The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-08-29
THE WORLD
OF LABOR.

Indiana taxes stored Ice.
Japan has an income tax
London has 1000 hremen.
Prussia has a marine school
London has 1900 policemen.
Wyoming has one wooden mill.
Paris walters want tips abolished.
New Jersey has 5000 unionists
Janan burs American locomotives
Norway IS to have a Worlds Fair.
10 LABOR Day parade in Brooklyn.
Los Angeles brtckmakers organized
Chicago painters get IS cents an hoLr.
Southern cotton mills have 5000 hands.
a japanese match mill has 1900 en-
ployees.
The United states has 3G5.oOo coal min
ers.
Pingree will be 81. Pauls Labor Day
orator.
Sovereign Will be at Houston. Tex. on
Labor Day.
A New York carpenters union has over
1000 members
No Labor Day celebration will be held
at Chattanooga.
The green glass blowers union has ST.
N0 in its treasury.
In Germany the law permits takers 20
work but y hours a day
Chicago union steam-fitters will be paid
1915 a day after January Ist.
Glass-biowing machines are being In
troducod i'm America and England
Tho brotherhood Of TailOrs I'm New
york and Brooklyn has 1900 members.
National convention Of the Iartenders'
League will be held at Detroit on Sep
TENDER nth
II Is affirmed by men in the building
trades that the Italians make splendid
union men.
Members Of the Ladies' Label League.
Of Cincinnati. will take part in tho la
Dor Day parade.
Toledos street railway union expelled
a member for undue Indulgence in the
inebriating cup
II IS said that nearly 20 city councils
in the United States now use tho union
label on their official printing.
In Oakland and Alameda. Cal, there
is n tax which practically prohibits the
Intrusion Of outside firms.
II n New York corporation violates the
law recurring weekly payment Il must
forfeit TO each employe the sum OF s25.
II regard" says President Mckinley.
the organization Of labor as the natural
and legitimate effort 20 secure its rights"
In every school I'm Paris there IS a
restaurant where free meals are served to
the children who are too poor TO pay for
them
Carpenters Union 70. Of Brooklyn, pays
its financial secretary and treasurer
szg3G and SlAGs respectively every six
months.
Unions from Rutland. VT. and North
Adams. Mass, and Albany, n. Y. are
expected to participate in the Troy y. y,
Labor Day parade
In New York on Labor Day there will
bc no procession, no speeches. no demon
stration to show the public the growing
strength Of labor organization.
Fifteen years ago the Diamond mine,
near Helena. Mont. was bought for 20
cents. The purchaser sold II for 5000
Recently a Scotch syndicate paid aNO0W
for the mine.
Rev. +. r. Dill addressed tho Frisco
Socialist Labor party. Philadelphia So
cialists have nominated a municipal cam
paign. and the Cleveland branch has te-
gun cart-tail campaign.
The largest telegraph office IN the world
IS I'm the general postoaice building, Lon
don. There are 5000 operators, 1000 Of
whom are women. The batteries are sup
piled 10y 10000 cells.
New York Cornice and SlWlight Ma
kers' Union has decided 70 demand $50
n day. instead OF. as heretofore, s.. com
mencing September eth. The outside
workers receive $3.50 a day at present
while the weekly wage averages $lS.