The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-01-26
IN THE FIELD OF LABOR.
DOiNGS or WORRINGNEN THE
COUNTRY OyER.
Proposition In Detroit to Reduce Street
hallway Fare To Less Than Five Cents.
Alabama Convicts in Cotton Mills.

No Sunday shavos at Tacoma.
Richmond blacksmiths organized.
Preparations Tor May Day are on.
Detroit has zoo Union cigarmakers
Paris has 5000 lady dressmakers.
chicago has 60 union upholsterers
Milwaukee saloOnkcepers organized
Detroit molders struck for $50 d day.
New YORK has an Italian tailors' union
Chicago laundry drivers have a union
Lynn, Mass, has a working girls club.
Hartford brewers have adopted a label
Dayton, o., has a cooperative grocery.
London boasts 1900 TAB" cabmcn.
chicago coiOrcd walters are organizing.
Jersey city coOpcrs struck against a cut
Toronto steamboat captains have organ
lied
There are eight unions Of snk-hat fin
ishers.
In Germany 1900 schoolmasters gets
500 a year.
Boston building trades contain 10000
union men.
A woman is state lecturer for New
York *. OF J..
Chicago 'cycle-workors struck for an
advance.
-Four hundred ice cutters struck at
| Crown Point, Ind
A Hartford bakery was unionized the
| other day
Vienna cabman struck against tips
and ask fair pay
Willapa, Wash, sturgeon fisherman
| have organized.
American Railway Union is growing
like Jacks boanstalk
Detroit street-car men talk Of demand
| ing an eght-hOur day.
Atlanta printers struck for the REIN
! statement OF a foreman.
Buffalo postal clerks object TO the salary
| bin now before congress.
Frisco commission men have agreed
not TO compete with retailers.
Frisco theatcr is being boycotted
| for employing nOn-uniOn musicians.
Center, Wis, farmer was imprisoned
! for selling WatcrCd milk 40 q creamery.
They have enjoyed the eisht-hour day
in New Zealand for "a quarter of a CEN
fury.
A leading electrical firm of Buffalo has
just decided TO employ union men OK
clusively.
boston brewers and retail liquor dealers
have decided TO employ union men ex-
clusivcly.
A cabnet-maker who arrived at Bufa-
lo this week. had walked 500 miles I'm
quest of work.
Debs says. Buy books not beer. ]
am candid enough 20 admit that / have
tried both"
Ilf ~ OF AlIaliliaIl p M NlNiInA As'NtiNa.-
uonal and Economic League has been
formed at Boston.
The union label used in Nebraska
means that the article is Nebraska-made
ass well as union
An Albany clergyman is formingN a
society that will have for its object the
employment of IDLE men.
French Canadians have been imported
hy OlonWille, r.. J., manufacturers 10
take strikers places.
Candidates for admission TO the hmeri- |
can Agents Association must furnish /
three hrst-class references.
Brooklyn Elevated Railroad clerks and |
office employees have bad their wages /
voluntarily increased 10 per cent
The United States League of Musicians |
has levied a. per cent assessment for
the families Of deceased musicians.
The sales Of the cooperative and whole
sale Society of London exceed 100000
annually. The society employs 2i) clerks.
The Stonemasons' International Union
has ordered "a strike ON May 1st, in towns
where the eight-hour day does not pre-
vail.
The Detroit Board of Arbitration has
decided that the railway company is not
obliged TO hire old horse-car drivers for
motormen.
Racine CWis) woolen-workors' wages
were voluntarily advanced per cent,
and another similar increase viii follow
good business.
The New York Federation Of Labor
adopted a resolution denouncing any ait
tempt by the legislature 10 repeal the
BARRIERS sunday-closing law.
At Detroit. unused land is now assessed
ass high as equally valuable improved
Lac Hs... fa.rafH
been discouraged slightly.
New Haven business men say fairs and
clubs for clothing. ctc., are iniuring
regular business and they talk of iu-
VOking the law against lotteries.
Within six months every German paper
in Buffalo has been unionized. Printers
have also secured advantageous settle
mcuts at Omaha and Fort Wayne
Railroad men I'm Switzerland are thor
ou-hly organized I'm am branches of the
business and they will strike on April
lst for advances ranging from 10 TO 70
per cent.
The federation meeting at Albany advo-
Gated q per cent. as the legal rate of in-
terest and q law requiring corporations
Co give their employees thirty days noe
-ice before reducing wages.
A Montreal judge ordered the Stone
cutters Union TO pay q non-union man
1880 for the period it prevented him
rom securing work. They used no yio-
ence. bat walked out wherever he was
engaged
Alabama convicts viii operate 5000
pindle cotton mill The building viii
be- constructed by cOnvcts ont of bricks
made by themselves. and cotton viii be
aised on the penitenuary farm. Seven
iehths of the convicts are negroes.
The "Amana colony" OF Iowa. con-
lists OF ZOO souls. They occupy a town
hip of $1,000 acres. and have built
600 canal. There Is no poor-house.
md no one works over eight hours
every unmarried woman over thirty years
II age has q vote There IS no private
property except the clothing. the food.
md. perhaps. a few pictures. There they
ave no interest or profits.
''The attempt upon the part of the
'iuzens Company TO raise the fares
Which have been established for so many
ears" says Mayor Pingree. Of Detroit.
n his recent message. has demonstrated
ne necessity Of competition, and has
hown the strength Of the peoples arm
NE late adoption of cheaper fare has
rought the company into popular favor"
There is now before Detroit CITY Coun-
us q proposal made by the Detroit Rail
fay. 30 operate all the street-railway |
mes OF the city, at rate OF two and
ne-half cents per passenger the com
any TO pay the interest upon the pur-
hase-price Of the street-car tracks. when
n tho tracks of the city are condemned.
4, aaufhorifv of the legislature the |