The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-04-17
IN THE WORLD
OF LABOR.

De,To,, f.nneTs want the nine hour day.
Maryland trading stamp stores are CLOS
Kansas City has a municipal drug
Ominato. japan. has a l9oo-year-old
'' cleve.and timers struck for o cents
Duluth iii has a Union Mems Insurance
MontrsaI Central Labor Union endorsed
/ the single tax.
New YORK machine stone WoIheIS W."
/ the eght-hOur day. , r..
New York German-Amercan Typo
gr,apni4 Is . years oSiccii,,ors struck for &c
cents per dozen rivets. 80 -
Frisco Sailors Union demands SiV per
month as minimum pay. a.. ,,t.,.
Several Frisco firms CONCEDED the H'ile-
hour day 10 job printers. 49,
Duluth lstreet railway uniforms TINS
spring Will bear the union laDeL rato,
COvingtOn. lNy~ Ladies Clnoh LdD'i
League has 600 members. I'll,
At Cleveland public improvements VIII
furnish work for 1000 men.
London has i0.l0O union gasWoTkeis' an
increase of 10000 In a year
Montreal uniOnists want the city 70
PAY IabOrers 1919 cents an hour. 90,
After May I Cleveland carpenters Will
nor work with non-uulonists
Troy unionists protest against the GIN
plOyment OF girls n ioundres. .-,,.,
New York stercOtypera are on stIlAe
for nine and Ore-ialf hour day.
The congress Of miners at salt Lake
Will he attended by 5000 delegates.
Bonermakers and iron shipbuilders on
the Clyde want per cent Increase.
Detroit grocers and butchers kick
AGAINST wholesalers VINO sell sooos al re-
tail.
Hartford Union printers yet from SIS
10 SCI per week; non-unionists q 90 az.
Syracuse painters now get $40 for nine
hours; p8perhangers Sz.o0. NO stiike'
GreenWle Pa. Tube Company yoiun-
taruy increased wages from III 10 ~ pe'
cent.
William Waldorf Aston has q $1,000
oyerc0at and Mrs Cillig paid $4,000 Ior
three dogs.
Duluth ORGANIZED labor viii have candi-
dates in the leid for the legislature loI
the coming taM
Ballard. Wash, knot sawyers struck
for $3.50 per day The packers demand
cents per thousand.
Westminster. Md. merchants organized.
They oppose The running OF loW-Iale eA-
cursiOns JO Baltimore
Boston Building Trade Council has ask
| ed brewers 90 employ only uuiohI9-9 i4
the construction of repair buildings
Cleveland uniOuists went 20 the leeis-
lature 90 urge the passage OF the Bidih-
ley bili. lbOu-hins prison contract idDo4'
Chicago carpenters forced the boss car
peulers 90 sign The union scale as iuolFll-
| GaIs. they refused 90 recognize tAe COM
tractors.
Rochester Woman's Christian Temper
ance Onion requests that the cit ar pc
omitted from The cuts Illustrating ne"
style suits OF gentleman. clo1lne.
New York has q Calcium Lisht opera
tors Union. They complain because mem-
| beers of the stage hands union are uaid-
| Hng the lights In one OF the theatres.
Many Chicago printing firms signed tho
| nress-faoders' scale Zen women WHO
were given the men Jobs lelI lheh tuey
| discovered that their sex barred 'Aeh
| from the union.
Cinciun7rs street railway company mas
| reduced the fare between the hours OF .
| and Z in the morning and ana I'D the
! evening 90 cents. In future every pas
senger vii be provided with a seat
Milwaukee Republican candidate for
! Mayor was defeated, because, ll lS SUI,
| 10 was believed that Die was friend on
! the street railway company. DeDs ooeldi
! Democracy candidate received z4H Noll7'
The question of whether the telephone
/ system should be placed In the nands Oh
! the municipal authorizes mas Detn ~
! cussed during the recent inquiry mo we
! telephone exchange service in Glasgow.
Both The hints and manufacturers are
! now hgurug upon ii plan 90 have lnc
| union label recorded upon an xmas OF
! uui0n-made glassware 20 distinguish l1
| from that in the non-union factories.
The retail groccrs of New York have
] formed exchanges and pooled lneli lu-
/ terests 90 the extent Of buying th'R SUD-
| plies boo o. wholesale way and distributing
/ them among the members or tne eA-
| changes.
An Ottawa firm used a white Label i'm
J The shape OF q ncart as tiademdIh'
! Another firm, which. wanted 20 use
| Whi.e label BOO the shape of kite. was
| refused the privilege. ON the ground that
! IL Was an infringement.
| Denver's Mayor vetoed the bin for an
| ordinance under which the COuncll hau
proposed % license AN kinds and con-
! ditiOns Of business on the basis OF one
! eighth Of / per cent. for an departments
| above one conducted under one root
The Personal Liberty League. composed
Of the majority OF the salOOnkeepers OF
| Kansas city held a meeting and protest
| ed against the ice trust. The independ-
emit companies charged l1la cents per 100
pounds Now they must pay 30 cents.
Remarks President Mulcahy OF the
/ WOOdWOrkers' National Union: II believe
/ The report of the American Federation "
Labor az The next annual convention WlIl
show five times and perhaps ten times
| the gain IN membership of the previous
| year.
The new city repairs department OF
Boston is working eight hours per day
and seven on saturday for from $40 10
I 50 a day. The city is now putting up its
own mill machinery Tor the construction
OF the DOORS pists' window frames and
sdsncs
There IS Sl.5C0000 invested in the larg-
I est brewery ln CleVe and. says Rev. j.
| W. Allen. About the same amount is
! invested ln the largest shipyard business
| in the city. About 300 men are employed
in the brewery and about 300 men ia
The shlpyard.'
The Swiss election was held on Sun
! day February 20. and 90 o'clock that
evening the general result was known in
every city and town in the republic. The
news was given TO the public free "
charge through an extensive telephone
system, owned by the government
Mrs. Micah Dyer. Jr.. SAYS IF che
w0mens clubs Of Boston numbering
/ Doycot, those stores that do not pay
their working women living wages there
would be such a revolution In Boston that
! tho Revolution of ltlJ would pale into
shadow In comparison
Galveston Cooks and Walters Union de-
mands that l0 hours constitute q days
work and the following scale: Chief cooks
try cooks $780, third cooks $40. vegetable
cooks $5; countermen so; dining
room helpers $50, yardmen So, dish wash
ers so.
The horseshoers' national convention
will be he'd at Detroit May l6. The grea t.
est victory of the hOrseshOers for the
year is the success or the big strike I'm
ST. LoIis. for "a nine-hOur wOrkday Fife
teen cooperative shops were opened 10y
the strikers and these have practically
captured al corporation work previous
~ controlled by The Master Horseshoers'
Association.
Tom Manns Workers Union. OF En-
gland will be composed principally OF
unsM led men. The features distinguish
ing the new body VIII be It's action I'm