Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-07-24

dividends have been declared in many
places. At Laurens, s. c., one mill paid 6
per cent and two others per cent; at
Charlotte, N. c.. dividend checks to the
amount of $50 600 have been mailed to the
stockholders Of the Highland Park mills of
that city and the Anchor mill of Hunters
vile. This is semi-annua1 dividend of o
per cent; the Lockhart mills Of Union, s
~, have sent its stockholders $40, 225 as its
regular semi-annual dividend; the Monarch
mills paid $4,000 semiannual; the Jones'
Vile pays 81 per cent semi-annual; the
Excelsior knitting mills, 31s per cent; Eliza
beth mills. Charlotte, per cent semi
annual and large number Of mills in the
Greenville, s. c., district, have paid divi-
dends ranging from per cent up to 10 per
cent.
The Jewish bakers of Detroit, Mich.
though not members Of any labor organiza-
ton, have gone on strike for better condi-
tons. They have been working. 1t is said,
an average Of eighteen hours per day at
the rate of $12 wages per week.
Belgium is a land of low wages. In
Client the minimum pay an hour for print
ers, roofers, GLACIERS, painters and boiler
makers is cents-70 cents for ten hours
and of blacksmiths, locksmiths, carpenters,
The strike of the Cigar Factory Shippers
Union at Boston is over, the girls winning
the scale for which they struck at seven of
the ten largest factories. the other having
conceded their demand. While the strike
was in progress several hundred union CT
garmakers were forced to remain idle.
The national officers of the Glass Bottle
Blowers have just purchased another $780,
coo block of the 1895 series Of per cent
thirty-year United States government
bonds
This is the series sold during the sec
ond Cleveland administration by private
arrangement to the j. Pierpont Morgan
rfybi oh fpa MAY inrl
tors, 1t Is claimed, made several million
dollars before the bonds were really signed.
Though they were sold to the syndicate
at about 1O7, they were Immediately adj
vanced to 115, then to 12O and when Presi-
dent Hayes and Secretary Lanner bought
their last lot last week they paid 1891.
This purchase makes total of 5000, 900
of this series held in the treasury of this
union.
This form Of security is preferred for the
reason If the money is held in the banks
there is always danger Of bank failure,
while If invested in ordinary securities
they are not always convertible instantly
into cash.
A consular report shows that the present
Great Britain numbers 2.259,479, an in
crease of $4,000 over the preceding year.
The sales for the year amounted to $780,
100000 and the profits $52 600. This
back to the co-operators. under the old
regime would have gone to pay for the
waste of competitive warfare.
VIII M. Maupin, editor Of the Wageworker
and associate editor of Bryans Commoner,
at Lincoln Neb., has fallen heir, 1t IS said.
to a considerable fortune through the death
of relative.
In the Chicago Federation Of Labor there
are 400 local unions which, In addluon 10
the leading Industries, have unions of chan
delier makers, hair spinners, passementerie
makers, coffee roasters, egg inspectors
feather dustsr makers, gold heaters tuck
pointers, front cleaners, wardrobe tenders
and we'll drivers.
When tho Electrical Workers Union was
organised in st. Louis in 1891 wages ranged
from S225 to s. q day from sun up to sun
down. Today the union has $1,000 members