The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-04-09
THE WORLD
OF LABOR

Mexico has q woollen factories.
New York has $4,000 unionists.
Coal mines employ 100000 persons.
Chicago carpenters get AZ IL cents an
hour.
Tacoma stevedores get 40 cents an hour.
Bamen, Germany has a weaving tories.
Havana cigarmakers earn from 50 TO
$ a day.
Garman, Germany has a weaving
school
The highest house in Paris has eight
stories.
Dubuque broommakers' wages have
been increased.
Elizabeth q. j. unionists will parade
on Labor Day.
Employees of a Cleveland salt Company
struck for Sl.5O day
Milwaukee manufacturers arc form
ing an auti-union label league.
Detroit stationers and bookmen struck
for half-holiday on Saturday.
Cleveland carpenters demand 30 cents
an hour and the eight-hour day.
Window cleaners in London earn A.5C
a week. They will organize.
only one ST. Paul employer Of broom
makers did not sign the new scale.
RoustabOuts at Whitehall. Mich. gel
$3.50 a week. They used TO earn So.
Reindeer for the Alaskan postal ser
vice will be brought from East Siberia.
The Iron Moulders' International Con
venuon will be held in indianapolis in
June.
Galosburg. Gl) bricklayers now gel
O. cents an hour and work but hour:
daily.
Milwaukee carpenters have been con.
coded q - cents per hour and the eight
hour day.
Debs will be delegate to the next
convention Of the American Federation
Of Labor.
The price OF a butchers license I'm Den.
yer has been reduced from so to $40 q
year
Brooklyn street cleaners are idle. hav-
ing refused to wear white uniforms
They get 81 a day.
Denvcr's Mayor vetoed the bill pro.
vldng for the examining and licensing
Of horseshoers Of Denver.
The trunk system" has been abolished
by new Colorado law. and wages must
be paid in cash.
A New York Polishcrs' Union has voted
a contribution OF 81 weekly for the next
two months TO aid the Marlboro shoe
workers.
The New York Cigarmakers' Label
Committee has received over 1896 IN
damages from firm which was recently
convicted OF using counterfeit union
labels.
The Amalgamated Association OF Iron
and Steel Workers. it is said, Will de-
mand an advance of 10 TO 20 per cent. in
wages when the present scale expires,
on July l.
L. p Landing, the oldest gold miner
in the country, is in Pittsburg placing a
large order for machinery. Mr.. Landing
Is Sc years old and has mined gold since
the early i0's.
Chicago newspaper owners, having de-
feated the stereotypers in a strike, con-
template, IL is said, the Punishment OF
all unionists throughout their establish
ments.
The miners all over the Monongahela
Valley celebrated on April the first an
niversary OF the introduction OF the
eight-hour working day at Camden. The
celebration concluded with a barbecue.
Banks at Marlboro. Mass. have re-
fused 70 honor checks for money sent to
the striking shoe workers OF that city.
so Cigarmakers' Union, No. 81. OF Bos-
ton. voted to cash all cheks they may
receive.
The men, women and girls employed
I'm the cigar. cigarette and general to-
bacco manufacturing trades Of England
having formed a sort Of federation OF
their unions. the manufacturers are fol-
lowing suit.
The cotton operatives union OF Eng
land. which have recently formed an
amalgamation. are on the brink OF a Sc
rious wage dispute. The operatives want
an advance Of slightly over . 1-2 per cent.
and. not having received It. will strike.
The Governor OF Idaho nominated
George NJ Payne and James r. Sover-
eign. the latter being the general master
workman OF the knights OF Labor. as
members Of the State Board Of Arbitra-