The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-04-16
THE WORLD
OF LABOR

Canada has a skunk farm.
Carpenters have 800 unions.
Uncle sam has 100000 berbers.
california sends butter to Japan.
New york has 5000 millioraires.
ST. paul hasn't an idle union brewer.
London has 10 piano-forte factories.
Greater New York has 81 carpenters
unions.
ST. Louis saloons are again open on
Sunday.
America makes 100000 false teeth an
nualiy.
I'm italy charcoal costs from SIG TO so
ton.
New York has Bohemian cisarmak-
ers' Union.
Kansas city plasterers won the eight
hour day.
putsburg hasn't a non-union brewery
All X. Of Ia
Millions of people ride on the Boston
underground cars.
English cooperative societies have j.
$4,000 members.
Acetylene gas is 10 be used exclusively
I'm Wabash, Ind.
Carnegie Steel Company's common Ia
borers get $40 day.
All Binghampton y. Y, printing must
carry the union label
Cleveland painters want q IL cents an
hour and the eight hour day.
New York painters got % cents an hour
and enjoy the nine hour day.
Waterbury. Conn, Cnionists will meet
in the City Hall on Sunday, May lith.
Grand Rapids unionists want william
Jennings Bryan to make the Labor Day
address.
The negroes Of Georgia win be hand
so,aeIy represented at the state fair this
fall.
pittsburg pattern makers want mini
mum wage Of s. for nine hour day
on May lst
Cincinnati carpenters were conceded 80
cents an hour. NOW they want the eight
hour day.
The iron nolders viii hold their next
international convention in Indianapolis,
beginning June 10th.
Members Of the Atlantic Coast Sea-
mems Union of New York, earn So and
$50 per month.
not sign the bin requiring tenement work
10 be labeled as such
A Montreal laborer who was injured
by the breaking of a scaifold was award
ed SIP damages.
Members who did not attend a meet
ing OF New York Sheet Metal Workers
were each fined 80 cents.
The New York House Trainers Union
So.
months AT 80 cents month.
A Detroit cotton manufacturer not
only pays girls $50 and s. day but
gives them coffee and milk daily
The first annual convention Of the Tin
Workers International Protective Asso-
citation will be held in Columbus, May
lst.
The trades union fund for the benefit
of the families of the miners killed in
the riots at Virden, H., amounts 10
$4,000.
New York bricklayers have been prom
ised So cents an hour after OCTOBER lst.
Philadelphia bricklayers won strike FOR
Is cents.
Boston freight handlers want = cents
per hour for all time IN excess or ten
hours per day. They now receive Z J.
cents for regular and overtime work.
The Carpenters United brotherhood
has established workday of eight hours
In f05 cities, and now expects TO add
more cities to the list next month.
Practically all the Des Moines coal
mines have conceded the demands OF the
miners for an eight-hour day. and the
continuation of the winter scale all the
year round.
The Boston Water Works Employees
Union, attached to the a. T. OF l..
adopted a resolve favoring the passage
OF the eight-hour bill for county, CITY
and town employees.
The Cooper Dip Company viii operate
two Misunderstanding pens this season.
one at Woolton and one at Casper N'yo'
il will charge Is l-2 cents per mead ior
each sheep sheared.
The frvington tKy.) City Council mas
raised the liquor license in that town TO
500 The sum Is so high that none OF
the dealers has applied for renewal ana
the town will go dry.
This fall Mr.. Mangum. who mas 400
M work. intends 10 import z thousand
more monkeys from Africa and ne de-
sires other planters TO join win MIN IN
importing a lot OF them.
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