The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-10-18
In THE FIELD OF LABOR.
LATEST NEWS OF WORHIN0MhH
AND THEIR WAGES.
Paragraphs Of Interest Gathered From
the Busy Worid-About
Organized Labor.


| The krupp plant covers 200 acres
Tectorium is a substitute Tor glass.
SueZ Canal earns Si5,OJ0.Vyo yearly.
There's a thought weighing machine.
| California boasts a 1lS-pound squash.
| English railroads employ 40O.OO men.
| Germany has 4i0-foot high chimney.
Chicago electric roads cover 100 mile5.
The South's cotton crop: "o'VVo paies'
W. c. Whitney has $1,000 bedstead.
Worlds railway capital Is so'oVo'Vp.Wo.
New York city has 500 union prlcK-
| layers.
At Wayne, Mich, milk Is two cents
| quart.
New York State. has 30 machinists'
| unions.
! Tennessee is to have State Federation
| Of Labor.
Bakers have Is unions In and about
| New York city.
Massachusetts, stationary engineers will
form State union.
Washington bakers want Sunday de-
| liveries prohibited.
Brookiyns three trainers unions VIII
amalgamate.
The business agent OF a New York
bakers union gets so week
Hornellsville. y. Y. banks now handle
Canadian coin only at discount.
has TONED the Federation OF Labor.
Buffalo is 10 have n daily labor paper.
A labor fair will be held IN Buffalo.
Dublin QrelandD bricklayers' union has
n band composed OF bricklayers.
New York has GO branches OF the
Pricklayers' and Masons international
Union.
New Yorl, has Chinese cigarmakers.
jamestown. y. y, carpet workers
wages were cut 10 per cent.
Frisco unions hold p convention 20
prepare laws TO be submitted TO the Leg
islature.
Buffalo unions have appointed COM
nittee TO ask the municipality 70 fur
nish work 10 idle men.
Boston Building Trades Council dis
cnssed the unsafe condition OF public
schools and the danger 70 lives OF lit
tie ones.
The Amalgamated Society OF Carpen-
ters paid 81 1929 out-of-work benefits in
It's last fiscal year.
All members OF a New York bakers
union will be assessed 81 a month Tor
the payment of the out-of-work DEMENT'S.
An Anaconda CMont) woman has sued
the Carpenters Union FOR E.V" damages
because q boycott was placed on her
property.
The Brotherhood OF Painters and Deco
rators' New York Unions are voting
upon a proposition 70 admit contractors
10 membership and make them eligible
for election to Office IN the unions.
The merchants Of Helena, Mont, are
giving . per cent. Of their cash sales
for the Bryan campaign.-Sat Lake III
bune.
Newark machine stonecutters secured
the discharge Of non-union men. The
contractors offer 10 pay s. a head as ini-
tiation TO the union was rejected.
The Detroit branch OF the National
Association Of Stationary Engineers has
decided TO 90 through n thorough course
I'm the study Of electricity with Profess
sors King and Stoddard as instructors.
Washington musicians want the Ger
man street bands prohibited. They work
AZ private entertainments for one-fourth
the union rate. Political meetings are
also requested to employ only union men.
Tie New York Upholsterers' Union has
reduced ITS initiation fee from = 10 81.
and the Fur Cutters Union from 5000
TO $50 the same being payable in not
less than two instruments.
The dry goods clerks want the ladies'
OF Augusta to boycott the merchants who
will not close their places of business az
c o'clock. as desired by the clerks.
The fortv-third session Of the lnterna-
tional Typographical Union opened last
week. Every union composer contrib
utes five cents month to the Printers
Home.
Scotch tradesmen have united in a
war upon cooperation and refuse 10 bay
goods Of manufacturers who sell TO CO.
operators. and threaten TO discharge en-
plOyes who support them.
At New York the old trouble between
the Board Of Walking Delegates and
the United brotherhood of Carpenters
has broken out again, and strikes and
counter strikes Of one union against an
other are likely 70 ensue.
Ii is a matter for regret that though
the public has been again and again
appealed to, foreignmade baskets the
work In many instances OF convict labor.
are still patronizcd in this country
Irishmen apparently are becoming OBJ
livious to the interests Of their native
land gcther.-Dublin Orcland) lnde-
pendent
AZ public meeting held at Waterford.
ireland. on Sunday. September -. il was
decided that n public subscription be
raised TO meet the expense which will be
incurred by the holding OF the Trades
Congress in 1897. \ Belfast firm Of ship
builders contributed 500 and Sir James
Haslett sent $3.50 The Nayor of Cork
contributed 500.
At n recent meeting OF the Cleveland
Central Labor Union il was decided that
an effort be made 10 organize an Arbi-
trati0n Board for the adjustment Of la
Dor troubles. the Board 10 consist OF
seven members OF the Central Labor
Union and the same number from the
Chamber OF Commerce.
The New York Outside Iron Finishers'
and Helpers Union has taken new de-
parture I'm the method Of keeping up
the standard Of the men I'm the organIza-
ton. physical examination IS now
made Of all applicants FOR membership
by physician. and II they are found not
10 be sound in physique they are reject
cd
The German Painters Union OF New
York has established school for learn
ers at It's labor bureau I'm Fifty-seventh
street near Lexington avenue. Instruc-
tions will be given on evenings and on
SUNDAYS. The cost Of the instruction Is
s. for n term OF three months.
4 contract signed at Bunaio specifics
that the n maltsfers In Erie county
are 10 employ only union men; that the
men now in their employ viii not be
retained except they Immediately become
members Of the local maltsfers union
and that the wages per week shall be the
fat sum OF ST.
Owing to the stand taken by the Hart
ford Tele gram upon the issues OF the ma
tionai campaign. especially It's advocacy
NJ tho ratention NJ the present gold stand