The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-06-26
THE WORLD
OF LABOR.

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Duluth hackmen organized.
There are glass monuments
Russia has 1900 coal miners.
Denmark has $500 unlonists.
Finland has women bricklayers.
Wales contains $50 tinplate mills.
Texas has a S.260.Oo0 acre rancn-
Frisco boasts a Chinese telephone girl
A word cabled 10 Manila costs H5o
+. OF L. embraces 81 national unions
AT Chicago Loo woodworkers struck
Denver cooks struck for a six-day
week.
The blacklist cost an Ohio railroad
Minneapolis coopers demand an an
iowa druggists viii hold state con-
ventlon. So.
uniforms. A..
union label. -.
restaurants. -
Kansas City IRON HouIuelS SN"N S'
the 1894 scale.
a parade will be held at Kansas City
on Labor Day.
TROY dry goods clerks demand the Sat
urday half-holiday.
Utica firms have accepted the paper
makers union label
Chicago Building Trades oppose pa
rade on LABOR Day.
Denver unionists want eight sHeel car
tickets for a quarter.
Grand Rapids Union carpenters Aro
distinguished by q ribbon.
The New York Typographical society
was established in 1909 -
IIebrew-American Bakers Union iS3
now controls every shop in Brooklyn
Bay View. Mich. steel company en-
Moves earning sl.A in 12 bours. struck
for 25 per cent. increase, or the eIsh'-
hour day and the l2-hour pay.
New York egg Gamblers formerly earn
Cd SIS 10 SIS a week. now they set - TO
The German Typographical Federation
has * o0O members and 4 fund OF S-o'-
600. w.. $50
There are now in New York four
knights OF Labor assemblies OF city en-
the municipality Of Des Moines has
practically secured possession OF the W.
ter plant L..
A Chicago Alderman favors law
which will make married women NELL
gible as school teachers. "
TIRE Nayor OF Watsrtown, n. Z"
vetoed an ordinance which required the
union label on city printing.
The Baltimore r. OF L. will send no
member who does not work at his trade
as delegate 20 a convention.
Washington Unionists declare that
| machine-rnade bread. contracted by IN
| Gle Sam. IS unfit for our soldiers.
81. Louis working girls. will this sum
mer be given an opportunity 10 ENJOY
| two weeks in the country for $LoO a
Members Of tho n y. Ladies' Gar
ment Workers Union were fined SlN
for divulging secret business OF the
The iron molders OF Toledo will cele-
! brate the Goth Anniversary OF the organ
ization OF their international union on
New York Central Labor Union adopt.
cd a resolution praising the bravery oil
the non-combatants-thc men oeloW-oi
| our war ships.
Cleveland c'ergymen have been re-
quested to aid the clerks In forcing th'
closing Of clothing, grocery shoe' e'o'
Renrcsentatives Of % Western rail
roads who met at 1Ianitou Springs. Col
/ iid not raise rqfee P~o'es's ~ ''ahu
'acrurers and shippers were effective.
In the North oil England iron TRACE
wages have been fixed for many year,
on n sliding basis upon the selling prices
OF finished product rails. plates oar
and angles being enumerated.
A Royal Commission has been appoint
cd by the Victorian Parliament 10 In
ouire into the position and grievances
the emploves OF the Melbourne Tram
way and Omnibus Company.
| A bovcott on Oshkosh sash and door
is said 10 be IN process Of institution ol
the National Carpenters Union. whil
the manufacturers threaten to retaliat
by putting a ban on all union labor.
II Is the intention Of the Government
OF South Australia 20 take up the cor
| etruction ~ locomotives ~ the severn
| ment workshops on the grounds O.
greater economy and quality OF work
manship. =,
President Rockwell. Of the Toledo dl
vision OF street railway cmployes WI
investigate the system on when the MN
els conduct the cooperation store a
Ishpeming. with the view OF following
their example I'm Toledo.
Boston uniopists are opposed 10 IN
apparent policy of President McKinle'
In the acquisition Of any more territory
and especially against the annexation o
Hawaii They are also opposed 10 al
alliance vita Great Britain
The Laborers' Union Protective SO
ciety OF Greater New York has renewe
It's agreement with the Mason Builders
Association for the year 1895 80. Wage
are TO- be 80 cents an hour, eight hour
! "A day and six days a week.
Judge Seaman. Of Milwaukee, decide
that the street railroad could not be ru
on less than scent fares. and the cit
appealed to the higher courts Now IN
company offers the demanded i-cent Tar
If the city will withdraw it's appeal
Pittsburg tlnplate workers demand IN
creased pay For doubling the new seal
calls for the following prices: No 4
gauge s420: Al. $40; q, $40. a. $3.50; Z
$50. For heating: No. -. $780, 40, NA
A. $40: ~. 460; g. $3.50; a. s..
Advances Of wages have just been cor
coded TO the carpenters and joiners
birmingham Eng, Castleford, CaterhaH