The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-04-01
FIELD OF THE
WI0RKINGMAN
has 500 silver mines.


Milwaukee boasts u blind editor.
Uncle Sam employs 100000 people.
New Zealand Sends frozen meat to
England
Kaneas is to have a 120o-acre cucumber,
farm.
After May LIST Frisco carpenters will
get $3.50 a day.
Cleveland grocers will sell vegetables
by the pound after April 18th.
Washington negroes propose 4 fire COM
pany composed Of colored men.
Missouli's Department Store Taxia1:
has been declared unconstitutional.
Paterson, N j., painters Won. Eight
hours. SEQ a day and pay for overtime.
Indianapolis polcd uniforms will be
made in Cincinnati. Indianapolis tailors
kick.
Capital invested in farming in this
country is estimated to be 6,oto,Ooe--
900.
Duluth painters now get no less than
30 cents an hour and enjoy the nine
hour day.
The gross receipts of American rail
rcaa companies are now nearly. Sl,oeO,-
100000 a year.
Only men who can read and write
English can he employed In British Co
lunbia coal mines.
New England granite cutters nave
been conceded eight hours, and the mini
mum wage rate Will be 30 cents per
hour.
In shipyards in Russia common work
men receive from 81 ito Ga cents per
day. and skilled worlmen from II cents
tc 81.
The Chicago Evening Post has come
out fat-footed i'm favor of supplanting
the girls now employed in private houses
with Cinnamon.
J'he. Rock Drillers' Union, of Brooklyn,
has made demand for a minimum wage
scale of $50 for an eight-hour work
day, to begin on April LIST.
The New York Park Department has
agreed to employ union bricklayeTs on
all new building for the department,
and TO pay them union wages.
An order has been introduced in the
Massachusetts Legislature to make VIC
men eligible TO serve as overseers OF the
moor in the city of Lowell, Mass.
The Central Board of Education will
be asked by committee representing
the United Labor League of Western
Pennsylvania, to close the schools on
Labor Day.
The demands for the uni:n label OF
the CUgarmakers' Union in Brooklyn has
grown extensively of late, and the Label
ComGnittee is being kept busy comply
ing with requests for them. During the
past week the committee granted over
207 900 labels.
The New York United Brewers As.
ISOLATION OF the knights of Labor have
invited William j. Bryan to address
them at dinner. to be given on May so.
the fifteenth anniversary Of the organi-
cation and its present prosperity H.
slas 100 members and $4,000 in bank, 1t
(, is expected that 1000 persons Will want
to sit at this banquet.
In New Zealand the labor unions went
into politics.; they elected their bright
est and most radical members to office;
the result has been wholesome laws
that not only protect labor from the
eXactionS capitalists have passed. but
they have been enforced to the letter
and spirit, as the heavy fines and inn
prisonment Of the violating employers
testify-Appeal to. Reason.
At New York the General Council
of PAYERS and Bluestone Cutters and
F!agsers is seI.ding 4 circular notice to
the heads of city departments and to
contractors that on and after Aprils J.
members of unions connected with this
Council will refuse to work more than
eight hours day and seven on Satur-
day with one hour each day for lunca;
wages to be $3.50 per day.
Springfield. Mass. horSeShoers demand
nine-hour day with minimum wages
of s. for iiremen and $3.50 for floormen.
The present wages a week with 10 hour
days is SIG and $l2 respectively. The
jouGneymen will receive the co-opera-
ton of the bosses, as it is believed the
men can do better work in the siforte,
hours The boss horseshoers are also
planning to raise the prices for work.
The rates are now .from SIS to $3.50,
and the new price will be s1.5o to 50. This
will be the regular rate, and special work
will be- of course, more expensive.
Whereas, The Mayor and Council of
the city of Macon. wishing to give its
endorsement TO organizes labor, and
recognizing the different labor unions as
represented by the Central Labor Union
to he composed of one of the best classes
of our citizens. and recognizing also that
union worFrnen and union work is a
guarantee CT the very best class. as well
as quality Of work; therefore, be it
Resolved, That all printed matter used
by the various DEF ar tnents of the city
shall bear the union label, and that union
workmen be employed in every case
where possible when work is to be given
out.
poInnnt Will Oncrnte RaDill Transit.