The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-09-13
LATEST NEWS or WOREINGMEN
AND THEIR WAGES.
Paragraphs Of Interest Gathered from
the Busy World-Abouo
Organized Labor.

National League Nusltldhs mas %
unions.
Tho Leadvnle miners strike has cost
100000.
Marinottc Wis. lonsshorenon organ
ICED.
Toledo bicyclo-makcrs' wages have been
cut 30 per cont.
Los Angeles. Cal. carpenters have Sc
cured eight hours and g. a day.
ST. Louis unionists talk OF establishing
Q cooperative carriage show.
The BARRIERS international union meets
IN Evansville shortly.
Brooklyn Union NoOdworkers have a
cooperative shop.
Washington painters who worked on
labor day were fined s..
Frisco stcvcdoros struck for 30 cents
an hour.
At Cleveland 50 unions turned out on
Iabor-Day
New orleans has a Business Women's
Exchange.
sevon-cighihs Of the bread baked in
london is made OF foreign wheat.
The Ladies' Tailors Union. OF New
York. has decided to establish free en-
vloymont bureau
The Carpenters brotherhood gained
So members Ia a month.
At Detroit 400 wor1ingwomen were
IN line on Lahor-Day.
4 London society secures employment
for pensioners.
a Boston contractor discharged engi-
ncers who refused to work on Labor
Day.
New York Painters Union will sus-
mend any member who joins the State
militia.
Tho next convention OF the National
League Of Musicians will be held IN
Kansas City in May. 1897.
Chicago unionists insist that mill
,ionairc carpenter must join the union.
This fellow is n contractor.
dry goods store will be opened by
BROOKLYN Workmen's Consumers Asso-
citation.
Des Moincs poll tax lahorers demand
Tho oight-hour GAY.
II rs said that the brotherhood o. Lo-
ccmofive Firemen will join the Fedora
ton OF Labor
rho Central Labor Union OF Brooklyn
,.e, Tuesday examined the hats OF It's
doiecotes anil found two Of its mem
hers wearing non-unlon headgear.
,ba bricllayers Of Buffalo now have
"a nine-hour work day and receive more
wages than they formerly received lot
ten hours. .,.,s,o.r re
a. ,,.te the first Monday I'm September
rahor-pav. instead ~ the first SATURDAY
Torsas CITY street car license IS S-''
and the Aldermen have refused 10 uou-
bic 81. r,.,,. m
Intoxicating liquors were SOFA o" '"0
grounds. r,.ao-o,,or If
49, exnrosslv prohibits any union
onliated with IL 20 also nave n'e'N'''
chin I'm the knights Of Labor. h..
,rofedo cvcle fitting company mas
oar,5e5 10 work on eight hours per GAY
mil tho busy season, 10 eha''o - W.
- o,,nlov,ncnt 90 more men. -,
sc~oca Forks plaindealer mas ven
,,.,o1izod The strike occurred go ~
o,tts AGO. Printers cohceoeu ga
a,cbt-hour day - the employers en-
United TO the union one h'n
ploye ,,,..a bos notified n
,njon that II must vaca'e NS 49,, on
- a sign announcing q poyOO'' ""
certain theatres A.. c,~ornrnent
- ,bo telegraph and telephone inc
- co. the use Of the former IS one cen J.
- ,iaccs near by. and only two cents
for those the most remote. $1,000.
c,uf,rnie's I.abor-Dav IS oc'o",' =
g., Monday. according 70 state law put
,he national day IS Observed ieil's' =
,a,ta'e LEGISLATURE selected the first sat
,,~la,, IN September. and I'm the Keystone
ctote both davs are observed.
nan River wcaVers adopted resoi"
,,on that every financial member IN to"l
standing. who shall he thrown out "l
work through the present depression III
81. cotton Industry four weeks or over
In ,ccoive from the funds Of the as
ISOLATION one week pay, according 10
scale. ,..
A. New York the German American
economical unions are about 10 de-
rand mat the hours Of labor for COM
positors employed by morning neWspa-
,e-s 10 reduced 20 40 hours per week
7, is intended that members shall work
only fvo DAVIS a week TO reduce the large
number o. the unemployed
one % the marshars aides IN the De
,ro,t Iabor-Day parade was Miss Kate
Doodv. president % the Garment Work
ers' Union, perhaps the only lady VINO
ever rode a horse ahead Of labor's ranks
I'm this country.
f1,attanoora's IabOr-Day parade IN
o,rSes over 100 miners. drivers and trap
80 v,,tb m mine mules The men were
/, their mining clothes. with lamps IN
their caps and picks over their shout
dcrs.
THE bakers o. london have recently
lcen thrown into some agitation, owing
70 tho prosecution Of several OF their
number ~ order % the County Coun-
eli for selling bread without weighing
It,
Worlinrrncn. there aro lots OF theo-
rirts who promise you everything. hut
10 YOU know Of any ono ~ them whose
theory has done onc-hunercdth part 20
much FOR labor as trade unionism has,
Boston Labor leader.
At Frisco an business houses have
agreed 90 close no O'Clock Saturday
evening. except one.
In one Of the largest paper mills IN
Russia the hours OF labor have been re-
ducod from 70 - s. and the manager
writes 30 an exchange as follows: TN
stead Of Increased drinking by the work
men. the only crnkehop In the place had
70 give NJ business Between 400 and
100 Of the operators regularly attend
lectures. and orchestral. vocal and read
ing unions have been formed. These
things were impossible under the old
l2-hour system.
The Macon Telegraph makes the as
sonishing statement that the city Of
Glasgow. Scotland. VIII levy no taxes
OF any kind after January 7. 1897. This
Pleasing condition 81 affairs is due 20
the cify's ownership OF tho street rail-
ways. GAS. electric Fight md water sys-
TENS. and the increased revenue derived
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