The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-06-19
FIELD OF THE
E'ORkINGMAN
Scotland has 10000 uniouists.
Cattle is c1,rrency In kafferla.

Scotland has 10000 uniouists.
Cattle is currency in kafferia,
London haSetwo electric sGeWayS.
Uncle sam has 4.9Go cheese factories.
GutI;rie Okla is 10 have cotton-mlti-
Pfttsb,rra fire bosses demand $40 q day
No strike in North Carolina in q year
Indiana has one nou-union glass fae-
tory.
louisville has lice union tobacco work
ers.
Boston will utilize sea-water to extin-
gush fires.
washington, Ind. section-men get $40
q day.
indianapolis BARRIERS viii prosecute sun
day shavers.
New York electrical workers want ST
Seven hundred Now York clerks recently
Joined the X of L.
South Bend GndD plumbers earn $ for
nine hours: juniors, $-i5-
The Garment-Workefs' International
Union has cocoa members.
Indiana hotsting-ensinsers get SO thrsD
and 500 tsecondl per month.
New York city Is said to be deiuged with
men in search of employment.
Some New York machinists were con-
coded the nine-hour day last week.
London iarteuders. who work to- hours
per week will demand the 12-hour day.
\ ST.. Paul union carpenter was nned
$40 for working for non-union boss
Georgia unionists elected journalist,
a printer. and machinist TO the i.egissa-
ture-
Chicago municipal employment agencies
secured work for 15.lS6 in twenty weeks.
Only unionists are now empioysd on
the Pan-American Exposition buildings at
Buffalo.
LouisviHe plastererS' wages have been
increased co cents per day; painters p
cents
Portland tMe., eranite-cuttsrs were con
coded the eight-hour day and 50 cents per
hour.
Kansas City bakers pay iourneymen sla
a week: foremen. SIS; sixty hours consti-
tute a week
The railroad time between New York
and Boston has been reduced to four
hours and thirty-three minutes.
indianapolis union prttAters get $3.50 per
week and work nine hours per day; non
union ten hours. SO to S12 per week.
1t is predicted here that all of the brick
makers employed along the Hudson river
will soon be associated in one huge labor
organization.
New York international Machinists on
July 1st will raise the reinstatement Zee
for ex-members to SO.
At Brazil. Ind. strike OF clay work
ers was caused by the company refus-
ing to take back all the old employees
when the plant resumed operations after
a months idleness.
The French official publication enti-
tied the Bulletin de FOffice dri Travail
reports that in the $50 trade unions of
wage-workers making returns 20 the de-
partment of labor, with AN aggregate
membership OF 100 100. seven per cent.
We're reported a. unemployed ON March
18th.
I - NT,eGr,
rystowu, Pa, now has membership
of nearly 500. having initiated l01 mem
bers at its last meeting Onf manu-
facturer who opposed the union bitterly
for five years has given up the fight
and unionized his factory from top 10
; bottom.
Action is being taken by the AmalaTr-
! mated Society of Painters and pecor;t-
| tors, of New York, and the ArlaIsanaref
| Society of Painters and Decorators, OF
| Brooklyn borough. to settle the long
| fight which has been the cause OF so
+: much trouble in the building trades OF
| Brooklyn
| The British official publication EMIT
! tied the Labor Gazette, reports that in
F, the 1a7 trade unions making returns t"
the labor department. with an aggregate
Z membership OF 525,s65, thirteen thousand
| and seventy-five Cor rs per cent? were
reported as unemployed at the Snd OF
| April.
The appellate Division of the New
| York Supreme Court has decided that
! the city must pay employees the prevail
! ing 0lnion) rate OF wages. This decision,
unless. reversed by the Court of APP
peals, will compel tho city 10 pay Claims
| ageregating about 100000, which have
been filed by city employees, who work
ed at rates established by the city
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