The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-05-01
IN THE WORLD
OF LABOR.
Toledo unionists paraded.

Toledo uniOnists pdrdded.
Illinois has S53 coal mines.
Minnesota has a negro colony
Chicago press-feeders won strike.
Germany imports Tennessee wood.
ConnelIsville has 1S.G0S coke ovens.
Spain has 10000 registered beggars.
MIX costs six cents a quart In London
London lamp posts furnish not water
Chicago sprinkler filters get $3.50 day
Syracuse milk peddlers use union
label. l.,
twenty-five years old.
Rockland Me, has 600 union lime
burners.
siXty-siX years.
Chicago newspapers will join me +. Oh
l.. -,
Pltsburg hodcarriers want $50 day
on May lst.
Chippewa. Wis, saw mill men STRUCK
for ten hour day.
A label league is to be established IN
each ward OF Chicago.
I'm Wales G0.00O coal miners struck Tor
10 per cent advance.
New York Central Union rejected
motion opposing war.
Chicago uniOuists want a uhlonlsI OIL
the CIvn Service Board
indianapolis Master Painters Associa-
ton employs only uniOnsts.
I'm Belgium last year 80 per cent. OF
the strikes were successful
Boston plumber was fined $40 tor
doing work without a license.
Maryland cubs that sell liquor must
pay $50 q year for u license.
Toledo electrical workers viii get
e. -O for eight hours after May lst
Dues OF New York German Printers
Union: ninety cents a week
indianapolis hasn't an idle union car
pentor They get s. for eight hours
A salvation Army colony is TO be es-
tablishcd in PrOwess county cal
cleveland lamplighters get SIG a month.
Each man attends 20 siXty-hVe lamps.
Tho wire nail trust will cut the wages
OF 1000 men from . TO 30 per cent.
Denver merchants kick against the
rule depriving them OF sidewalk space
Judge Johnson. Of Denver. has decided
that the water franchise Is taxable
II cost Debs' Social Democracy just
800 TO conduct it's campaign NJ Mll"au-
kee.
Erie Pa. liquor dealers have agreed to
buv ouly union made cigars. bread, etc.
ogden. Utah. merchants want tax
ul1ced on business and professional men.
Dundee. Scotland. magistrates have
fixed cab fare within q certain radius al
twelve cents.
Chicago mail wagon drivers struck.
They refused So and so a month Tor
seventeen hours day.
Tine Scandinavlans OF Northern Iowa
Organized for the coming political cam
paign iu Iowa.
Pittsburg brickmakers won strike for
am advance OF 10 per cent. Each make
1900 O. day.
New York printers strike was compro-
rniscd-bosses can do e,ectrOtyping Tor
nou-unlon employers.
Tho Denver Trades Assembly rejected
a resolution which favored the re-enact-
ment OF tine law establishing capital pun
ishment.
The city of Dresren, Germany, Is the
owner of a paper, the pronts from Which
90 90 building parks. The papers was
bequeathed 10 the city.
The Chicago Federation OF Labor Is
making preparations to 90 about adyer-
usng official Doyc0tts the same as many
merchants advertise their business.
A settlement has been arranged between
organized labor and the Armour Packing
Company. The boycott was declared two
years ago at Kansas City.
Pittsburg structural iron workers COM
plain because carpenters are infringing
on their occupation. Carpenters are,
moreover, paid less than the iron work
ers.
At the New York Central Labor Union
on sunday last Delegate Brown said that
war would throw out OF work 5000
cigarmakers and would paralyze the
building trades.
Detroit Musicians Union has ruled
that the street ear mems band shah not
play gratis for their brother unions, and
the street car men have decided to dis
regard the decision.
The dangerous practice OF employing
water or boiler tenders 10 take charge OF
and operate steam boilers, instead OF
licensed engineers, will be stopped here
after by Chicago city authorities
Wright, OF Detroit.