The sun. (Wilmington, Del.) 1897-19??, 1898-04-17
LIFE AMONG THE 1O|LERS
Hammer Taps From Work
shops of the World.
WAGE FARMERS TALK
Pointed Paragraphs From Many
Lands.--Items of Interest From
All Crafts.

England contains 10000 barmaids.
Germany has 10000 bicycle makers
Bookbinders have joined the F. of I
Brooklyn carpenters get 1926 day
Detroit timers want the nine-hou
day.
Maryland trading stamp stores ar
closed.
Kansas City has municipal dru,
store.
Ominato, Japan has l0OO-year-old
shipyard.
Cleveland timers struck for 25 cent
per hour.
Duluth has a Union Mems Insuranc,
Company.
Montreal Central Labor Union Endorsed
the single tax.
New York machine stone workers wol
the eight.hour day.
New YORK German. American Typo
graphia is % years old
Dundee, Scotland, drillers struck TO
SO cents per dozen rivets.
Frisco Sailors Union demands $40 pc
month as minimum pay.
Several Frisco firms conceded the
nine-hour day to job printers.
Duluth street railway uniforms thi
spring will bear the union label.
Covington, Ky, ladies' Union Labe
League has 600 members.
At Cleveland public improvements vii
furnish work for 1000 men.
London has 40, 100 union gasworkers
an increase Of 10000 in year.
Montreal unionists want the city tt
pay laborers II! cents an hour.
After May Cleveland carpenters vii
not work with non-unionists.
Troy unionists protest against the en-
ployment OF girls in foundries.
New York stereotypers are on strike
for nine ana one-half hour day.
> The congress of miners at Salt Lake
: will be attended by 5000 delegates.
Boiermakers and iron shipbuilders or
the Clyde want 5 per cent. increase.
Detroit grocers and butchers kick
against wholesalers who sell goods at re-
tail.
. Hartford union printers get from ST.;
to $2l per week; non-unionists 81 tt
, $l2.
: Syracuse painters now get $2.75 fol
nine hours; paperhangers $3.50. Ne
: strike.
Greenville, Pa, Tube Company volun
tarily increased wages from 10 to 20 pei
cent.
William Waldorf Aston has a $50,0O(
ovelcoat and Mrs. Gillig paid $4,000 fol
three dogs.
Duluth organized labor will have can
didates in the field for the legislature the
coming fall.
Ballard, Wash, knot sawyers struck
for 81. 50 per day. The packers demand
I cents per thousand.
Westminster, Nd, merchants organ.
lied. They oppose the running of low
rate excursions to Baltimore.
Boston Building Trade Council has
asked brewers to employ only unionists
in the construction or repair of build
ings.
Cleveland unionists went to the Legis-
lature to urge the passage OF the Bran
ley bill, abolishing prison contract
labor.
Boston Common Council refused to
pass the ordinance recommended b.,
Mayor Quincy providing for Il depart
ment OF public music.
Chicago carpenters forced the boss car
penters to sign the union scale as in
divduaIs. They refused to recognize the
contractors.
Rochester Woman's Christian Temper
ance Union requests that the cigar be
omitted from the cuts illustrating new
style suits of gentlemen's clothing.
New York has Calcium Light Opera
tors Union. They complain because
members Of the stage hands union are
handling the lights in one of the theatres.
Many Chicago printing firms signed
the press feeders scale. Ten women who
were given the mems jobs left. Then
they discovered that their sex barred
them from the union.
Cincinnati's sIect railway company
has reduced the fare between the hours
OF and in the morning and 5 and 7 in
the evening to 3 cents. In future every
passenger will be provided with seat.
Milwaukee Republican candidate for
NJ ,yor was defeated, because, it is said,
it was believed that he was a friend OF
the street railway company. Debs'
Social Democracy candidate received 2444
votes.
The question of whether the telephone
system should be placed in the hands of
the municipal authorities has been dis
cllssed during the recent inquiry into the
telephone exchange service of Glasgow.
, Both the tlints and manufacturers are
now figuring upon plan to have the
union label recorded upon all kinds of
union-made glassware to distinguish it
from that in the non-unon factories.
The retail groccrs OF New York have
formed exchanges and pooled their inter
ests to he extent of buying their sup
plies in wholesale way and distributing
them among the members OF the en-
changes.
An Ottawa firm used white label in
the shape of heart as a trademark.
Another firm, which wanted to use
white label in the shape OF kite, was
refused the privilege, on the ground that
it was an infringement.
One of the subjects OF discussion at the
Chicago Merchants Club banquet was
the proposition for the establishment of
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