The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-12-20
THE FIELD
OF LABOR.

Newark silk weaver struck.
Tacoma has chinese taiiors'
Mexico has 10000 miners.
Chicago photographers organized
chicago photographers have a label
Minnesota BARRIERS held a state con-
venticH. -
A boycotted Boston magazine has IAN
indianapolis has a cooperative laun-
dry.
Mexico sends coal to the United states
1t. Paul Is to have union aDci eN-
hibltion.
Galveston boast OF French night
school.
Minnesota plumbers held a state con-
vtntion.
p,vsl muslca, unions al Newark are
at odds.
augusta tGa) cotton operatives organ
tied.
New York will enforce the weekly pay
mept of wages law
Kansas city striking printers Will os-
lablish a cooperative plant.
PENNSYLVANIA Central Labor Unions VIII
mold a State convention.
Boston bookbinders advocate the use CT
the union label in school books.
Lansing 1Afich) unions are boyc' <tlne
the street cars and a local theatf
New YORK cigar-packers viii ofpose a
movement 10 replace men Wit. :, girls.
81. Pauls unions want BIZ .,lsng inspec-
tors who are practical IN .chanics.
Grand Rapids union .aEbers are after
the union patrons OF .ol,-union shops.
Detroit has 1880 idle men. and $4,000
has been appropi ,a;ed for city worK.
The FIRST uni N label is said TO have
been adoptSo ia Abyssinia 5W years pe-
Superio =. (Wis) has only one non-union
once ana the nine-hour day mas JUST
pee" introduced.
curr.cn states were represented d,
fbe first convention OF the Fcdeidtioh VI
labor i'm PittsDurg, leol
Hamburg longshoremen's strike TOT l.
cents an hour rs going 10 pieces. hwy
were getting 10 IL cents.
New York varnishers want the painters
20 do only the painting, ana ledNe the
vanishing TO the varnishers'
Tho Chicago Woodworkers Union pro
tests against boXmakers ana saWyeIs
securing charter from the Federation Vi
Labor.
District AS, rbly ~. N. OF L.. was not
s-nccessfIl i'm getting members OF the order
~xhom n suggested on the New YORK
grand jury lists.
Samuel Gompers was the first presi-
dent of the Federation OF LABOR, ana
held mat ONCE ioi INN 'oS" F "
'Ccssion.
poadv Kenehan. OF the Horseshoers'
International Union, favors the eslab-
lishment of a labor department Dy Soh-
gress.
II II were not for labor unions, wages
would be controlled entreiy DN deildlu
and supply, and would be Whatever We
could get.-Ncw York Copy HOOK.
At last Sundays meeting at the New
York Central Labor Union delegate
was not allowed TO speak because nc
had been absent from three meetings.
A Brockton (Aiass) salesman VINO was
discharged because he was not union
Isl, won a suit against the labor 0rgdni-
zatfon which caused his dismissal Inc
Court awarded the plaintiii 81.
Yankton CDaD union clerks secured
early closing. Lynn clerks have won
Thursday hdlf-hoiiday. CouitIahu IN H.
clerks have organized.
Union roofers in New York have lodged
protest with the city authorities against
the employment of prisoners al rooIhS
on the Blackwells Island buildings, ana
also at Bellevue Hospital.
A delegate at the New York Central
Labor Union claimed that the building
trades represented the intelligence OF or
ganized labor. and that the musicians
and brewers were nuisance In continu-
ally airing their grievances.
What did you get Tor The shaVef
asked Magistrate Mott of New York, OF
Frank Lopolo an Italian barber whom
a policeman had caught shaving Gus
toner on Sunday. Ten cents. replied
the barber. Then you're fined ten cents
said Mott.
Buffalo union hucksters want no
licenses issued TO people who are not
citizens and residents of that city for six
months. They want persons under eigh-
teen kept out of the business and the
Mayor 10 appoint an Inspector:
a London paper forced the biggest En-
lfGh roll To r.tn tn. mo 70,
for being unionists The New York Jour
nails fight against the proposed gas trust
will probably force the Board of Alder
men TO reconsider its action. Consolida-
tion of five companies would throw 1900
people out of employment and Kill COM
petition.
At recent meeting of st. Paul union
label leagues the form Of petition for Sc
curing the signatures of those who will
agree to purchase and handle-consu-
mers and dealers-unon label bearing
goods was decided upon, and the Execu-
tive Board instructed TO have some print
ed and properly distributed among mem
bers OF organized labor for the purpose
OF getting the desired signcrs.
II. Galloway. a nail manufacturer at
Gateshead Eng. is investigating the in
dustral conditions of this country. He
says: Hours of work are much longer
here than they are IN England There no
workman VIII work more than fifty-four
hours week; here | notice that sixty
and seventy hours week is the rule
Another thing that | have learned Is
that In America a workman can be dis
charged AT moments notice. That can
not be done i'm England"
The prospect Is that Secretary Howard
Will continue 10 spend his winters in the
South for some time TO come. The Ma
tional Spinncrs' Union is determined TO
push the work of southern organization
until the hours OF labor have been re-
duced to level with those In New Eng
land, and until other laws are passed by
the southern legislatures that will con
form with the laws on the Massachusetts
statute books.
Newspaper owners and advertising So
licitors throughout the country will be
interested i'm the latest achievement of
successful solicitor. For last SUNDAYS
Record he secured no less than twenty
TWO columns OF advertising. principally
small cards. afgregating Sl.t00 Every
llSe OF these cards was written by Mr.
Thalhimcr. whose ability as an adVertie-
ing writer Is exceeded by few men I'm this
country. Mr.. Thalhimcr is but twenty
four years old.
At Lynn Patrick Il. sherry. who in the
palmy DAYS OF the knights of Labor made
reputation as bitter opponent of union
labor In his fight against the knights
ana the Lastcrs' Union. taking his case
10 the supreme Court of the Common
wealth. has notified his help that on
January LIST he would put a u-ice-list in
force in his shoe factory which would
ne materially higher than that now in
use. other firms are cutting the scale
from Is 10 p per cent. sherry saws n
cut Is not necessary.
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