The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-06-13
FIELD OF THE WORKINGMAN.

China has Sc newspapers.
Fall River has 76 cotton mills.
Seattle plumbers get $3.50 day.
philadelphia has 25S,6S5 dwellings.
Kansas needs 10000 farm hands.
Frisco is to have a labor temple.
The Princess of Wales is a BOOK
binder.
Manchester, England, grave .diggers
struck.
London is to have municipal tele
phones.
Cincinnati carpenters enjoy the eight
hour day
Bahia, Brazil, has no soda water foun-
tains
Frisco talks of a municipal telephone
system.
Saloon keepers of Miles. Mont, have pc
toned their customers for permission to
close on Sunday.
Fall River textile unionists are to es-
tablish and operate an immense cotton
mill.
In New York the United Brewers AS
sociation has over 1900 members, has S25,-
600 in its own treasury and controls nearly
forty breweries in New York and New
Jersey.
The street car company at Kansas City
has about $4,000 deposits from en-
ployes. the interest on which is sufficient
10 pay nearly the entire running expenses
for one day.
The rush from California and down the
Yukon from Dawson will easily bring the
total number of new Corners to be land
ed at Cape Nome during the next sixty
days TO above 25.0G0
Chicago unions have sent out a plan to
form a stock company which is to con-
troll The labor funds of this country FOR
the purpose of fighting organized cap
ital.-Cincinnati Commercial Tribune.
Fifty farmers in Adams township of
Madison county, Ind, have organized an
independent telephone company and will
establish communication with each 9th
er. with Narkleville and with the Ander-
SON Telephone Company, of Anderson.
Southern mill help are finding their
way to this city, and are getting employ
ment in the best factories. They say they
know that many of the Southern factory
workers will come North to work or they
will insist on getting equal mill condi-
tions in the South.-Fall River Herald
In New York contractors N a number
Of trades are rapidly forming associations
and getting into lire ready TO join in a
general fight against the labor unions A.
present the contractors are united in OPP
position to Electrical Workers Union in
its demand for 81 for eight hours work.
In 1899 our total mineral products were
valued at $500. LOCO, 500. Great Britain came
next with s4+300O,C10 followed by Germany
with S3iOo0o,oo0, Russia with $4,000, O0O,
France with sl10.O00cO0, Austria-Hnngary
with $685. 600, Spain with $44,cOOC00, Italy
with S43,Co9.GG0 and Canada with $50 coo, 600
The trusts have undesignediy entered
upon the great business OF organizing la
Dor, for there are already between three
and four millions of wage-workers in their
service and these millions must, by the
very nature of their service, be subject
to organization. When all the great in
dustries are controlled by trusts--as most
Of them are already-and when the gene
raj mass of workers are employed by
trusts-as millions of them are already
we may expect to see some things that
are rot yet visbIe-John Swinton, in New,
York World.
The Old World produces very little sill
ver-less than S40,0co.G00 worth per annu,n,
against $50. OGO.000 worth for North
America and s25,010,o10 worth for South
and Central America At the present time.
by the way, the worlds total stock OF
silver is about equal TO its total stock of
gold. The worlds output of gold in 1890
was S11S, $4,000 and not until 1886 did it
pass by a small margin the $500 UG1.tg1
mark. Last year the total gold product
OF the world was about $685., 10000, aud
this year it would have reached t5oooo. go
had it not been for the war III South
Afrca which has interfered with the
working of the mines OF the Rand. Tue
worlds stock of money gold at present is
about $780, 600. 600, which would make a
solid block forty-two feet cube--tha eize
of fairly large buslding-weighing I4s2
long tons. OF this total stock one billion
dollars worth, or one-ffth of the whole
is in the United States, in the shape Of
ce.n ana bars.
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Professor D, A. hent, NJ lowell. Ia, has
been appointed by the Sultan ~ Turkey,
Instructor OF Farming for the entire Tur-
kish Empire. Professor Kent was recon-
mended for the position year ago, but on
did not receive the appointment until last