The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-01-19
IN THE FIELD OF LABOR.
THE DOINGS or UOHhINGMEA THE
COysTRY OyEE.
LONDON Funerals Cost s5.OcO,OSo An
nuslIy -stoEe-Cutt,ng Machine Does
the Work of Twelve Men.

Chicago bin posters organized.
a wife now costs $50 m China.
indianapolis has 22J cigarmak -
California wine makers Organized.
Indiana has a State poultry society.
Cleveland sweat shops employ lLrp.
Chicago stonecutters get $3.50 day.
Lexington butchers have organized.
Milwaukee, coopcrs We're locked out.
Michigan coopers get cents barrel
In Italy quiniuc is 500 a kilogramme.
Tvpesettin- engineers haze union.
America employs 1900 locomotives.
Iowa city editors held a convention
Grande Ronde has a l02year-old miner.
Frisco lasters won strike against
cut.
union. $3.50
Barmalds are prohibited at Iron Noun
tain. Mich. .
nualy.
Polish-American Union convened at
Milwaukee.
There are about $1,000 amalgamated en-
glneers. -
Los Al geles has an educational labor
association.
There are 1000 union bricklayers and
stoncmasons.
Krupp uses i.233.l6l tons Of coal and
coke annually.
Chicago has q Scandinavian Brickayers'
Club.
Rod mil workers will join the eight
hour movement
union.
Cincinnati unions will keep n record Of
/ factory accidents.
Negroes have separated X. OF l.. unions
I in the South.
/ 4 stonc-cutuns machine does the work
Of twelve men. -..
Furniture ard wood-workcrs, 5000
men. have amalgamated.
The New York Herald has forty-eight
/ typc-setting machines
The Krupp Works employ thirty-three
/ locomotives.
ST. Paul and Minneapolis brickiayers
/ unions will act Jointly
Armourdalo coopors struck for the abol-
I ishmont OF machinery.
Paris bookstores now close at ten IN
/ stead OF midnight
/ *. Of T.. boycott rs hurting British brew
/ ing syniIcatcs.
/ Employees m the Home British Office
/ are % be retired for age at So.
Cincinnati girl bunchbreakers struck
against a cut 10 10 cents n 100.
approved by tic government
| Cleveland unions oppose savings banks
l IN the public schools.
| Pittqhurg hrickayers and carpenters
are sodifying their unions
Improvements on land are exempted
| from taxation I'm New Zealand.
Cincinnati Central Labor Union de-
nounced Cleyeand's war message
New York Tile Layers Helpers Union
"a
! ICarsas city commercial bodies VIII
"force" n reduction of telephone rates.
Cincinnati District Assembly iS. In
dependent X OF T.. has gone 10 pieces.
4 Middletown shin chandlery firm re-
stored a cut Of per cent. made two years
ago
The Single Tax Club has q delegate as
signed 10 the Trades and Labor Assembly
OF Cincinnati.
\ St Louis barber viii test The '9nsu-
nationality Of the law imposing n fine OF
60 for Sunday work.
Machines have i'm three wears reduced
the number of Chicago stono-cutters from
2000 10 500.
Thirty per cent. OF the silk hats OF
/ American manufacture are made i'm New
! York and Brooklyn
should Direct LEGISLATION be the sole
| Issue OF the Next Campaign was as
cu,scd by the Les Angeles union mon
Ohio unions want not more than 10 per
cent. Of the convicts in the State TO be
| engaged 10 any one branch of industry
Cincinnati Master HorscshOers were adj
! dressed by Professor William Russell on
| "The Necessity Of a Perfectly Balanced
| Hoof"
-Four wears ago the site OF Cripple
I Creek. col. was n COW pasture To-day
I there are 1900 Inhabitants there and
wealth by the million.
4 few churches are giving labor prac-
tcal recognition. A cleveland divine gave
/ the use of his church for a labor dis
/ course.
Prof T.. W. Bems. late OF the Unniver-
! eifv Of Chicago viii speak on the sub
| iect Of Municipal Monopol.es and the
! Ponies Rights" under the auspices OF
the Cincinnati Trades and Labor Assem-
/ bly.
Clcvcland's Director of Police says he
/ will put stop 10 messenger boys going
10 disreputable houses 10y telling the pro-
/ priotors OF such resorts that they must
/ remove the call boxes or incur the dis
/ pleasure OF the police.
Many English workmen not only Keep
| the Saturday half-holiiay, but even Mon
/ day. ST. Monday as J, is called. THIS
day IS sacred 20 those English workmen
/ who keep up tho British mechanics Old
/ time fame as p hard drinker
The convention Of biuminOus miuer5
Of Indiana adopted report in favor OF
an advance I'm The mining scale from 80
20 G;s-ents. TO take effect April lst the da'e
when the Pittsburg district price Is % pe
| advanced from go % 90 cents
Pitsburg contractors complain that
| tv,c-rhnde Of the work now under way
Is being done by contractors whose places
OF business Is outside the county. The
+ carDenters will devise means to discour-
ace the plan and VIII advocate that nome
/ contractors and wOrk.nsmen De given
/ the preference.
The funeral street-car has been planned
/ nj St Louisa combination car with q
place for the corpse in front and seats
[ Tor the mourners behind. Such car
/ could be switched from one end of the
citv 10 another from track 20 track IL
/ would ~ saben funerals about one-haif
Cleveland PAYERS have decided 70 cut
/ their hours per week from sd 10 81 at the
/ 81 hour rate OF pay. and two contractors
talk as follows. THE PAYERS are usually
I reasonable in their demands. We don
! object 20 the PAYERS wanting an increase
/ OF wages. Our experience with the union
/ navers and stone cutters has been that
I they are the best men VIC can get 10 DO
the work for u.s. They give us absolute
" no trouble"
Al the Ohio state Trades and Labor
[ Assembly the following resolutions wore
Isvor,hIv renorted and adopfel To
make trusts and monopolT railroads