The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-03-08

49, IL
indianapolis electrical workers struck
for $3.50 and eight hours.
The retail lumber dealers OF New
York held a convention.
Springfield, Mass. Unions want fl'o
q day FOR municipal laborers
An allied printing trades couhCh mas
been organized al Toronto.
Minimum pay Of Chicago street rail-
way hands IS Il cents per hour.
Cleveland stenoeraphers. typewriters
and bookkeepers TAX OF organizing.
The union Of bridge and structural iron
workers has over 5000 members
Detroit tcamsters struck for $40 for
70 hours and 20 cents and hour for over
time.
Watertown. \. Y, printers recently
gave s. 10 every man who wished 10 ieaFs
the town.
Tho Union candidate for sheriff Of De
troit Gust elected has discharged MS
union ciearmakers.
Natal (south Africa printers get Sl56'
for As hours, and piecework yieids %
cents per 1000.
Milwaukee clerks say they work 10
days a week They want shorter hours
and Sunday closing.
4 Leavenworth. Kan, miners union
will probably work a mine on the CO.
operative plan.
The Michigan Federation OF Labor has
decided TO affiliate with the American
Federation Of Labor.
=. J. Hailahan q Co, OF Philadelphia,
recently made q voluntary advance Of 10
per cent, IN tho wages Of their shoemak-
ers
The Can IS the only morning daily
paper I'm San Francisco that does not
use type-setting machines.
The National HorseshOers' PROTECTIVE
Association (hosses) will meet at Battle
Creek. Mich. March ON and 10Th.
Cleveland union brewers work ten
hours Wash house men receive sli. the
second brewers SIG, the brewers Sl-oV anc
the cellar bosses so per week.
Trades unions have bettered the condi-
ton Of all workngmen in the matter or
wages in the past third OF q century, as
well as shortened the hours of labor for
many.-John McNicar.
Tho Commissioners OF Labor OF all the
States in the Union Will hold a conven-
tion az Albany, In June. Municipal own
ership OF gas. water and electric light
plants aud management Of arbitration
tribunals viii be discussed.
Wheeling miners have forced firm TO
make its men join the miners union.
Debs' union Slams l5S0oo members.
*. Of t., and Federation are battling
Union was ousted by the Trades ana
Labor Council. and the Federation peo-
pie say the knights are pushing fraud
ulcnt cigarmakers label.
Springfield (Mass) unions have prepared
an ordinance which will require that
each man on city work shall have been
a resident Of Springfield the first day OF
May previous ana shall have been also
a naturalized United States citizen.
In Boston. Mass, in 1850 cigarmakers'
wages were from $3.50 low 20 SIP high for
mould work. and froni $3.50 low 10 SIS
high for hand work. Since then Boston
has been thoroughy organized, and We
find that the prices have been increased
for cigar making from the above figures
10 $3.50 low TO Sl5 high for mould work,
and from 80 low 10 SIS high for hand
work. The above Is for American style
only. the bill FOR Spanish style ranges
from SIS low TO Si2 high. A n further
reminder Of the practicability Of trades
unions the same union has by way or
diversion shortened the hours or labor
TO eight per day. and expended the trifling
sum of $1,000 900 in benefits I'm relieving the
distress of the sick. out Of work and
otherwise unfortunate members.
Chicago plumbers forced boss TO dis
charge apprentices beyond the limit al
lowed by the union.
Some years ago n Queensland firm
granted the Saturday half-holiday with
out reducing pay The employees at the
end OF the year offered a purse in token
of their appreciation 10 the head Of the
firm. lie took the money, added SINH
lar amount, and devoted 1t 10 charity
Every year the employees turn over their
fund and the firm dispenses the money.
The shOemakers of Leicester England,
frar q lff.r q tn
in wages from s6.l2 10 N.6s per week FOR
lasters and fnishcrs, or an increase OF
95 cents per week. There IS also 10 be
a scale Of wages for youths from II years
of age. S5.&: is years. Sj.l6. and 10 years,
1924: then, at % years. the full rates.
President Perkins. OF the International
Ciearmakcrs' Union. has decided that the
use OF the red label adopted by the
Omaha Central Labor Union is an III
direct boycott on blue label goods. The
Omaha label means that the goods are
Nebraska-made as well as union, ana
claim that the regulation label would not
aid their "patronize home industry cru
SADIE.
Omaha reports a movement 10 give
unemployed women work an sewing. Sew
eral dry goods houses VIII aid. IL Is
contemplated that several score OF wo-
men can be employed ut 70 cents or 81
"A day. They will be paid by the day,
although the work VIII be passed from
hand TO hand. one person doing only a
part of the whole on each garment.
Omaha working girls have organized.
BROOKLYN Central Union endorsed pro-
posed law which provides Tor an e'ght-
hour day for engineers who are employ
ed I'm plants where the machinery IS
I'm operation twenty-fOur hours contip-
uousy, week days as wen as SUNDAY
and fixes penalty or me OF lip4'son-
meut FOR each offence.
Proposed amendments 20 the New ! ork
bakeries act provide that every bakeshop
shall be at least eight feet high, that II
shall be ventilated with airshafts, win
dows or pipes. and that no domestic ami
mails except eats shall be allowed IN
them. Furthermore. they provide an IN
crease of the inspecting force from -FOUR
TO eight. and for such Inspection or the
sleepinn, places of iourneymen as shall
enforce the provision Of the present law
for their separation from the hakeshops.
They also strengthen the SAFEGUARDS
about cellar bakeries. reduce the time Tor
alterations, after notice, from sixty to
twenty days and provide for the issuance
Of a certificate Of compliance Win the
law They also provide that no employe
shall be DISCHARGED by a baker for telling
the truth in Court or 10 a iactoiy H.
spectOr.
In Victoria the Government. which
operates the railways, mas mane IL
condition that miners shall receive
minimum wage OF IS. 81. Cl.SO per day
in mines supplying the railways with
fuel.
a State license is advocated b. some