The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-07-18
THE WORLD
OF LABOR.
Jnnan exports matches.

Europe uses American butter.
Lisbon boasts lady coal cariie.o.
Alabama has a single tax Colony.
Paper telegraph poles are ann ,,anicIes
Paris has over l.50O horseiess ,n,nIs
Raifirnore il 10 have "A labor tcnpie.
Americans employ l,20O0vJ ireigh. e' - =.
Employing printers OF Detroit ""'o
gained o,orative
New York Is TO have a
Tobacco growers OF Hillsboro county,
Fla. have organized. cleaners
Washington. ID. c., street cieahe'
struck against 81 a day. nro-
New Haven BARRIERS want the Id"
hibiting Sunday work enforceu. ,t,,ne
The storm Of Duluth and oths. nn
sofa towns created work Tor lyVV ,,,ceting
a clergyman addressed a ms me- o.
OF the unemployed Of Columbus, ggcnra
Frisco Socialist Labor party Sos"hame
Debs' cooperative cOmmonwedl,n rins-
Cleveland skaters have secured lne s,ritse
hour day and 20 cents an hour. ~ when
Columbus, Md. tanners struSh
cut from Sl.40 TO 30 cents gay ar,v.
Women are getting 81 day fo Wiley u,t
Ing teams in the harvest nelus VI
county Kan. blaming
Employees of Galveston, Tex pia nnn.
mill struck for the discharge Vi '
Organized labor at Chattanooga has en- N /,
listed in the fight for cohs'i'u''o""'
convention. .,..o.
Ohio druggists. to Offset the competition
OF department stores. will Manufacture
their own patent medicines. .o..
Dublin, Ireland brickayers protess
against the builders Of some rc eUstsseS
because the walls are to be conci
The Montreal Retail Grocers ISSUE
alton has asked the Government TO ap-
point a fruit inspector for Montredl
After a strike covering ten weeks wea s,s-
ers at Hoboken and Jersey Hel tg;ded nave
been conceded all they demanded;
The bluestone cutters OF New 10TH
Brooklyn. Newark, Kingston End eau eau
gerties are now affiliated with tne Ainal-
gamated BluestoEe Cutters or AneIlca;
Washington Building Trades 'ouncH
has created the Office OF press agent
The Socialistic alliance ConVenuoh ue-
clared against all International and nat
ional trade organizations.
New York Central Labor unon sent
500 TO the striking miners. Several uele-
gates said they would pawn their Je"ellS
TO aid the strikers.
Boston Building Trades Council has
pledged itself TO boycott all provision
and grocery stores refusing 10 close on
Wednesday afternoons during the SUM
Detroit union carpenters get . cents
per hour. Employers held meeting ana
decided 10 break the years contract WIN
their men and reduce their pay TO -
cents. ,,,,.
A new Franklin. y. H.. law prohibits
the opening OF restaurants on SUNDAY.
The distribution Of handbills. circulars,
etc. IL also prohibited by an ordinance
now enforced there.
Judge Richardson, Of the superior Court
of Spokane, Wash. says he is not only
in hearty sympathy with the DeDs move
ment and ready TO aid 1t nndnclsily, puI
he also intends joining the ORGANIZATION.
Minnesota unions that sent delegates 10
the convention of the state federdtons
OF Labor will be taxed 81 for the orgailzh-
tiOn fund and from those not represent
Ell will be exactod s..
The Soft Stone Cutters Union OF
Sauccrties y. Y. has caused the arrest
of the superintendent of the quarrles at
that place for a violation OF the Eight
Hour law and statue providing for pay
ment Of the prevailing rate oil wages on
public work. ~
The Fall River Weavers' Union Is TO
make a special effort In the next rev
weeks 10 induce the French people 10
ioin the union. At the present time there
are but five per cent. OF the french
Canadian weavers in the city members
of the union. ,,..
Kane. pa. Labor League declares that
nothing short OF total restriction Of emil
grafton for "a short period OF years Will
relieve the labor market Of It's surplus
and asks uniOnsts throughout Ire coun-
try to cooperate in demanding That ther
congressman shall vote for such law.
There has been considerable trouble III
the Brooklyn Central Labor Union re
Gently over the fact that two dlnereht
bodies Of painters are aiiillated, h ors
uniOn IS paid s. a day and the members
Of the other get 1852. There Is stu an
other body Of painters. ana they VIII proD-
ably be ordered to amalcamate.
The Associated Typesetting Machlne
Engineers in convention assembled ten