The sun., 1898-10-16
uFE AMONG THE 10|LRS
Hammer Taps From Work
shops of the World.
WAGE FARMERS TALK
Pointed Paragraphs From Many
Lantls---Items of Interest From
AL Crafts.
WAGE FARMERS TALK

nine hours.
No labor souvenir will hereafter be is
sued in New York.
The Onward Laber Club. OF New York,
is 20 years old.
Birmingham, Ala. powder workers,
tailors and horseshoers have organized.
Buffalo liverymen organized. Car
riagps for church weddings will cost So
each; home weddings, $2.
Sir Thomas Lipton's latest scheme for
giving meals to the millions is still be-
ing criticised by the small tradesmen and
shoppers
The Denver News declares that Colo
RADIO smelters lead the world. Charges
for treating ore are lower than plants
in foreign countries with cheap fuel and
labor.
A few weeks ago the employees Of the
Terle Haute Street Railway Company
asked Receiver Jump it he had any OBJ
lection to the men organizing, and he
told them that, on the contrary, he
thought it was the right thing for them
to do.
The cooperative societies of Great
Britain have nearly {, 600, 900 members,
whose profits during last year reached
100000, or $50, 900 600, after paying
all employees trade union wages at trade
union hours. The wholesale cooperative
society alone contributed $4,000 OF its
funds to the engineers strike.
A plank OF the Massachusetts Demo-
cratic platform: "We recognize the
wide spread and reasonable demand for
state supervision and the reduction by
law OF the rates charged by the tele.
phone companies of this Commonwealth
to the end that the service, which is
now the luxury of the few, shall become
the cheap convenience OF the many"
Orazzio Ravechio of Buffalo is the
plaintiff in an action brought against the
Ordine Unite dee Naval, the Italian
labor union, to compel his reinstatement.
According to the papers submitted by
Attorney Oshei, Ravechio was expelled
on the charge that he presented a sick
claim when he was not sick. This is de-
MED and a Doctors certificate is pre-
sented to substantiate the denial
The National League of Bartenders
gained 1000 members during the past
three years, and now numbers 1900,
with Isl local leagues, distributed in
ninety one different cities. The Bar
tenders League was originated for the
reason that under the rules bartenders
are debarred from joining other benevo-
lent associations, and life insurance com.
panies charge them two prices for insur-
ance, and the league was organized to
provide them with these advantages. Ar
rangements have recently been made to
build bartenders' home near Wauke-
sha, in which it is proposed to take care
of the members of the organization when
they become too old to follow their oc-
cupations, or are incapacitated.
There never was time in the indus
trial history of the United States, says
the Age of steel, when its best and most
intelligent represe natives were more
urgently needed in harmonizing relation
ship and in Strengthening out some very
tangled threads in social problems. We
are nearing crisis times in these matters,
and strong men, enjoying public conf
dence, are needed to stand at the helm.
The increasing displacement of labor by
machinery; the ousting Of even middle
aged men from employments where the
time-card calls for race-horse speed; the
evolution of huge organizations to con-
troll prices and output; the rapid growth
and concentration OF unionism on one side
and of protective societies on the other
these and other conditions that have to
be squarely faced are forcing matters to
an issue.
Tokyo, Japan, with 1,225,000 inhabi-
tants, has one street railway. When its
patrons kicked against overcrowding the
cars the company introduced so-caled
first class cars in addition to the service,
charging exactly double the fare charged
for second-class passengers. While ex-
acting from its employees, says corre-
spondent of the American Federation,
sixteen long working hours per day, this
monster corporation pays out SO little in
compensation that its employees are
having very hard time to exc out their
existence. 1t is regulated by rules Of the
company that compensations of driver
and conductor are to be determined by
the receipts Of the car they were assigned
. mote, the company is actually putting
, premium to crowd car). The rate thus
allowed to a driver or conductor is 4 per
cent. of the gross earning, or cents
on every dollar. Daily earning of an
employe thus determined Is entered in a
book Of the company, and at the end Of
every month it is paid out minus % cents
as monthly charge for the uniformed
hat and clothes lent by the company to
each Of its employees. Under this ar.
, rangement a driver and conductor is
+ able to earn only $6 per month on an
:, average. The railways only rival is the
''jinriksha" cart drawn by man,
with seat accommodations for one or two
, passengers, but the city council has de.
cided to run its own street cars by elec.
: trio power.
| The experiment Of an eight hours day
3 has been subjected to test Of the most
| severe description by Sunderland, Eng
: land, shipbuilding firm-Messrs. Short
3 Brothers-whose yard is situated on the
: Wear in the district known as Pallion
e 1t is now seven years since Messrs
b Short commenced the eight hours sys
tenn with a view OF reducing the hours O.
/ labor from SO to 4S; and now, at the
: expiration Of that period, they express
/ themselves as having every reason to bt