The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-11-15
IN THE FIELD OF LABOR.
LATEST NEWS OF WORkfNGMEN
AND THEIR WAGES.
p.r.rrapbs of Interests Gathered From
tho Busy World-About
Organized Labor.
Pictures are telegraphed.

Pictures are telegraphed.
| Japan reports several strikes.
a boycott ruined a Frisco firm.
The South has go cotton mills.
| Kansas has n l,637-acre orchard.
The ventilated shoe gains favor.
Rockefeller earns LBS per hour.
| Missouri boasts one-pound apples.
Great Britain has 5000 teachers.
Cigarmakers' Union has $4,000.
Nashville anticipates s. a ton coal.
Rubber horscshoes are multiplying.
| New York has 10000 unemployed.
Ponns, /, ania contains Hlll saloons.
Tho musical bicycle plays az 1t goes.
California is raising Japanese hemp.
Tho Carpenter is to be enlarged to thir-
| ty-two pages.
New Workers. pay s3O.Ooo.oOo a year for
| beer.
Denver is promised cheap phones by
new company.
North Carolina is to have a cooperative
colony.
Minneapolis is to have Building Trades
Council.
Toledo street Railway Union is the big
gest in that town.
Custom tailors have gained thifty-two
unions since January LIST.
Ten unions compose the new Fall River
Central Union.
The Socialist Labor party, OF Buuaio'
has woman's aug iliary.
An Ohio oil company cut wages OF
pumrers frcm $50 10 $50.
New York walters object to cigarmak-
ers working walters.
A big Detroit printing and stationary
company has just been unionized.
The New York Upholsterers' Union Sc
cured severity new members last week.
Brooklyn theatrical stage employees are
charged with meeting in non-union han.
Tho International Association OF Ma
chinists now has twenty-five district
lodges in the United States.
All Leadville letter-carrers struck be-
cause the Department refused to enter
tain grievance.
Nearly 800 new men have been added
this year TO the New York police force,
and 4S5 more are TO he appointed.
The Wholesale and Retail Liquor Deal
ers' and Brewers League, OF san Francis
CO, is opposing woman suffrage.
MINNEAPOLIS grocers secured the defeat
of an alderman who favored the issu-
ance Of free licenses to pe1fllers.
The Boston Union for Industrial Pro-
gress is composed entirely OF women.
Boston Building Trades Council kicks
against the employment OF non-residents
AMI nOn-uniOnists on municipal Work.
81 Iirca. O.. the Pittsburg. Fort Wayne,
and Chicago Railway has reduced the
wages of section men ten per cent.
IN West Virginia neither party now
nOmfnateg a legislative ticket without CIV
ing a place TO d representative OF labor.
The Architectural Iron Workers Union
of Rrooklyn will give benefit on Novem-
Der 18th, for its unemployed members.
Washington Operative Plasterers' Union
has been admitted to the Central Labor
Union, despite the protest OF tho brick
layers.
Illinois Factory Inspector suggests
COMPULSORY education law. Women are
dispiacing men. and children women; new
machines displacing all three
II is said that five railway brotherhoods
will ioin the Federation of Labor at the
coming convention. Eight hours VIII be a
leading toric.
Berne. switzerland. has system OF in
surance agains. Involuntary idleness. Men
nav \ cents per month and the city con-
tributes less than $1,000 year. single
members unemployed get - cents day;
married. 30 cents.
Ii is said that the knights or Labor
organization is now in a more prosperous
condition that il has been Tor some years.
Genei al Secretary Hayes reports that los
new local assemblies were added withln
the past twelve months. Notwithstanding
the very general stagnation OF industry.
An effort will be made 10 organize ldpOr
in a most thorough manner during lSy''
The movement made by Montreal re-
tailers in opposition 10 the city bylaw re-
curing shops 10 be closed at +. NJ, is
81. hot M
of the CITY who assembled the other even
ing 10 the number of five hundred ana
declared the necessity OF the early Closing
bylaw from the point OF view OF thelr
educational. sanitary, and aesthetic neeus.
The Retail GroceTs' Association held
speciaI meeting, and agreed upon form
OF petition asking the City Council 10 sus-
pend the operation Of the bylaw untii
Judgment upon it is given by the Su-
prome Court.
California Labor Convention has pur-
chased a batch of proposed laws uhuer
these heads: Eight hours, bakeries Dohu
protecting labor on puDhc "orho' 'I'a.
ing labor bure; u, regulating employment
offices. per diem on public work, oaSers
hours time 81 eek system. Identity OF prs
on-made goods, renting advance cost vi
suit. COLI sion with employment agents
emnIcymont of citizens, boiler inspectors,
nroviding for payment OF employees cost
If vorlnen's lawsuits, 10 pass mecnah
les lien law. recommending the repeal OF
the poll tax. a law 10 fix state Labor-Day
The drst Monday in september, 10 FUR
nish the primary and grammar GRADES
cf the public schools text books Tree 10 All
pupils.
The English Pcstmaster-Generai has
tried the eieht-h hour day for teleSraphers'
and is enthusiastic over the BENEFITS de-
rived for tho service and the men.
a clrscry examination Of the condi-
ton of the working classes in all coun-
tries where there is a lack of organization
on trades union lines says president
Perkins will az sccsc the fact that thor
social and economic status is on deplor-
ably low Mare. and the workers are found
IN lie IGNORANT md Indifferent. Orsaniza-
lion awakens the latent intelligence ot inc
worker opens his eyes 10 the possibilities
OF Ufe. enables him to acquire more ma
more OF its comforts. and gradually Dut
errcIv educate % ouch point that ne
win <row precisely what he wants ana
how 10 get II. and through discipline and
tbcroueh ORGANIZATION will he able 10
echieve the fulhlment of labors ampi-
ton"