Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1898 — AMONG THE WORKERS. [ARTICLE]

AMONG THE WORKERS.

A prominent Brooklyn unionist, claims that those unions that have labels are more careless about asking for union label goods than those who do not use labels on the goods they manufacture. The action of the building trades council in pressing the heads of the departments to put into force the eighthour law relative to the employment of mechanics and laborers on public work, is to be carried into court. Jacksonville eig.u makers struck because all the men employed before the shut-down were not given work when operations were resumed. They asked that Hie work be divided in order to provide work for all. The National Laundrymen’s Association, at its convention in Boston, took the stand that it would not recognize the Chinese. This It did by tabling certain resolutions which sought to establish a boycott of Chinese laundries. “The Free Labor Protection Assocmtion” is the title of a new organize: i of capitalists started in London. his institution is to fight trade unionism and assist in providing non-unionists when strikes or lockouts occur.