The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1901-03-07

Paris trademarks are placed on New
York sweat-shop work.
The miners OF the Yukon district,
Alaska, employ $3.50 men, who receive
an average of 81 an hour.
The National Secretary of the Anal
gamated Society of Carpenters and
Joiners In his last report shows cash
balance of $1,044,605.
The Chicago Federation of Labor has
taken an important step toward class
solidarity by inviting colored workmen
to join the trades unions.
The average daily compensation for
the general officers of the various rail-
ways In the United States Is Wal,
while the average for the working EN-
ployes is $1.60.
In the time that the Cigarmakers'
International Union has been estab-
llshed 100000 in benefits have been
disbursed to the members through the
international organization.
A 55-hour-a-w week bill will be intro
duced in the Pennsylvania Legislature
by the Central Textile Council of Phil
adelphia, TO apply to women and chill
dren employed In industrial establish
ments.
With the termination Of the trouble
on the Canadian Pacific Railway came
an advance Of wages of 20 cents day
to 200 machinists. This means that
each individuals income Is increased
by S62.4O per annum, or 81, 4S0 In the
aggregate.
Three of the largest cloak making
firms In New York, employing In all
1000 hands, have voluntarily retired
| from business. The reason assigned Is
that the competition of small manufac-
turers and sweat shops is stronger than
they can withstand probably.
Electric coal-cutting machinery Is
rapidly displacing hand-work and 9th
er varieties of mechanical mining ap-
pliances In the collieries Of Great Brit
ain and the United States. The coal
thus mined Is cleaner, the waste less
and the effect OF the machine on the
ventilation and temperature of the
mine is less than with any other mech
anism.
/ A noiseless street-car wheel has been
invented, and II is now in use on the
/ Chicago street railroads. The wheel Is
made OF chilled steel. The tire is. how
ever, adjusted to the main part of the
wheel and layer of paper is inserted
between It and the wheel proper. which
absorbs the sound Whenever tire
wears out II is a simple matter TO sub
stitute new one.
The Dominion OF Canada has enacted
Cancellation and arbitration law sim
/ liar to the English act In 1896. At the
same time II established a department
OF labor and authorized the publication
OF n monthly Labor Gazette. The
Province Of Ontario has also estab-
lished distinct bureau OF labor TO con
tinue and develop the work heretofore
done by the Bureau OF Industries.
! Union labor Is building a handsome
structure at Moline, Ill, out of funds
raised at annual fairs and Labor Day
celebrations. During the last six years
5000 has been thus collected or this
sum $1,000 was spent for n desirable
site and $4,000 was raised by loan.
which leaves $4,000 to be spent on n
building. This win be two stories
high throughout. with three-story
front.
Hon. Carroll d. Wright, the United
States Commissioner of Labor. believes
that the golden age q labor is In the
future, not in the past In an address
delivered In Boston a few nights ago
he argued that with increasing proluc-
ton and wages the workingmans de-
mands have increased. He must now
have more than the mere means OF sus-
tanning life; he must have books, music
and other comforts. Mr.. Wright thinks
this Improvement In the condition of
labor will continue indefinitely.