The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-02-23

Buffalo housesmiths demand s. % and
nine hours. New York h0usesmiths get
1915 for eight hours and Pittsburgers
are paid $3.50 for nine hours.
The Utah Legislature killed the bill
20 guarantee 20 employees the right 10
belong 10 labor organizations and for
bidding employers to disch' &c them be-
cause OF the mebershiD in such
unions
Dairy farming market gardening. ra's-
ing Of small fruits, poultry keep 2.
cheese and butter ntd - canning Of
fruits and vegetables. etc, viii be the
first Industries started oy the Toronto
Industrial Colony
The brewers trust has raised beer 70
e. a barrel at San Fran :sco. ana .Cw
drivers have been ordered % abandon the
practice OF spending a half dollar or go
in the saloons. The salooa11aOers ;hr' at
en- 10 establish n cooperative brewery.
4 bill to establish rec employment
bureaus is before the sew York i'esis-
lature. Another proposed statute regU-
lates the pay Of grlpmcn, motormen'
drivers and conductors o. cable electrl'
and horse cars.
At Biddeford. Ne. 1870 textile wlk-
ers struck for the reinstatement OF ono
of their men. Protest had been made BE-
cause "a cut was fixed at 40 II yards,
with an increase to IS cents commit
tee Of six Americans and hali-dozfn
Frenchmen was appointed by The sr,k-
ers.
Austria has 5.273 trade suilds It IS
said that a law in Aus ia makes M
bershlp In these guilis compulsory fer
"all persons carrying on q trace or haul
icraft under conditions excluding their
establishments from thu technical '!e..nl-
tion of factory"
The Cigar Makers International Union
IS credited with having reisel WAGES from
80 10 100 per cent. and shorten ~ the
hours OF labor from Is TO per day.
Toronto Retail Grocers' Associst on
complain that the pIactic2 OF tea -.m-
panies giving free window displays IN
certain stores was not fair 10 the small
or stores and suggest that the c-hpa res
hire vacant stores for the purpose. A
suggestion was made that the retail groc-
ers combine 10 purchase their goods In
large quantities, and so effect a saving.
SanFrancisco tailors are oi s'nizins.
There are l20 unions of dn, sheet iron
and cOrnice workers.
Woouen workers at Markham, Can,
have been cut II - per cont.
Bishop Foley frecen-ly addressed 500
union newsboys at Detroit
a New York Cigarm lAers' Union fine
members who work during a strike s2J
Only union hOrsesi)srs are now em-
plOyed I'm Kansas CITY municipal work.
Ontario Cam retail hardware men and
stove and tinWare maS,rs have tIPfni-
zed.
The Mayor and seventeen Coincilmen
of Syracuse have inbred the thiet-
cent fare movement.
Columbus housewives have organized
"to resist the 1emancs Of servant girls "
They will keep little list.
The Central Labor Iuion ~ 'uaha.
has taken steps to insI-e work for the
workingmen Of Omaha, and has secN+'i
work for thirty men on tho streets. . Dee
men will all be union men AMI sets
will be arranged 10 DO the WORK so 81 ~
by a change OF the focce once or twice
"A week a large number Of worNmer VIII
receive WORK COR one-half time.
The tramps OF the next gencft n VII
not be the lireal descendants or the
tramps Of this generation. but new
army, recruitel almost entirely from chill
dren now giving premise Of high inteill-
pence. industry and worth, who VIII be
driven. first into enforced idleness, then
into the helpless poverty which can ind
relief only In beggary. then TO the loss or
self-respect. which IL the inevitable con-
sequence OF beggary: thence the down
ward course Is easy. even 20 the Styslan
pool where the de,Dees or wee ana
crime pass almost imperceptibly from the
notice OF mankind. Congressman Ma
gilire.