The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-05-16
IN THE WORLD
OF LABOR.

we sell corn 10 Egypt
Texas undertakcrs conNeneu'
England has two electric railways
Denver plasterers get $50 Day
| Chicago has coo union plumbers
An electric scrubber IS announcer
Paper floors are a German hoNe'S'
Minneapolis hotel porters organized
| Londoners employ 1900 cab drivers
| Bank OF England has il,OO empioyeS'
Victoria. Australia, has 20 tanneries'
Duluth longshoremen get % cents pe@
| hour. ~.
America has 100000 cotton spindles.
All Minneapolis union cooks are en-
ployed
Pittsburg hasn't an idle union pattern
Machinists want eight hours on May
], 1895. -
ventlon. -.
| hours. -,
Minneapolis stonecutters work nine
| hours. 80 cents per hour.
Denver will make improvements 'na-
| will employ 1000 men.
| some of the striking Hartford BARRIERS
| gained their demand.
Madison. WIS. plumbers struck for
the wages paid in 1894.
| Nachinists convention adopted the I'M
tiatiye and referendum.
A cooperative apartment house Is 10
be established at Cleveland go 4.
| Detroit union lasters get from SiO u
/ sl2 per week for nine hour cay ,.,,,o.
| A boycott forced Pittsours pichli's
.o,,,ro,,, 10 use union-made bottles.
Sew York BARRIERS Union last week
secrred emplovment for % members.
Ct Touis postofiice rejected letter
Win a boycott notice on the envelope
Canada's leading newspaper CIoronto
80 a. 6gbting the crusade for Sunday
Tbe Mavor OF Anaconda, Mont recent.
" discharged the entire police foIce' sue1>
| commissioner and fire chief. r-.,.u
The international CigarmaKers Cl'Jl
| &c maintaining a lobby OF three H'e' "a
| Washington. ,-...oa Society O,
pai,o,a,, Servants hopes TO abolish sun
49,, trains bv demanding time and NAN
for Sunday work. r.,
~ 1nIa z5o local lodges of the 1nterna-
.ta,'aI Association Of Machinists have
reserve fund Of over $4,000.
since Nav 1. 1896. Typographical Union
No & New York; has paid out s@oVV ~
relief purposes. ,,,,o-
THE members OF the Cleveland LlquoI
| Dealers Association Will III '"0
buy union bread only. -. ...,,ot,
BALDWIN. COL coal miners VINO STRUCK
two months ago against the introduction
Of electrical machinery le'ui "0N ~
Tho Association Of the Public Control
81 FRANCHISE has been formed in New
york. Rev. ". S. Ralnsford and other
prominent men are members.
An ordinance was passed by the Denver
Common Council recently that PROVIDES
that all building stone to be used on CITY
| sidewalks, curbstones and munlcipal
! buildings must be dressed in Denver
Tbe National Textile Workers Union
has instructed It's local unions to vote
ON the proposition to sever its relations
with the American Federation or La
Dor.
Detroit railroad teamsters' new scale
has been accepted The scale Is from
$3.50 TO s225 for ten hours: overtime;
20 cents per hour. All disputes are TO be
settled by arbitration
The application made month ago by
the members Of the Bollermakers ana
Iron Shipbuiders' Society on the east
coast Of England for an advance or Is.
| Cd per week on time wages and five per
cent. on piece prices has been granted. 3,
Some Hartford merchants have enter
ed into an agreement with the Central
Labor Union by which union goods ex-
clusively will be handled and the union
| will receive three per cent. Of the money
! spent with these merchants by unionists.
The Socialist Trade and Labor Alliance
OF the United States and Canada viii
meet at Boston July 5th. At It's first an
nual convention. held in New York July.
1896 membership OF 5000 was reported.
The delegates to the general convention
| Il Ia
! Union placed themselves on record as
being opposed to introducing politics into
trades unions. The next convention vii!
be held i'm Louisville I'm 1900.
resolution has been passed that I'm
the future all members Of unions afiiliat-
ed with the New York Central Labor
Union should hire union carriages when
they wished TO attend funerals.
All the iron work for the large model
tenement houses TO be erected between
Sixtieth and Seventeenth streets. i'm New
York win be given 10 local contractors.
| in order to put a large force Of New
York iron moulders at work and keep
the money at home. A clause Will also
be inserted i'm the contracts for the con-
struction to employ union labor.
Rochester bricklayers plasterers and
masons successfully inaugurated the
eight-hour day at 40 cents per hour The
demand of the plumbers. steam and gas
filters for an eight-hour day does not
take effect until June l. Some OF the
carpenters have been granted 81 for eight
hours.
Brazil. Ind. block coal miners have
been granted their demand for 81 cents
a ton. IL was decided to hold n mass
meeting monthly 10 discuss mining mat
ters il was advocated by some of the
leading miners that each miner or mine
laborer should give one cent per ton OF
all coal mined FOR a fund 10 aid the
Pittsburg miners in getting an advance
At a meeting held in Melbourne. Aus
traia. the other week. of the board re-
Gently formed 20 represent employers and
employees in the furniture trade under
the amended factories act. II was decid-
ed that 80 per day Of eight hours should
be paid 10 all cabinetmakers, upholster-
ers frame makers, carvers. polishers
and turner's
The most important action Of the con-
vention Of street railway employees was
the adoption Of President Mahons sug-
gestion favoring a weekly assessment for
a defense fund. The Office Of secretary
was abolished and that work will here
after be attended TO by the president
Mahon will represent the union al tho
convention OF the American Railway
Union.