The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-10-08
FIELD OF THE
W0RKINGMAN
Glass Is made from Stag.
-.DeDs is TO visit Australia.
--f.n.and has women saiiOIs.

| --Dcpo 10 ~ Nloll AUSTRIAN
--f.n.and has women sailors.
There are 10000 coal miners.
| Chicago has a mattress union label.
There are $500 union shoemakers.
| -Olalla, Wash, Is cooperative town.
| Denver has horseshOers' union Ia
| bel.
There are 30.7lS Brotherhood fire.
| men.
Detroit landlords will keep black
list.
There are counterfeit union hat
labels
Scotland has a National Laborers'
Union
Brooklyn hasn't an idle union plas-
The pulpit employs 900 American
| women.
A New York walking delegate uses
a bicycle.
Cleveland street railway strikers run
an automobile.
detroit drug stores will probably close
on Sunday.
In Ilbbing. MINI. railroad laborers
| get 800 a day.
There are three organizations OF tailors
! I'm New York
| Dundee. SCOT, railroad employees de-
| mand the 3 hour day.
Dundee plasterers laborers struck
for u cents per hour.
New York Socialists heve sent $40
| to Denmark lockedout men.
| At Milwaukee anthracite viii cost
SIS ton after October +.
New York cabinet makers wages
range from ST to So a week.
Milwaukee wood workers request the
nine-hour day and - cent an hour.
Toronto boot and shoe makers want
higher wages. some earn 81 a week.
New York wcodcarvers have been con-
coded 10 per cent increase in wages.
Detroit tailors strike effected fecog-
milton Of union and 10 per cent. advance
in wages.
The Brooklyn Cigarmakers Label
Committee last week issued Zll,JOo union
labels
Rev Father Cummins, Of Roslindale,
Mass, advises his congregation TO buy
only union-labeled things.
Cleveland telephone lineman's SYM
pathy strike TO aid the street railway
mem. has been declared of.
Dock employees at North Tonawanda,
y. y, may strike TO exterminate the sa-
loon boss system.
Racine. Wis. street car passengers
refuse to drop their nickels in the box.
Willing 10 give it to the motorman.
Springfield Ciass) un'onlsis want the
S-hour. day for municipal employees, and
are boycotting unfair theatres.
BY a recent referendum vote the Lon
don Typographical Society granted 500
per week to the Danish unionists.
The first case brought in Seattle
against labor unions under the law pass
ed by the last LEGISLATURE to prohibit
blacllisting ended in a victory for The
union.
The Italian-American Laborers' Tn
ion OF Brooklyn. reports that every mem
her IS working and receiving union
wages.
-Boston unlonists have asked every
candidate for the legislature" Are you
I'm favor Of an S-hour day for city en-
ployes?'
AN independent union composed of
unicnists\. has been organized at Mil
waukee to battle with the tailors who
want to strike.
During the year ending July'l the
United brotherhood Of Carpenters ana
Joiners. of America. paid $l,229.5S in
funeral and disability benefits.
There are two associations In New
York Of POSTAL clerks each with sepa-
rate bill before Congress providing for
improved conditions Of service.
The Cincinnati Street Railway COM
pany's statement" as TO trouble with lis
N~AANNA-+at"rN-
but II was marked advertisement"
There s." says Gompers. mo posi-
ton on earth that / hold with as much
fondness- reverence and high honor az
do that OF the President OF the Ameri-
can Federation Of Labor"
The new Independent Labor Party,
Of New York. IS greatly strengthened by
the addition Of the Amalgamated Painters
and Decorators. of New York. an orga-
nization Of COCO members
Two dollars per day for all motor
men and conductors having regular runs.
without regard TO The number OF hours
they are employed. is said 10 have been
the rate of compensation agreed upon by
the ST. louis Company.
The National Flint Glass Makers
Society. Of Great Britain has just cele-
hrated its jubilee. IL has not had
strike for forty years. It has 300 mem
hers and funds in hand 10 the amount
Of nearly sGS 60.
The Pittsburg knights OF Labor or
ranization has rendered the United Mine
Workers its support in preventing coal
miners from going 20 the Western states
10 take the places Of strikers. The ac-
ton of some OF the national organizers
is repudlated by the local officers.
Representative from Belfast. Co'er-
aine Cork. Limerick, Nenagh, Kilkenny,
Tralee. Kildare and other centres atten-
ded the tenth annual conference OF CO.
operative Pakers, Of the irish Natlohal
Federal Union, which was held IN
Sligo
The Amalgamated Painters and Dec
orators. Of Brooklyn, have employed couh-
sci TO begin suit under the prevailing rate
of wages law against all those contractors
on Rroolxlyn school buildings who did not
pay union wages to the members in their
employ.
AT a meeting Of the Indianapolis Cen
tral Union a resolution, introduced by
the delegates from the Machmists Union
denouncing the action OF the lnternatloh-
al Typographical Uuion, forcing machin-
lists employed in printing newspaper of
fees to Join the Typographical Union was
referred to the arbitration committee.
When prosperity simply means the
building I'D of large fortunes and the ill.,
crease of luxury and ostentation its bene-
fits are more than questionable. Blu.
when IL means that the masses of the
people are better fed clothed and housed
and are able to think OF something else
than mere physical wants II Is matter
on which we may fairly congratulate the
country.-Toronto GLOBE.
The Massachusetts Democratic State
Convention adopted PLATFORM calling
for full publication Of trust records ana
all counts state ownership and rnana1e-
rnent OF the Pos,on and Aibanv Railroad:
direct legislation through the Initiative and
referendum; election OF United states
Senators by direct vote or the people.
abolition OF life tenure Tor judges ana
public ownership Of street railroads.