The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-10-31
THE WORLD
OF LABOR.

China has three cotton mills.
Buoys are electrically lighted.
North Carolina claims 1883 cotton millt
England has % coo cotton operatives.
A New York hotel has i,zi5 employees.
Rochester Herald has been unionized-
Electricity employs 10000 Americans.
New Zealand letter In Eight-Honr Her
aid.
Deps' followers in Milwaukee oppose
colonization.
Cieveland iasters struck rather than
furnish their own tacks.
The Brickmakers Union OF New York
has adopted a union. label
Only union men are employed on work
under the direction Of the Detroit Board
OF Education.
The brotherhood OF Painters and Dec
since January LIST.
The president OF the Bellslre Co) Trades
and Labor Union is a candidate for the
ohio LEGISLATURE.
me silver workers Union. OF New
York. is making an effort to organize the
diamond workers and jewelers..
A New York carpenters union has fined
three members $40 each for engaging In
the Jumping" business.
Cincinnati brewery coopers have refused
TO withdraw from the Brewers Union ami
join the coopers' organization
The Executive Council OF the y. Is. A.
will give $40 10 any person who success
fully organizes a local union OK brick
makers.
A telegram has been forwarded 20 the
heads of the War Department by the
San Francisco Musicians Union asking
that all unfair competition be stopped.
Chicago will rot be represented at the
convention TO be held in 81. Louis on
December 3oth for the purpose OF organic
ing a National Building Trades Council.
Laborers' Union No 3. Of Brooklyn. has
Just instructed one Of is officers 10 ascer-
tain whether all the other officers OF the
organization are citizens or have declared
their intention to become such.
washington bricklayers. steamftters,
cigarmakers plumbers and gas filters.
engineers and carpenters. have Endorsed
the boycott which had been placed on
suburban resort. and viii place hnc
or S upon each member who patronizes
the place.
President Simon Burns OF the Window
Glass Workers Association. made the
startling announcement last week that
he had discovered that the manufacturers
were paying the fiatteners and cutters 70
continue the fight against the blowers and
gatherers. and the new scale.
In New South Wales, whatever may
have been the case in other countries
state railway management has proved
an encouragi ng success. result largely
due 10 the system OF non-political control
adon,ed in that colony. which has enabled
the colonial railways 10 be conducted on
purely business principles.
galveston CTexD Central Labor Union
passed a resolution providing for the ap-
pointment OF committee TO prepare an
amendment 10 the city building law max
ing IL compulsory on all parties construct
ing houses for residence purposes 10 haN7
bath houses attached with proper hathlns
facilities. The matter Will be brought De-
fore the city council in the near future
In a recent circular 10 the employees OF
! the Chicago Great Western Railway Com
nanv President Stickney invites them 10
become stockholders. they TO pay $40 down
| and $40 in monthly instauments lne
Illinois Central Railroad has had SUCH
. plan in effect for years, with the result
that nearly all OF its employees own STOCK
and take as much interest In the success
| OF the company as the head officials them-
. selves.
At Pittsburg a citizen has been nom-
mated for Judge who is not a lawyer
As he has been Endorsed by the united
Labor League of Western Pennsylvania
and mas some chance or election, the
question OF his eligibility for a judicial
office has been raised and IS undergoing
very active discussion in that vicinity.
one OF the courts has ordered his name
left of the ballot. while the working
people in that district have resolved 10
write his name on their ballots u II does
not appear there in print.
The labor movement In us broaosst
terms IS the effort OF men TO I'VE ,he
lives of men" says Professor K. +. BY
Half conscious though IL may De, inc
labor movement IL a force pushing to-
ward the attainment OF the purpose OF
humanity-in other words. the end OF the
growth OF mankind, namely. the fuli ana
Harmonious development in each indiVi-
dual Of all human faculties-the faculties
OF working. perceiving. knowing, loving;
the development. In short, or whatever
capabilities OF good there may be IN man