The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-01-13
Labor Notes.


Steamer Forest Castle. Hamburg.
Steamer Nymphara, Gutenberg.
Labor Notes.
Bricks arc TO be made from glass house
refuse.
TIE Building Trades Council represents
2JG.000 men.
St. Louis slass-worlis recently conceded
this scale an advance of 10 per cent:
Lsiborers. per 9-hour day, $50: packers,
$3.50; mixers, for shift, $3.50; filters L.
hour shift, $3.50; ash wheelers per SHIFT
S.e5; over-liShters, per shift, Sl.65;; ware
packers. per S-hour day, S2.25; Sc s-nlakers,
for S-hour day, $3.50; clayroom workers,
9-ilour day, Sl.60: overtime TO DC paid for
at rate of one and three-eghths time.
The Sydney Wharf Laborers' Union,
which is 2,6C0 strong, has obtained from
the Associated Shipowners' Association
a fixed concession OF eight hours and d
rise equal to one Shilling per day. The
rate for casual hands has been fixed at
] SAILING an hour with overtime at Is
sd per hou.. and 2Is4ilings per noun after
z. NJ. on SATURDAYS:
Seven dollars month, with room and
bo-,-,., seems 70 De tne highest sum ever
pald TO q waiter girl in German hotels
and restaurants.
Little Rock is to have an Ostrich farm.
-..u.s yGJ,G0u acres Of apple Or
ohards.
The liz cotton mills of Mexico consum-
ca .;,st year oiVoo,uoI pounds OF cotton and
produced nearly l0O0t,o09 pieces OF woven
and printed goods. These mills give en-
pIoyment to 22.G1o operatives, and the
sales for the year amounted to more
than Goo
4 Birmingham, Eng, manufacturer
drives something of a trade in crowns.
They are real ones, of solid gold, with cap
of crimson velvet, incrus'tations of garnet,
topaz and other kinds of cheap but snowy
stones. and are supplied to the kings OF
Africa-of whom there are several hun
ured-at a hisa.y satisfactory return OF
ivory and other merchandise.
Dried eggs have been utilized largely
in Alaska OF late in the klondike and at
Cape Nome They have been furnished
to British soldiers in South Africa in
American cans. In this and other ways the
American hen is distributing per product
all over the world, and Arctic and Ant
arctic expeditions nave carried similar
supplies with them. Meanwhile the eggs
of various species OF wild fowl are being
used abroad in the manufacture of a sub
stance called egg albumen," whCn is
imported into this cOuritry and eNter-
sivey employed by bakers and FOR glazing
prints. 1t looks like a fine quality of glue,
broken into small bits; is gotdenyellow
in color, and quite transparent and pref
ty. The price of it is about % cents
lyolr>.. Retail. Thirty years ago the art
OF preserving eggs in the sI,ell vas who'll
~ unknown.
Counnus. Ga, city Of less than 25,
GEO popula ton only about one-quarter the
size eli Richmond, has II different local
trade unions, General Federation CT
Labor and a Building Trades Council
Owing to a French law compelling the
French mercantile marine to man only
Wits, m o. "
not be induced to dispace and defeat the
French shipping unions AS result,
they are uniformly successful in their
strikes.
Labor organizations in Kansas are
petitionins the Kansas Legislature to
open up the salt veins around Hutchinson,
and start the convicts TO making sal,
in opposition TO the salt trust and its high
prices. The manufacture OF binding tw.ne
was started in the penitentia-y IN much
Tie same way. ana the industry has been
considered a relief TO the farmers.
Tie average pay OF the working classes
in England is less than a pound $50 per
week. Only one man in eleven is in
receipt Of an income of more than s150
(S750) a year. At the present time the Lon
don lockers receive an average OF twelve
shillings per week
The referendum vote which is being TAX
en- by the carpenters shows that the pro-
posal to abolish the. half-hoitiay during
the winter will be defeated by a two
thirds vote.
Chicago Typographical Union. No 16.
has sent our circulars to all labor or
ganizations asking their members to pur-
chase only union-made books.
Chicagos building trades lockout which
has affected 10000 persons directly and
Indirectly during the ten months that it
has been on has brought fame and for
tune to one man at least. joan j. Mock
Ter, a union carpenter, who left Chicago
in July last because he could not lind
work. has struck it rich in Colorado.
CONDUCTORS in the employ of the Chi
caso Transportation Company, which
conducts a bus line in opposition to the
carettes that run from the North to the
Soutt-side. have been displaced by boys.
Marble is said to exist in twenty-four
of our States.
Coral, both white and red, is found on
the Florida coast.
In 1890 the mineral product OF the Uni
ted States amounted to s619, 100000 and in
1899 to s976, 000o0.
The new terms conceded to Pittsburg
structural iron-workers give them a rate
of Ss 1-3 cents an hour and nine-hour
DAY. and will be in effect until May i.
This is an advance in pay of from 5
to cents an hour. and the working
hours are reduced one hour a day.