The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-10-28
IN THE FIELD OF LABOR.
r,TE,y NEWS or WORN INGuEN
AND THEIR WAGES.
,,,r.,bs of Interest Gathered From
the Busy Worid-About
Organized Labor.

BuUAID new VI co't'et~''
4 brick trust is threatened.
Colorado has Italian miners.
America tolerates S29 trusts.
New York peddlers will reorganize.
The world has 100000 unionists.
London has 1850 pauper children.
Nashville white BARRIERS organized.
Electricity runs Derry shoe mill.
Duluth is to have d labor temple.
John Bull has 1909 lady postal clerks.
Cley Gland has a cooperative grocery.
Germany's railroads cover 29.O32 miles.
New York is TO have a 30-story building.
There are 1900 boot and shoe union
lists.
San Jose (caD Labor Exchange is
dead.
Atlanta stonecutters struck for s2.75
day.
Washington. ID. c.. plasterers have or
ganiZed.
White men took the places Of Chinese
strikers at Frisco
Cleyelani has d union OF walking dele
gates
Toledo hotel and restaurant employees
Organized.
Washington Unionlsts will prosecute
Sunday blrbers.
New York is to have a cooperative res
taurant.
Syracuse Unionists want no city fran
chiscs sold.
Unionism is dsplacing Socialism 10
Germany.
The Washington Lumber Trust has
thrown 200 men ont Of work.
New York Union hackmen will oppose
the movement for lower fares.
Frisco lawyers have organized and viii
recommend four Superior Judges
Toledo has the only union Of carpet
layers and diapers in America.
\ New Yorker who was boycotted has
sued the union for 5000
Belefonte (Pa) IS 10 have a co-opera-
tive glass plant.
In Switzerland q telephone message
costs from TO cents.
Hop-pickers at Puyalup. Wash, get
81 10 10 cents per loo pounds.
Montreal bakers Increased tho price OF
a fOur-pound loaf two cents.
\ cooperative cracker factory may be
established at Cleveland by the Union.
In eighteen years the number OF trades
unionists has jumped from Al 900 TO
half million
Government employees in the classified
service will form national organiza-
ton.
Rochester Common Council has decided
that all city printing must bear the
union label.
Trio Eieht-lIour Herald suggests self
spacing type as "a means TO keep out ma
chimes
Washington Unionists have asked the
government to pay navy-yard bricklay-
crs - a day.
Gompers joined the Cigarmakers' In
tcrnatipnal Union when he was Il years
old.
The Midland Mechanic kansas city,
hereafter will be set by hand compost
ton.
4 New York Carpenters Union has
donated 81 10 "a member Of Union g OF
Brooklyn. who is old and infrm.
The Omaha ordinance compelling re-
tail coal dealers to pay $40 year tax
has been declared invalid
Prince Hiikon. now Russian Minister.
once worked in a Philadelphia locomo-
tive shop a 81 a day.
Card-room workers OF Fall River and
New Bedford have decided 10 boycott
non-union made goods.
California Railroad Commissioners in
sist that they have the right to fix the
street railway fare.
II is claimed that labor is better Or
ganized in the city Of Detroit than in
any other city i'm America
Glasgow's municipal water plant yields
profit Of 10000 year In London phi
yatc companies earn s70o0.000 a year.
The Washington Purity OF Election
law requires that every bit OF election
printing shall bear the name Of the Of
flee from which 1t Is issued.
Men nj work on Portland. Ne. ele-
vator struck for 20 cents an hour. Lost
\ W.nham watch firm cut wages J.
per cent
The 800 members OF the Miners Union
OF Telluride district have agreed 10 con-
tribute s. each 20 the support OF the
Leadville strikers.
The ST. Paul Coopers' Union is con-
fronted with another iabor-saving ma
chne-a hoop-driv!ng machine-which Is
causing them some concern.
In the last six months the Cigarmak-
ers' Label Committee issued gi.. ~ union .
labels. an increase OF lyJ.0cO over the
previous six months.
Boston steamftters won a strike and
forced a brother OF the boss 10 pay his
back dues 10 the union. Only union Jour
neymen and helpers wiz be employed.
ST. Paurs Bricklayers' Union is inter-
ested in the preparation of a bill provid-
ing for the appointment OF practical
and competent bricklsver on the Build
ing Inspector staff
BROOKLYN Central Labor Union ha- of-
ncially invaded the domain Of politics
and will work 10 defeat Legislative can
didates who have not been In sympathy
with ORGANIZED labor and its simr.
The New York Architectural Iron