Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1900-05-11
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 capital oil $4,000.
600.
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.
The annual meeting of the Interna-
tional 'Longshoremen Of America will
be held in Duluth July IL.
Fifteen S. T. and l.. A. machinists
who scabbed 1t in Morris Heights, New
York, were discharged and their places
filled with union men.
According to the New York Bureau
of Labor Statistics there are now 224,-
3S3 trade unionists in that state. OF
which number S,239 are women.
The second annual convention of the
Georgia State Federation of Labor will
be held in Augusta, commencing Wed
nesday, April 18.
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 Goa
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 al
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 bs
closed indefinitely on May. Fully 1000
employees will be discharged.
Cigarmakers' Union, Pressmen'i
Union, Cooks Union, all of Cripple
Creek, Colo, and Clerks Union of Vic
tor, Colo, are now Affiliations with tn,
| State Federation of Labor.
Senator Gear introduced an amend
ment to the postoffice appropriation
bill fixing eight hours as the length o
working day for clerks in postoffice
and providing for extra pay for add
tional hours.
Total capitalization of trusts in Dc
cember amounted to $200,000,000; II
January, $2O3,OOO,O0O. The grand tota
of trusts in existence February 1 ez
ceeded 600, with capital of $4,000
100000, including wind and water.
The great coal strike in Moravia an,
Bohemia has come to an end, bein
compromised. Some points will be sci
tied by arbitration. AS to some 9th
ers, the workers have resolved to brin
| pressure u DedT upon Ino 6ONolHmSn
to enact them into law.
After May 1 the Bakers Union Q
Denver, Colo, will not allow its men
bers to work during the night. TIL
workmen have decided that the nature
condition is to work during the da
and sleep at night, and this rule wi
be followed in the future.
In the Transvaal the miners worl
, ing day, as fixed by law, is eight hour
for six days in the week, while in tn
Kimberly mines, in British territor!
the miners, who are contract laborer'
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
tendance will be in the neighborhoo
of 1000.