Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1899-01-04
Labor Notes.

farls lSVU exposition Will De the SIX
teenth held in that city.
Printers still on strike at Kalamazoo,
Lansing and jackson.
A needle machine turns out million
and half needles in week.
Block coal miners of Indiana have de-
cided to resist operators demand for
abolition of the 10 cent differential be-
tween bituminous and block coal.
The Granite Cutters official journal
claims that the organization has not been
in as fourishing condition since 1901 as
at present.
Influential St. Louis women have is
sued an address to the public, urging the
abolition of child labor under fourteen
years in factories and stores.
Journeymen bakers hold their tenth
convention at Chicago March 6, 1899.
An effort will be made to again locate
the headquarters more centrally.
Half dozen different lamp chimney
machines are about to be put into use, to
the sorrow of the chimney blower, whose
skill has become drug on the market.
The Continental Tobacco company,
which has been incorporated in New Jer.
sey, with capital of $75,000,000, has
swallowed number of union concerns.
Textile workers of Augusta, Ga, are
appealing for aid to sustain them in their
struggle for living wages. SenG monies
to Forest Gay, box 634, or And. Null
cay, 22l Broad street, Augusta, Ga.
Fifty girls employed in the Gokey
shoe factory at jamestown, N. Y, struck
against a reduction OF 10 per cent. About
100 other employees are affected.
A decision of the court Of appeals in
st. Louis affirms- the finding of a lower
court, whereby the treasurer of the Tail
ors' Union of that city, who was one of
the seeding faction, was ordered to pay
over $1,000, and other valuables, to the
union.
The striking cigar makers of Louvain,
Belgium, are still firm in their resist
ance against the employers, who tried to
break up the unions. Attemps to i'm
port cigar makers from the towns proved
unsuccessful, as most of the men joined
the strikers.
The Central Labor Union of New York
is having prepared, through its legal
counsel, an employers liability bill,
which is TO be introduced in the legis-
lature for passage. Labor organizations
throughout the state are said to be back.
ing the bill.
The Toxic, Japan, higher council Of
commerce and industry has passed q
factory bill in an amended form to suit
the employers. The amended factory
bill, says the Labor World, is far worse
than the original. The minister Of agri-
culture and commerce may determine
regulations concerning workmen and
apprentices employed in factories with
in the sphere Of the following clauses:
~ Prohibiting or regulating the employ
ment of children under 10 years. (2) Reg
ulating kinds Of industry and working
hours over IL hours day concerning
workmen or apprentices under IA years
of age and female workers. (3) Giving
workmen or apprentices two holidays in
a month and an hours rest day. when
employed more than 10.
At the Million iron works, says Lon
don Justice, q large number Of gentle
men connected with the leading iron
works Of England and Scotland met to
view the trial Of new labor saving in
lvention in the form Of pig" lifting
machine, which has just been patented
and which Is claimed will affect nothing
short Of revolution in the manner Of
casting pig iron at smelling furnaces.
The new machine is capable Of convert
/ ing 100 tons Of molten metal into ap-
4 proved '1pigsp in one day, and does all
lifting, loading, breaking at a cost Of
two cents per hour, against ten cents
an hour for manual labor. The Million
and Akam Iron Works Co. has placed the
machine in its plant, and its practical
working was emphatically commended by
the representatives of all the firms pres
lent.