Show I WORLD OF LABOR I I f Beer can now bo mado from oat II Chicago has 70000 telephone wires V Kansas has more national than State banks 0 A strike of domestics In New York city Is Imminent a a RussIa drinks about SS00000D worth often of-ten every year 0 0 Russian gold mines average an annual yield of K663 pounds Ivansaa City Mo claims to have established estab-lished fifty now factories In 1900 I r 0 0 St Petersburg is soon to have a homo I for selfsupporting working women < Chicago journeymen plumbers won tho Saturday halfholiday No strike I 0 V Heavy mining operations are going on I In Mexico For a mine not far from Mon tcrcv a New York syndicate has paid t 0000000 0 C After a five hours session the Chlcagp Lako Seamens union voted that members holding political l Jobs could retain their membership In the organization Nowhere in the history of organized l labor l la-bor has such a body made the advance In so short a time as Switchmens Union of North America Starling from nearly nothIng a couple ot years ago It now has 133 local bodies and 13000 members 0 0 0 0 The object of the Coal Salesmens association asso-ciation of Chicago Is the protection of salesmen and arrangements arc underway under-way to secure the cooporatlon of tho miners mi-ners and coal teamsters organizations to enforce reasonable demands from operators opera-tors and coal dealers o President Perkins of tho Clprarmakers International unloJ reports an Increase of COCO In general membership during tho year In the New York strike 126000 1 was jmld to nonunlonlsts who went out Clgarmakors union No 27 of Boston alone contributed SI 1000 to the strike and lockout lock-out In New York I a a 0 The Walchcoso Engravers International Interna-tional association before adjourning Itt annual convention in Brooklyn declined a proposition to allllato more closely with other branches of the ivatchcase Industry In an allied council and declared by resolution reso-lution In favor of special and scparalo organization or-ganization for each division of tho craft a S S Tho telegraph system of tho Krupp works has 31 stations with 5S Morse telegraphic Instruments and CO miles of circuit The telephone system has 32S stations sta-tions ivlth 333 telephones and circuit of CO1 miles On April 1 JSOO the total number num-ber of persons employed In tho different works was MG79 nnmel 27462 at Esscm 3175 at tho Gruson works Buckau S450 I at the Germanla works at Berlin and Kiel C1W In tho coal mines and C12S at mo oinsi lurnuces anu on in u lC9Unb grounds at Mcppcn etc 1 o S Tho Philadelphia Labor league decided to go Into municipal politics along with the Allied Building Trades council and tho painters organization and appointed a committee to cooperato with those bodies In propounding hue questions to tho candidates for the Council Tho secretary secre-tary was Instructed to write to the executive execu-tive council of tho American Federation of Labor stating that when that body lives up to Its own laws by compelling all affiliated locals to Join tho United Labor league the league will expel all dual or seceding organizations as required by tho new law S S S Coal deposits exist in all the Australian colonies the largest being In New South Wales and the smallest In South Australia Aus-tralia The total production to the cl scot sc-ot ISM was S50C9ij6 tons representing a value of Xji17C01 The quantity of coal oxported during 1S99 was 2795523 tons value 1005791 the places outpldo the Australian Aus-tralian colonies to which shipments wcro t made beIng Ceylon FIJI Hon India In-dia Mauritius Now Guinea Straits Settlements Set-tlements Celebes Chile China Cochin China Ecuador Hawaii Japan Inva Marshall Islands Mexico Molucca islands Mozambique NOW Britain Now Caledonia Cale-donia Panama Peru the Philippines South Sea Islands and America A few hundred tons were also shipped to Grout Britain The output for 1500 Is expected to be the largest on record S a I In order to break upqH tho trades unions and prevent their reorganization tho employers of the country would be forced to pay a bonus to their men In addition their dully wage anti to keep on paying It that Is there would be a general substantial and permanent In crea < o in the wages of labor granted as an Inducement to tIle men to refrain from Joining labor unions This reduces tho thing to an absurdity for emplo ers wculd not consent to pay so high a price to be rid of time occasional embarrassment of strikes They could be rid of thorn at lar less cost by granting the demands of their men for higher pay The striking moulilois of Cleveland demanded only 25 cents a day at Urst and Mils demand was finally i educed to 111 cents Tho founders aro paying 190 more than the union nuiv aalced for Ki n If the employers of labor I wore willing to pay such a t PriCe to break the unions they I would be unable to find money enough In the country lo keop the plan In operation The Industries of tho United States could bear no nuch burden Tho plan Is Immoral because It Is bribery pure and simple The employing founders pay the men now at work a brlbo of 2 a day for tIme purpose of Inducing then I not to Join tho tumuiouNow York Times |