The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-09-17
FIELD OF THE
WORKINGMAN

Wheeling has % stogy factories.
Buffalo has a woman contractor.
Pekin now has an electric railroad.
Woolwich arsenal has a lotion anvil
Chicago fathers have been locked out
India may become a producer Of STEEL
London plasterers get 10 cents per hour.
Buffalo bricklayers get IS cents an hour.
Toxic Iron Workers Union owns hall.
New York yarnlshers get 50 for eight
hours
Chicago has bohemian Lumber SNOW
ers' Union.
900 inhabitants.
Pnisburg boasts the largesIear manu-
featuring plant
Eyerv Loaf OF bread made in Denver
bears the union stamp.
Employees of the New York Elevated
Railroad must be beardless
The National Irrigation Congress VIII
DE held at Niissoula, Mont, on September
10Th.
The German Machinsts OF Newark have
Withdrawn from the Socialist Trade and
Labor Alliance.
While Liverpool has greatly increased
IN Importance as a shipping port, 1t mas
for years steadily declined as SHIP
building centre.
The New York Journeymen Stone-Cut-
ters' Association IS y years Old. us
members secured the eight-h0ur day In
1859. and have maintained * since.
The salaries Of tailors and shoemakers
I'm some Irish Unions average about $40.
The general pay Of laborers is about SO
a week while many receive $50.
4 quintette Of the New York Journals
stars-John ]. ingalls,. Homer Davenport,
Ella Wheeler Wilcox Julian Hawthorne,
and Winnifred Black-haye been engaged
by the Denver Post.
The Brotherhood OF Carpenters has re-
fused TO grant the request Of the Ger
man local unions Of that body for an as
sistant secretary I'm the Philadelphia once
of the Brotherhood who understands the
German language.
Detroit theatrical workers scales calls
for SIG per week for stage carpenters, Sl5
for property men, SIS for electricians, and
81 for each performance for stage hands,
25c an hour for extra work and 59c. an
hour for scenic rehearsals.
The application of the newspaper car
riers for admission into the Frisco La
Dor Council was denied The principal
objection was that the carriers are not
wage-workers within the strict meaning
Of the constitution Of the Federation OF
Labor
The state Of employment during July
throughout the United Kingdom continued
steady and good, the percentage OF un-
employed being still lower than at any
similar period since 1850. There has been
n marked upward movement Of wages
during the month, particularly among coal
miners and iron and steel workers.
At Brazil. Ind three hundred miners
employed by the Keller Coal Company
went out on strike because the boss at the
mine refused 90 allow them 60 use powder
purchased at q store that did not be-
long to the coal company. The miners
say they bought the powder 80 cents
cheaper on the key than that sold by the
company.
It has been proved by actual test that
a single towboat can transport at one
trip from the Ohio to New orleans 5000
tons OF coal loaded I'm barges Estimat-
ing IN this way. the boat and its tow.
worked by q few men, carries as much
freight 10 ifs destination as 1900 cars and
100 locomotives. manned by COO men, could
transport
Statistics show that I'm those countries
where manufacturing industries have been
developed with the greatest success
larger proportion OF the people are en-
ployed than IN countries where mechani-
cal Industries do not prevail This could
not be the case If the Introduction Of ma
chinery had deprived men of labOr-Car-
roll ID. Wright.
The Springfield, Mass. BARRIERS Union
has appointed a committee 10 investi-
gate "a charge against four jOurneymen.
who are said 10 have ridden in a hack
I'm the Labor Day parade contrary 10 the
nrsfr "a NJ
meeting more than a week ago 10 fine
every member who refused to take part
I'm the parade g.
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany viii issue passes for 1900 persons
20 its employees for the ensuing year. This
IS q method adopted for rewarding men
who have done good service for the road
for q year or more. The passes Will be
good over all parts OF the system. which
connects Baltimore, Philadelphia, Wash
ineton, Pttsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago,
and St Louis.
The Parliamentary Committee expelled
the Amalgamated Society Of Engineers
from the United Kingdom Trades Union
Congress. IL seems that the members Of
the Amalgamated Society Of Engineers
were charged by the Cooperative Smiths
with having approved the conduct OF
two Of their members IN taking the places
of cooperative Smiths who were on
strike.
Eight thousand five hundred union car
penters and joiners Of New York are now
ready 20 strike 10 secure an increase OF
wages from $3.50 to 81 a day and Sat
/ urday half holiday. The machine wood
workers and cabinet-makers have refused
10 join in the carpenters movement. The
| cabinet-makers and machine woOdworkers
receive S1 a week for shop work.
At meeting Of the Dundee (Sco)
Trades Council David Hume CMasons)
said there had been grievance between
! the operative masons and the skaters for
some time back inasmuch as the skaters
had been going about doing mason work.
In fact, they were now getting mason n
tools made for themselves. He thought II
was a very mean action for one trade TO
go and try 10 do the work Of another
Not only dld they try 10 do mason work
but they did painter work. plumber work
lathing work and plastering work
Chicago had the greatest labor Dav
parade in the land, 2l.163 men being I'm
line. The carpenters and joiners led all
other organizations In the number OF men
they had in line. Following is a list OF
the leading ten trades: Carpenters and
TONERS 3 400: Hold Carriers and Building
Laborers' Union, 300; Amagamated
Wood Workers, 2,io0; Bricklayers and
Stone Masons' Union, 1000; tourneymen
plumbers. 900: structural ironworkers. SO;
plano and organ workers, 500