Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-01-22
THE WORKINGMAN.

Inc Trades ana LABOR COuncll 1IOr-
onto, Canada, is considering a prop
osition to establish daily paper.
The American Federation of Labor
has increased its membership over 2o0-
900 during the present year.
Ninety per cent of the cigar makers
at Spokane, Wash, have gone out Of
the business, owing to the bad condi-
tons of the trade in that city.
The Fall River, Mass, textile work.
ers have made a demand for an in
crease of 10 per cent. in wages to go
into effect December IL.
Chicago piano workers involved in
the present lockout in the trade in that
city, will start a cooperative plant, a
building for the purpose having been
secured. Stock to the amount of $780,
900 will be issued.
Nearly 200 city employees at Balti-
more, Md, were discharged previous TO
the late election because they declined
to pay assessments to the Republican
campaign committee.
The Kimberley diamond mines pay
$1O,000,000 a year profit on a nominal
capital of double that sum.
The machinists of Philadelphia are
arranging for making united stand
for the nine-hour day on May 1, 1900.
The nine-hour workday went into ef-
feet in the Dayton, Ohio, book and job
printing offices on the 21st About 400
men were benefited by the change.
A statistician finds that no less than
81 automobile companies have been
chartered in this country, having an
aggregate capitalization of s430. 0.00O.0 900.
In London the various underground
electric systems for rapid transit now
in course of construction involve the
expenditure of about 100000, 900 for
their completion.
Wyoming papers predict that the
town of Hartville in that state will be-
come a second Pittsburg, owing to the
rapid development of it's hematite ore
beds, which are the largest in the
world.
Mayor Depinit, of Erie, Penn, says
he will not hold as a vagrant any man
who can produce current working
card form any union, as its possession
is prima facie evidence the man cannot
be vagrant.
The employing printers of Connecti-
cut agreed to grant compositors, press
inen, bookbinders, &C., the nine hour
day, beginning November 81.
The number of Italian laborers in
Swiss cities is growing so large that
serious conflicts with native workmen
are feared in the near future.
II is stated in Boston that the Ameri-
can Steel and Wire Trust has engaged
freight room to the extent of 5000 tons
per month for the coming year from
Boston alone for the expectation of
coiled wire and nails.
Cigar manufacturers have formed a
trust. whose yearly output is figured at
lSO,o00,00O cigars. Speaking of this
combine the Cigar Makers Journal
says Every one of the firms in the
combine is nonunion, and nearly all
employ cheap labor and machines"
st. Louis. Mo-, has been favored in
the past few months with the loca-
tion there of an iron and steel plant,
an independent tobacco factory, a $780,
900 elevator and cold storage plant, a
cement works and china factory.
The Atlanta Constitution says that in
the course of a very few months South
Carolina in the number of looms and
spindles in its cotton mills will stand
next to Massachusetts as cotton
manufacturing state. The day is al
ready in sight when all the cotton
grown in South Carolina will be manu-
factured In its own mills.
The Building Trades Council and the
Builders Exchange of Louisville, KY.
have adopted working rules that will
be in operation until May /, 1900, which
provide for a ninehour workday, over
time at the rate of time and one-half
and minimum wage of 81 per day.
The Building Trades Council of st.
Louis and its affiliated unions have ap-
pointed a committee to devise ways
and means looking to the erection of a
labor temple in that city. The building
will be erected on the cooperative
plan, the stock to be taken by the
trades unions exclusively.
The Carpenters Union of Dallas,
Texas, one of the strongest organiza-
tions in the state, has notified the con-
tractors that on and after May / next
1t will demand the eight-hour day.
Michigan has a new law sim liar to
the Missouri ordinance, requiring the
licensing of BARRIERS, but it is superior
to the Missouri law in that it affects
all towns of 10,0 900 inhabitants and over,
while in Missouri cities under $4,000
are not affected.
An Arizona inventor has patented
gun stock which is in two sections, the
butt portion being recessed to receive
the front section with a traverse pivot
to connect the two, allowing the stock
and barrel to be adjusted to suit the
user.
The forthcoming report of the Ohio
Inspector of Mines will show that the
average monthly wages of pick miners
in 1898 was s20.2O%, machines leaders,
$3.50, and machine runners s34.9S1a.
Photo-engravers in New York are
still complaining that convicts in the
Elmira Prison are taught photo en-
craving and thereby a state law is be-
ing violated, while honest workingmen
are lxapt ont of ap,ployrnapt tharahu