The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-22
Field ofthc Workln.1nan.

Big Timber, Mont, is to have a wool
en- mill.
The States contain nearly G0oo,O0o sep
arate farms.
Chicago's 1,409 Union P. Q. clerks will
join the f. Of l..
Norwich Comm, negroes compose
Federal Labor Union.
Paris bridesmaids are placed on New
York sweat shop work.
Greek and Egyptian cigarette. makers
of New York organized.
Land in England is SEQ times as val
liable now as It was 200 years ago.
Charleston carpenters, bricklayers, tim
ners, and plumbers enjoy the 9-hour day.
Chicago stenographers. whose average
wage is from So TO S. per week, are
organizing.
The S-hour DAY has been enforced IN
almost all the cities and towns of Eng
land.
About 900 people in Paris are employed
in the preparation Of human hair for
the market.
The miners of the Yukon district.
Alaska, employ $3.50 men, who receive an
average of 81 an hour.
Big Six, of New York. has expended
$4,000 in benefits to New York sun
strikers during the past year.
The ship-yards of Great Britain, all
steamship every day in the year.
Organization of Portland (Ore) brew
ery-wagon drivers reduced a days labor
from twelve to fifteen hours to nine and
ten.
While the English law provides for the
organization Of labor bodies 1t deprlves
them of the privileges of incorporation.
Only citizens Of Canada VIII n future
be employed on government work or on
l,v ctOrS that
country.
The Charleston painters strike lasted
four months, and the union was victorious.
Not man returned TO work While the
battle wased.
The people OF Indianapolis realize that
the supply of natural gas is very snort
and a return to the use of coal and wood
is one of the probabilities of the winter.
The number of rooms in a house, OF
windows or doors in a room even Of
rungs on a ladder, in Siam must always
be odd. Even numbers are considered
,lnlucky.
The Information Bookbinders' Union
announces that it is about TO peSln suit
Tor $4,000 against a publisher in Kansas
City who discharged a man because he
was a member Of the Union.
Montgomery, Ala, and Columbus. Ca,
have both recently passed ordinances re-
curing street railways to PROVIDE sep
arate accommodations tor the colored
passengers. either by partltonlns the
cars or the provision of separate Jim
Crow cars.
Work was more plentiful in 1888 than in
1eas and 1.1I5.57G individuals exclusive
OF farm laborers, sean1en and railway
mem received increased wages. The rise
was equal to $4,000 per week: Already.
however. 1900 has excelled tbs. Up till
August nearly million people had obtain
ed increases. the total value being equal
to $4,000 per week Another return shows
the wages and earnings of the farm hands
OF the United Kingdom. 1t tells US that
since 1850 the average increase IN weekly
cash wages paid on representative farms
in this country has been equal to IS per
cent.
During the past five years the advance
has been very marked. This year the ad-
vance has been made at the most rapid
rate Of ALL the steady migration OF per-
m2nent laborers to more paying branches
of industry, the gradual d'sappearanee
Of the casual worker and the et..nsnae .s n
of women and children as f I'D na !n al =.
being adding factors.-Londoh !eetei -
sAmericnn Federationist,