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Denver shoemakers now receive $3.50
h day.
Albany telephone linemen receive
s2.T5 a day.
New York City has $4,000 organized
Wage workers.
The Master Horseshoers Union has
$4,000 members.
Spain has ordered the eight-hour day
Tor government work.
Morganville, w. Va, will have a ST.
100000 plate glass plant.
Cleveland's new $4,000 labor temple
project is assuming a definite shape.
The English Britannia metal trade
dispute was settled after five months.
Greater New YorE's 5000 carpenters
won the strike for the eght-hour day
and $3.50 IA day.
In Austria, 10000 miners have won a
nine-hour workday. The men were on
strike nine months.
The Bank of England employs about
1000 people, pays a quarter of mil
ion year in wages, and $780, 900 year
N pensions.
Mexican labor is so scarce as to ne
cessitate sending for negroes from ia
maica. The latter are guaranteed en-
Ployment for year.
The American Steel and Wire Com
sany is planning to build hospital for
the treatment Of emergency cases on
the grounds of each of it's twenty-five
plants.
The JOurneymen Bakers and Con-
tectioners' Union of North America has
$4,000 members, distributed in 223 To-
\ cal unions throughout the United
States and Canada.
The National Association Of Post
office Clerks, which held convention
N Kansas City, again declared it's sym
eathy with the objects of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, but declines
10 affiliate.
The laws of Kansas provide that the
labor unions Of the State shall organize
State order, and select the labor COM
missioner, thus giving the unions the
privilege of saying who shall represent
them in so important position.
American Flint Glass Workers I'm
ION, at Pittsburg, Pa, has gained de-
eided victory in securing from the Mac
beth Evans Glass Company compro-
mise advance for skilled men of the
factories of per cent in wages.
The arbitration board of the Chicago
City Railway agreed upon 10 per cent
increase in wages, a uniform working
day of nine hours, and pay and one.
half for all work over and above nine
hours, and two holidays a month.
The movement for strict law
against child labor has been taken up
? in earnest in Indiana, and an effort will
be made to push a stringent bill
through the next Legislature. An edu-
cational qualification, similar to that
in Massachusetts, is proposed.
Cattle butchers in all the big packing
centers of the West have secured a
rise in wages and a shortening of the
working day, which marks one of the
most decisive victories that the work
men have ever secured from the pack
ing firms. The rise in wages is gen
eral. and affects every man engaged in
cattle killing and dressing, except the
workmen of st. Paul, Mimi. and Sioux
City, Iowa, where the men are paid by
the week instead of by the hour, as in
Chicago.
Brooklyn Plasterers' Union has rule
which permits the union to fine any
boss plasterer who may be discovered
paying members of the union less than
the union scale of wages in a very
heavy penalty. This rule, it is told
has been of much benefit to the trade
and has been strictly enforced for
about two years, during which time, Il
is also told, that the treasury Of the
union has been enriched by nearly So
900 paid for fines by erring boss plas-
terers. and by delinquent members OF
the union.
The Iron Molders' Union Of North
America is making preparations for the
Inauguration of general nine-hour
work day. At the recent convention
held in Toronto the plan was outlined
and all unions instructed to make the
shorter work day the paramount issue
Ia future agreements. The different
|, districts will be called into conference
shortly so that some definite action
may be taken by Jan. next. In the
district which comprises the local
unions in Chicago, Cleveland, Cincin-
natl, st. Louis, indianapolis, Detroit,
and Milwaukee delegates will meet in
conference within the next few weeks
and launch the nine-hour movement.