The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-07-12
IN THE FIELD OF LABOR.
LATEST NEWS or WORRIyGMEN
AND THEIR VICES.
Paragraphs of Interest Gathered From
the Busy World-About Organized
Labor.

Hartford bakers Won a strike
Toledo huckster's license is so
Buffalo carpenters won eight hours
New York las scent BARRIERS.
Milwaukee has 17,5i2 water meters.
Frisco socialists are forming political
clubs.
Des Moines IS fighting the school-book
trust.
st. Paul unionlsts talk OF establishing a
cooperative colony IN Minnesota
Florida underwriters held a State con-
venticu.
highlands Independent Labor party has
- 900 votes.
Bakers have 80 unions.
Theatrical employees meet at Detroit
this week.
California Single Takers Will hold
The states have 100000 children at
work
Boston carpenters want eight hours on
May ], 1891.
New York brewery wagon drivers get
New York plasterers get 81 FOR eight
hours
Frisco socialists Will hold q convention.
New York has a Board Of Walking
Delegates.
Los Angeles Cinnamon are boycottlng
Chinese merchants who cut prices.
Last year Buffalo placed l3ll families
saved - 400
Milwaukee Trades Council VIII ignore
the advice OK President Gompers to es-
chew politics
Boston Central Labor Union tabled a
free-sllvcr resolution.
Frisco bricklayers want eight hours.
Fort Dodge Oa) miners were locked
out.
A "IIome Industry Exposition" IS to be
held at San Francisco.
Chattanooga painters. decorators. and
paper-hangers are getting together.
81. Louis concrete workers complail
that while tho bricklayers and carpcn-
tcrs work but eight hours each day.
they are compelled TO put I'm ten hours
day for $50. They struck for eight
hours.
-. Paul policemon's wages have been
reduced 10 so Il month, and new men will
A 81. Louis cclored barber was severely
handled for refusing 20 shave two ne
grOo'.
Rochester telegraph boys struck when
the free delivery district was extended
Many Washington %. c. shoe NOR
chants have agreed 10 close at l.. VI.
and noon on Saturdays.
An Independent company has cut the
price OF Ice 10 . cents per 100 at In
dianapolis At first the trust declared
In New York the large firms outside the
Iron League Will make an agreement
with the HOvsesmiths and Bridgemen's
Union. whereby the minimum wage viii
not be less than 500 a day for eight
hours on and after September lsr. The
lowest rate AZ present Is S2.2j day.
IOrcmen Of gangs are paid as high rs s..
Bass & Co, OF Burton-on- Trent. Eng
land OBdss' aio). got mp an excursion for
1900 Of their employees the other day.
taking them 20 BlackpOol IN seventeen
trains. They had hired every show In
tho p'Ccc. aud cpcred them FREQ 20 the
cNcUreionlsts besides providing steamers
for q sea trip. free railroad tickets. and
cnOrrh money 20 pay Tor tho incidcntal5.
"Big Six Typographical 'lniOn). of
New York CITY has been suspended by
tho Central Labor Union.
THE International Association ~ Ma
chuists has lost It's case IN court against
Empire city Lodge 80, Ot NeW York.
Tho lodge was - PEELED recently for To-
fuslrg 10 sever its connection with the
Socialist T'ade ard Labor Alliance. The
expelled lodge was called upon by the
Grand Lodge officers. told surrender It's
charter and pgrlphe rnal'a, but refused
ON the ground that. having paid for these
supplies Do was Crutlcd 10 keep them ana
do what n pleased With the property.
The mining industry n- Linton. nd.
nnl over n large purt ~ tho Indiana field.
During the year. with Illinois on the near
west and Ohio on the east mining coal
80 five cents less Ter ton. Indiana coal
was driven out q ore market after an
other.
"In many States" saws Congressman
Hardy. wv. now have laws making 10
misdemeanor for an individual employer
0r q corporation 10 discharge employees
solely because they DO or DO not belong
10 Labor organizations and .or one !
shall chcerfully advocate and vote Tor
su'h a measure ln Congress whlch Will
apply tO the District Of Columbia
An the pretty girls who are mcmhers
Of tho Woman's Branch OF tle BOOK
binders Union. Of New York. have re-
solved not 10 eat nOn-union dressed meat.
The Letter Carriers National AssOcia-
ton talks OF Joining the American feie-
ration Of Labor.
Stationary engineers have 300 unions.
& thousand miners are killed and more
fnn 1c' o'D injured every year since
1851. 42l9 miners have been kill
statistics have Just been issued
~ tho British Government IN con-
noction with the laws for the addi-
ffoual protection Of those who labor IN
the mines which they are endeavoring 10
get enacted by Parliament
An early closing mass meeting was heu
M ST. Louis. II was called LOT ,hc pur
iu summer and SUNDAY closing OF tHe
downtown stores all the year round.
"Tins are charity" says the general
eocrefnrv OF the BARRIERS Union. ne
harlcrs Of New York may scon at our
unlon. but the fac stu re-
mains that not one shop through
out the United states or can
ada. where a union shop-card OF the
international Union is displayed, Is com
polled to rely on the charity or lts pa,
IRONS I'M order that the men employed
,i,@.lf, my p..fn a livelihood" Secre-
tary Klapetsky advises the ~" ioi N'''
Tho unioa label is religious emblem.
II fs o religious act 10 buy goohs 10 MHlcu
this label IS attached an act piest ca
earth and honored in heaven; while ~ Is
a sin 10 buy cigar. a piece OF cio.l,.S'
n pair of shoes or q LOAF or bread Win
c,,, tbis label for then YOU DO not know
bnt what YOU are building mp the busi-
moss ~ some hogrtless tyrdnt VINO Is tN-
tracing a fortune from the drudtery anu
degradation Of his fellows AZ the llsh
Of pubic hCalth.-Rev. wafer Nrool.u,l,
Toledo street railway men demaIinS
,,.cre conceded without a strike. The
agreement provides. First, nine hours
shau constituto a days work. second
each car shall have two crews OF TWO men
each. third there shall be Two grades OF
waees. Ner So the employ OF dhe colh-
pany three months or l@s 5nan l.1'.,i.',
rs cents an hour. M.h V.' ~
shall receive Is cents an hour.
Tyveive hundred people have gone
through Juneau In tho last year bouna
for the Yukon region. Alaska There
,,ust be OaO or 1900 miners UP there
now. At the FOrty-mile camp there are
sixty women. They are getting modern
conveniences up there-billiarf tables ana