Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1899 — Labor Worda [ARTICLE]

Labor Worda

lowa ranks first In hogs. Syria has no factories. Florida has an ostrich farm. Coremakers have 47 unions. Longshoremen have 124 local anions. St Louis has {he largest drug house. Vienna policemen must be telegraphers. Grand Rapids Is to have a labor temple. City of Mexico is to have a department stdre. Philadelphia painters now get $3 for eight hours. New York’s factory Inspector urges the ten-hour day for women. Dundee (Scotland) street railway employes demand the eight-hour day. Grand Rapids’ tailors’ union includes Germans, French, Polish, Swedish, Bohemian;" Dutch, Jewish, Irish, English, and American citizens. The workingwomen of this or any other country are upon as high a plane of purity as any class In the communIty.—Carroll D. Wright. Chicago Federation declares “all the remaining public lands of the United States should be sacredly held for the benefit of the whole people, and that no grants of the title to any one of these lands should ever hereafter be made to any but actyal settlers and homebuilders on the land.”