The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-02-09
IN THE FIELD OF LABOR.
LfTEST NEBs or WORRINGNEN
AND THETR WAGES.
Paragraphs OF Interest Gathered From
the Busy Worid-About Labor
Organizations.

Frisco has 30 upion PAINTERS.
Unionism is thriving at Omaha
America has 100000 union men.
Duluth Mattresses have a union.
Bo'ton boasts 200 union brewers.
st. Paul has a hack drivers union.
Dublin carpenters organized in l45s.
Indian florists have a State society.
Buffalo has Polish laborers' union.
In China BARRIERS get three cents a day.
New York farmers talk Of organizing.
Lansing, Mich. grocers have union.
Union Wives" IS ST. Louis society,"
Omaha has a free employment bureau.
Buffalo engineers have just organized.
Miss Frances willard is a single-taxer.
London has a club Of 500 trained nurses.
Chicago blacksmiths get $3.50 per week.
New York has eleven unions Of eng1-
neers.
New York brass moulders recently orga-
nized.
There are a.los Brotherhood locomotive
hrement.
American factories employ 100000 chill
dren.
Macon Ga. union plumbers set 20 FOR
eight hours.
Niagara Falls now has Central Labor
Union.
Enelands cooperative societies employ
5000 souls.
Michigan hardware dealers have state
Association
Youngstown. O., electric railways have
consolidated.
Upholstercrs Of jamestown. y. W. have
organized.
Missouri unions demand the abolition OF
convict labor.
Providence. r. /, seamen get from SIS
10 so a month.
ST. Joseph No. BARRIERS we're arrested
for Sunday work.
Riverside, Cal, clerks held an early
closing mass-meeting.
HaverhiH, Mass. lasters' strike was sat
isfactorily adjusted.
Chicago Typographical Union has raised
monthly dues 10 s..
Detroit striking broommakers estab-
lished cooperative factory.
Frisco Sailors Union has gained 400
members in four months.
China locomotive engineers are paid
from Sli to 50 per month
The Detroit Walters Union will increase
the scale for banquets. etc.
Glasgow operates its railways and the
town enjoys half-ponny fares.
Amaleamsted Society Of Plumbers and
Gas-ftters has 1900 members.
Newark. y. T.. BARRIERS want law com
Polling a Sunday haif-hoiiday
Cleveland wire drawers are agitaung
eight hours and 90 cents an hour.
A labor mass-mocHng was held IN n
Los Angeles. Cal. W. l.. Church.
New York Ladies Tafors' Union has
opened free employment bureau
New York and YOUNGSTOWN have abol-
ished the lodging privilege in jaiis.
Georgia railroads demand one and one
half days pay for q 1l-mile run.
Cleveland unions tan, Of holding open
meetings on Sunday for lectures, etc.
International holders claim that thel-
union has gained 5000 members in year.
Chicago cigarmakers will pay . cents
week 10 a fund Tor unemployed members.
An luNIuIaNOIlS ttllFNaI superb NNH'NiN
has been sued FOR $4,000 FOR blacklisunS.
Labor Commissioner Carroll D. Wright
says workingmen pay too much rent
Louisville City Council rejected the petit
ton Of unions for conductors on street
ears.
Cincinnati bricklayers demand eight
hours and IS IL cents an hour. Bosses
oner 4 cents.
Cleveland o.. street-railway hands get
90 cents an hour and make from N.s5 10
81 day.
An Albany company has asked for a
street-railway franchise and guarantees
a Scent. fare.
Several Paris lawyers have opened an
Office where the poor are given legal ad- |
vice free OF charge.
New Orleans carpenters have petiuoned /
City Council 20 pass an eight-hour IT," !
FOR carpenters.
4 bin before the Utah Legislature fixes !
eight hours as days work IN mines 1
mills, and smelters.
In France locomotive engineers receive /
SIS 10 So a month frcment, IS 10 80 /
conductors, $50 to $50.
Cleveland shoeworkers' strike was COM /
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