Show IN WORLD OF LABOR I Now York has a Womans IJonry George I league Patorson N J hasnt a nonunion machinist ma-chinist S Locomotive engineers will erect an of flee building S I be S S Minneapolis Is I to havo a ladles auxiliary auxil-iary to time Label leagueS l S On and after Limo l second Saturday In February lie Initiation fOe for tho Blacksmiths I Black-smiths Helpers union New York will bo S3 S In 1S61 Abraham Lincoln wrote a letter cordially accepting an honorary membership member-ship In tho low York Wprklngmcns as GOCUUlOM a S At Portland Or time master harbors havo raised the prlco of haircutting tot to-t > cents In all tho shops and have promised prom-ised I to increase tho wages of lie Journeymen Jour-neymen Tho Bakers union Is now prcdlctlnn that before many months every loaf of bread sold In Minneapolis will bear Limo union label Tho ClBarmakcrs union of Chicago has voted to give un assessment of EO cents each to tho pianomakers The total will bo ubout 1CCO Since tho general lockout of the Granite cutters by tIme Now England GranIte Manufacturers association he I Grnnlto Cutters National union has paid oft it debt of WOCO and has a balance In tho bank of 27000 S S S The union clcnrmakcrs of St Louis are organizing clubs In tho various wards to advertise and Introduce the label of tho union moro generally to tho consumers A committee has been appointed to carryon carry-on tho work and It Is reporting progress S 0 a Thero Is no valid reason why every city In time United Slates should not own and operate Its own streetcar lines telephones tele-phones and lighting plants waterworks and Indeed every other fmnchlno in tho nature of a public dutySt Louis Start Star-t A The Parliamentary Labor party of Australia Aus-tralia scored a victory at iho recent bye I election by returning Mr Nell Ncllson who stood as the Labor candidate Tho party now numbers twenty In tho Assembly Assem-bly whcie It holds the balance of power S S SAt S-At Chicago Nels Andoborg who objected object-ed to a deduction of 510 from his wagea of SIS as an initiation fee In the Woodworkers Woodwork-ers union had his objection sustained by Justice Wolf yesterday TIlt deduction of 10 was the result of tho system maintained main-tained In union factories At St Louis It I Is I believed that an organization or-ganization of from 10000 to 12000 team drivers can be formed there In a short time It la said that some lumber teamsters team-sters are getting ns little as 135 for a day of ten hours or more And only recently re-cently ono firm tried to cut down to JlJO per day but a walkout slopped It Tn order that tho Journeymen Harbors union may become ono of the strongest organizations In tho country the Brewers Brew-ers union of Cincinnati has decided to do all In Its power to help TIme latter body has passed a resolution Mint imy member patronizing a nonunion shop will suffer the penalty of a line and It has been LImo means HO far of helping the barbers bar-bers along very materially S S 0 S Tim next convention of tho International Internation-al Coopers union will be held In Boston This moo was decided at the recent meeting In MinneapolIs arid It was also decided to organize the machine coopers Into separate but affiliated bodies Eight hours will constitute a days work for which LImo following scale of wages hats boon fixed Brewery muchlno coopers lSQ flour barrel whiskey barrel and other slack work 210 a day SO The State Labor Bureau of Minnesota has completed Its Inspection of the Second Inspection district which covers twenty ono towns In fourteen counties The returns re-turns deal with 1G23 worker In 212 shops of which 130 were men Ill women eight boys and no girls A rough average shows that the bulk of these employees receive about 160 per day while the general av erugo for Minneapolis Is C This Is practically prac-tically the difference between city and country wages I The labor question seems to bo interesting Interest-ing time church a great deal of late nnd no better example of It can be shown than tho aland which time recent State convention at Eureka Iii took when It iiLSsei resolutions of the advisability nf ministers throughout the United States Inviting labor representative to their I pulpits at proper limes that they might learn of the needs and alms of labor that they may assure thorn of Christian aid Time convention represented 119000 members mem-bers 771 churches and about COO ministers In Chicago Limo men of the Union Horse Nail company went on strike for better pay Thereupon the 120 women employed In tho factory struck from sympathy uiul when the company eftred to raise the womens pay they replica Glvo It to Limo men Thereupon time company surren tlcred and work was resumed At a meeting meet-ing of the strIkers tho male speakers declared de-clared that tho stand taken by time women wo-men was the moM chivalrous thing they had ever known In trades unionism In tho end all hands of both sexes got an advance S Among tho moro Important measures which are Indorsed by the Ohio Federation Federa-tion and which the legislative rommltleo Is Instructed to work for are tht following follow-ing An amendment to the frocschool book law making It mandatory on Iho t pun of municipalities nnd vllages to furnish fur-nish school supplies Instead of leaving It optional with them to do BO A law compelling com-pelling children under IS years to attend school during the entire term A law requiring re-quiring molormon and conductors to havo served at least fifteen days apprenticeship apprentice-ship under competent Instructors before being allowed to take charge of street ears on public highways A law providing provid-ing for the examination and licensing stationary sta-tionary engineers A law compelling mine operators to provide automatic registers on LImo scales used for weighing coal at the mines An amendment lo the law preventing Sunday labor providing pen altlon for all violations A law providing for the examination and licensing of bar bum A law compelling electric railway lines to employ coinlurtors on cars for time carrying of passengers S S S Thn Calumet Ilccla Mining company of Calumet Mich announced lo Its m ployeon at their I Ia > t payday that I It would pay Limo aid fund assessments during time year 1000 This announcement Is In continuation con-tinuation of the gonerous policy In voguo by this company for many years past Time manner In which tIme company takes earn of UK employees while sick und treats trelr families when they meet an accidental death In the mines in 1 > considered consid-ered hue best of any mining corporation In tIm world Years ago when thin Calu mot Ilecla first commenced mining It started an aid fund Very employee paying pay-ing HO cents or 1 a month an they worn single or married lo the fund to support time hospital and sick benefit With thla money time company furnlxMod medical attendance at-tendance and mcdlclneo und built one of tho best hospitals lit time Slate of Michigan Michi-gan Tho company pays V1 to the family of anv man who Is unfortunate enough to lose his life In the mines or thin from Injuries received A number of years ago the aid fund had a big tunplus from the monthly contributions nnd with It the company purchased Calumet it Jlecla mining mi-ning Block at low figures The mirpliiM cjiah each year wan alao Invested In Limo Work of time company which hug appreciated appreci-ated wonderfully In value until today thin fund owns 175 snares of the stock which pays JSJOCO a year dividends Just about enough to care for time sick and Injured In 1SD7 the company paid the auscpsmontK thus relieving time employees of time pay numt of this extra money It did ilke wise In 1853 and 1SS9 and now announce that It will do the same In liliO H 1 Is more than likely that from now on time hospital and aid fund will support Itself un lie dividends from the Block which wiis purchased years ago and which now payH better and Juat au regular dividends as Government bonds |