The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-21
GENERAL WORDS.
WORLD OF LABOR.

New York Press: Chicago bakers
struck
Salem. o.. has a chewing gum max
ers' union.
Waco, Tex, hasn't non-union rail-
way employee.
Muncie (Md.) street car men get $1.e5
/ for IL hours.
Toledo steam and hot water filters
demand So a day.
/ Boston printers union will celebrate
/ its fiftieth anniversary
Springfield unions Will establish
cooperative shoe store.
! Philadelphia water bureau laborers
get S1.75 for eight hours.
Danish and Norwegian machinists
of Brooklyn have organized.
The granite cutters union will de-
mand eight hours in 1900
Cleveland clerks will prosecute mer-
chants who do business on Sundays.
Graves of men who were K. of L.
were decorated at Cleveland last Sun
day.
Baltimore unionists forced the mu-
nicipality 10 provide free concerts in
the parks.
Ohio's law regulating and licensing
plumbers has been declared uncOnsu-
tutional.
A year ago there were four unionists
at Kewanee. HIS. Today there are Is
unions and a central labor union
Baltimore unionists kick because po-
licemen are doing work that should be
done by carpenters, painters, etc
Toledo electrical workers have Sc
cured signatures to their wage scale
from five of the seven contractors in
the city.
w. S. RidgeI, Chicago, has been
elected business agent of the Painters
District Council. Nearly 1000 votes
were cast
The socialists of New York have col
lected nearly $3.50 for Michael Schwab,
the Haymarket anarchist, who is poor
and i'll in Chicago.
The retiring president of the Boston
printers union was voted $3.50 for serv-
ices. and the retiring vice president,
Robert Murray, So
The national convention of the So
cialist Trades and Labor Alliance is to
be held at Buffalo. n. Y. on July T.
Frisco will send a delegate.
The Retail Clerks union of Troy, n.
Y, has had an ordinance passed by the
common council prohibiting fake auc-
ton and fire sales in the city.
Three thousand unionists attended
the funeral of striker who was killed
in a riot at Oshkosh. Bohemians and
Poles form a large percentage OF the
strikers.
All houses to be erected in the city
of Baltimore must be equipped with
bath rooms The law is strictly en-
forced. This law was advocated by
unionists.
The law is being invoked to compel
President Simon Burns of the Window
Glass Workers association to counte-
-. -. s,t. hoe
called by the executive board.
At the quarterly meeting Of the
shareholders of the Cooperative
Wholesale society Oimited). held in
Manchester. England. $4,000 was
voted for the relief of the distressed
miners in Wales.
Toledo TypOgra phical union adopted
a membership Zee subject to a discount
of so cents for regular attendance at
meetings.; otherwise the half-dollar to
stand as penalty for non-attendance.
The Chicago WoodwOTkers' union is
gaining ground in its strike for 81 and
a nine-hour day. as nearly dozen of
tories have signed the agreement
Even the non-union and unorganized
workers are out.
Great Falls CMont.) servant girls
have organized a union, following the
example of the laundry girls. and their
demands in brief are: Twenty-Five 0ol-
lars per month for a family of six or
less. with an addition of So per month
for each person over six: that they
shall not be required to care for chill
dren when mothers are absent from
home. and that they shall not be re-
quired to do any fine washing or iron
ing. 4 member of the union may keep
the baby when the mother goes to
church. if the servant is allowed extra
at the rate of Is cents
an hour but the rule prohibiting the
of shirts. lace, etc, is alb
solute. and the servants in private
houses shall not compete with the
laundry girls.