Average Man Vows Guard and Glory for the Worker
A reflection on the plain laborer who bears the city’s weight and feeds all, followed by reports from union conventions. Delegates elected in one meeting move toward action, with Newark hosting the upcoming United Anunciation of Plumbers convention. Secretary W J Spencer notes sweeping sanitary laws are lacking nationwide. The text suggests stronger state measures and support for cooperative plumbing shops to curb small shops threatening unions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
United Anunciation
N. J
W. J. Spencer
Iowa
Hearst
Chicago American
Amalgamated Steel Workers Sign New Sheet Scale
President Shafer confirms signing of the sheet scale by Amalgamated Steel Workers' Association representatives and the American Steel Sheet company. The compromise keeps the card rate and base pay the same as last year with new footnotes benefiting the Amalgamated. Mills under union control join, while non union mills remain as before. He calls the settlement credible amid market upheavals.
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Stont
Boold
Shafer
Amalgamated Steel Workers’ Association
Association of Tron, Steel and Tin Workers
American Steel Sheet Company
Labor Organization
Combine
Amalgamated
Union Places
Shaffer
The Machinists Agreement Gains Recognition for Workers
James OConnell of the International Association of Machinists reports from the recent conference with employers. The union secured recognition as an organized body, limited apprentices, defined machinist status, a nine hour day, overtime pay, and wage increases in some plants. Some firms dispute the terms, but OConnell is expected to smooth tensions without strikes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James O'Connell
International Association of Machiniaw
American Federationist
O'Connell
Oeral
Detroit Labor Day Opportunity for Letter Carriers
Postmaster Charles A. Gordon may allow a Chicago letter carrier to attend the National Letter Carriers Association convention in Detroit on Labor Day. The Chicago Letter Carrier Association seeks exemption from the citys pre delivery mail on holidays to enable attendance, with possible Saturday or Sunday departure and Tuesday return if allowed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Charles A. Gordon
Chicago
National Letter Carriers’ Association
Chicago Letter Carrier Association
Gordon
Vila
Jine
Chicago Association
Growth of Trades Unions in the United States
The trades union movement grows rapidly with large enrollments. The American Federation of Labor reports 1,004,000 members as of May 1, 1900, while Knights of Labor claim 200,000 and Railway Brotherhoods 119,300. Independent unions total about 450,000, led by bricklayers and plumbers with 60,000, plus 16,000 in the Western Federation of Miners and 10,000 in the Western Labor Union. Telegraphers number 60,000 though prohibited from organizing. Fraternal benefit societies follow union structures. Overall union enrollment reaches about 1,808,300 in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Creat
Trades Union
American Federation of Labor
Knights ‘of Labor Ents
Railway Brotherhoods
Bricklayers
Western Federation of Minera
Western Labor Union
An & Union
United States
Care for the Little Ones Nursery Planned in Huntsville
T B Dalla, manager of Dallae Manufacturing, ordered to establish a daycare nursery for operatives' children. The Moore homestead will be fitted as a show for a garden, with a library, gymnasium, baths, and rooms for the friendless. A Huntsville board of women will manage the institution amid higher costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. B. Dalla
Dallae Manufacturing Company
Huntsville
Ala
Ol Moore
Huntsville Indies
Five Furnaces Stop Work as 1600 Laborers Idle
Five furnaces shut down by Lackawanna Iron and Steel Co causing 1600 men to lose jobs. Two furnaces at West Lebanon and two at Cornwall plus one at North Cornwall suspend operations due to relocation of major works to Buffalo and tensions over lake ore rates. Labor Day plans in Chicago underway with committee named by President Carroll.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lackawanna Iron and Steel Company of
Scranton
Weat Lebanon
Cornwall
North Cornwall
Lackawanna Company
Buffalo
Chicago
Carroll
P. J. Maloney
Robert Lenacher
Herman Lillen
Fred Pouchat
Frank Buchanan
William Loos
Budd Riley
Timothy O'Keefe
Edward Ryan
Industrial Notes From The Nation
Beginning in 1901 the government coal mines in Bohemia are to be operated on an eight hour basis. It is estimated there are no fewer than 65 co operative colonies in the United States. New Hampshire reports shoe output last year at 22000000 dollars. Philadelphia coal exports to Europe and other countries are rising with vessels cleared daily. One thousand workers were locked out at Buffalo over a dispute between trade unions. Cotton mill operatives in Lancashire are emigrating to Canada Russia Portugal Japan and Mexico for higher wages. W M Donnelly of South Omaha leads talks in Chicago to organize a new bathers union in stockyards.
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Bohemia
United States
New Hampshire
Philadelphia
Buffalo
Jamcashire
Eng
Canada
Russia
Portugal
Japan
Mexico
W. M. Donnelly
South Omaha
Neb
Amalgamated Meat Cutter’ Association
Chicago
Telephonogre Telephonograph Records Telephone Messages
The telephonograph is described as a new invention to permanently record telephone messages for later reposting. It uses a steel tape moved between magnets, avoiding wax cylinders, and can replay the message when the tape passes over the magnet again.
Like the Deadly Under-Current Warns of Sudden Membrane Weakness
The passage warns that a sudden weakening of a mucous membrane can allow disease to establish anywhere in the body including lungs head throat stomach or bowels, all arising from the same unseen cause.
Pernuna Promoted as the Only True Catarrh Cure
An advertisement extols Peruna as the sole remedy to cure catarrh and its winter-linked ailments. The copy claims pneumonia, grip, colds, and fevers arise from catarrh and insist only Peruna reaches the right place to cure, urging readers to try it.
Stagnant Nile Water Kills Fish as Sudd Cleared
A blockage in the upper Nile releases a vast stagnant layer drifting downstream. At Aswan where the dam is under construction dead fish wash ashore in millions and stink. Workers drink Nile water after filtering. eels in filtered water suffocate within minutes.
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Nile
Asnouan
They Learn the Ure of Kayudees
A New York Sun item notes a curious adaptation among swamp land cattle along the Minnissippi where mosquitoes gnats and flies swarm from July to mid September. Livestock and residents rely on dense smoke from smudges or fires to drive away pests, a practice the cattle quickly learn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Sun
Rare Antiquities Unearthed at Roman Fort Site
Civil Engineer Wirth reports discovery of ancient bronze bucket surgical tools a horse head iron coins and a stone statue from a walled enclosure at a old Roman fort in Blojefield Germany The Chicago Record cites population estimates by Mulhall Walker and Prichett with figures around 77 million for the United States this year and projections for 1900.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wirth
Blojefield
Germany
James Gordon
Chicago
United States
Mulhall
Francis A. Walker
Institute of Technology
Prichett
Treasury Department
Ex-Speaker Reed attends Providence address on peace faith
Ex-Speaker Reed declined to attend but sent a letter of regret at Friends' school commencement in Providence A. J. He spoke of enduring faith in the principles that would bring earth a reign of peace and noted the Friends tradition. A laughing plant from Arabia is described for seeds that mimic laughing gas effects with bright yellow flowers and black seeds. William Ashmond-Bartlett-Coutts, born American from Plymouth, Mass, stirs Tory ranks with South African letters on military hospitals. Baron Wim Cohn von Cohn, court banker to Emperor William I, dies in Berlin leaving 46 million marks to his daughter, a childless widow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reed
Friends’ School
Providence
A. J
Friends
Arabia
William Ashmond - Bartlett-Coutts
England
Plymouth
Mass
Wim Cohn
Ketata
Baron von Cohn
William 1
Berlin
Fragmented Health and Clothing Ads From Old Paper
Fragmentary lines include hair growth remedies and shoe aids from Allen’s Foot-Base. References to census jokes, cures for consumption, and travel ads mingle with moral maxims and distant place names. The garbled OCR yields scattered product pitches and aphorisms without a clear single story.
Icelandic farmers flee to Canada after British port ban
About 800 Irelanders emigrated from Liverpool to Quebec yesterday en route for Manitoba and the northwest. The port of arrival order in Great Britain has ruined many Icelandic farmers whose sheep need British pasture before killing. This induced many of the islanders to leave for Canada with their families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool
Quebec
Manitoba
Northwest
Great Britain
Canada
London Chronicle
Regeneration of Siberia and other imperial notices
Regeneration of Siberia appears imminent as the Official Messenger in St. Petersburg abolishes many penalties of banishment, transforming Siberia into a true colony with room for Russia’s surplus population. Also includes assorted advertisements and notices on health tonics, household products, and consumer goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siberia
St. Petersburg
Russia
Zola Says Dreyfus Case Finished For Him
Emile Zola told a Russian newspaper aide that for him the Dreyfus affair is finished. He noted he and friends remain available to assist the liberated man if needed, but saw no need for rehabilitation of innocence or restoration of reputation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evia
Dreyfus
Emile Zola
Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Ad Aimed at Women
An advertisement touts Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a remedy for women’s ailments. It claims to tone general health ease nerves relieve backaches regulate menstruation and address inflammation and displacements, warning other remedies as inferior or unsafe.
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Hamlin Garland
Grand Rapids
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Durban
South Africa
Security
Carter
Carter Ih
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Pasen
Tatios
Allen
Olmsted Olmsted
le Hoy
Permanesty
Mdep
Dir
Kiine
Kush
Led
Arch Be
Philadalphia
Gen Niten Seera
Golithweite & Son
Troy, Als
Pino
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Putnam
Bremsn
Crossland
Gunn Ia
Lorillard
Pierre Lorillard
Florida
Chasey
Toledo
I. Siam
Olmsted
LeRoy
Prive
Advion
Red Cross
Largo
Union
Seo
Henry Wy Core
Huahine
Milwaukee
Wii
Lydia E. Pinkham
Bete
Desler
Lali Rede
Mires
Tdge
University OF Notre Dame
Notre Dame
Indiana
A. Morrissey
C. C
ST. Mary's Academy
Sisters of the Holy Crow
Conservatory of Music
Boston Normal School of Gymnastice
Addraex
Indias
Ca Oon
Eethin Gat
Sheratsoo
J. Moffett, M. D., Sr
Louis, Mo
Davine
Winchester
Winchester Repeating Arms CO
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Winchester Avenue
Bew Haven
Conn
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