband owing to mine
accident is also to be paid the same re-
lief. A slight extra allowance is made
for each child in the family. The money
is to be raised by duty of 2 cents upon
every ton of coal raised per year. This,
with interest, would realize more
than $4,00O,OOO yearly. Recently the
House of Representatives adopted bill
providing for pension of ELS per an
mum, or $50, for every person over 65
years of age, whose yearly income does
not exceed ga nrOvided he or she has