The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-07-05
IN THE FIELD OF LABOR.
LATEST NEWS or UORkINGMEN
AND THETR WIGES.
Paragraphs of Interest Gathered From the
Busy World-About Organ
ixed Labor.

Boston has 5000 union brewers.
Deadville miners struck for 50 a day.
America has over 1900 Touring mills
Cleveland puddlers demand $i62 IL a
ton.
Uncle Sam has over 10000 postmastds.
New York has a State Teachers Asso-
citation.
Hartford laundry workers viii organize.
Duluth talks of building a labor temple
Washington %. CD timers are getting
together.
At Grand Rapids ice is 50 cents per 100
pounds.
Washington now has a White BARRIERS
Union.
Washington o. CD is to have union
label league.
Marlboro, CIass.) shoe workers struck
against a cut.
Murfreesboro. y. c.. railroad laborers
get sl.0j a day.
Grand Rapids union barber shops clos
ed at noon July 4.
Nashvil union BARRIERS are prosecuting
Sunday BARRIERS.
National Farmers Congress Will be held
in Indianapolis.
indianapolis has only one non-union
paint shop OF any size.
Indianapolis clerks are endeavortng 10
close stores on Sunday.
ST. Louis Italians are divided on tho
question OF Sunday work.
san Diego Is considering tho securing
OF n city water plant.
Italians have taken the places OF elm
ton Gnd.) striking miners.
Tho 1900 union tallors OF New York
and Brooklyn Will shortly strike.
Astoria fishermen lost n strike. They
thus accept l-2 cents for all fish.
40 n~frr g. rrH N
way Postal Clerks Association.
American Flint Glass Workers Union
will start factories and build homes.
Laborers In q Terre Haute Ond.) brick
yard get 50 n day AID molders $275
Terre Haute sent carload Of provi
slons 70 striking miners at Sullivan. Ind.
Printers enjoy tho nine-hour day IN
Austria, Hungary. Germany and Switzer-
land.
wishes TO form company OF colorsi fire
men.
At Gilt Edge. Col. common laborers get
g a day; skilled trades. 81. Board. 81.
week.
Typewriter girls in a Chicago building
ousted an immoral tenant by threaten
ing 10 strike
The Brooklyn Metal Polishers and
Buffers Local Brotherhood has increased
its initiation fee 20 s..
The boss brewers OF Washington, d.
c.. have agreed 90 recognize the Paint
! ers' Protective Union.
New Haven Liquor Dealers Association
says the wholesalers are cutting prices
and selling at retail.
"Overwork rs a Cause OF Accidents Is
the suggestive title Of report by Swift
zerland's factory Inspector
New England bakers convened az Pro-
vilence. They want a C0-hour week and
inspection Of shops by police.
The union houscsmiths of New York
bavo decided 10 demand a minimum scale
Of s. 20. beginning on September ! next.
Women clothing makers i'm Colling-
wood Victoria. Australia, struck against
n cut below $3.50 per week, u hours per
day.
Milwaukee city Council has been nou-
fed bv the City Attorney that the city
cannot buy stock in the proposed munich
Tho tinted Labor League Of Allegheny
county Pa, has inaugurated a series OF
lectures on the labor question by emin-
ent men.
Rartenlers OF Pittyshurg have organ
tod for shorter hours and better wages.
They call their organization the knights
OF the silver Spoon
Toledo BARRIERS Union fined ono Of It's
members s. for doing paper hanging on
Sundays. 20 tho detrment or regular
workers IN that branch.
In Brooklyn the average weekly wages
NJ bakers are as follows: First hands.
Ss3e: second hands. S>5Z third hands,
$50. general average. $40.
The Industrial field" says Gompers.
"ls Uttered with more cOrpses OF orsani-
cations destroyed by the damning in
nuence of partisan political action than
! from all other causes combined
Robert Watchorn. eX-secretary OF the
! United Mine Workers and Immigrant In
! spector at Ellis Island. is candidate for
| the nomination for Congress tn the
| Twenty-fourth Pennsylvania district on
| tho Democratic ticket.
Cleveland garment workers have been
offered an advance Of per cent but
the strikers insist on 20 per cent. increase
| and additional payment for pressing
| clothing when the garments are maze at
| private establishments.
! Frisco unionists kick because applicants
for work are compelled 20 enter the rear
/ entrance Of the Labor Bureau.
| Cleveland Hlmgauans celebrated the
one thousandth anniversary OF tho con-
! quest by the Magyars under Arpaa.
Washington ID. C.J unionists Will IN
/ iii the boss steam and hot-wdter utters
/ yield 10 the demands Of their men FOR
an eght-hour day. not work IN buildings
| where those bosses have contracts ana al
firms or individuals doing bniness win
the bosses shall be considered unfair.
The tweniy-elghth Cooperative Con-
gress convened recently AZ Woolwlch. En-
gland. The congress was opened by an
| address by the Earl Of Wnchilsea. The
meeting represented 1850 societies, 100 900
| members and capital OF SDnpvp. The
years profits reached 90 II per cent
/ Strikes cost the Cigarmakers lnterna-
tional Union Si4039O6 last year. or the
total amount. S3l.12lOs was expended IN
two cities. Detroit and Montreal hence
barring those two cities. 10 only cost the
| international Union :l2.9iloS 10 maintain
the scale OF prices all over the country
At Seymour, Ind, last Sunday. about
! 600 delegates, representing Drotherhoods
| of railway employees OF the Baltimore x
| Ohio Southwestern and the Baltimore K
| Ohio railway systems. met for he pur-
pose OF uniting all the various organiza-
! tons into one federation OF railroad en-
ployes.
Shelburn 0nd.) miners are on strike
| Several propositions were made by the
empower. including one OF the 55-cent
basis. and one to form a cooperative sys-
TEN. He also said he would turn the
mine over 10 the miners II they would
nav per cent. on the investment. All
| three Of the propositions were rejected
/ by the miners.
A system that says 10 labor; You
! shall take what I Oner you without a
word OF remonstrance. without any con