The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-03-28
THE WORLD
OF LABOR.

Bartenders have a national union.
Utah Legislature killed the eight-hour
bill.
Birmingham (Alabama) painters will or
ganize.
Nashville painters and decorators will
organize.
A union label will probably be placed on
bicycles.
stenography employs $4,000 American
women.
New York brewers engineers want the
eight-hour day.
The order OF Railway Conductors claims
loo members.
Newry. ireland, mill operatives won a
strike against fines.
Allegheny (Pa.) German stonecutters
have formed union.
New York X. OF l.. has Endorsed the
Anti-Conspiracy bill.
Fort Leavenworth convicts Will build
a new prison for themselves.
Brooklyn coach drivers accuse the hat
tiers OF getting buried by "scabs."
Steam engineers Of Greater New YORK
have a union with 10000 members.
A cooper presided at n recent meeting
of the Rochester Central Union.
After April 18th the initiation fee OF
the Erie (Pa.) Electrical Union will be s..
St. Paul Socialists celebrated the TWEEN
ty-sixth anniversary OF the Paris Com
mune.
vidng for a State Board of Arbitration.
A Zurich (Switzerland) letter announces
q strike OF 5000 railway hands.
Cleveland unionst IS charged with
discriminating against German machin-
lists.
II is believed that 5000 Pittsburg dis
trict river miner will shortly join the
union.
Lynn Mass.) painters and decorators
want eight hours on May 1st. They get
$3.50 a day.
Painters and decorators have 1873 unions
with 1000 members in the United States
and Canada.
New York house-smiths and bridgemen
want eight hours and 50 cents an hour
on May LIST.
Toledo unionists will raise money for
labor temple by producing a play by
machinist.
Newburgh y. W churches took up
collections to furnish tools for mechanics
who suffered by fire.
The Boston Central Labor Union will
employ only Federation musicians. This
is a rundown for the X. of l..
Cleveland unonists vii patronilze sa-
looms conducted by members of the IL
quor Dealers Association.
Erie (Pa.) paperhangers. painters, and
decorators want the nine-hour day and
% cents per hour on April l.
Leeds (Eng.) compositors have secured
q % l-Z-nOlT week, ana only Din dppich-
tees will be allowed in each oilce.
Boston Central Labor Union passed
resolution declaring that the Dingley bill
tobacco schedule will cut wages.
In the care OF the unemployed through
a fund raised at Los Angeles (Cal.) idle
WOrkingwomen are not overlooked.
New York Central Labor Union op-
poses bill to send the product OF con-
Wet labor 10 South American ports.
Lebanon IN. H) Frenchmen have or
ganized. and part OF their scheme Is to
make their countrymen become natural
tied
The Minneapolis stonemasons and quar-
rymen will assist each other in keeping
the price OF material and labor at 4
fair standard for the coming season. The
stOnemasons will work nine hours per
day the coming season. and receive 30
cents per hour.
The national electrical workers have
offered the Minneapolis Trades Council
SIS 10 organize L local branch OF their
body.
ST. Paul jobbers and manufacturers OF
binder Irvine asked uniOnists 10 aid tEem
in restricting the convict output Of this
material.
Toledo has been selected as the national
headquarters Of the bicycle workers I'M
ion. and Buffalo will have the next con-
ycntion.
'Frisco's labor convention decided that
for whom work was provided on the
boulevard.
Federation brewers want a Rochester
X. OF L. brewery boycotted simply be-
cause the X. Of l.. people won't desert
their organization.
The Minneapolis Municipal League has
sent a circular letter TO local labor bodies
inviting their cooperation in the work
OF municipal reform.
At Boston Central Labor Union meet
Ing the Painters Union entered pro-
test against brewery employees painting
or embarrassing outside Of their regular
work.
During 1894 and 1885, when the New
York coat talOrs were an organized body
workmen received from 50 to sl5 weekly.
A high average for longer hours of Ia
Dor to-day Is Sc a week, while many
workers receive less than s..
one week from tomorrow all the en-
plOyers Of union building craftsmen in
Cleveland will be asked by their en-
ployes TO consider eight hours a day. In
the majority Of instances the officers Of
the council have been given TO under
stand that their demand will be recog
nlzed and complied with.
"In regard TO the future OF the in
dustry in this city" said Secretary How
ard. of the Fall River Textile Workers
Union. II would say that since the pass
age OF the 53-hour law In this State no
state IN lnc Union mas Increased luS
number Of her spindles as this State has
done, and none has made better aver
age dividends In the cotton mills con-
trolled by them than have been made
by the mills Of Fall River and elsewhere
in this vicinity"
The Chicago Journeymen Stonecutters'
Association Will hereafter take control AZ
the setting of all cut stone that comes
ont OF the various stone-yards In the
city OF Chicago. and where bricklayers
refuse 10 back up the stone with brick
members OF this organization are hereby
authorized to do the work themselves"
Several years ago, the stonecutters claim.
they not only trimmed the stone used in
the erection Of buildings. but also did the
setting Then the Bricklayers' and stone
masons' Union took up the question and
made law that members Of that organ
ization should do all the setting.
Thus far organized labor has been fair
~ successful in the session Of the Mime
sofa Legislature. The Reishus bill re-
pealing the Struck Jury act has become
a law. The Stockwell Free Text Book
bill has passed the House and will I'M
doubtedly also become law The bill
TO label convict-madc goods as such and
also the BARRIERS bill and a dozen other
bills protecting the interests OF as many
trades are progressing with good chances
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