Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1899-11-02
In THE WORLD
OF LABOR

10 soap union liable.
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ST. Louis has 5000 unionists.
London has 100 women police.
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Milwaukee claims 80 mtllionaarcs.
Indiana boasts four rabbit farms
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EGYPT haa ono German newspaper.
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Electrical workers have 81 unions.
Greater New, York has CASE saloons.
st. Louis has 600 union stonemason.
England has 5000 union shipewrights.
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Iowa City bdcklayers get $3.50 @ day.
Beer lozenses gain favor On Germany.
Shoes cost Chicagoans s3.5oo.oo a year
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r. Of L. has issued $50 charters this
be Ohio State B. of L. is to meot on Decem-
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ployes. 'i'' ''''' iV'e'" en-
es only unionists are employed on Toledo's
or NEGRO 81 oyster shuckers at Norfolk aavo
tons ditto. "
Boston gashttcrs claim to have won
after February Ai'oiies
Toledo s.t1
course of lectures
n, E;ye n, house in Jctmore, Kan. is occu-
pea by Its owner.
Binghamton CKy.) farmers organized and
adopted n union label
~ birmingham Firm ,, JEWISH tailors struck
rather than dispute their union.
III The matters pay their national advert,s-
ing agent $40 per month.
Toronto pressman struck for sl4 O. week
NSf hon''s). Compromised.
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Dublin unionists kick against clergymen
VINO Duy organs In England
Fifty Cincinnati painters struck because
Two hon-uhonists were employed.
Fig Four telcsraphcrs at Indianapolis
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Iittsbnrg Ia, mine forcmcn and fire
bosses are TO form an organization.
nos!on nnlonis!s Killed n resolution that
would have prccipitatcd political action.
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Cleveland Job printers VIII demand tho
ninc-hour day. 1t has been conceded in
Connecticut.
ch hnri p mnnicipality erected Frances
used by 81 organizations
$50
The, New. York union OF Bill Posters has
raised It's Initiation fee to $50. Previously
the Initiation fee was So.
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AT Grand Rapids the Dcan-IIlcks print
nine-hour day, but retain the old scale of
SlJ per week.
The BARRIERS union OF Superior offers to
union that are ont OIL strike free OF cost
OH presentation of credentials.
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The New Worry united Journeymcn Tail
ors report having organized the mon N
Rocks shop and secured for them an in
crease in wages Of 70 per cent,
bridgeport Conn, Central Labor Union
Is ho!cottinS priest because he employed
non.nnion musicians. They Will not at
tend fairs aud other entertainments
Bccause the Chicago School Board had
given tho contract for the boilers OF the
addition to the Prescott school TO Il non
union firm. u general strike has been
called or the building.
During The past two years New Castle
Ia. street railway workers have had
to II cents. while the day, which formerly
consisted OF ~ hours. is now nine.
~
ored men who now serve INC mcNTs in
the dining rooms of the first-class hotels
in Cleveland in case there is any fur
ther attempt made to un.oniZc the hotel
walters
Pi!tsburG moulders ignored President
Fox's, suggestion that arbitration be of-
arc members OF the National i1oundcrs'
Association. Twenty of these firms have
conceded the advance.
The great amalgamatcd central labor
examination of all the abor bodies in the
five borouEhs projected by the Central
Federated Union of Manhattan is not re-
cciving much support from tho solid labor
association IN Brooklyn.
expressed its intention Of enforcing the
nine-hour day on November 81 but has
also hottie! % that every. member will
International Union next year.
The successful strike in New York has
cost the United Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners about $4,000 of which 5000
was expended on the shops. An assess
mcnt OF 81 per capita was levied by tbs.
District Council to defray the expense.
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Afterthe cisarmakers in J.. Ilnhner &
Co.'S factory, New York, won their strike
on Saturday they hired II band of music
and celebrated the victory by having
rood ti,ne roncrollv ,Thr Snanicb All
hand workers secured an Increase of 81 II
thousand and the dry, fresh and machine
workers 81 thousand moro each.