The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-03-19
THE WORLD
OF LABOR.

Milwaukee bootblacks have organized
Great Britain has 10000 union miners
Lathers talk OF forming national
union
St Paul hasn't an idle union stone
cutter.
Cincinnati clergymen want Sunday
funerals abolished.
Cincinnati Unionists' want a place on
the Democratic ticket
Great Britain's 100000 Unionists' may
form a national federation.
Boys employed in a Munice. Ind, glass
works. lost a strike for the dismissal OF
colored youths.
A brick trust at Milwaukee has raised
the price Of 81 a thousand. an advance OF
$3.50 and IS per 1000
New York union cigar makers spent
5000 in prosecuting successfully firm
that used a counterfeit label.
Some New York diamond polishers are
on strike because they can earn only 81
a week. They used to get s55.
There are more workers employed, says
the American Federatlonist than at any
time within the past few years.
After nearly nine years OF existence the
st. Paul Retail Clerks Union No. has
decided to abandon the union and return
its charter.
The Cleveland Central Labor Union has
ordered its business agent 10 spend
night and take breakfast at ten-cent
lodging house
Mayor Jones, OF Toledo, has inaugurated
an eight-hour scale on the police force
| and has extended the same TO all city
! public work.
Sandstone MINI, stonecutters have
not only been conceded the eight-hour day
! but they receive s. a day. They were
| paid s2.75 for nine hours.
A controversy has arisen between the
| Cincinnati clothing cutters and trim
mers and the journeymen taiors as TO
| whose label should be placed on contract
uniforms Of policemen and hremen. The
| Central Labor Union lodged the ques-
ton.
George Beatty. one OF the proprietors
OF the Beatty-Brady glass factory, at
Dunklrk, Ind, was arrested on six dit-
ferent complaints. five OF them charging
that he discharged employees in his fac
tory for belonging to labor organiza-
| tions, and the sixth that he coerced anu
| threatened TO discharge an employe who
was member OF labor union.
The Portable Hosting Engineers Union,
Of New York, is I'm negotiation with EN-
| ployers In the trade for a new agreement
| from May !. 1899, 20 May l, 1900. 10 IL
probable that an increase In the union
| scale OF wages IS looked for, especially
| II the bricklayers secure an increase or
| wages OF Ave cents an hom.
| At a meeting OF the Marlboro. Mass,
| Central Union, to-day resolution was
! adopted favoring the purchase OF Nan
| tasket by the State for the benefit and
| pleasure OF the people OF the State. The
| absence OF a proper summer watering
| place FOR the working people was COM
| mented upon, and it was generally
| thought that the idea OF the stats own
| ing this splendid beach would be a gen
/ eral blessing.
Just at present we should like 10 help
| on the metal polishors I'm their fight for
! a chance 20 live. They tell US that the
bosses evade the law, refuse 10 put in
| blowers, etc. We make them this sug.
| gestion. Let the union bring US proof
! OF one case in which death has resulted
| from an employers neglect We shall
! at once institute proceedings, and see IL
| Il IS not possible 10 land that particular
murderer In some safe jail.-New York
| Journal.
| The first impression conveyed by the
1 convention OF the American Federation
| Of Labor Is the stalwart physique OF the
| delegates. They resemble a body OF
| United States regular troops In the garb
| OF civilians In physiognomy and proof
| OF intellectual development the conven-
| ton Is a superior body as compared
| with the average political gathering,
| which suggests that politicians might
| improve themselves BY doing more work
| Kansas City Star.
No matter how great the injury 10 the
employer. no matter how great tho hard
l ships and inconvenience to the public at
| large. the right Of workingmen to quit
| work for any reason or no reason must
be- respected. Wage-workers may be I'M
l der moral obligations TO the community
] to refrain from disorganizinK indusIsy'