The sun., 1898-04-10

the St. Louis Board OF Public Schools
declares that franchises are property anC
must be taxed. The City Counselor
however, says they are not taxable.
Ohio's House Of Representatives Tax
alton Committee recommended the pass
age OF law to tax mortgages and one tt
prevent the voting OF proxies at annua
meetings of buiididg associations.
The seventy.third annual report of the
Steam Engine Makers Society, of Eng
land, shows that it has l0S unions and
1855 members. The treasury contains
$l52, 900, although $50, 900 was expended
during the year.
Baltimore laundry workers struck
against cut. The hand ironers earned
from $40 to SIG per week, and the yoke
settlers from IS to $40. The price paid
for fine shirts was seven cents II piece tt
the hand ironers.
The new scale of the indianapolis Car.
penters' Union binds every union car
penter in the city to work for not less
than 25 cents an hour while skilled car.
penters are to obtain as much more as
they can get and are entitled to.
At Buffalo the wholesale price Of bread
of the standard loaf, which is the pound
and a-half loaf, has been reduced from
six to three cents per loaf. The rtduc-
ton permits retail sale OF the loaf at four
cents instead of seven as heretofore.
In one of the Paris hospitals-a free
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. are to be placed at
the pillows of patients. These unfortu-
Mates will be able to talk to friends in the
outer world, or by special arrangement
to enjoy telephone reports of concerts,
operas, etc.
Suits for damages in behalf of Butte,
Mont, Chinese will be instituted against
merchants and others who contributed
money to the labor union fund to prose-
cute the boycott and also against all per-
SONS who discharge their Chin,se em-
ployes under threats of labor unions.
Milwaukee brewers struck. They
want the nine-hour day for inside nrn
Masters demand a six-day week anu
ten-hour day Masters received $3.50
per week, but want SIS. The Third d.
mand was that the transfers day begin
when they reach the stable in the morn
ing. ..,,.... ,.,..
The labor organization, as predicted in
this column when Sheriff Martin was ac-
quilted of murder, are far from being pa
triotically aroused in the present crisis.
The attempts now being put forth to
awaken them into enthusiasm are dis
couragingly chilled off.-Boston Trave-
Ter. .t.....
In large Swedish pulp mill each man
is paid according to services and position
and the workmen receive also five per
cent, Of the profit, one-half being paid in
casl, and the balance deposited in a say
ings bank, to remain until the workman
is IS years old or las left the works three
months.
Planks of Portland (Ore. Social Dem
ocracy PLATFORM: That the city establish
and maintain public lodging houses and
al orphans and foundlings' home, a
home for abandoned women and hospi-
tails, with all modern improvements.
The city shall furnish school books,
meals and clothing to children OF school
age, where the parents, through sickness
or lack of employment, are unable to pro
vide for them. Municipal employment
of idle citizens.
Says Secretary Barter, OF the Detroit
Longshoremen's Union: ''We shall send
Senator Thompson to Paris to represent
our organization at the worlds conference
OF seamen and longshoremen, which is
to be held there in May, and which will
be attended bv representatives from
nearly every country in the world. If
Senator Savidge wants to go with him he
can do 50 by organizing the longshore-
men of South Haven-and if he doesn't
organize them he will be expelled from
the association"
Houston TEX. street car strike was
compromised. Forty-nine new men who
worked during the strike will be re-
taineo. The pay per hour will range
fran l3 cents up to II cents, according
to the length of time the employees have
been in service. All those who wish to
do so will be allowed to work nine hours
day, conditions permitting, at established
rates per hour. The company will not
ulSCTlIIlllldtt dSdlllot uilloi iICi eCiCSeiAS
employees. The strike lasted fifteen days
and four militia organizations were un.
der arms for four days.
The proposition submitted by the
Rochester Knights. OF Labor provides for
raising the wages Of employees in the
wash room from $40 to $l2 per week on
May |. Helpers on delivery wagons are
to receive not less than $l3, whereas they
now get from $40 to $ll. No peddlers
are to receive less than $l6, which is a
raise of about $3 Malsters are to receive
not less than $l2 for seven days work OF
ten hours day. This is raise of about
- over the present scale. The wages OF
kettle men in the breweries are raised
from $12 to $l4. Cellar men OF the first
class in larger beer brewsries, under the
new agreement, are to receive $l4 week,
second-class men ST., and thrd-class
men $ll. Wash hohse men are to- re-
ceive $l2.
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