The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-04-05
IN THE FIELD OF LABOR.
LATEST NEWS OF WORkINGMEN
AND THEIR WAGES.
Paragraphs OF Interest Gathered from
the Busy world-About Organ
ized Labor.


Buffalo held an e.ht-hour meeting.
In Vienna paper-box factories the aver
age for skilled young women IS Sl.60 a
week. Vienna has 81. 400 prostitutes.
Plttsburg has three cooperative con-
| Germs.
Duluth carpenters reorganized.
| Chicago laundry workers organized.
Bricklayers and masons have over 100
| local unions.
| thriving.
Federation of Labor was organized In
| 1851.
Chlcago's Printing Trades Council is a
| purely local affair.
Horseshoers talk OF demanding eight
hours on July ].
Union plasterers will be employed on
| the Detroit High School building.
| Brooklyn has Theatrical Caic'uh
Light Operators Union.
New York Central Labor Union turned
| down Socialists.
San Franeisco cooks and walters have
| organized.
Detroit German bartenders will get TO
| gether.
The constitutionality OF Utah's eight
hour bill is being discussed
Grand Forks striking printers VIII es-
tsblish a paper.
minneapolis and ST. Paul unions are
holding a series of Joint meetings.
Illinois convict cigar factory Is fall
ure.
Cleveland axmakers struck against cut
OF 10 per cent
Chicago pressmen's union was formed
In the COS.
A Kansas City union will act THE Long
Strike" melodrama.
San Francisco contains about 80 plumb
ers and they recently formed a union
In Transvaal mines negroes get SIS a
month, with board and lodging, for eight
hours work per day.
Oil City pa molders struck for $3.50
a day.
A bricklayer Is a candidate for Alder
man in Chicago.
Said Potter Palmer, OF Chicago, in a
recent interview: For ten years I made
as desperate a fight against organized
labor as was ever made by mortal man.
It cost me considerably more than a mill
lion dollars to learn that there is no labor
so skilled, so intelligent, so faithful as
that which is governed by an organiza-
ton whose officials are well-balanced,
levol-headed men. now employ none but
organized labor. and never have the least
trouble, each believing that the one has
no right to Cypress the other.
The government OF New South Wales.
which operates the telephone business.
recently reduced the rate to $40 year for
business places ana S25 for residences.
All the world over the problem exercis-
Ing thinkers IS: What shall we DO for
ba Of l-c0 bn Of
New Zealand put them on cooperative
works adjacent 10 plots Of land, upon
which they are offered easy terms for
settling thereupon as tillers OF the soil
and wage-earning at odd times upon pub
lie works. just now a conference is sit
ting over the GOrdian knot in our sister
colony Of New South Wales. one delegate
(Mr. McGarry) moved that the govern
ment should establish a model village of
workingmen's homes within 30 miles OF
Sydney. run trains from the city TO suit
the residents, and build markets and other
public buildings.-New Zealnad letter in
Eight Hour Herald.
A big mass-meeting was held at Los
Angeles, Cal, under the auspices OF
Trades Council 10 boycott japanese and
Chinese restaurants. 1t is said there are
seventeen japanese restaurants in Los
meals down 20 ten cents, with cake, pie,
fee cream, etc, thrown in.
Not few people in San Francisco fear
that the introduction of the one-cent piece
would reduce wages.
The Lake Carriers Association has In
creased wages of lake seamen T. IL per
cent. over the card figures of April, 1895.
This practically embraces all the shipping
on the great lakes.
Pittsburg caulkers lost a strike for So.
Fort Wayne machinists were forced to
leave the Central Labor Union by their
employers electric light firm when the
Central Union declared for a municipal
light plant.
The San Francisco Labor Bureau has
billiard tables. all the latest papers chess
and checker boards and library 1t has
it's own cigar store and laundry; also its
lyceum.
Knoxville blacksmiths will reorganize
The Legislative Council of the Victoria
australia Council decided to amend the
factories bill in the direction Of having
board for each aected trade for the
whole colony to fix the hours and rates
OF pay such board TO De elected by the
employers
Manchester On. H cutters and lasters
struck against cut-the former TO $3.50
per week.
The jOurneymen plumbers gas and
steam filters OF Kansas City will demand
eight hours on May 4; $3.50 for senior
plumbers, SO for senior steam filters, and
81 for juniors.
At San Francisco Jabez Swan, Of Swan
e Stein, stated that he hoped the Pain
ters' Union would win their fight. He
said: From the first have always con-
Quoted a urIon shop. When 1 was asked
10 give the house-painters eight hours a
day l did So and voluntarily reduced the |
time Of the sign-painters to eight hours |
also. Ny men are ell at work to-day, al |
-hough / urged them not TO come back |
until the strike was settled or at least |
until Il was all right for them to do So"
The painters demand So for eight hours |
and decline TO work with non-union men. |
The master and the journeymen horse |
shoers of Omaha are taking a series or ]
lectures on that portion OF the horse I
which is connected so closely with their |
trade.
The Minnesota Iron Company notified It's |
miners that union men would be discharg- |
I'd. and i'm a week the membership or the |
doubled.
Mayor Sutro, OF San Francisco, has |
ordered that union men be employed in |
MS bath establishment.
Detroit has 500 union shoemakers, but |
employers have never recognized the or
Mayor Pingree Is interested |
N a new factory and the union men are
rejoicing.
Iron and steel workers will hold their
convention at Detroit. May |
TO-
Typographical Union, No. G. OF New
York, paid out $4,000 to unemployed men,
Ders last year. a tax OF l per cent, is
nnu, tnIEnd Of for this nlIrnnse- so that