The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1898-07-03
THE WORLD
OF LABOR.

way eHpioycs
MuncIe, Md. street ear men set slSS
for II hours
Toledo steam and hot-water htters
demand 50 per day.
Boston Printers Union will celebrate
its fftieth anniversary.
Springfield Unions will establish CO.
operative shoe store.
Philadelphia Water Bureau laborers
get sl.75 for eight hours.
Danish and Norwegian machinists, or
Brooklyn, have organized.
The Granite Cutters Union will de-
mand eight hours In 1900.
Western men captured tho offices OF
the Printing Pressmcn's Union.
Cleveland clerks will prosecute mer-
chants who do business on Sundays.
Graves OF men who were X. OF L. were
decorated at Cleveland last Sunday.
Baltimore unlonists forced the muni-
cipallty to provide free concerts In the
parks.
Ohio's law regulating and licensing
plumbers has been declared unconsutu-
tional
year ago there were four unionists
az Kewanee, III. To-day there are IL
unions and Central Labor Union.
Baltimore unionists kick because po-
licemen are doing work that should be
done by carpenters. painters, etc
w. s. Ridgell, Chicago, has been elect
ed business agent OF the Painters Dis
ti-ct Council Nearly 1000 votes were
cast.
Toledo electrical workers have secured
signatures TO their wage scale from five
OF the seven contractors in the city.
The Socialists OF New York have coll
lected nearly $50 for Michael Schgab,
the Haymarket Anarchist, who Is poor
and Ill in Chicago.
The retiring president Of the Boston
Printers Union was voted $50 for SER
vices, and the retiring vice president.
Robert Murray SIS.
The national convention OF the Social
ISL Trades and Labor Alliance Is TO be
held at Buffalo, n. Y, on July 4th.
Frisco will send a delegate.
The Retail Clerks Union. OF Troy. ~
y, has had an ordinance passed by the
Common Council prohibiting fake auc-
ton and fire sales in the city.
Three thousand unionists attended the
funeral of a striker who was killed IN a
riot at Oshkosh. Bohemlans and Poles
form large percentage OF the strikers.
All houses to be erected In the city Of
Baltimore must be equipped with bath
rooms. The law Is being strictly en-
forced. This law was advocated by I'M
ionists.
At the quarterly meeting OF the share
holders Of the Cooperative Wholesale
Society Limited. held In Manchester
England $4,000 was voted 10 tho dis
tressed miners IN Wales.
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membership fee subject 20 a discount of
50 cents for regular attendance at meet
ings, otherwise the halg-dollar TO stand
as penalty for non-attendance.
The law is being invoked 10 compel
President Simon Burns Of the window
Glass Workers Association, 10 counte-
nance the convention which has been
called by the Executive Board.
General Secretary Rody Kenehan, OF
the Horseshoers' international Union.
will haVa to carry on his fight against
President Samuel Gompers Of the Amer
lean Federation OF Labor without tho
aid Of the Chicago horseshoers.
Stonecutters ar Chicago threaten 20
strike If all planer men are not dis
charged. Officers OF the union learned
that the planer men had worked all dur
ing the strike and had united with the
constructors TO destroy the Stonecuttors'
Union. f..lr4ls
1he Chicago Woodworkers' Union Is
gaining ground In fits strike for 50 and a
nine-hour day, as nearly a dozen Of the
largest SASH door and blind factories
have signed the agreement. Even the
non-uni0n and unorganized woOdwOrkers
are out
At a Joint meeting Of the West cum
berland, England. ironmasters and the
National Federation OF Blast-Surnace-
men, held on Tuesday night az Working
ton. II was agreed 20 alter the standard
price or iron from ass. per ton 70 As.
and 20 give all blast-furnacemen in the
district an advance OF per cent. on the
understanding that in the event OF de-
preston the workmen would be prepared
10 meet the masters I'm a like spirit
The retsil liquor dealers Of New Haven
have refused TO pay the additional beer
tax which has been added TO the selling
price OF brewers. Three hundred retail
ers have organized and propose to estab-
fish a cooperative establishment. Albany
retailers threaten 20 do likewise.
Active hostilities were begun last week
In New York between the Board OF
Walking Delegates and the Building
Trade Council. The trouble began when
the officers Of the Amalgamated Society
OF Painters and Decorators complained
painters
The Building Trades Council Of Bos-
ton has Endorsed the strike OF the door.
sash and blind workers Of Oshkosh. Wis.
Secretary Cudlip was instructed 10 no.
tify all unions in Boston and vicinity
not 10 handle any doors sashes or
blinds manufactured at Oshkosh A COM
mittee was appointed 70 confer with the
Liquor Dealers Association In REGARD 20
request that they treat only Wi men,
bers Of the association. BY req est of
the bartenders organized labor shall be
requested not 10 patronize any liquor
dealer not displaying the certificate
signed by the b. T. c., agreeing 20 en-
ploy none but union men IN the altera-
ton. repair and construction OF build
ings.
The Chicago and Milwaukee Brewers
Association has made an agreement with
the Brewery Workers Union No. 18 by
which the scale OF wages and working
rules in force last year will prevail until
May l, 1889. Ten hours will constitute
a days work, and wages will be SIC 50
and Sl7 per week. When the fact OF the
settlement became known in labor cir
Giles 1t caused sensation a. the action
OF the brewery wOrkmen was entirely
unexpected TO other trades that are nego-
tiating for agreements with the loss
brewers. The action, II Is said. will p-e-
cipitate war against the Brewery
Workers Union and efforts will be made
20 expel its delegates from the Fedora
ton OF Labor.
Great F9Hs. Mont. servant girls have
organized a union, following the exam
pie OF the laundry girls, and their de-
mands I'm brief are: Twenty-Five dollars
per month for family OF six or less