The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-12-24
FIELD OF THE W0RKINGMAN.

Japan has 200 match factories
Frisco sailors earn t35 a month.
A dynamite-proof safe is announced.
Minneapolis bar-tenders will organize.
Virginia will establish a Labor Bureau.
Frisco stevedores get ~ cents an hour.
Minneapolis hasn't an idle union brewer.
There's a union label for Frisco milk
wagons.
Minneapolis bricklayers want 80 cents
an hour
Pawtucket Or. ~ splnners refuse TO
work overtime.
Manchester IN. H. shoemakers demand
SIS a week; offered S142.
Mexico stands fifth among the gold-pro-
ducing countries Of the world.
At Boston about 40 Of the printers are
back al work under the advance Of wages
demanded.
At Bloomington. H. one hundred mer-
chants have agreed TO handle only union
made cigars.
Waterville. Ne. carpenters now enjoy
the nine-hour day; wages same as had
been paid for ten.
Although all Detroit theatres are on
the boycott list. It Is Claimed that most or
the T.. OF L. delegates visited them.
The Iowa Board Of Control is to sup
ply convicts in the manufacture Of bar
rels after January 1st. Unionists protest
The United Mine Workers OF America,
district OF Alabama, have formally declar-
ed war on the knights Of Labor, and VIII
attempt to eradicate them from the State
In 1851 the English Parliament fixed
rate at which laborers must work wheth-
or they wanted 10 or not, and the laborer
was forbidden 10 quit his parish in search
OF better wages.
Butte newsboys have a union and are
expecting to apply to the Western Labor
Union for charter. 'I<ids' who do not
sell papers 70 live, but merely to secure
extra spending money, will be weeded out
OF the business.
The Cabinet-makers' Union has voted
IN favor Of a union label for union-made
house trim. the abolition of heavy cabi-
net-makers' tools and the proposed by
laws for the New York District Council of
the Brotherhood OF Carpenters.
Anent the California eight-hour law At
tori.ey-General TREY l.. Ford says:i" 1T is
evident that n Waterman or special police
man who performs no manual labor is not
a 'laborer' within the meaning Of the
statute, nor is he either a workman or
mechanic Nor could II be held that
those engaged I'm purely clerical or pro-
fessional employment were among the de-
signated classes, as above defined"
Minneapolis negro b0ctblacks will de-
mand 10 cents for a shine. The sinners
point out that everything a bootblack has
10 consume are up 30 per cent. above those
which prevailed in so called hard times,
when The public paid 10 cents for its shine
and made no objection. =,
At the recent convention a great ef'
fort was made 10 bring together the two
branches of the national organization,
the baltimore and the Lafayette, but all
propositions we're turned down.
At Minneapolis the stone masons do not
approve Of the action Of the Trades and
Labor Council in regard to the recognition
recently given the Retail Liquor Dealers
Association. The union after a hot de-
bate decided that 1t was opposed TO the
recognition Of the association In labor
circles.
Tho recently-organized union OF the
Minneapolis boot and shoe makers is TAX
ing up the work with considerable zest
and is being helped in making the crgani
cation a success by their employees. who
now see that the formation OF the crgan-
ization will nc OF good TO them "a well .
as 10 the men. II is reported that the
women's shoe makers are anxious 10 be-
come affiliated with the union.
The Licensed Master Pilots and Pilots
Association, which has recently joined the
New York Central Federated Union, sent
a letter TO the Police Board asserting that
the Beard is violating the civil service
rules by assigning two policemen AS act
ing pilots on the police boat Patrol. IT
charges that this Is violation OF The civil
service rules and ask the Board TO take
such action as will prevent any violations
OF the kind I'm future.
The days Of violence have now gene by,
and we hope forever. Not even injUnc-
lions which discourage peaceful argu-
ments can revive the energetic notions Of
the men Of Kent. The modern workman
with his ballot can make the laws and I'M
make the Judges Let him devote his
time to that work, instead Of worrying
about trifling little decisions which are
about as important as the buzzins Of
fly in the pantry OF an ocean steamship.
New York Journal.