The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-06-26
WORLD OF LABOR.

France has 10000 teachers.
/ Spain has 100000 agriculturalists
Dallas has a negro printers union.
! Cripple Creek boasts a writer's union.
/ Germany has 642.O 900 working women.
! Brooklyn has a German plasterers'
union.
Germany has $1,000 union shoemakers.
Greater New York has 5000 union cloak
makers.
! Wages of Dubuque, Ia, coopers were in
creased 81 a week.
The English Federation of Enginemen
consists or 10000 men.
Shoemakers in Germany average $3.57
per week and work ten hours a day
Montreal builders protest against the
practice OF giving contracts TO outsiders.
The International Typographical union
has established branch in the Brush
! West Indies
One of the many branches of industry
which is suffering seriously from the IN
f1uence of the war is the manufacture of
pianos.
The Amalgamated Society of Painters
and Decorators has been suspended by
the New York board of walking delegates.
This organization of 5000 men was uolnS
work which the varniSherS claim.
The United Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners has list of % employers in
New York and vicinity who manufacture
union house trim, and of contractors US
Ing the same.
The government 'eight-hour law has
been upheld once more, the jury having,
found d verdict of guilty IN the case OF
the San Francisco Bridge company in the
United States district court
The attendance at the convention of
Minnesota unions was larger than ever
before. 1t was the first time in the his
tory of the federation that the Farmer
alliance co-operated with the federation
Toronto Retail Merchants association
wants the license fee for peddlerS increaS-
ed: Two-horSe peddlers' wagon, $50. for
merly $40; one-horse peddlers wagon, $50,
formerly SO; peddler with hand wagon,
Sl5, formerly so; peddler selling by hand
or with basket, SIS. formerly S1O.
While negotiations are in progress in
Des Meincs for the purchase of the Des
Moines waterworks, on the understanding
that the city is willing to pay SS5O.OOO Du-
buCue considers 100000 too large price
to give for its waterworks, now owned by
a private company.
Judge Spencer of st. Louis has decided
that while il was true that the city mas
a general ordinance prohibiting street cars
from running al a rate greater than eight
miles an hour in the city. the municipal
assembly could by express contract or
ordinance permit any particular road 10
run its cars al a rate exceeding that
The miners of Fife and Clackmannon
have secured an advance of y cents
day; the Scottish iron molders an advance
of y cent per hour. and the Northumber-
land miners an increase OF ~ per cent:
The boilermakers and iron shipbuilders of
Sunderland having asked for a 3 per cent
advance in wages, the masters offered
lower increase.
AS result of the strike of the dockmen
al Missable dock short time ago when
they were successful in their demands for
an increase in wages. the dOckmen of the
Iron Range road at Two Harbors, are
also enjoying an advance of wages. The
new scale was put in effect there June l.
The day men earn $50 per day and the
men on the night SHIFT get SLIGO Over
time is paid for at the rate of 20 cents an
hour.
At the fifth annual congress of Irish
trades unions. Mr.. Worldly boldly advo-
Gated the establishment of a judicial tri-
bunal with compulsory powers for arbitra-
ton. THE resolution says the Dublin
Independent, declaring that il is the duty
of the government to provide works for
the unemployed in Irish cities. towns and
rural districts. is one of undoubted rele-
vancy at the present moment. when we
are confronted with threatened famine
in the west and south of Ireland.
The Window Glass Workers National
association has started on its plan of put
ting cooperative plants into operation.
Andrew Johnson has been delegated to at
once erect cooperative plants at Sylvester
and Converse, Ind. and another is being
erected for the association at Toledo. 1t
is thought that they will have fully a
dozen plants going next fire. The nation
al association is fostering such plans by
loaning each workman entering the CO.
operation 500 on long time, and also Civ
ing support on stocks and marketS.-Chi-
ca 90 News.