The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-01-17

lishcd a painters school.
New York Chamber OF Commerce IA
y0rs the referendum.
Bicycle mechanics will hold a national
convention az Toledo. o., March ID.
Window glass workers union VIII es-
tabllsh a cooperative factory at Ander-
son, Ind.
Films employed at Houghton, Mich.
-andstone q~uarrics struck for $50 a
day.
buffalo bakers are asking unionists TO
agree 90 buy only the product OF union
bakeries.
Pittsburg unionists want city and county
work lone by unionists exclusively.
A mass-meeting 10 consider the griey-
auces OF union hucksters VIII be held i'm
Buffalo this week.
Grand Rapids has 81 cigar factories.
New York socialists have cablcd 500
20 Hamburg dock strikers.
In New York and surrounding cities
and towns fully twO-thirds OF the men
in the wood-workers' trades are idle.
Philadelphia unionists kick against the
employment OF five Chinese boys al the
Baldwin Locomotive shops.
Am ordinance has been introduced Tn
Pueblo (ColJ Council permitting the cleo
trio street railway company 10 run cars
without conductors.
Residents OF three suburbs of Cincin-
natl protest against the employment OF
non-residents on local work.
President Mahon says men get better
wages with three cent fares than where
1--WE cents is charged for "a ride.
Manufacturers and unionists Of chi
cago have prepared % bill 90 prohibit COM
petition Of convict with free labor.
Wheeling BARRIERS organized and ad-
vanced their rates. 4 dozen shavcs cor
81 and %shampooiug now costs % cents.
Last years sales OF English co-oycra-
tive societies amount TO the sum of So
10000. These enterprises employ Ills
people.
Baltimore Federation OF Labor objects
10 the employment OF %nOn-uniOn men ON
municipal work.
Cleveland brickmakers are organizing
and Will join the eight hour movement.
Contractors will not oppose the chanse.lt
is said
Students Of theUnivcrslty Of Wash
ington. AZ Seattle. have struck for the
continuance of the sale of 80 tickets Tor
s. by the street railway company
GAINESVILLE, o.. I'm 1890 passed am or
dinance making eight hours the limit on
municipal work and kim a minimum
rate of wages at 10 cents an hour.
The Irish Trades Congress will De held
at Waterford. I'm July. and 500 has al
ready been subscribed 10 defray expenses.
The Mayor gave $50.
The Kansas city Newsboys' Union has
offered the use Of its han as general
headquarters for the Cuban cause IN
Kansas city.
There are at least half n dozen or
CARNATIONS IN Dublin having for the ob-
ject OF their existence the promotion OF
the use of Irish manufactures and t"c
encouragement Of home industry.
Tho ST. Paul Hack and Cab Drivers
Union. through one OF its members, has
won n victory against the city. which. by
am ordinance sought TO prohibit hack
men from allowing their teams and IL
ceused hacks 10 stand on asphalt streets
for "a greater continuous period than W
minutes.
Louisville unionists want the street
railway cOmpany's franchise revoked.
They demand 2-cent fares. vestiOule-.
etc.
A Brooklyn Electrical Workers uaion
has decided 20 disband. New YORK
Building Trades Unions are blamed tor
the disruption.
The National stogie Makers Union is
the outgr0wth of a fight against stOgies
rollers by the international Union OF
Clearmakers. The Pittsburg branch has
Tho new superintendent OF the State
Free Labor Bureau at Cleveland says Dee
"irtonds 10 make his Office what the iaw
of obio Intended if should be-. "a means
~ ftrpisbin, emnloymenf 90 union men
rawes a. Grant ex-secratarv of the
Detroit street r,r EMPLOYEES local a4-
.oei,tio, stands CHARGED with having
orsred IN pl3v the traitor 20 the union
ami o., dfsr-ir+ it iD consideration of alv
from tto street railway comuanv
.,,,,i,t.. rror, ia. D.froit Paint
r-,i.r h,s be., c,r,, s.irg tno bo-sos
o., on tb.fr yi.v.s ON tn. .irhf-norr
1,,. Tr. ,onwitta. r.nort4 , f,vorabla
1ftf-,I. o, d.. r.rt of most of The enon
o,..ers
saws T. T. Connolly Of Cleveland.
"T.hor orranizatfons should amalra-
mate closer and cut Off "a great deal OF
dead timber In this dav OF combina-
tons I'm the business world. labor must
Of necessity combine and form n eigan-
tic trust 10 retain its standing in the lu-
dustrial world
Following thcir usuaI custom m rho
beginning Of winter tbe Hothscblds or
Paris have semi DOB 0O francs esD up
ia Tine Protect ~ c.i,. to D.. df.tributod
am,ng peodv tenants i'm paris
Tbe C-arnenfe.s, District corncil ~