The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-10-01
Iowa ranks first In hogs.

-kqghNile has rev Nt lINhs
India has immense coal deposits.
Steamer Oceanic employs 800 men.
-Enptand has 1903 union engineers.
-Tonrshoremen have li local unions.
c, Louis has the largest drug house
Vienna policemen must be telegraph
ers.
pie. ,u ,.n,-
a ondon bricklayers get 10 cents per
hour.
-Moreland, Kan, Is a cooperative
town.
Georgia boasts a 1s - pound water
melon. 80
year.
store.
-Pbrade.phla painters now get 50 for eight
hours.
Is 20 years old.
-Partenders held a national convention
at Milwaukee.
-Trnionists managed IN Industrial e1-
| rosi'ion at Minneapolis.
-Dundee Scotland street railway employ
! es demand tire s-hour day.
New York's Factory Inspector urges ne
1o-hOur day for women
Berlin sewerage farm laborers ger Vol a
| week: 17-hOur day.
| THE K. of l.. General Assembly win meet
in annual session in Boston In Novem-
Der.
-~Southamnton has municipal dwelling
houses (edlfces erected and rented ty
the city.)
Omaha striking walters have been for
hidden by the court 10 distribute boycott
circulars.
Brown & Miller. Jersey City, have volun-
tarily granted a nine-hour day TO their
machinists.
Milwaukee, Building Trades Council
wants the Paris Exposition boycotted on
account OF Dreyfus' conviction.
There is no mill and sm~eltermen's union
in Anaconda. Tho largest smelter city
is in the state Of Washington.
The working women OF this on any other
civilized country are upon as lig a
plane Of purity as any class III the COM
m-unity-Carrol d. Wright.
The Longshoreman's Council, embracing
Duluth. SUPERIOR, Bayfield, Washburn and
Ashland. was formed last week.
The National Union OF United Brewery
Workmen has forwarded 81 collected by
Subordinate unions to the miners In
Idaho.
-The section OF the Frisco Lab Coun-
eli constitution which precluded political
nominees from retaining a seat In the
body Of the council was stricken out last
week.
AT Pittsburg the carpenters and painters
have withdrawn their delegates from the
Central Union because the dues were IN
creased from S Is to p cents.
The total contributions OF the National
Union of the United Brewery WorkDen
for the lockout union workere in Den
mark now amount 10 nearly 800.
-Canada's trades and Labor Congress
wants the Alien Labor Law amended 50
that il will cover all aliens imported I'M
der contract. mo matter from what
country they come" A labor poluc@I
party is projected.
1t Is said that in 1859 the average price
OF a horse was s74.64: in 1897. S31.5l In the
thirteen years from 1884 20 1891. while the
number Of horses in the United States.
had increased by more than 100000. their
total value had decreased nearly $4,000
600.
-Cinclnnatrs Building Trades Council
has twice endorsed Gubernatoria candt-
date Mclean. an evidence or his unusual
popularity, for it's constitution forbids the
discussion of political or religious subjects.
New York pattern makers reported mat
the iron moulders had during the past
week handled non-union patterns and
the offending organization was declared
SUSPENDED from the Central Federated
Union.
Chicago Federation declares "all the re-
naming public lands Of the United States
should be sacredly held for the benefit
q the whole people, and that no grants
OF the title to any Of these lands should
| ever hereafter be made to any but actual
settlers and home-builders on the land"
Six thousand New York union carpenters
enjoyed the newly inaugurated weekly
half holiday on Saturday. Sixty assistant
walking delegates are In the Manhattan
field looking after the complete enforce
ment Of the advanced scale OF wages,
which has been granted BY the great ma
iority Of employers.
The A~malgamated Society OF Carpenters
and Joiners In England has Decided to
ballot whether they are In favor Of pay
ing a levy or not more than one shilling
Ct cents) per week for the purpose OF
establishing 4 building cooperative sys-
tem.
Be strong. be true 20 yourselves. be true
10 your organiZations;m make your union a
school OF instruction and study all eco
nomic questions. Mix thought with your
toll. Think for yourselves. In your homo
with your wife and children. study all
economic questions.-Debs.
Wheeling retail clerks found among the
merchants little opposition to the Sunday
and Evening closing hours.
In Kansas City The Building Trades
Council has increased It's membership In
one year from 700 10 900. The carpenters
nave doubled their membership In three
months. The woodWorkers have uniorized
all the shops but two. Out ~ % building
trades. % have effected agreements with
their employers to hire none but union
help. The Newspapers Writer'S union
practically Includes all the best writers
in Kansas City. This union IS about three
months old. II Is antogonized by on y one
paper. The carpenters have a member
ship Of so.
AT Frisco the b~ollernakers employed
by the Risdon. the Fulton and the Eure-
ka boiler works have been conceded the
eight-hour day FOR work on transports.
Last week the boilermakers on the Ia
coma and Sheridan struck. They demand
ten hours pay for a days work OF eight
hours. and twenty-six hours pay for a
nights work OF eleven hours. The con-
tractors offer ten hours pay for a nine
hour day and twenty-five hours pay for
an clever hour night. The night scale ap-
plies on DO h sides 10 Sundays and holi-
DAYS. The demands Of the machinists have
been acceded to.
From the report Just issued by the
Labor Department OF the Board OF Trade.
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