The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-01-24
THE FIELD
OF LABOR.


There are 1900 union butchers
Arizona Indians are buying bicycles
\ machine corks 1900 bottles daily
Europe has $50 miles OF electric road
Vienna policemen must be telesrapne'S'
Swansea plumbers struck for 81. per
hour
Boston has Workingmen's Pohticai
League.
There's n National Union Label League
Duluth will hold an oight-hour mass
meeting.
Cincinnati boasts a Woman's Label
League
There are 1000 X. OF l.. in Washington
D. 6.
washington. .. C.. has 700 union brick
layers.
Six Toledo laundries now use the union
label.
Omaha laundry workers kick against
nve-cont shop
Michigan photographers will hold
state convention.
Cincinnati police say the saloon sitting
room must 20.
Credit men Will hold a national CON
vention az Kansas city 10 june.
Woodworkors have subscribed 5000 for
a cooperative factory az Detroit.
Nebraska Popullst papers want de-
partment stores abolished.
Hurley Wis. miners called on tho May
or Of the town 10 give them work.
Houston. Tex. BARRIERS are organizing
They want Sunday work prohibited
4 new railway company at cincinnati
offers Accent fares for a franchise
The Printers Union is the strongest
labor organization in Washington, ID. q.
National city Improvement Society
wants the office Of the city Meat In
spcctor created.
Minneapolis Trade and Labor Council
rejected delegate from the Socialist-La-
Dor party.
Detroit Builders Exchange declares
that experienced mechanics should com
pose the Board Of Public Works.
Tho secondhand dealers Of Kansas
city have organized 10 fight a special tax
Of sl5.
Shoe pattern-makcrs will form a ma
tiOnal union.
BOSTON Central Labor Union wants the
proposed elevated road operated by the
city.
4. bill before the Indiana Legislature
will conhnc convict work 10 supplies for
state institutions
Windsor. ont. starving mon want pub
lie work resumed and outside labor eX-
cludod.
In England Amalgamated Engineers
have decided TO stop an overtime TIL
March.
The Michigan Photographers Associa-
tion is making an effort TO close an gale
lerios I'M the state on sundays
Kansas City grocors want phone rates
reduced 90 $40 a year for business places.
and $50 for residences.
Grafton. y. D.. journoymon want bar
her shops closed at +. VI. except on
Wednesday and Saturday.
Omaha horseshoers have prepared n bin
requiring tho examination of people
wishing TO enter that occupation.
Hamilton. O.. Trades and Labor Coun-
eli has already appointed committees for
the Labor-Day demonstration.
All the employees in the bicycle depart
ment of the Chicago Stamping Comna-
ny's works quit work Monday go sympa-
thy with tho machinists who went on
strike week previous.
The managers Of the san Francisco ON
ployment agencies and labor bureaus OF
the city are nap i'm arms against Labor
Commissioner Fitzgerald. lie wants the
State 10 establish free labor bureaus.
Tho Pennsylvania State Legislative Ia
hor League composed Of Central Labor
Unions. viii have committee M the
Capitol during the term Of the Logisla-
ture.
Des Moines butchers recently organic
cd. Part Of their plan s. 10 start big
packing plant foo Dcs Moinos 10 kin meat
for antitrust butchers OF Iowa.
Kansas labor leaders want a law com
poling the payment OF wages in money
and the adjustment Of tho check system.
over 1000 manufacturers VIII convene
at Philadelphia.
Tho New York State Factory Inspcc-
tor recommends a further reduction OF
the hours Il labor or women under
twcnty-ono and youths under Eighteen
nCn. sixty 10 dfty-oisht hours per week
The question as 20 whether tho d.
ccnscs granted 10 tho liquor dealers 81
Baltimore cntitle them to sell tob &C. %
and CIGARS viii have 90 bee decided By ,hc
Court Of Appeals.
I-rited states and Canada contain over
. 600 uuicn cigar shop-. The Information
I'D Union will epcad considerable money
this wear in having union label laws
passed
bonneville Mass BARRIERS are having
the sunday law enforced. They will open
an opposition place near non-union
shop Senator Moran addressed their
mass-mccting
New York Federation Of Labor advo-
cafes a reduction u legal rate OF in
tcrcst. the enforcement OF compulsory ed
ucaUon law and the Introduction Of the
initiative ana refer ndum.
The Detroit cigarmskcr committee
has arranged with one or two OF the nom
union shops % place union men az Woi"
in the shops without pledges on either
side.
The coopers employed I'm all the CHI
caeo hrcweries have been organized INTO
a branch OF the International Coopers
Union. Tho coopors will now begin a
campaign 20 induce I'll brewers 10 use
none but union made barrels
Toledo Street Railway Company wants
now franchises Several local newspa-
pers insist that 3-ceGt fares ana uniNcr-
sal transfers must be allowed. and the
employees 81 the company want 10 guar
autee that dlficulties shall Doe submit
ted 10 90 board ~ arbitration
The most successful musical patent Of
the year IS rubber fingers. the invention
Of i. ]. Haffner. Of Philadelphia. pla-
no manufacturer declares that these VIII
increase the sale Of pianos las any one
can learn to play the instrument by their
aid I'm one evening.
Rochester corers protest against tho
use I'm that city ot barrels not made
in Rochester Members OF the Rochester
| Wine and Liquor Dealers Association
promised a committee Of unionists that