The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-05-08
AUFMANN & CO,
Fourth and Broad.
THE WORLD
OF LABOR.
BaIumore vi tax bIeycIes 81.

Belfast, Ire tailors won a strike.
in Ireland railway workers lost a strike.
Lawrence, Mass, hasn't a non-union
! printer.
. I'm Scotland railroad signalmen get 50
a week.
Fife, Scotland, minres demand an adj
vance of 2j per cent.
Russia holds third place among the
| gold producing countries.
, Chicago stone cutters struck against
a cut from 81 TO 50 q day,
A Hartford man was fined Sl,174S2 for
selling liquor on Sunday.
Portuguese plantation laborers at Hon
olulu get 81 10 so month.
Textile workers held national con-
venti0n i'm New York last week.
The New York German Cigar Work
er5' Union has a fund OF over A,6Sl.
Platcrs' helpers IN Dundee. Scotland.
shipyards struck for fourteen cents an
hour
In four Of the five boiler shops in Toll
edo the new scale Of wages has been
conceded.
The war with Spain has furnished en-
ployment TO every patternmaker in the
United States.
A big batteshlp has on board an cleo
trio plant capable Of lighting a town Of
5000 inhabitants
The Toledo Brewing and Mailing Com
pany voluntarily granted TO firemen the
eight-hOur day.
indianapolis stereOtypers organized. At
Indianapolis every union painter and
carpenter Is working.
A bin to prevent false and misleading
advertising has been signed by Governor
Black. of New York.
The indianapolis Laundry Workers
Union makes it a practice 20 buy a $50
present for a member when she gets
married.
Detroit Team Owners Union has pc
ttioned the Common Council TO have
none but union teams employed by the
boards and commissions.
The New York Plain and Ornamental
Plasterers' Society wants TO be paid for
a full day on Saturday, although they
quit work at noon.
Cleveland painters and decorators de-
mand twenty-seven and half cents an
hour, time and one half for over time,
and double time for Sundays and holt
days.
kansas City journeymen plumbers are
paid 1870 per day, and want 1918 The
gas and steam filters get s. at present,
and want $3.50.
Pittsburg carpenters have been doing
a great deal OF structural iron work and
at d much lower rate than the iron work
ers would have taken the work for.
In a speech before tho Social Democ-
racy Club at Topeka, Chief Justice Fos-
ter. OF the Supreme Court advocated the
absolute and complete abolition OF debt.
At Cleveland a delegate from the Car
rage Makers Union made a complaint
against a man who had purchased a
bread delivery wagon made In a nom
union shop.
The Labor Exchange Cooperative
Coal Company. of Aladdin, Pa, through
which It was believed the workmen
would find a remedy for all their trou-
bes, has demonstrated itself failure.
The marine docks at Portsmouth. Eng
land, are the largest IN the world COW
ering more than 800 acres and employing
some 1000 men. Two OF the largest
docks arc coo feet long and eighty-five
broad
Pittsburg steamhtters have made
demand for s. day for ten hours.
payment OF time ana half for overtime
and when out OF the city or 10 distant
parts OF same. car fare in addition.
Toledo has 3-6 union newsboys. The
union in its short life has cared for sew
eral youngsters who are III and has come
between some OF the boys and their
parents. who are worse than no parents
=; all.
Chicago Federation of Labor decided
that employers OF labor men Who ara