The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-08-02
IN THE FIELD OF LABOR.
LATEST NEWS or WORhINGMEN
AND THEIR WAGES.
Para ,rapb. of Interest Gathered From the
Busy World-About Organ
lied Labor.

| Atlarta biacbsmiths mill organize
| Atlanta painters now have union
| Toledo has forty-eleht unions.
| Toledo LADY clerks organized;
| Detroit has 1.1Jl potato pa-cn's. A.
| Iowa butchers held a State convenuoh'
Wisconsin has a cheese eArhanSS' 49,.
Erie (Pa), machinery holders VIII get
| together.
Duluth has orly four non-union restau-
| rants.
| st. Louis cooperative paper, the Jour
nal, has been enlarged, -,
| Wisconsin has a German editors as
| ISOLATION.
Washington. d. c.. brewers reorganized.
Chicago has a trades unionist cycNihs
| club.
Concord ~. H., stonecutters struck for
| - per cent increase.
| Rochester BARRIERS want the barber col
! leges legislated out Of existence.
Chicago *. Of l.. talk OF establishing
| a cooperative colony In Alabama.
New Haven bakers struck for the re-
| instatement Of their foreman.
Duluth laundry workers now ADMIT
girls TO the union.
Italians took the places OF striking boot
and shOs workers at Lynn.
Wheeling unions want labor papers kept
on file In the public library.
Detroit has 200 union molders and a
strike fund OF 500
New York city had 5000 unemployed
people prior 20 the tailOrs' strike.
Debs will speak at Kansas City, Kan,
J4tboE Ndf.
Lancaster county, Pa, farmers haya
organized They oppose tuberculin tests.
Saginaw pTesbytcry has reduced 10
per cent the salaries Of its missionaries.
Puget Sound Oriental trade has increas-
ed nearly 800 per cent. in five years.
Anderson llDd.) merchants have dOnat-
ed $1,000 for big Labor day demonstra-
ton.
Syracuse stenographers organized.
New YORK stenographers VIII hold
Stale convention.
st. Paul labor organizations will not
parade Labor day, having agreed 10 pa
rade with tie q. a. II. cncampment.
TWO years ago the BARRIERS union OF Dc
troit had 600 members and occurred Sun
day closing. To-day they have no union.
They work on percentage.
Norkmen I'm the building trade struck
last week because nOu-uuiOn electricians
were en- ployeI on a Chicago building.
The wages OF the common labOrer in
Lansing Mich, have been cut down from
$50 TO 81 I'm less than two years.
Toledo plumbers want good work done.
and will join hands with health officials
for a sanitary law.
The International Union of Glasswork-
ers COnveres IA London on August Sd.
No American delegates.
Recently most OF tho clerks in the
great London city houses received formal
permission 10 wear straw hats
The Hold Carriers and Building Labor
er5' Union. OF Chicago. has given notice
that beginning August !. the rate OF
pay viii De 80 cents an hour for MEM
bers OF that organization. "A substantial
advance over present r.ttcs
The strike Of riyefers IN the pev shin
varf at NiddlashrouDh Emo ~ which
about aOJ mon varo fhrov,n ont Of en-
ploymcnf mas rDsiilfod in The firm CON
ce1ins tho mems demands, VIZ; los. per
A. Duluth tho East End strikers have
succeeded during the past few days IN
getting the contracts for loading tramp
plOyment 10 nearly AN the men al that
end OF the town.
The cashier Of a Grand Rapids bank
was getting q salary of s. 800 "A year AMI
the ianitOr So a week or SG2f "A wear
The cashiers salary was cut last week
10 5000, while the -janitor was cut 10 IS
a week
Employers Of New York dressed meat
companv struck. The runners. who cot
40 cents am hour. were reduced 10 80
CENTS and the dralsors bakers euliffers
and foorers who were uaiI sg5 :: week
were broucht down 10 sl3
vention OF the Maine Federation of Labor
They demand "a law .compolnng textile
manufacturers 10 most "a bin OF particu-
Lara fo the weavers and other NIECE. work
e. Jesrribins- the rarficuiars OF their
work. such AS length OF cuts. rate OF
wager por Ont otc." They will ask cam
didatos for me office of Governor. Sena-
tor Representative. etc To announce
where fhev are at' on the blli making
fffv-four boiir- 4. weeks work
The largest cotton mill i'm the world
has been erected at North Adams Mass.
and now tho proprictors ind that they
hove rof sufficient mon boz TOWN ia RIM The
ntacbiner,- Ai binds Of cotton oreraffras
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tory of Chattanooga.
The action OF fnt Window Glass Work
or Ae4oeiafi0u iu cutting loose from the
Knirhrs of Labor may VET result i'm an
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