The labor world., 1900-01-27


nine hours.
The Pattern Makers National Leag-
ue has 1000 members in the United
States.
Machinists. in New York have sue
Ceeded in enforcing the nine-hour day
in nearly every shop.
Five hundred and sixty trade unions
Of France report 5 per cent of their
members unemployed.
Nearly 10000 anthracite coal miners
in Pennsylvania joined the United
Mine Workers. union ir November.
Fifty new lodges of the Amalgamat-
ed Association Of Iron and Steel Work
ers have been formed since April l..
The Trades assembly and pastors Of
st. Paul, Mimi, have arranged to hold
series Of monthly meetings., at which
labor problems will be discussed.
The State Federation Of Colorado is
taking up referendum vote to decide
the question Of whether that body shall
put a state ticket in the field next
year.
The case of Walton, who sued for
100000 because the members of a steel
workers union refused to work with
iIilil, " ho wv II OuL VI lllC AloNI
Point, Ind, court the other day.
Following the example of the New
England cotton mill owners in grant
ing the 10 per cent. increase in wages
the southern manufacturers have made
similar advance to their operatives
going into effect Jan. l.
Factory Inspector Campbell Of Penn
syivania reports sixty places found
during the three months ending Octe
81. 1899, in which clothing was made
in habitations where contagious dis
eases prevailed. The goods We're con
fiscated' under thv sweatshop act.
Railway switchmen at Pitts1urg and
vicinity areAt taking steps for the adop-
ton Of the Chicago scale, Which calls
for a rate of 25, 81 and 20 cents per
hour in the various branches of the
work. Present efforts are concentra-
ted, however, upon thorough organ
ization, 700 members having been en-
rolled in the past few weeks.
England has 347 women .1acksn1rtns.
In England servants average $50 a
year.
Italy has enacted an old age pension
law
Late statistics show that. in London
more than 10000 families earn less than
seventy-five cents each per day.
Girls working in the. match factories
Of England become permeated With the
e-:ses1licsti ard minerals used ,Fiia sui
phur sometimes eats their jaws In
the most painful and disgusting way.
Their wages average $1.50 a week
The Lo.ldon, Eng, Society Of COM
positors, the best organized branch of
the printing Industries Of Great Brit
ain, is about to inaugurate an agita-
ton for either better wages or shorter
hours. Meetings have been held and
a ballot Of the whole membership on
the question will be held in the pres
ent week. The society has nearly
$350,O00 in it's reserve fund.
Princeton, H., has voted to buy the
electric light plant.
Knoxville, Tenn. has a citizens tick
ct in the field With a platform, ''no
more franchises gwen
The Laramie Times is making a
fight for city ownership of electric
lights. 1t says the city in 25 years
water works. s,.--...-
81. NeXl-d zinc t1uSI a... w e. 1a54
Social democrats have organized a
new branch at Alameda, Cal, @
The Mishawaka, Ind. new public
schools will be fitted with bath rooms
Secretary Thomas O'Dea of the Ma
tional Bricklayers' union, reports sixty
new unions and a total membership
of $4,000. ..s 5.>> ...z
The ROckefellers have secured the
Whitney interests and will contro
many heat and light franchises. She
is moving O. K. ~ ~
The Wagner and Pullman palace cal
compa MES have bneeocaiolsnted. AM
companies have been consolidated. The
corporations, trusts and syndica te:
grow larger and larger. z@%
In India every town of any size ha:
its Ow nice factory, some of them cap
able of turning out from 500 to LOO
tons of ice per day And the same
thing holds good in Egypt and thu
southern states of America.
The growth of sentiment in the Uni
ted States in favor Of municipal own
ership of public utilities is one of tn
most remarkable which has ever beel
seen. The problem OF munfcfpa1 gov
ernment appears to have no other so
lution.-Cleveland O.. Recorded.
"A poor man in Cincinnati stole
palful of coal to warm his wife an
little children. He was arrested. Th
great railroads steals coal by the car
load and the owners live on the ia
of the land.
Social democracy in the Essex Mass
congressional district. which comprise
with other places Haverhill, Newbury
port, and Amesbury, three S. D.
strUngholds have organized and wi
place a candidate for congress in tn
field next fall
The Miners Magazine. Vol. l. No.
edited by Edward Boyce is Il brigt
we'll edited monthly defender of Ia
bnr's cause. 1t is published at Der
Yer. COL, and subscription price
$,G0 per year.
The Standard Oil company has raj:
ed the price of oil TO consumers thrt
cents a gallon. We consume $40 10000
in Il year This means an addition
profit Of $29 l00, 900 in one year #
Rocllefeler and the gang.
The Philadelphia Ledger, d Repu1
lcan newspaper, says: The WaS
worker who supported his family {
81 900 last year must this year ps
nearly $1,000 for the same goods
raise of nearly twenty per cent. in II
cost of living, besides higher rent"
Mrs. Harvey Glsey,. of New Ye
owns three $4,000 dogs. They sleep
eiderdoWn pillows and have the be