The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-10-20

$500
fined $40 and costs for fraudulentiy US
ing the union LABEL
AZ St GATHERINGS, z c.. carpenters
st.ccaa,.ed IL reducing their WORKING
hours from % TO % per week without
strike.
The leather workers of Lowell, Mass.
have secured recognition of their ufiol'
and :, wage Increase aSsres.-Sing $3.50
year.
Ths eigi,t-hou- wofk-Gay has been gain.
ed at all cooperins, points III Texas al
the rine-hour day at Portland Ore
The secretary Of the Mtc;IG:t.1
ZION IL I4asJSr ms been instructed to
prepare Z oili providing Eor the establish
sns.nt OF q STATE printing eftlce.
The wocRin=Insn OF Kewanee. ILL.,. are
preparing to start cooperative store
WIN q capital of $4,000, divided into s1,
.,tslrss ut E51 each.
On January ist there were 1900 mem
ftrs i'll the International Journeymen.
l..-tcrs,' tr,osi. and now the orsaniza-
tian has f3.GO9 paid-up members.
The journcyrn men butchers OF New York
city had $50 pickets out LIST Sunday TO
see that The Sunday closing law was eEl-
forced The boss butchers propose fight
in:s the law.
-,t Marion. Ind, plumbers were locked
plumbers finally signed the journeyInen.s
agreement. and now everything is in sat
isractory shai 3
Montana seems 10 be the banner uniot.
State of tle country. The Legislatltfv
has just passed a law establishing ttla
eicI t-hour law among the miners and
s1nelters of the State.
The making of Il bar of soap N TIE
early years of the century took twenty
TIE labor cost Of making 5000 pIunds OF
laundry slan is $2.95 new, against 30
OF former years.
The French National Metal Federation
! has issued a. circular proposing general
Strike of miners on November 1st unless
the government and the mining com
nantes grant ~ st@ht-hnEr day and I
nension of 2 francs a day after twenty
! five Eears OF service.
Over foar hundred delegates attended
the recent annual British Trade Union
Congress. When it came, to a show
of voting strength. compulsory arbitra-
ton was rejected by $4,000 to 265.01U votes.
Better national education old age pen
sions- wide workmen's compensation
act. and the extension of the suffrage
to all adult men and women were asked.
From the annual report OF the labor
bureau of the British board OF trade it
appears that during the year 1900 there
was a gross gain by british wase-earrers
Of considerably oyer 21.oG0010 a week for
an aggreFatc of 1.1}i. 80 persons Tho
annual addition 20 the income Of the
working classes is estimated at fully
0000. and, while the Increase in pay
has rot been evenly distributed through
ont all trades. there has been a general
upward tendency.
\ machine that weighs. counts and
sorts gold coins is being placed in Chica-
/ banks. It does the work of six skill
co clerks.
The strike of the garment pressn,en OF
Boston which caused q lockout of 500
clothing opera tives. was ended lasting
three days.
About 1Go raachinists al the Ohio Auto
mobile plant, Warren. struck when the
comnany refused 10 reirstate two dis
charged men.
Of the sso.eoo.ooo worth of cotton goods
used in the West Indies and South Amer
lea, it is sait. only S:so0n.GC6 are furnish
ed from the United States.
The main wheel of 4 watch makes L.
AGO revolutions q year. the central wheel
S.TG0. the third wheel IO.OS0 TIE fourth
$4,000 and the escape wheel 4.ISt.S60
Secretary Frank Morrison reports that
the American Federation of Labor naid
out to organizers during the past year
| nearly $2s.oG0 and issued SIS charters to
new unions since last November.
The New York Progressive PAYERS TN
ion reported that it had resolved 10 sup
port the grocery clerks in the movement
to close grocery stores n O'Clock on
the first four evenings of the week. and
to divert their patronas5s from merchants
declining TO close a that hcur.
Eice-Presdent Lovely. OF the National
Boot and Shoe Workers Union. has or
ganized the employees of Y. j. Bates Sc
Co.'S factory in BROOKLYN. ana the firm
has been granted the union stamp, which
will henceforth be put on the women.s.
misses. and childreus shoes from that
shop
The mineral product of the United
States is tahulated in the Engineering
and Mining Journal and some OF the fs-
ures Gin metric toas> are as follows: Hy-
Hydraulic cement ton1tu-
raj........ i..siSpN-> tof.S
Portland cement. .,..,. 1.itaas.s tons
Anthracite coal.. -. "a. ttsstt.c,..:.J, tons
Bituminous coal. -. .2fo.Se1 .7o7 tons
Iro,, ore &C. 3;ss... OIL tons
6>r,,de netroleurn. S.I49 ass tons
phospha tes 1.5522.4:,i tons
Salt . $50 .a67 tons
The ortp,,. OF metals Tin kilosranlsl is:
Aluminium 3.24s.219 ktlog.
Pig FROM. IS TAG. 797 kiiog.
Lead 80. sol kilosa
silver 1.S5oa.5S4 kilox.