The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-04-02
THE WORLD
OF LABOR.

Binghamton. y. Y, has % unions.
ST. Paul painters recently organized.
Locomotive engineers have $40 unions.
Bakers have l35 local unions
FINLAND has women carpenters.
Kansas city is to have a Labor Tenn
pie.
Philadelphia bricNayers want a cents
per hour.
St. Louis saloons are now closed on
Sunday
New York bricklayers want IS cents
an hour.
Cleveland ore handlers want ll'a cents
per ton.
Cleveland painters now get % cents
per hour
Georgia is to have state Federation
Of Labor.
Uncle Sam pays his printers at Wash
ingtOn 81 a day.
All Philadelphia barber-shops are
closed on Sunday.
All omaha municipal printing must
carry the union label.
Toronto olockmakers struck Tor al
vances ranging from 10 to 10 per cent
-
demonstration May LIST.
Springfield CMass) printers have been
conceded the 9l-2 hour day
CincinnaUs May-day celebration VIII
be held on Sunday, April aOth.
Nine plumbers unions Of New York
have formed a plumbers council.
ST Paul bricklayers union gave $40 20
a member who had broken his arm
Milwaukee carpenters demand tho
eight-hour day and q II cents per hour'
Pittsburgs United Labor League wants
all city employees 10 receive union wages
The New York electrical workers uu-
ion has raised its initiation fee from
s. 20 so.
In Pine Bluff. Ark, the saloons that
do a sunday trade pay $ month ior
the privilege.
cleveland street railway men are or
oanizing They are compelled to always
have so In change.
The initiation, fee Of the New lors ,
Amalgamated Society OF plumbers ana
Gasiitters Is now =.
Employees OF the Boston water "otn'
demand the eight-hour day ana h1'I-
holiday on Saturday.
4 New York tobacco house has "tre,u
TO employ union carpenters eN'i'sN''f
al ,32j for eight hours
The st. Paul clerks union Is deaf ana
the merchants talk of closing their '.o'''
al $50 =. NJ, instead of o.
Washington X. Of j.. deny thal tu'
Federation OF Labor and the IN shl9
of Labor are 10 consolidate.
hin before the Washington LeHisia-
,,,re will il passed. provide FOR IT'D 49,
Enlistment OF a State prin'ins p'""
Roston Provision and Grocery CirrNs
,-nion IL opposed TO the employihoN' "'
minors I'm provision and grocery s,.l,.,,
Tn international Typographical L mo"
gill he represented at the buiialo
yentiou I'm Nav OF the lnternat1o""' -
ISOLATION of Machinists' e.oo,-
IN. International Union OF
metal workers has decided 10 "'''''
itsalf with the American Fcoela''o"
Labor. 1870 81.
Tho Socialists of this city nave cor
,.cted col for the striking shoe worAe'S
Of Marlboro and s9l for some s'i'N'''S
plush weavers in Europe
majority Of the union shops IN anu
about New York use the IRON ino'u'.9
union label on the stoves ana he"'e''
manufactured by them.
Portland, Ind. Judge decided uh-
constitutional State law prohipi'ihs
EMPLOYERS from discharging men De'au9o
they are unionists.
The Amalgamated Association OF ron
and Stockholders has decided 10 demand
an increase OF 20 per cent. in their wages
ON July LIST, when the present wage se"ie
expires.
The Labor Lyceum and grounds nave
hesn engaged by the Brooklyn Central
80, Union for the Labor Day picnic
next September. feature this year
will be a vaudeville show.
The Missouri Legislature has voted
aoy,n two bills affecting the liquor traf-
ac one provided for the adjustment of
vine rooms and the other would have
',nssa dram shops from midnight TO
A. n.
xhs siegel-Cooper Company will insert