Show I WORLD OF LABOR Toledo Inns 200 r union never diggers Bootblacks may not do business In I I Boston on Sunday a j 1 New Orleans negro roustabouts demand 120 a month IoustboUlBj montht I C Chicago women bookkeepers will demand j I de-mand the eighthour day I I I Textile Workers national convention I will be held at Washington next month w o I Cincinnati Stationary Firemens union Is tryiig to unionize the firemen cm ployed by tho city t S Nearly all strawberry vines In San llao county Mich are bearing a scccnd crop of luscious berries S a a Tho Frisco Brewery Workmcnn union has decided to levy a fine of 3 on any member who purchased nonunion non-union Glides n n Russia absolutely forbids tho employment employ-ment of children under J2 yearn of ago In I Industrial establishment whether conducted by the State or private Individuals Indi-viduals S FIsh scales If they aro email and I bright are worth about SI n pound In France They are made Into pearls buttons but-tons and nil kinds of jewelry for tho Indies and China t > S Onefourth of the laboring population of Coloindo Is Kild to belong to labor organizations The StiLe Federation oC Labor claims that Colorado Is tho best organized Stato In Iho Union a e aWe A-We veterinary surgeons In New I York aro In hard luck said one of them I With tho cable care the I trolley cars and now lie automobiles our business has pone to lie dogs metaphorically speaklnc Soon thero I will bo as many surgeons ns there are horses S a a Tho Bohemian bakers of Cleveland 0 who havo been on strike since early In this year for recognition of their union the establishment or a tenhour I day and nn Increase In wages have nt last btfen victorious The scale of tlo I union whs signed by the boss bakers last I week and nil the members of tho union aro at work again S O 5 Tho Journeymen Plumbers union and the employing plumbers of Honolulu Hawaiian Islands have Joined forces for the mutual advancement of tho craft By the combination dealers In plumbing mippllcs will not sell plumbing material to any ono not a plumber unless tho purchaser agrees to employ a master i plumber ora member of the Journey I mens union In addition to this plumb i inK materials to atfy but members of the combine havo gono up from 30 to 60 percent I per-cent and tho cost ol plumbing from CO II to 100 per cent S Natural gas has been in use In Pitls burg since 1SO Today the combined capital of the companies operating1 In the Plttsburg district aggregates JHO OCOOOO operating 25CO miles of lines and 1230 wells employing nearly Xt > 0 men and holding under lease v over 10COO acres of land forwhlch they pay half I million dollars annually In royalty and rent The dully consumption ot gas is 1 now nearly 129000 < X0 cubic feet equal I I to COOO tons of coal Over 300 new wells I arc drilled each your to maintain tho supply sup-ply dried supply Gr used by 500 mills andover and-over JOCOO families11 I I a PUloburg produced half the pigiron output of Pennsylvania over a fourth 0 tho total production of tho United States and an amount equal to over a third of tho ontlro output of Great Britain I produces ovor twothirds of all the steel produced In Pennsylvania within a fr lon of as much as all Great Britain and thrccllfths of all produced in the United States Pennsylvania a productI6n of C5COOOO tons of pig Iron last year was within ZD per rent of tho total product of Great Britain Tho entire production of the United States was 13000COO tons The value of Pennsyl vanias share was almost SlOOavOOO which means that over 50000000 worth of pig I Iron was turned out In the Plttsburg district In 1SSO S S a Careful Inquiry among the labor agents and others who arc engaged In furnishing furnish-ing labor for tho plantations and mills doveIons the fact t 1ICntalons Ii work In Nov Orleans for every man who wants It and that Iho cause of this demand Is that the city Is virtually stripped of ablo bodied negro laborers They havo scattered to the four winds many to Galveston and he lumber mills of Mississippi Mis-sissippi while u largo number of them Mlsslpll work on the sugar plantations not In tho for less money than they can II city In the great scarcity of negro labor lies tho opportunity of the whIte man and those who have given tho situation mln careful study think the results dtUllon that mal avenucs heretofore wl will bo opened close l to tlio white man I wide and that 1C l ho falls to take possession posses-sion It will be bin own fault New Orleans Or-leans TimesDemocrat A man who recently visited a pie factory fac-tory In Chicago thus describes It The day t wi ro there a special run was being made on pumpkin pics and I hlluJ vain for any signs of pumpkin rinds Ono ol the foremen grinned and told mo In strict confidence that real pumpkin vas never use In pumpkin pics at present except possibly In a few remote re-mote an J very primitive New England villages The substitute was a mixture of sweet potatoes apples ant chcip tour chemical extract I llavorod with A oxtrlct tasted < wih tIme stuff and was satisfied ho was tolling me the truth Cranberry plo contains only enough cranberries to I of make a showing after tho manner the oyster n in Iho church fair stew Iho 1 rest Ihl ovsllr s apple Jelly colored rcd and flavored fla-vored I have forgotten the other substitutes sub-stitutes employed but these wi give j ou IL general Idea of the morality of the busl ness glnerl average output of the foundry foun-dry was ono a second 01 about thirty sIx thousand I pies for a working day The manager told mo they were shipped I tlt 1he n crates Ocr tho pie belt In specially prepared I |