People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 December 1895 — LABOR NOTES. [ARTICLE]

LABOR NOTES.

Structural ironworkers will start a national union. St. Paul trade unionists are working tor free teat books. The city council of Paris voted the Carmoux strikers 20,000 francs. A co-operative glass bottle plant Is to be started at Marshland, Pa. -The bookbinders have decided to federate with the printers and pressmen. San Francisco people will appeal to congress to provide work for the unemployed. a hundred business firms In San Francisco accept labor exchange checks. E. V. Debs is said to have 2,000 calls for speeches in various parts of the country. ..Surface railroad men of New York are organizing to correct their long and irregular hours. In various cities the central bodies hfcve taken up the discussion of the eight-hour question. Nathan Strauss, the wealthy New York philanthropist, has unionized his lSTge cigar manufactory. Parliament of Victoria, Australia, is considering the question of nationalizing the tobacco industry. The national tobacco workers’ label is being generally endorsed by all unions throughout the country. | New Zealand parliament Is considering a proposed law giving a weekly half holiday to domestic servants. An 'income and modified single tax bill passed a reading In the New South Wales parliament by a large majority. Brickmakers at Glen Carlin, 111., won tfielr strike for the reinstatement of discharged men and recognition of the union. , a The street railwa'y employes of Dayton, Ohio, a branch of the amalgamated association, have perfected an association for mutual benefit. *The national boycott against the Washburn-Crosby milling company, of Minneapolis, has been declared off, a fair settlement having been made. The central labor union of Indianapolis has decided in favor of Cuban independence* and it will ask congress to give an expression of American sympathy and aid.