Labor Notes

A co-bperative cotton mili will be started in Columbia, S. C. The Cigarmakers' International Union issued two new cháVters last nonth. The Order of Railway Telegraphers favors the federation of all railroad organizations. The unión manufacturéis of the green glass industry have agreed to advance the wages of employés 5 per cent. Window glass manufacturera of Pittsburgh, Pa., and vicinity,. have organized a "selling agency" with a capital of $25,000,000. The national strike of tailors to equalize conditions in other clothing markets with those which exist in New York is now under way. The Chicago & Alton shops, in Bloomington, 111., began operation this month for a nine-hour schedule for the first time in two years. The garment workers' strike in Boston is practically over. Fully twothirds of the employers have granted the terms of the strikers.