The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-11-13
LABOR NOTES.



( Bucnos Ayres is TO build subvays.
The South claims gss cotton mills
Austria contains 4l5 sc unionsts
Chicago women viii start a bank.
London frefghteTs earn $50 a week
Ireland now has 10 acres Of tobacco
San Francisco gardeners are organized
( Rockefeller began his career az 81 a week
Senator cumrins father carpenter
! Gas costs - cents per 900 feet In Toronto.
! Chicken costs l6z cents pound ia Chicago
/ Toronto pays and cents quart for milk
| Waynesboro Pa is 70 have knitting factory.
4 Nlexice rubber plantation covers 1900 acres.
East side (New York; bank clerks have organized.
New York City public schools employ I.700 teachers.
/ Portland, org, deekhands earn SIS and $40 a
month.
Chicago is to have ffteen-stor department
/ store
switzerland now has a rrohibitory law against
| absinthe.
Negro roustabouts at ST. Louis won a strike for
/ SIS month
A fine article made in Spain is bOneless ssrdine,
stuffed with ham
Imitation cellaoid eolsrs made q goats milk
are used in Paris
Poultry prices at Portland, Greg, range from Is
I 70 70 cents pound.
rhe strike of Queen AMI Crescent Railroad clerks
More than iva miles Of silk frequently are taken
! from single COCOON.
Docks 10 cost $4,000 viii be built by the Erie
Railroad az Cleveland.
Potatoes are the principal source Of the starch
manufactured in Germany.
Peppermint growing is new industry Oh the re
claimed lands Of Louisiana
There are forty bankers in Uncle Sans peniten-
tiar5 at LeayenWoTth. kans
AZ Portland, orss.. Pennsylvania anthracite coal
is selling foT from SIS 70 sls ton.
Under en- order just issued. there viii be $50 more
smoking ca The street Cars iI' Kansas City.
In New YORK al places in which dancing Is
taught muss be licensed public dance halls
! Swedens goyerunsnt-ovned telegraph aud tele-
phone systems netted the country slSsWe during
/ 1874
Ten thousand bushels u hlCe-stem wheat were sold
At Wala Walla. Wash. recently for 70 cents Der
bushel.
New York state Council q the United Brotler-
hood Carpenters and Jcirers has membership
/ Of s. 0oo.
In South Carolina several million dollars nave
been invested n textile plants since the first Of
/ the year.
Cincinnati club women have appealed to The diree
tor 4 ouhic safety for IN appointment q AZ least
| two women policemen.
The san Francisco Central labor Union ordered
carpenters engaged IA cemetery work 70 Join the
Cemetery Workers Union.
The Granite Cutters Onion. Marble Cutter. and
Stone Cutters unioI have organized district ooun-
ell Of stone trades for san fTaUcilCo
state Labor Commissioner Joseph e. Hitler de
votes a chapter 10 the Red Book Of 1910 10 the re
vsal Of the iron mining industry in Missouri.
The biggest apple ever grown in England brought
so the other day. II weighed two pounds and three
ounces. was five inches high and i've inches thick.
Acting on letter from Gov. Gillett the Build
ing Trades Council OF san Francisco Endorsed the
proposed Slsoo,oo bond issue for the improvement
Of roads.
TIE Walters Union. Of san Francisco, reported
a. its last meeting that it has 80 members on it,
roster making il the largest union Of that craft
in the United states.
A Virginia farmer, who began growing apples on
his farm some fourteen years ago aud gave close at
tenion 10 the business recently sold his lslo crop
at a profit Of about S4O0.
The state free employment bureau Of Massachu-
sets reports an excessive demand tor young men and
boys for errands and oifce work, with a limited
supply Of good material a. hand.
Constitutional amendment No. J. was voted upon
az The election in California has been changed 81
as 10 tax banks at the rate Of Per cent Of their
capital surplus, and undivided pTotts.
From November 10 March ! the building trades
OF san Francisco quit wofk Al 40 instead Of
O'Clock. The men take but half hour for lunch
/ IN order 10 make up the eghthOu day.
X, Aria vice president Of the japanese fm 81
MiTamu Aria cotton importers q Yok0hams.
is in Los Angles determined 20 buy greater part
Of this seasons cotton crop in the Imperial Valley.
Twenty-one years ago Oklahoma City was water
ing station the Santa lie, The 1910 eeustIs shows
a population Of "a 20. increase from the 1893 crn-
SIS, which vas l0es7, q Sl,les gzin Of 80 Per
cent
Baltimore steamftte7s struck last week The de-
mand made is for 81 for each working day Of eight
hours. instead Of the present wage Of $40 For
helpers the demand is 81 day. en- increase Of .
cents.
\ new form Of engine has been having it's pre-
liminay trials on the CALIFORNIAN and North British
motive, and II realy travelling electric power
house wheels
The Cooperative Bank and Tulst Company, OF
Oklahoma CITY, promoted b the Farmers Union
and the labor unions Of Oklahoma, chartered at
Guthrie recently with capital stock Of $4,000 TO
do a general banking business.
AT present Pullman. Cal, seems destined TO he a
city Of from 600 70 500 PERSONS. The car shops
viii employ from $50 10 2e0 men, while depend
shops, hotels, sc, vii employ at least ~ more,
Replying 70 a request from the chairman Of the
new industries committee q the Progressive Union.
J. NJ. Thompsoa. Of the Crescent Bed Company
yesterday sent a letter IN which they urge that a
stoFe factory would prove a grclt advantage IN
this section.-NeW Orleans Picayune.
Several San Francisco grUceTs we're fned for re-
filing milk bottles II Is a misdcmeanoT 10 refill
milk bottles upon which the name of the owner Is
stamped The law provides a fine Of 80 cents a
bottle for the first offense and S for the second.
Patent -four reduced 10 Sis a barrel in the
Portland tOTeg) market last week. Straights were
put TO A.15a4S for bluestem and si@ for club:
bakers at a.35a5l5 ard Willamette Valley so.
This is reduction all around Of DC barrel.