Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-03-11
LABOR NEWS.

TIC A11lC1IiIidll anu INOI tilSl IL e'iiei
the Detroit, Toledo and Milwaukee
railroads have been consolidated.
The newspapers writers OF New York
have formed a union under charter
from the International Typographical
Union.
Information from the non-union
glass factories in New Jersey indicates
that there will be no strike during the
present blast.
1t is reported from Boston that the
various manufacturers of felting have
agreed to combine for the purpose of
stopping unhealthy competition.
The Insurance Commissioners of
Massachusetts, have declared Illegal the
practice OF trade-unions of insuring
their members against sickness, death,
and loss of tools and work, etc.
The Hoey Eight-Hour bill to make
the eight-hour day effective on public
work in California passed the Assem-
bly, Chamber of the Legislature of that
State by unanimous vote last week,
New York promoters are interesting
Eastern capitalists in plan which
contemplates the formation ola gigan-
tic combination to control the Ameri-
can soap output, with $9O,000,00O
capital.
The principal brick manufacturers
in the District of Columbia have form
ed the Standard Brick Company for
the purpose of handling their product,
and will raise the price of bricks 81
per thousand.
A bill has been introduced in the
Pennsylvania House of Representa-
tives for preventing the formation of
trusts or combinations with view to
lesse1ling competition in the manufac-
ture or sale of articles.
Fred Hess, q nOn-union printer of
San Francisco, has been awarded $12,-
600 damages against the Typograph-
ical Union of that city on charge of
blacklisting. The case will be appaal-
ed to the Supreme Court.
The manufacturers of the lower
priced derby hats have effected a COM
bination, representing all the manufac-
turcrs Of this class of goods in the
United States This trust will control
the output of $2,O00,O 900 worth of
goods annually.
The employers at Colon, Columbia
have agreed to increase the wages Of
the strikers by 2 per cent. silver per
day The strike continues, howey err
as the strikers demand 50 per day in
gold. 1t is reported that the British
Consul has asked for a man-of-war to
protect British interests at Colon.
The station agents and telegraphers
on the lines of the Kansas City, Pitts
burg and GulfRailroad, North Kansas
City, have been granted their demands
for better wages. The Grievance Com
mittee, which laid the claims of the
men before the general officials, have
been promised that the wages of the
360 operators and agents involved
will be increased SO per month.
The New Jersey State Federation of
Trades Executive Committee, at a
meeting at Newark recently, decided
on number of labor measures which
will be presented at once to the Legis-
lature. They include abolishing of the
fine system in factories and stores; the
fining of any employee who may re-
move a safety guard from machinery;
making eight hours a legal days work
for all persons who are obliged to at
tend night schools, for all persons en-
gagged on public works; raising the
working age of boys from II to IA
years; making it compulsory for en-
ployers to call on the State Board of
Arbitration when strikers occur; the
appointment of two female labor in
spec tors in addition to the six males:
making eight full hours a days work
for inspe, tors and prohibiting them
from engaging IN any other business.