The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-09-26
THE WORLD
OF LABOR.
Florida exports sponges.

Florida exports sponges.
India has but q breweries
A shave is cents IN London.
Japan has III scientific papers.
Chicago box makers won a strike.
America has 23i women draymon.
North Carolina has Il woolen mills.
Europe announces a glass umbrella.
Iiamiltou, New. hasn't an idle man.
California grape pickers get 81 a. day.
An Australian owns 100000 acres.
Washington laborors have organized.
Cincinnati laundry workers organized.
At Port Alice laborers get SIS a year.
Budapest boasts an underground troll
lev
Greater New York has four labor ~
ceums.
Detroit is to have another labor ex-
change
Canadian Labor Congress Endorsed sim
gla tax.
Chicago tile layers won a strike that
lasted six weeks.
Hair the strikes In Germany last year
were successful
Chicago street railway men get 30 cents
an hour.
Cleveland machlnists struck FOR the re-
instalmcnt Of two men.
Tho Hebrew Bakers Union, or New
York. has 200 members.
The Postal Clerks convention Endorsed
the movement for postal savings banks.
Cincinnati brewers may strike IN brew
cries where un.on-made barrels are not
used.
Several members of parliament ad-
dressed the English Trades Union Con-
gress
AlexandrIa. nd plate glass workers
struck agains o cut from SlA to SLoO
a day.
The secretary OF the FAN River slash
er's Union has resigned to join the police
force.
Pittsburg flint glass workers. who
struck for 500 a day. have rejected the
o1er OF s..
Duluths unionists talk Of holding an
industrial bazaar az which their Work
would be exhibited. .,...
Book keepers held a national convention
at Detroit Charles Rowlett, or Kansas
city was made president. -
The New Caste, Eng, branch or the
Cooperative Wholesale Society donaten
$4,000 10 the striking englneere. -.
Chlcago's Municipal civil Service COM
mission declined TO furnish loo laborelS
10 a firm whose men had struck.
Fall River l0OmnNcrs held shop meet
ing 10 protest against being asked 10 90
more work than they can do well.
Pittsburg street railway employees VIII
shortly be granted s. for l0-hour cay
Some will be employed but nine hours.
The forty delegates az the tenth annual
convention OF brewry workmen IN bos-
ton last week represented 5000 men.
The contractor awarded a contract TOT
boilers by the Fail River school board
had 10 agree 20 employ unionists eNclu-
sively.
Denver bindery girls struck because two
non-uutOu GIRLS were employed Ine
union scale calls FOR 81, $ and ~ a week.
The payments made weekly 10 Engllsh
strikers are as follows. Engineers, lbs.
allied trades i2s. non-unionists, ~. To
los and laborers. IS.
New York Electrical workers Won
strike for union wages and the employ
lment Of unionists exclusively Strlke
lasted eight weeks.
At Pittsburg shortly there VIII be y
Miners Day'-a day given over 10 IN,
celebration Of the miners SUCCESSFUL
struggle against starvation wages.
Washington Typographical Union
adopted resolutions asking that tho Gov
eminent Printing Office be Withdrawn ,
from the classified Civil Service.
Fall River Central Labor Union wants
q textile school established in that town.
Objection rs m1de 20 the activity OF prom
inent uniOnists I'm politics.
The last report Of the United Hatters
Of North America shows working mem
bership Of over 6.o5l iournevmon and APP
prenticcs Of which over ] 1926 were em-
plOyed I'm Orange y. j.
When the English Trades Congress met
AZ Birmingham twenty-nine years ago II
had forty-eight delegates representing
about "A quarter Of million members.
The recent convention was attended By
over $50 delegates. representing more than
"a million and "a half members