Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1898 — AMONG THE WORKERS. [ARTICLE]

AMONG THE WORKERS.

A prominent Brooklyn unionist clatort 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 cigarmakers struck because all the men employed before the shut-down were not given work when operations were resumed. They asked that the work be divided in order to provide work for all. Tin National Association, at Its convention in Beesten, took the stand that it would not recognize the Chinese. This it did by tabling certain rtodutlons which sought to establish a boycott of Chinese laundries. “The Free Labor Protection Association” te the title of a new organization of capitalists started in London. ■ This institution Is to fight trade unionism ■ nd assist In providing non-unionists •v, hen strikes or lockouts occur.