The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-02-25
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state uunion.
The printers of Georgia want a
state printing office.
Women of Lansing, Mich, have Or
ganized label league.
The strike on the Dallas, Tex,
street railway has been amicably set
tied. The men are all taken back and
their union fully recognized.
Eight union men were elected to Of
fee at the recent city election in Gov
ington, Ky.
The members of the Machinists' I'M
ion on the Southern Railway have Sc
cured an advance in wages of per
cent, with promise of an additional
5 per cent in the near future.
The International Typographical
Union issued twelve new charters
lduring January. Its jurisdiction now
entends from Kingston, Jamaica, to
Dawson City, Alaska, and Honolulu,
Hawaii.
Public bath houses are being erect
ed by the city of Utica, N. Y, at a
cost Of $4,000.
The BARRIERS union of Bloomington,
Ill.,. has succeeded in closing the shops
on Sunday.
Milk has advanced in price 10
cents per quart in New York since
the milk trust was organized.
The Cleveland Citizen says 10000
women are employed in that city in
positions formerly occupied by men.
British printers have instructed
their union officers to invest their
surplus funds in cooperative institu-
tons.
The Cincinnati Brewing Co., OF
Hamilton, O., is still unfair, and the
Brewers are waging a hot fight
against it.
Georgia will have a state federation
of labor, call for a convention to
meet in Atlanta in April having been
issued.
The mayor of Syracuse, n. Y, has
declared in favor of day labor, with
out the intervention Of contractors,
on all municipal work.
The Socialist Labor party of Bel
GUM runs five daily papers, seventeen
weeklies and one monthly, all paying
union wages.
Danville, ILL.,, has a new labor paper,
the Trades and Labor Review, j. G.
Mayes, of Typographical union No.
23o is the editor.
:; More than 500 women are employ
ed in the Pittsburg iron mills at one
third the wages formerly paid men
for the same work.
Frankfort, Germany, is erecting a
municipal theater which will cost
1915, 700, of which sum the city con-
tributes 100000. Three other Ger
man towns are engaged in like enter
prises.
At the recent complimental munich
pal elections in Carpentras, France,
the Socialists elected it's whole list of
eight candidates by vote of 80. The
Socialist vote has more than doubled
within year.
In the Cooperative Wholesale An
nual, John Burns, the British labor
leader, says that in Great Britain the
number of accidents in industrial pur-
suits is 100000 every year. One thou
sand miners lose their lives every year
while at work at their dangerous vo-
, cation, and last year 1854 sealnen lose
) their lives while at service on British
vessels.
The New York journal, Chicago
, Record and Denver News are advocat-
ing public ownership of public util'
tiles.
Sunderland, England, has decided tc
own and operate it's street railway
system, and Ilford, another English
town, by vote of 2,o3s against 1,o11,
decided to purchase the gas works.
A current numebr of the holders
Journal says that the discussion OF
political and economic questions is
permissible in meetings of their un-
ions.
The trust bakeries in Chicago have
recently introduced a new dough,
kneading machine which does the lab
or of 10 men and moulds 1000 loaves
. of bread in one hour.
The manufacturers throughout Ken
lucky in many lines of business are
!, up in arms over the inroads in their
trade by convict labor. Chairs
brooms, shoes and other articles are
now being made at Frankfort by con-
victs for whose labor 25 cents q day
is being paid.
Eugene V. Debs will lecture at the
,, Masonic Temple, Indianapolis, on Feb
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