The sun., 1898-10-23
LIFE AMONG THE ..JO|LERS
Hammer Taps From Work.
shops of the World.
WAGE EARNERS' TALK
Pointed Paragraphs From Many
Lands.-. Items of Interest From
All Crafts.

4 Frisco has united labor party.
Frisco has printers political club
! A Japanese Admiral gets $1,000 year.
Boston has cooperative printing
\ office.
4 English meat traders held conven'
tion.
y Governor Powers, OF Maine, is drug
gist.
4 New York has 2OO union photo-en-
4 gravers.
Manila cigarmakers demand four
= day week.
Nashville ne vspaper typesetters enjoy
the eight-hour day.
i There is a cigar factory in the Colum.
bus, O., penitentiary.
4 Laborers on Cincinnati municipal
4 work must not be paid less than $l.50 a
day.
The new Plasterers' Union, of Brook
4 lyn borough, has increased its initiation
fee to $5.
Ninety-fve per cent. of the members
OF Boston building laborers' union are
employed.
i Three more Boston printing Offices
! have applied for and received the Allied
\ Printers label.
Y The Brotherhood Of Railway Tram
men has paid out over 1900, 600 in death
n and other benefits.
The Master Horseshoers' Convention
j at Cincinnati represented l2O cities in
the United States and Canada.
The Brooklyn Tr.wery Engineers
Union has decided to rejoin the National
Union of United Brewery Workmen.
There is some talk of the Boston post
= men resolving themselves into a trade
J union and afliliating with the central
body.
\ Eugene " Debs will visit the New
4 England States during the political cam.
paign in the interests of the new organi-
\ zati0n entitled "The Social Democrats.
The honorary president of the Dundee,
Scotland, Factory Workers Union is
Rev. Henry Williamson. This organiza.
tion has gained 400 members during the
past year.
The Vigilance Committee OF tie vii.
= mington, Del, BARRIERS Association says
= that there were no violations of the Sun
day closing law last Sunday. The as
\ socation decided to have the law strictly
= enforced.
> Hawaii is no land for poor men. Shop
clerks gets about the wages OF good
\ American servant girl. Chinese and
y .Japs do the work of the land and Hawaii
is tnly a happy hnnting-ground for
= trusts.-Mericdn Herald.
IT., No , V,rl, D,,+ nE,. (tl,,Ec' A,
sociation has decided to form plans for
\ pushing the German Salary bill in the
next session of Congress The bill grades
the wages SO that those who start at
5000 n year get an annual increase of
500 until $l400 is reached.
Delegate Mccormick, who was secre.
tary of the citizens committee which
: was looking after the employment Of
returned District of Columbia volunteers,
ly has made report to the Central Labor
r Union giving long list Of merchants
at who had given work to those WHO were
n referred to them.
ie At the instance of the Hamilton County
II (Ohio) Carpenters District Council the
Building Trades Council appointed a
e. committee to interest capitalists in
" modern tenement houses. The Tin,
Al Metal and Sla,tworkers' Union submit
u ted protest againt work on Engine
III House No. being done by members OF
~ the department.. The Fire Commission
IL ers will be appealed TO.
-, The National Industrial Commission
+ has been appointed for two years, but
IN there are many who think its work will
=" ", not be completed within four or five
~, ~ years. 1t is charged with the duty OF
''1 examining into the labor question in
i this country, of considering all laws that
Vi have been enacted for the advancement
~ of laboring interests, and its duty will
,, be to make recommendations for the i'm
Va provelnent Of labor conditions.
b. The fight which has been waging for
oil so long between the Lafayette and Balti-
in more factions llc Painters and
We Decorators Union las at last been
er brought into t'c Springfield Mass.
W Court. A bill OF complaint, filed in the
Clerk of Courts office yesterday, asks
tc for an injunction in favor OF the Lafayette
ar men against the BaltEn'rcans that the
III latter may be restrained from alleged
illegal interference with the business of
the plaintiffs.
81 don't know why ynu' e talking all
re- the time about Van Nyrk and ROOse-
at velt," said Delegate Frank Jolly, Of the
al Brewers Union, Il Socialist, at the New
N YORK Central Labor Union meeting. "If
ar you have the candidate of the Socialist
in party here Pll guarantee that he'll prom
err Use twice as much as the others put to-
gether." A roar of laughter followed and
,e the delegate looked bewildcred. Then he
er frightened up and said, "And he'll keep
~ them ALL"
" In nine years the sum of $27O, ,S76 Is,
or an average Of $3OO97."5 yearly, has
t, been charged against the defense fund of
d, the International Typographical Union,
V $50, 752. 56 being the expenditures on
e. account of strikes and lockouts during
the past two years. OF the sum last
as named, $45, 5,262.55 went direct to local
ri unions, $l2 2,2O2. Is was expended in de-
,e fraying the expenses of officers and or
III ganizers called in by local unions to
+. settle disputes which gave promise of re-