Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1900-05-18
LABOR NOTES.

A BARRIERS International Union has
been organized at Denver, Colo.
Carpenters at Victor, Colo, are now
getting $500 day for eight hours.
The Carnegie combine has been re-
organized with a capital OIL 100000,
900.
A labor paper, known as the Union
Leader, has been established at Green
Bay, Wis.
A recent Boston court ruling makes
it unlawful to sell cigars on Sunday |
in that city. ]
Henry Cohen has been made the Col /
orado attorney for the American Fed
Grafton of Labor.
Chicago building trades strike is
still on. and the machinists who went
back may come out again.
Thesannual meeting of the Interna-
tional 'Longshoremen of America will
| be held in Duluth July IL.
Fifteen s. 7. and L. A. machinists
who scabbed it in Morris Heights, New
York, were discharged and their places
| filled with union men.
According to the New York Bureau
4 VI lduOI oldll5tiNo thOtV dAO hOW SGNt7
| 3S3 trade unionists in that state, of
which number s,2S9 are women.
| The second annual convention of the
Georgia State Federation of Labor will
be held in Augusta, commencing We'd
nesday, April Is.
The Ice Trust, of New York City,
has raised the price of ice for families
one hundred per cent. from 30 cents
to so cents per hundred.
The trade unionist lobby at Albany
reports that the New York legislature
has killed at least forty labor bills"
in the present session.
Celebration of the establishment Of
an eight-hour working day by the coal
miners brought about almost complete
idleness in the Pittsburg district Sat
urday.
/ Over 100 firms, comprising the larg-
est department stores of New York,
have quit advertising in the Sun at
the request of Typographical Union
No. 6.
The Scotch Tobacco Co., an indie
pendent Detroit concern which was re
Gently gobbled by the trust, will be
closed indefinitely on May. Fully 1000
employees will be discharged.
Cigarmakers' Union, Pressmen''
Union, Cooks Union, all of Cripple
Creek, Colo, and Clerks Union of Vic
tor, Colo, are now Affiliations with thu
! State Federation of Labor.
Senator Gear introduced an amend
ment to the postoff1ce appropriation
. bill fixing eight hours as the length o
working day for clerks in postof1ce
and providing for extra pay for add
tional hours.
!, Total capitalization of trusts in De
cember amounted to $200,000,000; IL
. January, $2O3, 100000. The grand tota
of trusts in existence February l ex
ceeded 600, with a capital of $4,000
: 900 900, including wind and water.
The great coal strike in Moravia ant
Bohemia has come to an end, beinl
:, compromised. Some points will be SET
tied by arbitration. AS to some 9th
ers, the workers have resolved to brinl
. pressure to bear upon the government
n to enact them into law.
h After May the Bakers Union o
!. Denver, Colo, will not allow its mem
a bers to work during the night. TIL
y workmen have decided that the natura
:. condition is to work during the da
f and sleep at night, and this rule will
Al be followed in the future.
4. In the Transvaal the miners worh
.e ing day, as fixed by law, is eight hour
l. for six days in the week, while in tn
ST Kimberly mines, in British territory
y the miners, who are contract laboreri
are required to work twelve hours
day, seven days in the week.
= The United Commercial Traveller
= will hold their grand council meetin
: for the jurisdiction of Minnesota an
the Dakotas in Duluth early in Jun
next and it is expected that the a
he tendance will be in the neighborhoo
Vi of 1000.