The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-10-04
IN THE FIELD OF LABOR.
LATEST NEWS OF UORKIAGMEN
AND THEIR WAGES.
Paragraphs of Interest Gathered From
the Busy World-About
Organized Labor.
A machine paints.

JAPAN contains O-,v4y tedcner5
The South has 40 cotton mills.
London has Ov,OOy costermongers.
Duluth Is 10 have d labor temple.
Vienna has an embroidery sCfCOl.
Minneapolis horseshoers organized.
AUSTRALIA Will export frozen flowers.
a biotting-paper towel Is announced.
Mexican tobacco is invading Florida
There are $40 union cisdrmakerS.
Richmond mas a negro BARRIERS union
Minneapolis DartenderS Will organize.
Boston s~ailmakers dcmand nine hours.
The word employs iOJ.UJ locomotives.
There is a birthstone trust.
There III electric steyedors.
Gene a makes a 800 watch.
Buffalo machiniatS won strike.
Knots are tied by machinery.
Illinois has 5000 coal miners.
Leather Is cOlOred by electricity.
Terre Haul has 100 unionlsts.
NO sunday street-cars at Glasgow.
Europe employees t3.UO locomotives.
a Maxim eCn nres 600 shots "a minute.
Glasgow has a 4ts-ioct hign chimney.
IonGOn has "A .OOU domestic servants.
Cook county, H.. has 3,l2l physicians.
Rockefeller has SlSu, 10000
Frisco Transfers organized.
Virginia city has Chinese liquor dealers.
Kansas City is 10 have an underwriters
school.
America has 7147 union cigar factories.
Uncle sam pays his sailmakerS - for
eight hours.
New York architectural iron workers
strike was compromised.
Philadelphia shoemakers have adopted
a label.
Agents for New York crayon houses
have organized.
Kansas city building trades council has
Chicago X. Of L. will join the Brother
hood.
Washington, d. c.. Times has a Single
Tax column
Alaska has fox farms.
Germany has $4,000 trades unionists.
Chicago has "A tunne miners union.
Frisco BARRIERS want early closing.
There are 900 union brass mOulders.
Washington herdic fare t. three cents.
Detroit hack-lriyers' license Is 81 a year.
Wisconsin druggists held 4 state con-
ventiOn.
View York German butchers have a
brooklyn has a Workman's Cremation
Society.
day work.
Negroes must sit IN the rear seats OF
Atlanta. Ca, street cars.
Non-union molders at Albion, Mich,
struck.
Poughkeepsle IN. y. printers struck
Frsog shooworksrs have formed a
union.
Detroit liquor dealers will organize TO
counteract the anti-saloon movement.
Washington has a Workingman's Ii
brary Association.
St. Louis bakers AVE established a
paper. It's German.
Plasterers now pay 500 TO the family
OF 81 dead member.
All union cooks at Minneapolis are en-
ployed.
A Chicago cigar dealer was fined 500
for cOunterfeiting tho union label.
A Minneapolis barber shop was deprived
Of the Union label for polishing shoes free
Of cost.
New washington, D. c.. unions: Hold
carriers. piasterers. retail oil dealers.
New York has a, Church Association FOR
the Advancement Of the Interests Of
Labor.
The Victorian Government has decided
that convict labor must not compete with
free labor.
The union label Of International Mar
bic Workers Union will be registered In
New York.
There are now 1890 buildings in pro-
cess Of construction In the city OF New
York.
Ishpeming. Mich. miners have been
cut to an average OF Sl.75 per day, labor
ers. s1.25.
Pacific coast manufacturers are invited
to display their products at an exposition
at Los Angeles.
The Wheeling Public Library has ac-
ceded TO the request OF unionists that
two labor weeklles be kept on file.
Greater New York was represented by
100 delegates at the Cigarmakers' lnterna-
tional Convention.
only one Fall River textile mill was
idle last week. one firm is running till 10
Z. NJ.
At Frisco the Board OF Heath has re-
fused to employ any but union labor in
whitening and painting schoolhouses.
ST. Louis clgarmakers have decided 20
inaugurate a local ort-of-work benefit
fund for those who are unemployed dur
ing the winter.
The maximum price OF natural gas for
the next five years has been fixed by
Young town, o., Council at % cents per
1000 feet.
New Orleans street car workers want
ten hours to constitute a days work. at
eighteen cents per hour, or ten hours per
day at 81 per month.
New Haven women employees OF a New
Haven rubber factory struck against a
cut 10 s13O a day.
The miners at the Black Jack mine
at Silver City. New, are erecting a school
house IN the vicinity OF the mine by pop
ular subscription.
Blufton, Ind, domestics' union IS thriv-
ing. They want four nights on a week
and possession OF the parlor Sunday
nights.
The Iaborcrs' Union Of Brooklyn fur
nished the chairman for the meeting OF
the Central labor Federation Of Brook
Ign last Sunday.
The Brotherhood Carpenters minimum
iniation fee has been raised 10 8. and the
minimum monthly dues raised to 10 cents
for benefit members.
The Central Labor Union OF Brooklyn
last Sunday detected one Of the new dele
gates OF the Journeymen Painters and
Decorators Union wearing a n%on-union
hat.
The Frisco Election Commissioner Cid
not award the contract for printing 70 the
lowest bidder because It was feared that
his bid did not insure the employment
OF union labor
Tho president OF a big Brooklyn brew
cry told a Central Labor Union committee
that he had no objection TO his engineers
joining n union.
The Minneapolis. 81. Paul & Sault Ste.
Marie Railway has tried the experiment
Of letting each locomotive engineer hire
his own fireman. and the plan is said TO
have worked very well. IT IS now proposed
TO let each conductor hire his own brake.
men.