The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-07-19
IN THE FIELD OF LABOR.
LATEST NEWS or WORKTNGMEN
AND THEIR WAGES.
Paragraphs of Interest 'athere" ron" '''
Busy Worid-AboutO Organ
iycd Labor.

| BiddefOrd, Me, mas nine uhio"s'
! Aberdeen. Scotland. won an advance
| Ohio is 10 have State labor league
| Delaware has negro single-tax clubs.
CINCINNATI teamsters have a union.
| There are 10000 union bookbinders.
Courtney Ra) miners struck against
a cut.
London Building Union won an
advance.
! The New York Journeymen BARRIERS
Union has voted down a motion to dis
| band.
National music-teachers met at Denver.
| Baltimore can-makers struck for an ad-
vance.
Tennessee is to have State labor
| league.
The international Marble-Polishars'
Union has adopted a union label.
Duluth has a Union-Mcns Insurance
| Company.
Negro journalists held meeting at
| Kansas City.
DE Lemar (Nev) has cooperative
prospecting association.
San Francisco bell-boys lost strike
against the eighteen-hour lay.
The police of San Francisco have again
undertaken TO interfere with he Social
lists open-air meetings. and recently ar
rested a speaker.
The Grand Trunk railway. OF Canada,
has abolished free passes for employees.
Denver's Mayor welcomed the sixth ma
tionaI convention of retail clerks.
Superior (Minn) vcssel-loaders struck
for 30 cents an hour.
The International Congress OF Miners,
which recently convened in Belgium, re-
presented 100000 workers.
Newark merchants say that early clos
ing on Saturday does not affect business.
Master Workman Sovereign will be the
chief speaker at Helena, Mont. on Labor
Day.
Russell Harrison's Terrc Haute Gnd)
railway hands get a cents an hour.
Pawnbrokers' assistants held a conven-
ton at Dublin. Ireland, and demanded
shorter hours.
At West Bay City, Mich, 900 riyeters
filters. and calkers struck for the dis
charge Of four non-union men.
In New York state one hundred and nifty
thousand men and women arc members
Of building and loan associations.
Labor" said Cardinal Manning. has
the same right TO protect itself by trade
unions as any form Of capital might claim
for Itself"
The Journeymen Bakers and Confec-
TONERS International Union has 80 local
unions in the United States and Canada.
New England jobbing confectioners have
organized to increase prices.
The New York Furriers' Union has left
the Federation of Labor.
French Canadians. of Fall River. will
send a representative Of their interests
to the Legislature this year.
The New York Central Labor Union re-
fused 10 consider the suspension Of Typo
graphical Union No. 6.
The House-Framers' Union OF Jersey
City has been refused admission 20 the
United brotherhood Of Carpenters and
Joiners.
The Illinois steel Company las signed
the Amalgamatcd scale for its various
plants for the coming year.
Wheeling Central Labor Union Demands
the eight-hour day in municipal and
State work.
The Riggers' and Stevedores' Union. Of
Frisco. recently held the forty-third re-
union OF the association.
When a lady schoolteacher Of San Fran
cisco makse up her mind 10 take to her
heart a husband her resignation from the
department is compulsory.
Manufacturers of glass jars In Indiana,
who employ unionists, forced the non
union firms to close during the summer.
The cause for which the Milwaukee Re-
for the past year Sunday closing was
discussed at a mass-mecting az Grand
Avenue Congregational church last week.
The apc-growors and shippers OF
Cleveland and vicinity recently organized
10 resist what they considered the tyranny
and injustice of several basket-manuiac-
turing companies, which had increased
the price Of grape-baskets.
4 leading business-housc of Minnea-
polls recently requested the United Car
ment-Workers to organize its employees.
The report OF the treasurer OF the
American Flnt-Glass-Workers Union
shows a cash balance of $4,000 in the
treasury.
Journeymen BARRIERS Of Cincinnati have
appointed a conference committee with
the bosses association for the settlement
Of grievances.
St Paul stage-employoes are fined for
wearing ready-made clothing that does
not bear the label Of the United Garment
Workers of America.
The Federal Board Of Railroad En-
ployees was recently organized at st.
Paul.
St. Paul and Minneapolis newspaper
publishers have referred their difficulties
with the printers TO the State BOARD Of
Arbitration.
The Belgian PAYERS Union and other
PAYERS unions affiliated with the Knights
Of Labor and the Hammermens and
Bridge and Curb-Setters Unions. OF New
York and Brooklyn, have declared war
on the sub-contract system prevailing in
the city departments. and wherever proof
is forthcoming that a street Is being
paved by a sub-cOntractor. strikes Will
be ordered.
No men living are more 10 be trusted
than those who toll up from poverty:
none less inclined TO take or touch anght
which they have not honestly earned. Let
them beware of surreudering n political
power which they already possess and
which, If surrendered. will surely be used
to close the door of advancement against
such as they and TO fix new disabilities
and burdens upon them till all OF liberty
shall be ost.-Abraham Lincoln.
For some years the white and black
longshoremen. at New Orleans. have had
an understanding by which they divide
the work on the leyee between themselves,
at a ratio determined by written agreo
uent, but during the race-warfare on the
leVee this agreement was abrogated ana
a recent meeting is supposed 10 be the
commencement OF n much closer union.
and indicates that the men will, when the
fall season opens. insist on the work
being done at regular rates by the steve
fores or contractors for whom they work.
Several owners on the lakes have been
criticised for Offering low salaries 10 mas
tiers of modern 30O0-ton steamers" says
the Marine Record "rhe masters VINO
accounted those sala ricS have also been