The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-09-03
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Field orthc Workingmau.
Sioux city Retail Clerks Union VIII
hold free entertainments TO arouse en-
shusasm.
Duluth clergymen VIII talk on labor TO-
day. having been requested to DO so by
unlonists.
English capitalists have recently invest
Cd 100000 IN petroleum development
work in Russia.
New York moulders were censurcd by
TIE Central Federation Union for nom
support of striking pattern makers
At Toledo on Labor Day there viii DE
"a big exhibit Of union made goods at the
fair grounds.
New York Socialists have collected Sl85
for the Idaho miners and }l6' for 'he
Denmark strikers.
The Associated shi9Wriehts' Society, Of
ENGLAND. has n membership of Lass and
a fund Of G45S
Morristown. Madison and Morris Plains
Y. J.. masons win on and after January
] enjoy the eight hour day and IS cents
per hour
IT Is claimed tia. The Building Trades
EFCflON OF NfIf ffi JUN To f'ttNAe on 'A''A
Union IS composed Of expelled members
OF Unions
The leather workers in Philadelphia
who belonged 10 the Socialist Trades and
abor Alliance have withdrawn from
that organization.
AT Toledo on Sunday last a picnic was
given for the benefit Of the unemployed
German printers. German singing socie-
ties furnished the music.
The National Bakers Alliance has d.
rcctcd its rgbordln tc local alliances %
take a vote on the question of withdraw
Ing from The Socialist Trades AMI LahOr
Alliance. the vote TO Pc returned 10 the
Executive Board at 1925 fremont street
Boston, On or before September p.
District Attorney steele. OF Kings
County during the recent trolley STRIKE,
declared his intention of proceeding
against the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Com
pany for alleged violations Of The ten
hour labor law II a complainant should
appear and make out "a reasonable case.
Such q complainant has appeared.
The Denver Smel,er Trust found it
necessary 10 back down on a part Of It's
declared programme relative to the rel Zee
ton Of certain strikers who applied for
work A number Of men whom the trust.
through the great smelter at first re-
fused, are now at work in their 90
places and are there because they were
sent for and asked to return.
one million Of people out Of employ
ment means q very great loss in every
direction and a Gripping Of the consum-
ing power Of the country. The loss OF
their purchases may be represented by
at least $5oO00 per day. or over S15000A
600 in one year-a sum which. II with
drawn from trade is sufficient OF itself
10 cause q reaction in business and
general curtaiiment Of expenses from the
resulting apprehension and tmldity
among all classes-Carroll ID. Wright
The annual report of the Boston NUM-
cipai printing plant has Just been issued.
The total business performed during the
year amounted 10 Sl5g.l3s with a net
proflt OF Sl0&G During the six summer
months OF the year the employees were
allowed the Saturday half-holiday with
out loss Of pay thus working on the aver
age ifty-one and onc-half hours a week
II is now twenty-three weeks since the
city of Boston undertook TO do It's own
printing. and I'm that time a saving Of
SIS 800 has been Effected
The Order Of Railroad photographers
has won its first battle with the Southern
Pacific The increase in the salary list
will almost restore the scale Of wages in
force before the Southern Pacific began
its series of cuts four years ago On
stations in the desert portions OF Califor-
mia and Arizona SIS a month is the lowest
salary paid under the new regime. A few
stations I'm this State are still rated as low
as $50 but the majority is much higher.
Extra compensation has been allowed
teleEraphers who are compelled TO work
outside Of the regular station business,
such as running pumps. tending switches.
etc telegrapher who Is called during
the night receives 70 cents for the call II
the service demanded lasts less than an
hour. Overtime work performed In excess
,of the standard days work will be paid.
and almost every abuse under which the
telegrapphers have labored for so long
has been corrected
Thiriy-four out OF forty-dve members
OF the Stone Trade Association OF New
York ana vicinity. which IS composed Of
employers, have Just been forced by the
trade unions TO pay large sums Of money
into the treasures Of the unions involved
In a strike and lockout IN the stone
trades two years ago. The remaining
eleven members are expected 10 pay up
this week All the employers IN TIE asso-
citation, which includes proprletors Of
stone yards in the boroughs Of Manhat-
tan Bronx Brooklyn and Queens. and in
Jersey City HobOken and Newark are in
the meantime compelled by the unions 10
pay tho wages OF skilled men TO their
machine stoneworkers The unions insist
thai the machine stonewOrkers must be
paid FOR skilled labor. and for the time
have carried their point. The money thus
secured from the employers goes into the
treasury OF the Journeymon Sionecutters'
ana workers Association. These organl-
cations imposed fines upon non-unlon en-
employees who worked during the strike
and lockout. TO be paid by The employers
IN the following proportions Foremen,
so: cutters and planers. $40; sawyers. $50,
agreed 10 recently az conference be-
and laborers. s25 These terms were
acrced 70 recently at conference be-
tween the journeymen stonecutters. who
also represented the machine stonework-
ers, and the employers. The unions in
the stone trades have now formed an AL
lied Trades Council The wages they de-
mand and are now receiving are $3.50
day for eight hours for cutters. and from
SIS = $3.50 for nine hours for machine
s'oneworkers'