The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-05-03
Late Major OF Artillery. c. S.
IN THE FIEID or LABOR.
Latest News of Workingmen and Their
Wages.
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Latest News of workingmen and Their
Wages.
| Tennessee Is raising tea.
Buffalo fathers are organizing.
Atlanta has 4 labor daily paper.
There are Il. 600 union musicians.
Chicago plumbers struck for $3.75.
Chicago egg inspectors have a union.
Mexico has union electrical workers
Sunday shaves are Illegal at Nashville.
Detroit claims j 900 union carpenters
San Francisco confcctiOners organized.
There are 40 unions Of shoeworkers.
ST. Paul saloons must close at mid
| night
Kansas City is to have a labor temple.
The Saginaw tailors have a eo-opera-
dallas stonecutters struck for 40 cents
an hour. ,o,o -
All workers on Cleveland docks are
Louisville boasts an s5-year-oid Union
Chicago tailors may establish q co-opera-
| tive shop. ,.,,,, -
Washington -. &, Is ptoihlsso - gas III
| five years ,. -
Chicago bricklayers worheu elBht hOuis
The largest tobacco works in Brooklyn
was recently unionlzed.
Eureka, Cal, sailors secured an ADVANCE
Of s. a month.
Detroit bricklayers introduced the eight
hour day on Friday. No strike.
Only one Detroit shop has not granted
81 80 . day 70 machinery moulders.
Chicago steamttterS get $50 for eight
hours and double pay for overtime.
A New Haven ice company has cut the
rate TO 30 cents per 400 pounds. - ...-.
Kansas City (kan) painters nave just
organized. They get 81 for II hours.
A cooperative colony. az Tennessee
city, Tenn, will build a 100000 college.
Window glass manufacturers shut down
on May !. Other years they closed May
The Railroad Temperance Association
| claim 5000 members In the states anu
Canada.
circuit OF Indiana theatres 10 uhloil%s
| their houses. -
Indianapolis BARRIERS now admit negroes
to the union. The unions secretsry is
colcred.
The Federation, X Of L., and the prin:.
| ters demand Government ownership OF
| the union telegraph.
All labels are sewed In hats by the
iuisheIs and none are genuine lHat aIS
| pasted in the hat
Two more strikes Of non-union glass
! workers have occurred, one at fafheF'
| Ind, aud one at bridgeport, q.
oide1 unconstitutional the law prohibiting
| Eunday work by BARRIERS.
washington unions, by a boycott, forced
| a railway 10 Tcscind an order prohibiting
employees from joining labor unions.
The Cement and Asphalt Laoorers
| Union has reduced the initiation fee for
| cement workers employed IN Brooklyn 10
| SO until June l.
A Cleveland carpenter contractor not
only granted the eight-hour day. but at,
tended a mass-meeting OF the union ana
made an address in its favor.
| The Los Angeles county tCalJ LABOR
| Congress will enter politics and VIII put
an Independent ticket In the field, when
| regular candidates are obnoxious.
Tho San Francisco Manufacturers AS
| ISOLATION will liRely have a bill introduced
into the Legislature prohibiting the impor-
tation of prisOn-made goods OF any kind.
The Printing Trades Council, OF Chicago,
has backed down from its independent
position and Will hereafter work under
the laws of the International Topographic
cal Union.
Toledo street-car men demand nine
hours, 20 cents an hour, ana the employ
Ment OF union men and citizens exclusive
ly. For men on extra runs they ask 20
cents an hour.
After July all union barber shops in
San Francisco will close at : Il. NJ. eX-
cept en- Saturday. The BARRIERS are boy
cotting BARRIERS supply shops that sell
goods to scent BARRIERS
Indianapolis ministers are trying 10 IN
holiday on some other day than Saturday
in cases where Saturday half holidays can
not be observed.
Tho Cut.Stone Contractors Association
of Chicago signed the union scale In fu-
turo disputes basis OF arbitration. con-
sisting Of five men representing the en-
plovers and as many union men. VIII act
The Vienna BARRIERS and Wigmakers
Union does not allow any apprentice 10
open a shop until he passes AN eXamina-
ton before the organizations committee
Of Judges. Women are admitted TO the
body.
AT Fond du Lac. Wis. the Marshall
Field factory is 10 have a successor which
is to be owned and operated almost eX-
cusively by women who were former en-
ployes Of the Chicago mans concern
The ten-hour day prevails all over
France. Carpenters are paid from Sl25
to 81 40 gay; stone masCns. 10, ma
chinists. $i25; iron moniders. 81 10 - -
locomotive engineers. $40 to $50 4 month.
conductors $40: switchmen. $lj 20 $50.
Price Of Ice in various cities New York.
20 cents per 100: Cleveland. - cents per
100: Washington, 30 cents per luot Iltts-
burg 30 cents per 100. Cincinnati. 40 cents
per 100; Philadelphia, 40 cents per 100
Chicago, 40 cents per leo; Savannah. -
cents per 100; Atlanta, 80 cents per 100;
Boston - cents per 100.
Two thousand Shanghai fChina) tailOrs
struck for more food and higher pay
After the strike had been on a few days
some OF the leaders were hOgged and
others were sentenced to q years inn
Drlsonmeut There was no labor union,
but no man worked on the eighth day
their wages were increased from rs cents
a dag TO - cents. and they were promised
more food The % cents IS for a day OF
eight hours
Brewers Union No 2. OF Detroit, has
started on crusade against the Brewers
Association. In communication 10 the
association free beer at least once an
hO-Ir, is demanded. Union men must be
given preference when they apply for
work II demands one apprentice 70 every
five journcymcn and one 10 every 10 gem
eral men. IL wants a nine-hour day with
an hour for dinner and II minutes for a
morning lunch. IL requires % cents an
hour for Sunday work. or any other extra
work. Dishonesty. drunkenness. negli-
eence or refusal 90 40 legitimate work are
an deemed sufficient reason for discharge.
The mash house men ask for an extra
dollar q week The day must begin at
a. NJ. and end at 3 +. VI.
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