Evening journal., 1899-12-26
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osition to establish a daily paper.
The American Federation Of Labor
has increased its membership over COO
600 during the present year.
Ninety per cent. Of the cigar makers
at Spokane, Wash, have gone out Of
the business. owing to the bad condl-
tons OF the trade in that city.
The Fail River, Mass, textile work.
ers have made a demand for an in
crease Of 10 per cent. in wages to go
into effect December IL.
Chicago piano workers involved in
the present lockout in the trade in that
city, viii start a cooperative plant,
building for the purpose having been
secured. Stock to the amount Of $780,
600 viii be issued.
Nearly 200 city employees at Balti-
more, Nd, were discharged previous to
the late election because they declined
to pay assessments to the Republican
campaign committee.
The Kimberley diamond mines pay
S10,OOo,00O q year profit on nominal
capital OF double that sum.
The machinists Of Philadelphia are
arranging for making a united stand
for the nine-hour day on May /, 1900
The nine-hour workday went into ef-
feet in the Dayton, Ohio, book and job
printing offices on the 21st. About 400
men were benefited by the change.
A statistician finds that no less thar
81 automobile companies have been
chartered In this country, having an
aggregate capitalization Of $3.50, 0O0 900.
In London the various underground
Electric systems for rapid transit now
IN course of construct n involve the
expenditure Of about S1OO,0O0O0O for
their completion.
Wyoming papers predict that the
Town of Hartville In that state will be-
ZONE a second Pittsburg, owing to the
rapid development Of it's hematite ore
beds which are the largest in the
world.
Mayor Depinit, Of Erie, Penn, says
he viii not hold as a vagrant any man
who can produce a current working
lard' form any union, asits possession
Is prima facie evidalce the man cannot
oe a vagrant.
The employing printers OF Connect-
,ut agreed TO grant compositors. press
men. bookblnders &c. the nine hour
lay. beginning November 81.
The number Of italian iahorers in
Swiss cities is growing 50 large tn {
serious conflicts with native workmen
are feared In the near future.
It is stated in Boston that the Ameri-
san Steel and Wire Trust has engaged
freight room to the extent OF 5000 tons
per month for the coming year from
Boston alone for the expectation Of
solled wire and nails.
Cigar manufacturers have formed a
trust. whose yearly output is figured at
lS0,0O0,0oO cigars. Speaking of this
combine the Cigar Makers Journal
lays. Every one Of the firms in the
rombine is nonunion, and nearly all
employ cheap labor and machires7
ST. Louis. Mo. has been favcre in
the past few months with the leca-
ton there Of an iron and s'eel plant,
IN independent tobacco factory. q $500
600 elevator and cold storage plant. a
rement works and a china factory
The Atlanta Constitution says that in
the course Of very few months South
Carolina in the number of looms and
spndles in it's cotton mills viii stand
next to Massachusetts as a cottcr
manufacturing state. The day IS al
ready In sight when all the colt n
grown in South Carolina will be manu-
featured in it's own mills.
The Building Trades Council and the
Builders Exchange. of Louisville. KY.
have adopted working rules that will
be In operation until May /, 1900. which
provide for a nine-hour workday, over.
time at the rate OF time and one-hali
and minimum wage Of % per day.
The Building Trades Council of st
Louis and its affiliated unions have ap
pointed a committee TO devise ways
and means looking TO the erection of g
labor temple in that city. The building
will be erected on the co-operativ,
plan, the stock TO be taken by tn,
trades unions exclusively.
The Carpenters Union Of Dallas
Texas, one Of the strongest organiza
lions in the state. has notified the con
tractors that on and after May 1 mex
It viii demand the eight-hour day.
Michigan has a new law similar Il
, the Missouri ordinance, requiring tn
licensing Of BARRIERS, but it is superio
10 the Missouri law I'm that IL affect
all towns Of 10000 inhabitants and over
while I'm Missouri cities unrcr 5000
/, are not affected.
An Arizona inventor has patented
gun stock which Is in two sections. tn
butt portion being recessed e. reoeiv
the front section with a traverse pivo
10 connect tho two, allowing he stoc
and barrel 20 be adjusted 60 suit IN
user.
The forthcoming report OF the Obi
Inspector OF Mines will show that tn
average monthly wages Of pick miner
in 1898 was s2o.20A, machines leaders
$780, and machine runners S3i.9Sjk.
Photo-engravers in New York al
still complaining that convicts in tn
Elmira Prison are taught photo-er
craving and thereby a state law is be
ing violated, while honest worldngme
are kept out Of employment thereby.