The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-11-06
THE WORLD
OF LABOR,


England has eleven dstilleries.
America has 5000 acres or hops'
New York policemen wear non-union
hats. 49,,
Tracy City, Tenn. miners struck for
% and . cents per mine car. -,
Tinplate workers at Atianta' ihu''
struck against a cut in wages
Girls employed in an oatmeal mill at
| Cedar Rapids, Ia, won strike.
Rrockton Iasters' Union admitted 70
nembershlp seventy-eight men at re-
cent meeting. 49,, ,.,,,
seven dollars a thousand IS the price
Maid nv a Tacoma company Tor falI
of flooring logs the other day.
The movement for the establishment
~ the ten-hour day for bakers and the
abolition OF the prevailing system Oh
boarding journeymen is no" larry OH
foot. .,,,,, Of
the American Federation OF LABOR VIII
be held at Kansas City, NO. Dec l.il,
Der 18th. The X. Of l.. VIII meet Al Cn'-
cago on November l9th.
The third of the series Of conferences
arranged nv the Journeymen Bakers ana
Coufectioners' International Union LOT
the shorter workday movement IN 1917
was held last week.
The famous Federal Labor tnlon OF
Kane. Pa. has gone into politics TO tne
extent of getting all the labor organiza-
lions in Mexican County united on
labor ticket I'm the State campaign.
A Cleveland ordinance provides that
the cash fares on street railways shaIl
be 4 cents and that the tickets be sold
al the rate of seven for quarter. Inc
Of u
tickets nj the rate Of II for 80 cents.
The Indiana BARRIERS Protective As
sociation was formed last week. The
purpose OF the organization is TO prepare
and have introduced In the Lcsisiat IRE
a hill licensing BARRIERS and requiring bet
ter sanitary conditions i'm barber SHOPS.
movement has been inausuratod IN
Pittsburg by trainmen I'm the interest Of
better wages The demand has peeh
placed I'm the hands Of a grievance com
mittee. and will be presented TO railroad
odicials =. NJ. Arthur. chief of the
brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers.
saws that his organization IS not involved
in the movement.
Members Of the Cleveland Retail
Clerks Association who were looking
for evidence yesterday against vlolators
Of the Sunday labor law, did not nave
any trouble securing it. Nearly all or
the clothiers who have been I'm the habit
Of keeping their places Of business open
Sunday morning from 10 Y o'clock did
so last Sunday.
The delegates Of the New York Central
Labor Union. who have looked upon
Clarendon Hail as n labor fortress since
1851 when they first moved into IL. have
decided 10 move 10 other quarters on
January LIST. The union charges that the
present manager employs non-union wait
ers. bartendors and musicians, the latter
forming the orchestra i'm music hail
annex OF the building.
zone Of the most effective speakers
on the stump I'm this state is Hon. Ro-
bert Bridges Land Commissioner Of the
State" says enc Of the leading fusion or
CANS The Republicans are beginning 10
coincide with this view. for Mr.. Bridges
arguments i'm favor OF the single tax and
insistence that he is an ardent single
taxer are making votes for the Repub-
iican ticket-Tacoma (Wash) Ledger
tRep)
New York society women lave sub
scribed $4,000 TO start a cooperative
shop for the striking ladies' tailOrs. The
fashionable women in New York will be
in a sense partners in this enterprise.
The Nanderbiits the SlOanes the AsrOrs
the Duers and scores Of others whose
names are synonymous with great wealth
and social prestige will be the patrOnesses
Of this shop in fact. kind Of silent part
ners. Tho tailors ran against their first
snag when they went 10 buy cloth Pres
ident Schimmick. Secretary-Treasurer
Topstatt and Peter Cam went 10 the two
principal wooden houses In New York 70
see what terms they could make They
were told that the firms could not sell
70 the cooperative shop. The reason
was given frankly. The firms said that
the trade of the fashionable tailors hav-
ing shops in and near Fifth avenue is
worth more 20 them than that OF the
men who are now on a strike, and they
could not have both. This does not
trouble US said President Schimmick
we can buy cloth Of big retail houses
who also do n wholesale business"
The Social Democracy colony in Wash
ington IS now an accomplished fact The
Cooperative Brotherhood which was or
ganized and incorporated under the laws
OF the State OF Washington by national
officers OF the Social Democracy OF Amer
lea, TO carry on the work of c0lonlzing in
this State. has made the selection OF a
colony site and secured its land Tho
officers of the company were elected at
a recent meeting Of the Board OF Birec-
tors, and resulted in the selection OF the
following: PRESIDENT j. >. lnBdllS, OF
Minnesota: President, j. c. De
Almond. OF Colorado; Secretary, Cyrus
Field willard Of nassach Isetts: Urea
surer. p. H. McKernan. OF Washington;
Auditor. j. p. Fowler. OF Washington.
An office was Immediately secured at
room so Pioneer Building. Seattle. Ar
rangements have been completed by
which about 1000 acres will be secured
on Henderson Bay, about five miles from
Olalla. and conditions are such that In
the neighborhood OF 1900 more acres can
be secured II deemed advisable. I'VE
expect" says Secretary Willard. now to
bring in thousands of honest and indus
trious American citizens from the East
to build up happy and contented homes
for themselves and to increase the wealth
and population OF this great Empire
State OF the Northwest"
This season said Aa1ox .ouincx. Of