The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1897-05-02
THE WORLD
OF LABOR.
Siam has one railway.

Syracuse tinsmiths organized.
Waterproof paper gains FAVOR
Fall River weavers lost strike
America has 3C5.Oo0 coal miners
Iondon has 500 railway stations.
Albany. ore, has Chinese BARRIERS
Ei,rope makes 50. OO0OoO pins daliy.
Indianapolis Brewery workers organize
MINNEAPOLIS has 5O0 Onion carpenters.
Maine has housed l,4sJ.oOO tons OK ICE
America uses half the worlds quinlhe.
Germany has LOCO 90 textile workers.
Detroit grocers want peddiers ABOLISH
ed -,
Detroit's union OF job pressmen Is DEAD
Detroit has negro worklhs"oine" :
union. IAN.
Boston horsehoers demand eight hou's
Los Angeles hasn't an idle union PANT
er.
Chicago eerrickmen demand 81 Ia cents
per hour.
All Brooklyn breweries have signed the
new scale.
sandusky (O) coopers lost strike Tor
advances.
Philadelphia street cleaners get 20 cents
4 dov.
Boston bakers held an eight hour meet
ing on May 1.
Marlboro (Mass) shoe workers struck
against cut -
X. Of l.. girls employed in Cohoes
mill won Il strike.
Frisco barbers demand that shops DC
closed at +. NJ.
New Zealand workers are advocating
q working day of six hours.
Tackinakers say wages are % per cent.
below the scale OF 1879.
Wellington. Aus. Seamen's Union won
an advance OF $3.50 a month.
Cleveland painters strike is over. Men
Will work eight hours for 81.
A Louisville brewery was forced to
discharge non-union plumbers.
Dublin. ireland. coopers complain
against firms that import casks.
New York bricklayers are asking %
cents an hour, instead of so cents.
Philadelphia bricklayers may strike
for eight hours and i5 cents per hour
Every cracker manufacturer in Massa-
chusetts has refused TO use the union
label.
Dublin tailors employed by first-class
concerns get SIS Cd per day Of IL hours.
Boston paperhangers want eight hours.
Boston horseshoers will aid striking nail
makers.
The bakers convention at Cleveland
this week will represent 100 unions Ihey
convene every three years.
Proctor Knott CMinn) unionists boy
cotted a non-union barber till he was
forced to leave rlle place.
Westfeld. Mass. bicycle dealers agreed
to the request of unionists that they
drop a toycotted wheel.
A Government tobacco plantation is the
latest addition to the things owned and
operated by Victoria, Australia.
Unionists elected a Republican Mayor
at Davenport. Ia. because the only nom
union journal in town was Democratic.
The union butchers OF Washington, Ore
gon and California will hold their annual
convention at Los Angeles in August.
Some Wheeling Councilmen have prom
ised unionists that they will oppose tie
proposed manufacturing plant in the city
prison.
In October last nail workers ut Belle
Vile had their pay cut 80 per cent. ana
now they are asked to accept another re-
duction OF % per cent.
At a meeting OF the Washington Cen
trail Labor Union complaint was mac
that q contractor was discriminating
against union men In favor Of members
Of the knights Of Labor"
Cleveland master horseshoers appealed
10 the Journeymens Union 10 aid them
I'm a fight against a boss who cut rates.
The latter pays union wages and the
journeymen declined 10 act I'm the matter
The schedule OF wages demanded by
st. Louis horseshoers follows: Firemen.
per day $3.50: fremen and foormen or
men fitting and driving for themselves.
per day. 1926; loormen. per day. 50.
II is quite probable that the attempts
at organization Of textile workers in the
South will be renewed next fall Two
Of the New England leaders saw the
South is growing ripper for organization
every month
Immigration Inspector c. c. McGlo-
gan was rendered a vote Of thanks by the
gas meter workers of Detroit for his
protection Of American workmen by
keeping out Of this country Canadians.
who are termed birds Of passage"
The window glass workers will no doubt
ask for a substantial advance in wages
this year. irrespective Of any action Con-
gress may take on the tariff. The ques-
ton of returning 10 the Knights OF Labor
has been actively agtated among the win
dow glass workers.
Minnesota Legislature passed four and