The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-06-19
THE WORLD
OF LABOR,


France has 10000 teachers.
Spain has 100000 agriculturists.
Dallas has negro printers union.
Cripple Greek boasts "A writer's union.
Glasgow furniture workers won strike.
Germany has $4,000 working women.
Newark horseshoers demand nine hours.
Brooklyn has German Plasterers
Union.
Germany has 1900 union shoe-makers.
Greater New York has 5000 union cloak
makers.
Wages OF Dubuque Qa) coopers were
increased s. a week.
The English Federation OF Enginemeh
consists of 10000 men.
Shoemakcrs iu Germany average S3.J'
per week and work 10 hours day.
Montreal builders protest against the
practice of giving contracts TO outsiders.
The International Typographical Union
has established a branch Ia the British
West Indies.
one OF the many branches Of industry
which is suffering seriously from the
stagnaung influence Of the war IS the
manufacture Of pianos.
The AmaIgamated Society OF Painters
and Decorators has been suspended by
the New York Board of Walking Dele
gates This organization of 5000 men
was doing work which the yainsners
claim.
The United Brotherhood Of Carpenters
and JOiners has a list Of hfty-hve en-
ployers I'm New York and vicinity VINO
manufacture union house trimmings and
OF contractors using tho same
The Gasworkers' Union. of England,
has 16.77S members. It's recent conven-
ton decided 20 set aside $3.50 yearly To
secure the election Of direct labor rep
cod IN
The Government eight-hour law has
been upheld once more, the jury having
found a verdict of guilty in the case or
the San Francisco Bridge Company In
the United States District Court
The attendance at the convention OF
Minnesota unions was larger than ever
before. II was the first time In the his
tory or the federation that the Farm
ers' Alliance cO-Operated with the Fed
eraion.
Wendell Phillips said: ct rejoice at
every effort workmen make 20 organize.
hale the labor movement. II IS my
only hope for Democracy. Organize and
stand together. Let the nation hear
united demand from the laboring voice.
Toronto Retail Merchants Association
wants the license fee for peddler5 In
creased: Two-horse pedler's wagon. so.
formerly so: one-horse pedler's wagon.
$50. formerly so, pedler with hand
wagon. SIS. formerly SO; pedler selling
by hand or with basket, So formerly
so.
While negotiations are in progress IN
Des Molnes for the purchase Of the Des
Moines water works on the understand
ing that the city is willing 70 pay $780,
600. Dubuque considers $4,000 too large
a price to give for It's water works. now
owned bv a private company.
Judge Spencer. Of St. Louis, has de-
cided that while il was true that the
city has a general ordinance pronloiunB
street cars from running az rate great
er than eight miles an hour In the city,
the Municipal Assembly could by express
contract or ordinance permit any par
ticular road TO run It's cars at rate eN-
ceeding that
have secured an advance OF u cents a
dav. the Scottish ironmoulders an adj
vance of a half cent per hour. and the
Northumberland miners an increase or
seven and one-half per cent. The boiler
makers and iron shipbuilders OF Sunder-
land. having asked for Ave per cent.
advanc i'm wages, the masters offered a
lower increase.
As a result Of the strike OF the dock
men at the Missadle dock short time
ago, when they were suNceSs4"' III slC"
demands for an increase In wages. the
dockrnen OF the Iron Range road at Two
Harbors are also enjoying an advance OF
wages. The new scale was put In erect
there June l. The day men earn sloO
per day, and the men on the night shift
get $50. Overtime is paid for az the
rate OF 20 cents an hour
The annual report OF the Amalgamat-
ed Society OF Railway Servants. OF Eng
land has just been issued. The number
OF branches has increased from ts9 10