The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-09-30
FIELD OF THE W0RKINGMAN.

Norway has 2.9n factories. z
Porto Rico has q labor paper.
ST. Louis has $500 unionists.
ST. Louis has 500 union BARRIERS.
There are 800 Brotherhood firemen.
I,ogansport has a corporation grocery.
New York Building-Trades Council Will
raise $3.50 for Chicago strikers.
Labor decision in Germany: Inventions,
when conceived or worked out in employ
ar,s factory, belong TO latter and not TO
employe.
At St Joseph Mo-, an ordinance has
been passed increasing the wages OF team
sters from g. rs to Sc. and that OF iaborers
from $50 to SITE 3 day.
Northumberland Webb, of the Inter
national Printing Pressmen's Union, mas
forwarded $500 by telegraph to the PEess-
mems Union OF Galveston
California wines are shipped to France,
French labels placed on the bottles, anu
the goods brought back to the United
States, and sold at prizes 10 pay all OK
r,enses and a good profit for the trouble.
Nearly 500 cmigrants "a day are being
shipped By agents of the Government OF
Queensland from England TO Australia.
Fer every adult shipped an agent gets
S25D, and for every child he is paid sl29.
In England during the past few years,
it is claimed, 1890 farm laborers have
beer! displaced by machinery, while the
Oh Inc ldLtet 49,.
onlv the labor of 1000 men for one year.
An effort is to be made to bring about
| a consolidation of the various organiza-
tons in ST. Louis that are known as shop
societies. An aiiliat3on of them all Will
mite about 1oCtO members under one COM
mon head.
Victoria. Australia, has built seven local
railways on the cooperative principle
The railways We're estimated for by con-
tract at f547SaS. but by working the CO.
operative principle they were completed
for f251, I'll.
In Vienna telephone call boxes. or
'tbooths,' are provided with napkins pear
the request: wipe, If you please" The
cloths are frequently changed, and the
practice of wiping the mouthpece OF the
transmitter IS a sanitary precantioa
The East River Bridge Commission has
decided that the wage scale of the New
York Granite-Cutters Union, 81 day, is
the prevailing rate for this region, Shc
must under the labor law govern the
stonework being done on the bridge
approaches.
The walters and mattresses employed In
London are demanding straight wages at
% cents an hour, with 10 cents extra per
hour for all time over eight hours day,
and 50 cents an hour for woTk cone
| between midnight and O'Clock in the
morning.
Commissioners Gilbert Of the New York
State Board of Arbitration. testified al
Washington before the National Industrial
Commission, that in his opinion the great
est cause of strikes in this state is the
opposition of employers TO labor unions
Chicago ornamental glass WORKERS new
wage scale runs from s1.Io per day for
glass l,eve,erss to So for wheel cutters, glass
painters and designers. Provision IS also
| made for the employment of union engin-
GERS at IS per day, and firemen at Is cents
an hour.
IN his principles of economics Professor
| Marshall says that perhaps sSGo.ogo,eD
annually is spent by the working classes
| and 5000, 0ooee0 by the rest Of the popu-
lation in England in ways that do little
| or nothing toward making life noher or
! truly happier Mr.. Atkinson has estimated
(; that the waste of food in the United
| States from bad cooking alone is over
| s.. 0g1.0o0,0aN a year.
| The International Wood Carvers' Asso-
| citation Convention has prepared Din Joy
1 presentation to Congress authorizing she
Tinted States Government to acquire ano
! set aside 5,0oo,900 acres of land, TO oe
| g,arcelet1 out and distributed through the
4 Department of Agriculture TO WORKING
4 men who have been CROWDED. from ti1e
/ mechanical trades by labor-savins machln'
/ cry, and whose only hope now for a liTins
4 is In the land. The Government wou!t
I thus reduce the army of unemployed allc
/ discontented workingmen and at the same
/ time cultivate a larger taste Tor agricui'
1 tnral pursuits among Americans. The
4 hill provides that transportation and farm
i ing implements be given to worthy aPpll
iseay1ts 4 r,s,!at