Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-06-17
In the World Of Labor

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|, Japan has two tanneries.
America has 5000 union miners.
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Glasgow has 1000 union clerks. q
Toxic has seventy soap factories.
Chicago has 5000 union woodworkers.
New York shoe clerks have organized.
Chicago has a Metal Workers council.
Syracuse hasn't an idle union carpen-
ter.
Chicago brickmakers get so cents 1er
hour. Il y
United States contain $4,000 summer
hotels. Y
Pittsburg railway men now get $3.50
for twelve hours.
Toronto, O., sewer-pipe makers struck
for an advance of 25 cents per day.
1t is asserted that Paris is about to
replace 1900 ordinary cab with electric
cabs. M
During the first week of May over 1000
new members were added to the Tobacco
Workers National union.
A party of surveyors has commenced
work on the proposed Ohio ship canal.
Three routes will be surveyed.
A movement is on foot to consolidate
the knights of Labor organizations with
the Federation of Labor.
Organizer Brown of the Internationa
Association of Machinists announces that
the organization in Chicago has increased
20 per cent in the last month.
The Yadkin river, in North Carolina,
which is capable of furnishing $4,000
horsepower, is about to be harnessed to
dynamos and made to run mills.
The small retail merchants of st. Louis
and Kansas City have succeeded in per-
suading the Missouri Legislature to pass
a law in regard to department stores.
Merchandise is divided into ~eighty-eight
classes. and each kind requires a separ-
ate license fee of from $500 to $50.
Assemblyman Hill appeared before the
Buffalo aldermanic committee on ordl-
nances in behalf of the Boss Bakers as
ISOLATION, which is back Of the proposed
ordinance prohibiting the sale of baked
goods on the public markets and pre-
scribing a penalty of 25 cents on every
loaf of bread sold from z stall.
The quarterly dividend list of the Fall
River mills for the three months ending
May 31st, has been issued. On "a capital
of s21, 923, 900 the percentage is about l is,
and the indications are that it will be
maintained for the year. The total
amount is larger than in any correspond
ing period for several years. and lis $72. 900
more than was paid in the corresponding
quarter of 1898.
The Massachusetts house and senate
passed the Trades Union Insurance bill
despite the governors veto. The bill eX-
empts trades unions from the provisions
of the law governing fraternal beneficiary
organizations. The labor organizations
asked for this bill, in view of the fact
that they are not carrying on an insur-
ance business, but are simply protecting
one another in their organizations.
Philadelphia Horseshoers' union No. 6
is conducting an agitation against ma
chine-made shoes. These shoes, it is said,
can be bought very cheaply and can be
put on by botch workmen, who are
known as 'hoof butchers,' because Of
their careless use of the knife and rasp
"to make the thing fit" Bonner once
said that cheap methods and unskilled
horseshoers had crippled half the equine
race.
Thirty thousand building trades work.
men in New York have been fighting the
board of delegates of the Building Trades
for almost two years, but are now treat
ing for peace. The board represents 0 1000
men. The enemies of the board have
been running what is known as the
Building Trades Council. The trouble
arose because the men represented by the
Building Trades Council We're opposed to
sympathetic strikes.
Inspector De Barry was asked concern
ing the rumor in Canada hat the alien
labor law has been suspended. He stated
most emphatically that the law was still
in force, and that so far as he knew there
had been no talk of suspending it. "At
this moment" said Sir Wilfred Laurier,
chat on the three thousand miles of
boundary between Canada and the United
States there is only one spot where the
American alien labor law is being en-
forced, and that is at the city of Buffalo"
The Workingmen's league of New
York, a new political party which is the
outcome of the w~orkingmen's Jefferson
ian dollar dinner held last April, was
permanently organized on Sunday by
representatives of the Knights of Labor.
the American Federation of Labor and
some independent trade unions. The OBJ
ject Of the league, it's promoters say, is
to use politics as a means of. obtaining
labor reforms and enforcing the labor
laws. 1t is proposed to organize branches
of the league in the different assembly
districts.