The sun., 1898-03-06

the only grievance which must be reme-
died. Among the things which the asso-
citation proposes to take up are change
in the postal regulations, legislation to
prevent false and fraudulent advertising,
and change in the Adnltera,ion Act
The following demands by the gIa-
ziers were indOrsed by the New York
Building Trade Section: That on and
after August l. 1893, will be demanded,
for glaciers sheet or plate $l5 per week,
or $3 per day if employed for a less time
than one week; cutters, SIS per week;
glass handlers, ,$2.25 per day; overtime to
be paid for at the double rate of wages.
On February 26, when Ball Brothers
big fruit jar factory. at Muncie, Ind,
closed down for the week tifty.four
blowers and more than an equal number
Of helpers were shocked with the infor-
nation that their services would no
! longer be needed. The places of the
men will be filled with the patent
machine blowers, which promise to wipe
out this trade within a short time.
| The seven years struggle between the
/ Brunswick-Balke-C Colcndcr Company, of
Chicago, and the Woodwnrkers' Union
ended on Monday last by the former
signing an agreement to hereafter EN-.
ploy union men only and pay the es-
tabished scale Of wages. The company
has about zoo woodworkcrs in its EN-.
ploy at the present time. Five years ago
it had 800. This union employs a law
yer.
81 Look upon war, says Dcbs, "as ma
tional murder. 1t is singular that the
appallin fact that about the same num-
Der of American workingnen as lost
their lives in the catastrophe in the har-
Dor Of Havana are slaughtered every
month in America for want of life and
limb-saving appliances. And this is in
defiance Of law enacted by the National
Congress. requiring railroad companies
to provide such requirements as may be
necessary for the protection of their EN-.
ployes."
With Sir John Lubbock and the Duke
Of Westminster and the Bishop Of Lon.
don us patrons, the Early Closing Asso
citation has, in the course Of the past de
cade. succeeded in inducing 1900 shops ir
) Birmingham to close for a half day ever,
week; it has materially reduced tht
hours of employment both in the city it
> self and its suburbs and has spent :
large sum OF money in promoting what il
described as ''the shop-toilers' cbarte
Of liberty" the early-closing bill.
Changes in the rates of wages of 10,
300 workpcoplc were reported to the La
u Dor Department of the English Board o
Trade during January, of which numbe
d 100, 400 received advances and 800 sus
tanned decreases. The net result was al
n increase estimated at about | | cents pc
i. head in the weekly wages Of those affect
ed. In the ll6 trade unions making rc
;. turns with an aggregate membership o
:, 4Gl, IA, 22,S7O (or 4.96 per cent wer
u reported as unemployed at the end O
January, compared with 5.3+ per cen
n at the end Of December last.
. 1t is manifest that the Irussian Stat,
Railway system is a great practical sue
J. cess, says the Dublin Independent. W.
If find from the net result of the working
Of the State railway, as given at the clos
= Of the report, that from 1SS2-S3 to 1895
t !)G the excess OF receipts over expendi
lures had been eloS, ,36S,5 ,5l6, Of whicl
!. El2o, llS,244 had been applied as incres
il on the railway debt, After paying Of
EtitO, 600 to meet deficits in the State ex
o pcndture, the remaining surplus Of Ell,
= 5GO,si2 was distributed for general sta,
: purposes for paying off the State debt
for cancelling the debt incurred by tn
\ State for railway purposes, and for form
ing fund for increasing the workin
stock, rnlarging lines and unforeseen cx
u ~nditmc.