The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-09-06
Indiana Socialists have a sta.e ;icket in

Indiana Socialists have a state ;icket In
che field.
Plymouth CEng) enjoys 2-cent osr-fares
and the employees the S-hour day.
Wellington, y. H.. hasn't non-uHson
printer.
Employees Of many cooperative socie-
ties IN Scotland work but 50 II hours per
week.
spanish car-drivers get 50 a week.
Buffalo gives emp oyment 20 over Co.
00O men,
Detroit has over 1000 union earpen-
tiers.
Advertising costs London firms $1,000
000 q week.
At Wallace. Ida, wages range from
S2.l0 20 "a a day.
Negroes who own shops In Boston en-
ploy white clerks exclusively.
All Grand Rapids barber shops Will be
closed all day on LabOr-Day
Milwaukee photographers viii organize.
New Zealand x. OF j.. want 5-day
week.
Prince Of Wales pays 81 for trousers
Dcs Mones policemen get so a month
a Chicago Engineers Union has in
creased the Initiation fee % $.
Maine textile workers want n law fix
ing q weeks work at "a hours.
Frisco saloon men wish TO abolish the
free lunch.
Trunk and bag makers are endeavorlng
20 form national union.
state Emp Oyment Bureau IS 20 be
established at Baltimore.
Fall River street-car lines must water
the streets.
Frisco single-taxcrs are arranging Tor
n series of Delaware meetings TO be
held I'm various parts OF the state.
Los Angeles buclImakers have organ
lied and viii attempt 10 have Chinese
WOrkmcn discharged.
Wood IN the mountains above Dayton.
Wash. SIS considered 70 be worth only
% cents per cord, says The Courier.
In every school I'm Paris there is a res
taurant where free meals ale served TO
the children who are too poor 20 pay
in Austria cigarmakers are government
employees, ana receive from $50 70 81
week
in Bohemia textile workers get so cents
q week. Some agricultural workers earn
from to 20 cents a day.
The South Australian Labor party re
gained MI the seats ia Parliament pre-
Ncusly held by them, and I'm addition
At meeting ~ the WASHINGTON. d.
c., Federation Of Labor, q resolution was
passed requesting each union g. Subscribe
the sum Of 81 fer the purpose OF obtaining
the standard magazines for the use OF the
library.
Tho National Union Of United Brew
cry Employees Will hold its annual con-
ycntion i'm Cincinnati ON September 9th.
A law against unfair competition IN
trade" has come into force in Germany.
IL is aimed against false descriptions ana
other forms OF SWlndling by advertise
mcnts. Not only the advertisers. but
the newspapers publishing the advertise
Nrnt may Doe prosecuted.
ST. Paul BARRIERS Union has decided &c
levy fine of 81 on any member purchas-
ins barber coats without the label Of the
Garment Workers Union being attached.
The New York Architectural Iron
Workers Union fined enc member $50
Tor remaining at work in a shop while
the other members employed there went
on strike.
The national convention Of the Broth
erhood OF Railway Trick Foremen will
convene at 81. Louis Mo. Monday. Oc-
tobcr 5th.
The secretary CT the woodworkers' Tn
ion says: THE wages paid thousands OF
wood workers are about 90 per cent. less
than the same class of mechanics receive
IA some European countries. "
Last year there were IT'S strikes in
Austria. involving 5000 workers. The
most important were among textile. metal
ful IN raising wages and obtaining better
conditions.-Gr2nd Rapids Workman.
All bat two mine owners In Northern
Colorado have signed the union scale.
He who fails 70 sympathize with the
movements OF labor: no who complaceutly
or indifrertly contemplates the awful re-
suits OF present econs mic and social con
diu0ns. is not only the opponent or !
the best interests OF the human family. |
but j. particcps criminis 70 an wrongs IN |
hictod upon the men and women OF our |
time. the children OF to-day the man. !
hood and the womanhood Of the future |
Gompers
The wage-earners OF the country who |
have united In organizations for self-pro- |
lection owe 1t 10 themselves and their
good cause 10 fellow wise and temperate |
counsel. 10 choose as their leaders men
OF character. Intelligence, and prudence |
and 10 fight shy OF schemes and policies |
into which self-seeking demagc gues would |
lead them. by right and tudicious exer- !
else OF their united strength they can 4
accomplish much good for themselves
and at the same time be perfectly Just 10
thers.-Atlanta Journal.
A 'Frisco ordinance makes II a mis-
demeancr for . peddler TO solicit custom
from - 1ause- vhsGs xasars II = sign -