The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-01-28
FIELD OF THE
W0RKINGMAN

Australia exports wheat
"A BihIe trust is being talked Of


"A Bible trust is being talked Of.
England has women blacksmiths.
Germany has over 10000 brewers.
Buffalo Express hasssbeen unionized.
New, York has $500 municipal en-
ployes: go so
Mexico has abolished het export coffee
Kentucky unions will hold q Estate
convention. .5fatf
minneapolis has a drcssrnakers union
-England's coal output last year was
2220Oo,o00 tons.
At Denver union transfers enjoy the
12-hour day; others 16 and IS
-Pittsburg n,actinests struck for
ntne-hour day without reduction In pay.
Glasgow is now talking of municipal
bakeries and then munictpalization OF
the milk supply
Milwaukee has reduced street car
fares. during the morning and evening
hours,Et four cents
AT minneapolis the S.onemasons
Union has decided to raise the lntla-
ton fee TO SIS after ADri! 1st.
Within q year the membership of the
Minneapolis Electrical WORKERS Union
has doubled.
Switzerland makes a monopoly OF
the whiskey business and up to date she
has S11.Gc00O on the right side OF the
ledger. with very little drunkenness.
AFsive hundred st. Louis BARRIERS, who
either failed to pass the State examina-.
ton or did not care to take it. have
left that dreamy old city.
Miss Susan q. Anthony delivered on
address before the Bricklayers and Ma
sens International Union of America
on the subject Of .'Wcman Suffrage.
-Pittsburg marine firemen struck for
$50 per month and board on the down
river boats ad $50 per month on The
pool boats.
The first annual exposition of the
Des A1oines Jobbers' and Manufacturers
Association will be held In Des Moines
on the six days commencing February
% and ending March Sd.
"A number Of women have Joined the
Milwaukee Hatmakers' Union. This is
the first union in Milwaukee which has
had members Of both sexes and may be
the opening of a new era In labor organ
iZationS.
The proposed bill of the Central AS
ISOLATION of the New York Steam En-
gineers for a State license law provides
that all engineers must be examined be-
fore being licensed, and that the chief
of the bureau shall receive an annual
salary of $3.50. Places keeping open
day and night must conform to the
eight-hour law.
The Gamers have received quotations
from the tin-plate trust, which show
that it will cost them $685. thousand
for cans this year. The price last year
was s14.5o. It will be necessary, declared
the convention of the Indiana State
Gamers Association. to advance the
price 16 cents dozen to meet this rise
in tin.
The Department of Water Supply In
Brooklyn is evidently bent on employing
only union. men and paying the scale of
wages asked for by the various unions
which they engage. They have asked the
Central Labor Union rate of wages fer
laborers and mechanics. The union has
compiled with the request.
The strike Of the New York Jnired
Housesmiths and Bridgemen's Union, be-
gun eleven weeks ago, has not yet Leen
adjusted. A few of the employees have
acceded to the demands Of the men but
the majority remain firm in their. !: fusol
to grant any increase. In many Instances
they refuse even to sonsuit VIII the
men, The men on Novuber list REQUESTED
that they he paid 40 cents an hour in
stead Of 35 cents. They laid stress on
the fact that their work during the con-
struction of a building was the hardest
and most dangerous. All OF their de-
mands were ignored. and strike fol-
lowed.
a. bill submitted to the Ohio Legis-
lature: Section /. That in any pro-
fessIon, pursuit. or service OF any kind
where female labor or professional SER
vices are employed, such females shall
be paid for such labor or professional
service the customary amount Of corr