The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-02-23
IN THE FIELD OF LABOR
LATEST NEWS OF WORKINGMEN
AND THEIR WAGES.
Paragraphs of Interest Gathered from
tho Busy World-About Labor
Organizations.

Brussels has a socialist university
Toledo IS TO have single tax club.
There are negro carpenters unions.
There are 1900 union stonemasons.
Denver Post has a single tax column.
Toledo newspaper writer's will organ
lie.
In China stevedores get 80 cents a
day.
chicago carpenters want 40 cents an
hour.
Lincoln CNeb) Call has dropped Union
men.
Great Britain has 10000 union men.
Toledo laundry works have adopted
q label.
chicago has 10000 non-union garment
. .rkers.
Brocktons LabOrers' Union has 400
members.
Los. Angels. Cal, Journal has been
uniOnized.
St. Paul unions demand free text
school books.
New York cracker bakers will prob
ably organize.
Louisville municipal laborers got u II
cents an hOuf
Guatemala farm laborers average 81 IL
cents a day.
A mechanics lien law recently passed
Virginia's Senate.
Des Molnes attorneys are boycottlng
the Sherins office.
Kansas city butchers are fighting the
packers monopoly
New York State Grange will establish
cooperative stores.
A bid before the Ohio Legislature will
abolish Sunday shayes.
Chicago has 1900 union tin, sheet
iron and coronice workers.
Cheap fuel is the object OF Grand
Rapids cooperative society.
Municipal Ownership" was advocated
al ST. Paul Baptist Church.
Some Detroit teamsters struck for an
advance Of 90 cents per week.
Not one union electrical worker IN
San Francisco IS unemployed.
The Building Trades Council. OF San
Francisco, was recently formed.
Fan River weavers struck against the
Introduction Of the fines system.
No sub-contracting and union wages IS
q late order OF the British Admiralty.
ST. Joseph carpenters will demand on
April LIST. eight hours and $40 a day.
The san Francisco Labor Council sent
a delegate TO the good roads convention.
Mahon win try TO reorganize New
York and Brooklyn street railway work.
ers.
1t IS said that Cleveland has only fifty
non-union bOiermakers and Iron ship
builders.
A Chicago firm was fined 800 and
costs for counterfeiting the Cigarmakers'
Union label.
Atlanta unions viii hold a mass-meet-
ing 10 protest against the proposed 10
cation OF a Pinkerton agency.
Each member OF New York bakers
union Is taxed u cents week for un-
employed members OF the craft.
Chicago brewers IN order 10 force
man into their Association have cut the
scale at Racine 20 50 "a barrel
Kansas City Ministers Alliance mas
decided that each member shall devote
one sermon i'm March to labor.
In Guatemala stonecutters get 81
DAY but il takes S2l4 OF Guatemala mon
ey to luy one American dollar.
In IS year. switzerland has had only
500 strikes. and half were won by en-
ployes. There We're but ten lockouts.
Cleveland bridge workers won strike
caused by the discharge OF two men,
Men were reinstated ana union recoS-
nzed.
Brooklyn Central Labor Union expell-
ed n musical union that refused 10 ANAL
gamate with the fivo other musicians
unions.
The Ohio Legislature will pass upon
n bill which will require journeyman
horseshoer to pass AN examination prev
ious to being permitted tn work at the
trade