Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1899-03-25
THE WORLD OF LABOR.

Reduction in wages in the wooden ind
ustry still continues at various points.
The headquarters of the Iternational
BARRIERS. union is now in Cleveland,
Ohio.
Child labor in mills will cease when
the father earns enough to support the
family.
The United Brotherhood of Carpen-
ters and Joiners gained six new unions
IN January.
Debs is to address the Nineteenth Cen
-turv club at Delmonico's. New York.
on March %.
The New York Typographical union
paid $4,000 to out-ofwork members
during December.
InJapan cooksearn $40 per month.
In America the Jap thinks S rs per
month lis about right.
New York shirt contractors are hav-
ing shirts made in the Raleigh. NJ c.,
penitentiarv at 25 cents a dozen.
The granite cutters ofOuincy struck
because of the refusal of the manufac-
turers to sign the new price list
Miners in the Nananda mine, Texador
Island, Be, were successful in their
strike for an eight-hOur day and $3.50
per day.
The strike of the iron mOlders at
Oswego, N. Y, has been settled the
men returning to work at an advance
in wages.
The Stage Employees union still
keeps up it's effective work in bOycot-
ing the Tabor, Broadway and Lyce-
um theatres.-Denver Industrial Adj
vOcate.
The Carpenters union at Seattle is
enforcing the eight-hour day and a So
so scale per day. Eight hours is or
banned for all city work dy the city
council.
The Social Democrat Herald says
prosperity is sorampart in Mckinlev's
owns ate that It the presen time there
are 90. 000people who are fed by char
ity.
At Bradford, Va, the tobacco work
ers have not received any money for
wages in five years. The poor creatures
have to sell all their time to the pluck
me stores.
On straight vote as to whether or
not political discussion shall be tolera-
ted in the Printers union of Atlanta
Ga, the affirmative Won by a vote of
four to one.
Eugene Y Debs is on lecture tourin
Ohio, goes to New York next week,
and from there he will go to Texas
and California and make a tour of
those states.
Martin McHalc of Minneapolis,
Mimi, a member ofthe StPaul Trades
and Labor Assembly has been ap-
pointed labor commissioner of Min.
nesota by Gov. Lind. =
In Italy the working people are slowly
organizing their unions again, which
were disrupted by the government
upon the occasion Ofthe Instruction a
bout nine months ago.
Two years ago the Iron Moulders.
union ofBuffalo NY, numbered about
200 members. Now there are 100
all owing to perfect organization and
a hustling business agent.
Fourteen patternmakers employed
in the Brooklin navy-yard lost their
tools in the fire there recently. The
Patternmakers' union will stand the
loss of the tools, which will be about
81 500.
Fifty-three Spanish miners who ar
rived at New York recently, destined
for the west, have been deported. 1t is
assertedthatt they came under contract
toswork for a wealthy Spaniard at
Boise City, Idaho.
The Cigarmakers' International
union won very important label
case in the New York court of appeals
a couple of weeks ago. Henry II. Heert
and Frederick Ehlen were restrained
from using an imitation blue label.
The men who control corporations
that try to sneak out of carrying a
Just share of the public burdens are no
better than thieves, no matter of what
church or political party they belong.
Their proper place is in Jail, where
other raScalS are put.