The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1900-02-10
CLEANINCS.
Pointed Paragraphs Showing the
Of Affairs in Industrial
Circles. ~

The union plumbers of Cleveland
have made the demand for an ad-
vance of 80 cents per day.
The machinists Of Paterson, NJ j.,
went out on a strike last week for an
increase of 10 per cent.
Ashvile On. CD trades unionists
have formed trades council, in which
all crafts are represented
The James A. Clark Leather COM
pany Of ST. Louis, Mo-, has inaugural
cd the proft-sharing system with their
employees.
The general federation of trades in
Great Britain now embraces 49 trades
unions, with an aggregate member
ship Of 367 900.
Cleveland, Ohio, journeymen plaster
ers will demand a scale of 40 cents
per hour and the eight -hour day for
the present year. .
The strike of machinists at the
Schoen steel car works, Allegheny, Pa. 4
was settled last week, and the men
have returned to work
Omaha, Neb.. has a labor temple in
which 35 local unions hold their regue
lar meetings. 1t has six halls which
are under constant rental.
The bookbinders' strike at Nashville
Tenn, has been settled through the arr
bitration Of President Welman Of the
Bookbinders' National union
According to the recent action of
congress- none but union men will be
employed on the printing in connection
withNthe taking of the next census.
1t is claimed that upwards Of $50
cigarmakng establishments, includ-
ing many of the leading plants in the
country, are now in the trust recently
organized
All bridge and structural iron work
fers in the United States, who belong
to labor organizations, will ask for an
increase Of wages of 40 cents per day
on and after March I.
The membership of the United Mine
Workers union, according to President
& Mitchell's report at the national con-
vention, was more than doubled in the
past year.
Pittsburgh. Penn, is said to have 40
local lodges of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation Of Iron and Steel workers, be-
no The lereas' yanization of any sim
ity in the world.
J rne carpenters union at Vallejo Cal,
has reduced the working day to eight
hours in conformity with the now
state law, fixing eight hours as the
limit allowed on any kind Of public
work in the state. s-1S 80
1T is asserted that Secretary Gage of
the Treasury, has consented to the ad-
on
laborers to work on railroads and other
public work, over the protest of Im-s
migration Commissioned Powderly.
During the past eighteen months the
Danville, His. labor councils commit
tee have placed eighteen new charters
and have three more in sight. This is
only an illustration Of what can be
done by live, hustling centra1 union.
done by a live. hustling central union.
of United Workmen are working for
the use of the label on all the printed
matter issued by the Grand Lodge. An
effort is also being started to have
printed matter Of the Independent Or
der of Foresters have union label ap-
pear on it,
Duluth carpenters unio q No. SOL has
adopted trade rules to- go into effect
May / BY the terms of the new rules
eight hours is to be the day. and 80
cents an hour the minimum scale. Un-S
der no circumstances are members to
be permitted to work with nOn-union
men of any craft. and are pledged to
use every honorable means to see that
members live up to the requirements
of the trades rules Other clauses Of
less Importance We're also adopted.
The wealth of South Carolina, with
it's million and a quarter inhabitants,
increased last year $S,00o,O00, Rockefel-
ler's wealth increased $30,0OOOO0 in the
same twelve months.
A slOOOO,0 900 telephone trust has
been Incorporated, and a $1OO,OOO.O 900
cattle trust is being organized. In five
eastern states a $SO000,0O0 milk trust
is gobbling up the entire milk supply.
A hat trust with s15,OOo,00O capital,
to control the hat factories of Dan
bury, Conn. is being planned. More
fur hats are made in Danbury than in
any similar sized city on earth, and
5000 hands are employed in the m
dustry.
The town of Orea, Sweden, has an
annual income of $4,000 through mu-
nicipal ownership and operation OF
tree planting; as a result of this So
cialistic enterprise there are no taxes.
Railways. telephones, schools ana
many other things are free.
f. G.. Siggers, patent lawyer, Wash
ington. p. c.. reports the following
patents granted to inventors in the
state Of Minnesota. January 80, 1900.
He will mail copy Of specification and
drawings of any patent for 10 cents
in stamps.
S. Bengston. st. Paul, hydrostatlc
computing scale: II. De Wallace. ST.
Paul, train alarm: J. T. Tanning, Min
neapolis, turbine water wheel; M. j..
Kane, st. Paul paper-box: j. Z. Mar
kle Minneapoli feed device for saWmlll
carriages: b. Mckenzie, st. Paul. coln-
released lung testing apparatus; NJ
TT NerhOyio NOrSeland milk can Ven-