The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-03-15
TN THE FIELD OF LABOR.
L4rESr NEWS OF WORRISG MEN
AND THEIR WAGES.
pararrapbs OF Interest tGathered from
the Busy worid-About Organ
ifed Labor.

Buffalo scoopers are reorginizing.
st. Louis has sprinkIing inspectors.
Chicago has a Union Label League.
Denver newsboys boycotted paper
New York state has 22o0W Omonls's'
r. v Powderly is a Scranton lawyer
Idlexood bicycle makers organized
ne,ro,t building trades council dissolv-
ed.
Cripple Creek carpenters get ''''
day
Grand Rapids has another carpenters
union.
Cripple Creek has a Dressn'akers
Union.
Detroit Trades Council consists OF T.
unions.
Kansas City paperhangers now have
a union
Toledo trolley workers are offered inc
lO-hour day.
CIaremont. N. H.. wesvers' strike has
been settled
Cleveland carpenters held an eighthour
mass meeting.
Bay City (Mch) bicycle mechanics
have organized.
Detroit striking printers nave sstaD-
lished weekly paper.
Detroit Trades Council Is planning 10
educate the unorganized.
Out Of 81 iailors' strikes In switzer-
land, 80 were successful
Detroit bricklayers' eight-hour day de-
mand has been conceded.
Theatrical workers will hold national
convention at Detroit in July.
Kansas city pipe filters won q cents
per hour and time and a quarter Tor over
time.
1t is said that only 30 per cent of the
factories In Michigan employ female
labor.
Albany bakers have left the X. Of l..
and joined the Bakers international
Union.
At Alameda, Cal. tests Of each dairy
mans supply are posted for the benefit
OF consumers.
An Iron Mountain Railroad employe
sued the company for blacklisting and
| secured 1855.
Standing Arbitration Committees are
| a growing feature Of the iron industries
| in Great Britain.
Trades unions date from the time when
| IS Of them were chartered under the
| Emperor Constantine
The Supreme Court OF Michigan de-
| clared the blower law constitutional.
| and metal polishers are rejoicing
/ Minnesota labor exchanges offer stoves
| and ranges in exchange for California
| fruit in mixed carload lots.
A cooperative concern al Olathe. Kan,
which was established IN 1876 with 1916
now has a capital OF S5eo,Voo
A nine-hour day with same pay as last
year will DO the demand Of Detroit tin,
sheet iron and cornice workers after
| May 1.
Nashville tailors, who several months
ago voluntarily decided 10 accept cut
of 10 per cent. have had the old scale
restored.
Ontario furniture dealers viii ask the
government for legislation TO protect
them from the encrOachment Of Depart
ment stores.
| In 1887 a Rochester firm filed the places
| Of its striking cigarmakers, but a boy
| colt has reduced the number Of its en-
| ployes from 80 TO y.
How Shall We Remove the Preju-
dice Against Socialism From the Minds
| Of the American People, was discuss
| cd by Milwaukee Socialists
| Cleveland furniture dealers have or
eanized and will take steps 10 secure
! lower freight and insurance rates. A col
lection exchange will be established.
one Of the principal objects or the En-
balmers' National Association is 10 force
underakers TO raise prices for practical
men. and keep these prices uniform all
over the country.
| In Michigan factory inspectors failed
| ttrH I. y
| prohibiting females under q years of age,
| working more than 60 hours a week, was
| being violated.
A new labor exchange saw-mill is 10
| be started on this coast with a 5000 foot
| of lumber capacity per day. Labor
checks are 10 be used altogether-san
| Francisco Voice Of Labor.
Progressive Painters Union, No. s.. OF
| Brooklyn which formerly conducted its
! business in the Swedish language. decid-
ed at the last meeting 90 hereafter con-
| duct SIS proceedings In the English Ian
guage.
English seamen were ousted from a
Southern Pacific steamer al san Fran
! cisco and replaced by Chinese. The for
mcr shipped in Liverpool for q voyage
to San Francisco and back TO an Eng
lish port at II a month.
The Mayor Ct Baltimore issued the per-
nit for parade of striking garment
workers. During The Philadelphia trolley
strike the Mayor closed every saloon IN
town, prohibited demonstrations and OBJ
jected 10 the wearing of Il WIN Walk"
cards.
Indianapolis cooperative laundry IS
being enlarged. The stockholders are
women who work I'm the laundry. Each
person is paid so much a week for SER
vices, ana any surplus above paying such
wages and keeping Up current expenses
goes into the surplus fund.
The Los Angeles County Council OF
Labor. representing 5000 voters. adopted
resolutions opposing any measures on the
part OF the general Government looking
toward continuance Of the Central
Pacific monopoly or the re-funding Of its
debts due the Government.
4 nine-hour day with s. pay is what
Detroit painters and decorators will ask
this yea. Local No. 81 has increased its
initiation fee from 81 10 So ii now has
i7 members. Next Monday the locals
over the country will vote by referendum
on whether 10 hold national conyen-
ton this year OF not
State Labor Commissioner Bowling, OF
| New York, says. The progressiOnai ten
dency Of organized labor is engrossinr
public attention throughout the civilized
world Its manifold benefits are now re-
cognized IN every well regulated com
munity, and 1t is universally conceded
that its demands are oftener just than
otherwise"
The most important business transact
| ed by the executive committee o. Master
| Plumbers al their sessions al Detroit VA.
securing an agreement with leadinl
| manufacturers not 10 sell to consumers
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