The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-03-18
THE FIELD OF
WORKING MEN.
sDebs will go to Paris.
Jerusalem has Is hospitals.

Jerusalem has Is hospitals.
Kansas has 81 daily papers.
Austria had $50 strikes in 1899.
New York broom-makers use label
London stores have japanese clerks.
st. Paul has but two non-union lath-
ers.
America has 7ocoO union brick-Iay.
Massachusetts has ns street rail-
ways
English colleries employ $500 peo-
pie.
beef costs $50 pound in the Klon-
dixie.
The war has diminished our exports.
to Africa.
E. Cleveland painters want $40 for the,
eight-hour day.
New York coopers want the nine-houri
day on May i.
Toledo carpenters refuse to work en-
jobs with non-unioniSts.
Compressed air motors are supp.antins
mules in Michigan mines.
zDetroit's mayor says the street railway.
company must run more cars
ST. Paul plasterers, fathers ard plumbers
won strike for eight hours;
The Glass Workers Union may esta5
lsh a cooperative factory at Eaton, Ind.
Georgia's Governor and Atlanta's may
or addressed the Garment Workers
Union.
The initiation fee of the Frisco Watt
&ers' Union has been raiSed from So to
So
The unions of Colorado by a referen-
dunn of q to l, have decided to go into
politics this year Their plan IS to hold
convention.
Eight thousand elephants are required
annually to supply the world with ivory.
of r n
Africa
A city ordinance of Evansville, Ind, re-
lating to temporary or transient stores.
upon which a heavy license is imposed,
has been decided unconstitutional.
The Sanitary and Street C.eanins
Union, OF Boston, voted to parade 20
Faneul Hall on the evening of Mar:h
p. when the celebration of the eight
hour work day victory will be hsld.
At Toronto, AID. Spence has given no..
tice of motion in the City Council that.
II cents an hour be the minimum wage
not only for direct employees. but that
civic contracts.
The privileges OF erecting bootb'ac3s-
ing stands in the large down town; Office
E buildingssof Mex York is valua BILE. md
even the right, to go from Office to office
with a bootblacking box is assessed IN
some of these buildings.
The carpenters unions OF BrookIy IRE
takingsa referendum vote upon. q demand
i for "a year scale of As cents an hour, and
Saturday half holiday, to go into eff
feet on May 4. Their present wage scale
is $50 for days work of eight hours,
8 or $3.50 a week.
At a meeting Of the San Francisco
Council of Painters and Decorators. of
America, a resolution was passed set
8 ting April I'd next as the instant to ems
I force the s.. so minimum rate for pa?er-:
hangers and fresco painters for an eight
hour day
"a The first Of Thomas L;pton'n dining
rooms was opened last week. Meals are
!. furnished for from half-penny to four,
sand-a-half pence. and they consist Of
oatmeal, soup, steak. pudding. veg tab.es
and tea, coffee or cocoa There are ficti-
tiles for sending meals costing onI.&a
half-penny to schools within ara dius Of
three miles, and also to sick and bed
ridden persons. The 1ning-rooms can,
accommodate 1.50O persons at one time.
and from ten to twelve thousand persons
car be served each day iE5
Since the ordering of the New Eng
land granite cutters strike. on March J,
wage Of 50 "a day, fully 2, 800 OF the men
who struck have returned to work.
While the men in every instance have
not obtained tbs minimum rate OF s. a
day, yet they have secured the seizht5
hours and have also obtained "a sub
.stantial8 advance in wages In every case
Most Of the settlements have been uron
the basis OF scents an hoursas min
i1ri,1n,.
Painters wages and working hours
vary considerably In the boroughs Il at
mako up the cit yss OF New York. Irs
Brooklyn the union scaIesis s. a days.t
Manhattan $3.50. IN both horoug CHS ssgghts
hours constitute "a days work. tffhe j
snonds demand an increasestn thersWa;:-es
To $3.50 day and a Work-day %ofAes hts
hours. Ito begin on Monday, April8l
the sBronxsBorough painters RACES ranges
sfrof 81 to- 81, 30 q day. hut the lastsmen-s
toned money IS paid insysrys fer eases.