, 1900-01-10
IN THE WORLD OF LABOR.

80 ~ ANA's PtBNt'
Geneva has g~lass-payed streets.
Venezuela hasn't a cotton mill.
New York has a peddlers' union.
In Japan cooks earn $40 per month.
London has 100, 900 night workers.
Minneapolis beltmakers organized.
There are 2SQ, OOO, 900 agr%iculturists.
Minneapolis hasn't an idle book-bind.
cr.
Duluth is to have a Iobar bazaar in
March ext.
New York has 10000 union bricklay-
ers and masons
Car drivers of Indianapolis want more
pay and fewer hours.
Washington unionists sent money to
the dependents of miners killed at Car
bondale.
On June list the Initiation fee of the
St Paul-Minneapolis Woodworkers' I'M
ion will be $40.
A member of the San Francisco Mu-
sicians' union who violated the organ
ization's laws was fined $50.
Every circular printed IN Magdeburg,
Germany, must be approved by the pc.
lice before distribution.
Chicago Typographical union at a
special meeting voted $500 for the tinan-
cial assistance of the Kansas City Ty-
geographical union.
During this month the Brooklyn CT
garmakers' label committee issued I'M
ion labels for 1922, 500 union-made ci-
CARS.
The New York Coppersmiths' union
reports that the entire non-union force
in a certain shop is to be admitted to
membership at the next meeting.
The Cigarmakers' International un-
ion during its eXistance of nineteen
years and two months has paid out
total benefits to the amount of S5.045,-
1863. SO.
Nienna's great municipal street rail-
way system is now in perfect running
order. 1t cost $40, 900 900. and it is
estimated that it will pay for ITSELF
within ten years.
The 500 Pullman car porters, with
headquarters in Pittsburg, have decid-
ed to form a union and affiliate with
the National Colored Mems Railroad
association.
The municipality of Pasadena, Cal,
owns a sixty-two acre grove Of English
w%alnuts. This year it yielded $4,000
pounds of nuts, for which the city re-
ceived 3,O23.39
Blackpooll, England, a city OF O,O0t
population, owns and operates her
street railways. 1t transports passen-
gers for 3 1-3 cents per fare, lays by
sinking fund, pays interest and taxes
and makes a profit.
"If the United Mine Workers are tc
have peace" said President Young Of
the Abraham branch, at will be neces.
sary to root out the Knights of Labor
and we will have to fight them with
their own weapons"
The Chamber of Deputies of the
Grand Duchy of Baden has by a large
majority asked the Government not tc
max. contracts with printing firms moi
paying the recognized scale.
In Antwerp, Belgium, there is mum,
Cipal cab service. A yearly commute,
ton ticket costing 500 enables any cit,
izen to call a cab at. any hour of the day
or night he chooses for 365 days.
The Grand Rapids Retail Grocers
association has decided to begin a cru,
SADIE against those members of the bus,
mess who insist, in spite of warning
in keeping their places of business open
on Sundays.
Complaints from the women of the
Garment Workers union have beer
frequent of late that union workingmer
in Indianapolis were not particular
enough to call for the union label or
all waists and overalls they purchase
At Duluth the trades assembly is ii
favor of n provision being inserted, il
the proposed new city charter, which
Shdil ploN u lHat Wy IN ., NiNNI
i've or appointive, are guilty of a mis-,
demeanor if they accept free street rail,
way transportation.
There is a big labor organization II
Brooklyn known as the Jaborer's I'm
ion of Kings county. 1t obtained
State charter over half a century ago
and has eight branches, and a mem
bership exceeding 1000. The members
Of it work on buildings and are paid
a higher scale of wages than men o.
their class in New York.
Combinations of the employing class.
Is and the justification Of industry
make q thorough organization of labor
a necessity in order that the workers
the people at large, may maintain Their
rights and liberties and keep place in
ecnomie, social and political advance
ment with the material progress of the
country.-Gompers.
1t may be that farms for unemploy-
ed printers will become an important
feature of union work. Chicago union
recently appointed a committee to in
vestigate the feasibility of such a pro-
ject. Close upon that action comes
word that the Bradford (England)
Typographical union has inaugurated
similar movement, and may send q
delegate to inspect No. 6's Bound Brook
venture.
The United Mine Workers union has
had a phenomenal growth since the