The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-12-18
THE WORLD
OF LABOR.


in ArOn. o., machines are being intro
duced, and the 8 AMI 81 a day skilled
mechanics have been told TO go TO make
room for 81 and sL25 a day handy men.
The average day wages OF workingmen
and artisans In Chile are: Ordinary labor
ers. - cents, masons. a. cents. carpenters,
% cents; gasiitters. 90 cents; painters, 20
cents.
honolulu biacksmtths get from $40 20
s15 a month.
China hasn't a glass factory.
America has 80 toy factories.
India contains $4,000 acres of tea.
Hamburg has automobile cabs.
Venezuea hasn't an electric railway.
North Carolina has . knitting mills.
California boasts a 25,Oo0-acre wheat
field
Fan River Loom F1xers' Association
has established q textile school.
Houston. Tex. clerks want stores
closed at =. NJ daily and all day sun
day.
Edinburgh, Scotland, bakers insist that
no uniouist shall be paid less than %
shilliugs per week. ....
The executive Of the Gas Workers and
General Laborers, Union has advised its
members to accept the Increase Of wages
offered By the London Gas Light and
Coke Company for fhe present. This
advance represents about IL per cont.
against the 10 per cent. asked by the men.
The Gas Workers programme, as put
forward by the union. is 6s. Cd. per day
for stokers machine men and iiremen,
u.s.. per day for scOOt-drlvers. IS. Cd per
day for coke hole men AMI wheelmen.
and 5s per day for yardmen for eight
hours. The concessions given by the
company amount 10 5s. 3D., 6s., s., 3D.,
and As per day .lr each Of the above
classes respectively. The increase In
wages will affect some 1900 men, and
represents a yearly sum Of about 10000.
The Excelsior Labor Club New York
assembly of the knights Of Labor COM
posed OF mixed trades. is going to try
ana have law passed requiring pawn
brokers TO wrap each pledge of clothing
I'm new. clean paper. The organization
also wants the pawnbr0kers compelled
10 burn the wrappers in which clothing
IS kept as soon as the pledge IS redeemed
I'm order 90 prevent the possible trans-
mission OF disease germs.
Boston printers union IS 30 years Old
Washington uniOnists viii ask the
National Building Trades Council 80 send
delegates 10 the centennial celebration
Il tho establishment Of the national
Government. 10 be held IN Washington
in 1893
Springfield Oass) printers. pressmen.
mi electrotypers are forming an allied
.rades council.
Manila has ordered American barber
chairs.
Firty-four fresh trade disputes occurred
i'm Great Britain i'm October. involving
PSI workpeople The corresponding
number of disputes for September was
s. involving 76H w0rkpe0ple ana for
October. 1897. 80 disputes. involving S10'
worllpeOple Eight disputes took place
I'm the building trades u I'm mining and
quarrving. On iron and steel manutac-
ture. L I'm engineering and shipbuildinS
trades. IN other metal trades in the
textile trades. I'm the transport group
ami < I'm other industries OF the 50 new
and old disputes. involving 1889 work
poople. Of which the settlement Is report
ed. lg involving 1880 persons, were set
tied wholly I'm favor of the workpeople;
1G involving 25l5 persons. wholly in favor
OF the employers. and D. involving 1904
persons resulted in compromise
Oakland (Cal) unionists paraded.
Watertown, y. Y, hasn't a non-union
printer
Great Britain has loS,5lS women union
lists.
There are 1870 different trade unions
I'm England. Ireland. Scotland and Wales.
with 2.s07 branches and a membership
Of ] 49,. 5G2 The best organized trades are
those I'm connection with the metal en-
cheering and shpbuilding industries.
with q total OF SOC members. Next
come mining and quarrying. with 2siso6
members. The textile trades have PIP isl
members organized, the building trades,
1928: the transport trades. 1873. IA. the
clothing trades. $500, and printing
ira les. 509l3. The largest single trade
union IS the Amalgamated Society Of
Engineers. with about $4,000 members
next I'm size is the Durham Miners As
ISOLATION. with 5000 members. followed
by the Yorkshire Miners. with COCO. The
oldest union In the rnited Society Of
Brushmakcrs, founded in l77S, and sim
nourshing. with 1900 members The
general commanding tho largest army
Is w. Moses secretary Of the Federation
OF Engineering and Shipbuildng. which
includes 16 unions. with a total member
ship OF IL, 81 General Secretary Ash
ton. Of the Miners Federation, looks
after the interests Of more than 10000
members. The combined income Of 100
principal unions for one year was SS31S.
225; aggregate expenditure s6l9G,lj0. The
funds i'm hand OF these unions total up
10 so 81. 94j.
At present Barnsey (1rgiand) iron and
steel moulders work at 81 hours per week
for 2Gs.; they ask 37s. per week for 50
hours.
A meeting OF the Sheffield (England)
and District Engineering Trades EN-
ployers' Association was held to con-
slider a letter received from the work
men. Tho men ask for an advance or
2s per week and a reduction OF one hour
In their time. The employers offered an
advance OF Is. per week and no change
I'm Tho hours. This offer the men re-
fused to accept.
Said Harvietta A. Keyser. secretary
and organizer OF the New York Church
Association for the Advancement OF the
Interest Of Labor: There should be a
prohibition against goods made in tene-
ments. Ask where your goods are made
TIE time has passed when man can say
TO YOU: stand back, I'll manage my
business as I please" You can now
say: mo. you cannot When you starve
your employees body and soul and carry
disease and contagion over the whole
country. Il Is the peoples business" I'm
glad 70 tell you that many ladies' have
subscribed and over half the stock has
been taken In the Ladies' Tailors' CO.
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