The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-01-09

a vigorous agitation for the constrdcsicc
Of thu new Mater Works by day iAoor ~
4 ag1rsC ccLtroct labor.
-Four ten-year-Old boys In Muncic
/ Ind. glass works won strike for
. per week. Three boys employed IN an
other factory struck for the same pay
! The State Labor Commission hired MAJ
| for the boys to hold their meetings In
| Eighty-elght per cent. OF the union me.
J OF the State OF Minnesota are employee
IhiS information Is OF peculiar r'rn'f
! canoe when IL Is considered that there
4 was less than 50 per cent. OF the memocrs
' or organized labor employed a year ago.
The monument selected by the grand
] lodge officers OF the International Asso-
/ grave OF T. w. Talbot. the founder u
me Association. VIII be put In :ositiou
! spring.
=, ,'Trs trust benefits a very limited sroa.
or PEOPLE,. says w. 4. Rausch, OF he
| bicycle Workers International Ua:or
! whereas the trades union spreads tie
] nenehts 20 an unlimited number. Even
1 the non-unionist gets tho benent. In thai
| way II Is not comparable to a trust.
another Dill mobiles the conspiracy law
| oy permitting the peaceable assembling
: Oh WORKING men, and allowing them TO
uy 10 induce a workman to leave his
employment by request and argument.
SUCH acts on TIE part OF the workingmen
| are MOI 10 be punishable as conspiracy.
o, IN asii, at Rochdale. England, twenty
I
| i've store. ro-day in Great Britain there
are over l.'@ societies, with l500, 600 men,
, oers ana a capital OF S5.ooo.coo. The
manufactures include shoes. SOAP furni-
ture. clothing breadstufrs, etc
inc INV OF the province OF Quebec a.
II novs Stands prevents grocers from
handling and selling what are termed
drugs with two exceptions. viz, Paris
green and London purple. The sale OF all
other drugs by grocers was prohibited In
1883 through the fundamentally OF tho
drug trade. The Wholesale Grocers' AS
So dstion wants the law killed.
Che pressmen OF New York. expect 70
set nine and half hour work-day.
beginning on January 18th. and the stcr-
eotypers and electrotypers beginning
April lst According TO the unions In
1 depreciation OF the settlement with the
Typothetae. II is understood that as soon
as the International Typographical Union
gives q date for n demand for the nine
hour work-day in all cities east OF tho Al
leshanies and north OF Richmond tho
nine-hour work-day will be conceded TO
the book ana job printers OF New York.
Type-sctting machines are to be used
by the Philadelphia Public Ledger tGco.
". Chiles) Eighty-seven men arc now
cIrrlcNci and 100 substitutes" are also
on its CT nLo sing room salary list. TWEEN
~ mon viii do more work with tho ma
chimes than was formerly accomplished
by eighty seven men.
1T ms tiers little" says NJ. A. Baker.
I'm tho New Orleans Tmes-Democrat,
what part OF the South tho Immigrants
come into first. All parts are equally Ia
VOra RE. with cheap, vet fertile n lE' IL
the formers and workingmen from Penn
sylvarig ami New York do well I'm Ala
balnl they will soon pour over Into Mis-
sssiyDt Louisiana and other States.
where they will md the conditions equal
~ favorable. The great point 10 be ac-
complished IL 20 show them ths advan-
tages the South offers 70 all who have en-
orgy and industry and who want 70 i'm
prove their condition by hard work"
The Cigar-makers' Internat,onl Union
has a membership or over 10000 with 1858
local unions. Delegate conventions are
held once in five years. but have no power
other than that or initiative legisya ton.
Every act OF the convention must be APP
proved by popular vote or the mem
bership before IT is valid. For measures
proposed by the convention majority
vote ratihes. The initiative In matters
OF legislation also rests with the local
unions anG may be made use or at any
time. Any local union may propose an
amendment 70 the constitution. one er-
feet OF the initiative and referendum
among the cigar-makers has been TO re-
duce the number OF conventions, whicn
cost about $1,000 each. Formerly con-
ventions we're held every two years. later
the interval was made three years and
recently nve years.
A convention of the master bakers OF
Airdrie. Bellshill, Cariuke. COatDrldge.
Hamilton, HolytOWn. Motherwell. WIS
haw and LanarkSfire was recently held
ut Bellshill. Scotland. A long discussion
took place on the demands made by the
operative bakers for minimum wage
FOR joUrneymen OF rs. per week; job
bers IS I'd. per day: first half. 81. 30
second half. IS. and an Saturdays, ts.
cd overtime, time and half. ana weekly
wages for 10 hours per week where early
men are employed only. half hours Tor
meals and two apprentices for nve or
less men. and one for every additional
five journeymen; all holidays 10 De pald
for and the enforcement OF nOn-memher
law that no member work beside nom
member. The masters agreed 10 grant,
an advance OF IS. per week 10 all men
under 2Ss., 10 pay j0Dbers 5s. cd per DAY,
IS. first half day and 2s. sd. second nan,
10 delay the hours question, 10 grant
1he meal hours arrangement, also appren-
tices and holidays. but did not see their
way clear 10 say anything regardinG
union, but strongly recommended the IN
PRODUCTION Of bound apprentices.
In most OF the factories OF New Iea-
land the hours Of labor are from ) A. NJ.
10 { p NJ with an hours spell between
and 2 o'clock for the operatives 10 got
-heir dinners, thus making nine hours
actual work. BY working the extra hour
Tor I'VE days OF the week they are aole
10 secure a half holiday on Saturdays
and on that day quit work at O'CLOCK
Miss Amy Leslie, formerly we'll
t,nou,n rrin,a donna and now "A clever