The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-04-15

= 20 a.
or. hfch every uni on man will cortr1bu te
mis- earnings to some designated hospital
Cincinnati Central Labor Council pro-
test against the war in the Philippine
Islands s. Indoors was also made of
the bill now, before the Legislature to
prevent messenger boys from entering
certain resorts.
Is The freight handlers sof& Duluth have.
fixed their scale of wages for the season,
Of 1900 "a t. 50 cents an hour. This is an
advance of s cents an hour over last
season! TT. is expected that the lumber
showers viii ask for 60 cents an hour this
year.
Twenty thousand cigar-makers were pre-
sent at a meeting held in New York. It
was decided to give $4,000 week to
the eco striking men and women employ
ed by I<rebs, Werthheim & Schiller. The
money for the strikers will be taken
from the cigar-nakers' strike fund, which
amounts to S225O,1O and every man who is
working will contribute so cents each
week, to the strikers.
In the tailoring business at leeds,
Eng. THE only; section of, the work upon
which anything like a living can be earn
er is. coat making. upon which men are
mostly engaged, while the waist coats and
pants are operated by women. This work
is done by Inidd1emen. Work BEGINS
at 3 "A. NJ ana GenuS aS ) 4. AI-. ~ eiS
day but Saturday. The following prices are
paid: Taflors, $50 to 80 per week. ma
chinists, 1913 to s11.15; pressers and filters
! 50 to 5000 The condition of the women is
that of 1lell.-Boston Post.
=: The starting of. the great rapid TRANSIT
tunnel in New Y ork has led to four unions
+ the service ofsywhose members will
be required in its construction+to demand
increased wages, the demands or three
of which will extend to the principal. II
mot all, the boroughs of the city. Ihey
are the electrical workers, who demand
81 day, to commence May list; foot
drillers. who ask $3.50, the present scale
is SO; rock drillers ask S2.1o, they are
paid s2.25; engineers want So DAY, .lneE
are getting $3.50; carpenters demand lor
mill workers IS. 80 day or Sl' tor
week of fifty hours.
The value, of trade unionism finds
emphatic demonstrate in the conditions
obtained by the British miners in the
Federation area, says the Iowa Unionist.
According to Mr. Pickard's calculations,
they have owing to the minimum agree
ment. secured during the last ten years
e6O 600 GOO $500, COO O00) more in wages than
they would otherwise have had, and even
though in ordinary circumstances, the
coal owners would have declared them
selves unable to pay it. Now that the
40 per CENT IldS 'DeSu oDtttiliEu' y -
mean to every man in the Federation
about nine sFillings a week, or nearly
1900, 900 per annum.
When the union of a trade gains an
advance in wages. or reduction OF
hours, or an improvement OF conditions,
or any desirable rights, the outsiders or
anti-uniorists rine times out OF ten,
pccket the proceeds at the same time.
The unionists may have spent their
funds to secure the end, many have mad
to go on strike for it, and hnany have
stood by each other i'm times OF hard-
ship: vet the very men on the OUTSIDE.
who sneered at them and took no part
in the. struggle, will be 4partakers IN the
winnings. Wages in the whole trade go
IN, shorter hours for the whole trade
are got, some proper right for the whole
tade is established. and thus the non
1lnlonists OF can-follower, as well as the
unionist. is the beneficiary. No one can
tell what the rates of wages would De
now or what would be the length of the
working day, had not the union stood as
a, wall of defense for labor. No wonder,
then that the unions, which have AL
they can do in contending with rough
shod capital, feel enraged at the nom
1,nlonists, who devour their harvests and
destroy their houses. In common graft
tude every workiHgman ought to JOIN
the union of his trade. If he did so labor
could soon gain advantages which
it yet has not even thought of.-joan
SWintOn.