The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1899-08-27
Field of he Workngnan.

Lima has no chimneys.
France has 1850 ships.
one cotton mill in Kansas.
'Iri COO has "a mlikcrs union.
Paterson BARRIERS organized.
a sm0Ae'css coal IS promised.
Germany has $500 physicians.
England has l7.0o iron miners.
'Irsco sailors earn S21 "a month.
There are cast steel billiard balls
Adrian. lucu.. car fare is cents
Michigan is first in iron production
There ore Two tanncries in Japan.
There is an aluminium hand ear.
Iifts8Irg painters get 1915 day
English c0iHlries employ $500 men.
Kansas CITY is TO have q labor tenn
pie.
Albany ice dealers VIII fight the trust
i'm Thurlugia horses thrive on potato
bread
North Carolina has seven wooden mills
French coal mines employ IOl0 persons.
California printers held a State con-
ycnu0u.
ln chile women are street car conduc-
TORS
Syracuse IS to have a municipal lodg-
.ng house.
ireland has a National Coal Laborers
Union
Graves and collins are rented in Puerto
Ris0.
Das Aroines brick output Is controlled
by one finn.
Cambridge. o., municipal printing car
rie5 the union mark.
Duluth hOIaeshOers, blaCksmiths and
tcamslers viii organize
Steuogapher5 Will hold a national con-
YeluQu az Chicago.
JOS Angeles brewers wages have been
increased 10 per cent.
Eau Claire, Wisconsin street railway
men struck Tor - cents an hour.
Tine ulus-tlDaCcO trust is lighting for
the use of the union label.
Members OF the New York Colored la
Dor Cub are fined - Tor making a non
union cigar
The j.. d. IA consists Of 1850 unions.
with $4,000 members. an increase Of 20O,-
ooJ the past half year.
Farmers Will build the railroad from
stockton. Cal, 10 Sacramento. They
seek 20 better outlet for their produce.
one az tAe COTTON mills at Atlanta,
Ca. has been compelled 90 give up its
night run because of q lack o. competent
labor.
The Pipe Caulkers and Tappers Union
reports all members employ cd In New
1ork. The initiation Zee uuH ls $40.
Tho Brooklyn Central Union has de-
clarcl German Engineers Union 1 10
De "a bona nde labor organization.
New York has a tobacco shop Tor the
poor where cents worth OF smoking
tobacco includes cigarette paper and
matches
japanese workmen are obliged 70 wear
on their caps and backs am inscription
stating their business and their employer 3
Ts-'1va ,eare a~o ora sailor out OF
every JOG, on an average, lost his life by
accident Now the proportion has been
reduced to one in 80.
There VIII be a worldwide celebra-
ton this year Of the birthday Of Henry
George. lie was born September >, 1883,
ia Philadelphia.
The Piano makers, Of Manhattan
now have two unions, ono composed Of
Enslsh-sQe members ana one Of
GermAn-s oeahing members
IiceWlrk VIII be abolished next year
by the Iron M0uldets Union or Norm
America. After April 1 ueNt all work
vii oe pad for by the gay, .,,., ,,,-,.
Norwegian legislators propose lhat elrls
who do not know how to knit, sew,
wash and cook should be refused permits
sion 10 marry. Daughters OF wealthy
men are not to be excepted.
AT Seattle the demand FOR labor Is
unprecedented, and wages nave risen IN
the past three months % slch an extent
that common laborers now command a
minimum wage of - per cay.
Fort Dodge, Ida, laDofer5 get from
- cents to s. a day. Negroes imported
from Mississippi refused 20 work Tor
$50 q day when they learned the rate
AT he meeting Of the Central Fed
Grated Union Of New YORK on SUNDAY
last the BARRIERS delegate declared:
There are many delegates here VINO
get shaved in five cent shops.
In New York the average wages Tor
blacksmiths are from SLJO % Sl.fJ day,
though 1T was admitted that some expert
men are paid So ana 81 day. Ihelr
day consists Of fourteen hours.
New York City annually pays $50 in
gold in one payment 10 every blind per-
son who has been year resident OF the
metropolis, and who has not Deeh an oc-
cuDaut Of d city institution during that
II lady's maid in Germany falls Ill
her mistress is not allowed TO discharge
her. but must pay forty-seVeh cents a
day toward hospital expenses until she
has thoroughly recovered.
a New York Cigarmakers union re-
formerly employed $50 hands, now en-
ploys ID men and women, strike there
having lost 1t considerable trade.
New Jersey state Federation or Labor
killed a resolution which denounced ex-
pauslon. The Congress refused TO accept
the offer OF Mayor Silas Drake, OF Lin
coin n. j., OF land for q home Tor work
ingmcn.
rolling mills al Terre Haute Will begin
running double turn, which viii mean
employment FOR about 60 more men
THIS viii bo the first time since 1898 that
there has been double turn work.
The Milwaukee Trades Union Label
League accepted the resignation or the
Brewery Workers union from the league.
The brewery workmen retired because
OF tho action OF the league In supporting
the strike II the coopers AZ brewery.
In cuba the sorting or tobacco Is
done by workmen OF great judgment and
experience. who command the highest
pay. At Ia Cabanas the Official esco-
jedo. or sorter OF wrappers, gets ~
day while the torcedores. or twisters. re-
ceive an average OF 81.