The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-27
THE FIELD OF
THE W0RKINGM.AN

Russia NAV take 100000 tons of coal
from Pittsburg.
A number of Brooklyn men and women
started an Industrial and social co-opeia-
ton society as q remedy Tor poEsfN'
Injustice, and inequality. Its Ntie IS 'n1
Brooklyn Cooperative Ciub. lheie WI
he discussions under its auspices neld III
different parts of the borough uoi ihs ~
remainder of the month.
orsanized labor in New YORK mas
resolved to inaugurate a movement on
the lines Of the Journals demand fof
nublic ownership i will start at hrst
with an agitation specifically ior .he
municipal manufacture and dlstrlpulioH
of ice. Delegate Lord stated that the
h,,erican Ice Company had brought 800
drivers TO New York from New England
and was paving them 81 a day less than
the 7,nion rate for truck-driVers.
I, New York. there are 5000 idle cigar
makers. Last week it was officially
announced that $4,000 had been paid out
to $500 strikers. The union strikers
received s. each and the non-un!on
str;,-ars CO each The latter were in
the majority, and the payment OF strike
money TO each of them was violation
of the last Injunction issued by Justice
Freedman.
Walter yroon1an. who founded the labor
college at oxford, has started movement
for a new sort of Anglo-American all
ance. It is a union Of the workers OF ooth
countries through an international conVen-
lion AT oxford celebrating the second an
niyersary of the first labor college. Feb
ruary %, 1901. 1t is proposed to have dele
gates present representing the workers OF
Great Britain and her colonies and the
United States.
Toronto teamsters earn s3S a month.
While American ice costs 60 cents at
Puerto Cabello. where the price is 81 a
hundred, and at Caracas. where the manu-
featured cakes are twenty inches long, five
inches wide and three inches thick. with
the centre half-frozen, leaving a ridge of
snow This sort of stuff mets quickly and
costs cents a pound The better fami-
lies buy only two pounds for breakfast
and dinner. Such thing as an ice chest
is almost unknown. The people are afraid
of iced drinks In Ecuador ice-water is
regarded as unhealthy. but the few nabobs
who use ice. pay ten cents a pound in
gold. Guayaquil. city of $4,000 inhabi
tants, consumes two and half tons
day. The rich drink claret, the poor CHI
ca, guarape and mavorca-
In America, Japanese service is not
cheap. A japanese going out to service
expects to get S25 a month, no matter
what he does, and a chef will have from
$50 to $50. On a yacht man will get from
SVV ~ WV.
1.-The seamen of the great lakes are. on
the average, getting better pay than they
have for long time On the lower lakes
especially there has been a big advanes
granted the men without any controversy
with the Lake Carriers Association sa:a
Frank j. Weber, general organizer of III.
American Federation of Labor The men
he says are getting $40 a month moro
than they did last year at this time. Fire
m who limo { q
month. whereas they opened last season
with $3.50 and later s25. closing the sea-
son with $3.50 The seamen have been or
sanized in Buffalo, Tonawanda, Fri,
Conneaut. Ashtabula, Fairport, CLEVELAND
and Toledo. about 2,GG0 of them beinE
added to the union ranks. Mr.. Web,
says they are we'll organized at Milwau-
kee with about $50 members, in Ashland
with 100, in Duluth with 200, and in Chica-
go with about 1890 members. He looks TO.
no disagreements between the seamen and
vessel owners this year.