The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-06-15
World of Labor.

New York laborers want IS cents an
hour and double price for overtime
Syracuse On. y garment workers num-
boring 500 struck for the nine-hour day.
Mrs. Anna 8. Fields is president or the
Trades and Labor Council of Elwood,
Ind.
Montreal iron-workers refused to COM
promise and stand by their original de-
mands Of 21la an hour.
Five thousand men employed In the
building trades in Denver, Col, went out
on strike for the eight-hour day
The Tobacco Trust gives employment
to 81, 900 work people, none OF "hom pc
long to teh Tobacco Workers Union.
The offer Of the Metal Trades Assocla-
ton. of Baltimore to exchange delegates
with the Federation of Labor is likely to
cause trouble between them
THE Dominion Transport Company or
MONTREAL granted their 2GO carriers Sl.5o
rer day with extra money Tor over
time. This is an increase of 60 cents
week.
The United Textile Workers of Amer
lea has 5000 members on strike IN 5outh
Carolina and Georgia to resist the at
tempt by southern manufacturers 10 ce-
stroy the union ~,
c,nizeG waee-workers in the five borouGhs
Of the city, and it is expected that at
least half of them will turn out IN the
| Labor Day parade In September.
Rrool1lvn bakers union wages are s2o
| week. with 80 cents an hour Tor work
ing overtime for men working at ovens.
and SIG a week with 80 cents an hour Tor
overtime for men working at the penches
Brockton. Mass, is the largest shoe
CITY in the world. producing about S24.-
! Ooi 900 worth of shoes in a year. 1t also
| noys the highest wages In the world. the
| average at present being $3.50 year, or
| % per cent. higher than its nearest COM
| petitor.
chicago is to have one Of the largest
efectric n,ants in the world. 1t is to pc
,,,ilt nv the Commonwealth Electric Com
| many 1t will cost S6G0O,010, and have
caoacityi of 100000 horsepower Its con-
struction will cover period CT I'VE OF
six years, involving annually dh eApoiA
diture of $1,000, 900.
| San Francisco horseshoers have pro-
yided an arbitration board to meet the
| en,nloversN in joint session. The Cement
| Workers Union CT California favor the
raising of the minimum wage scale SO
that laborers shall be paid Sslnstead OF
| s.. 80, and\ hnishers $3.50 instead OF 81
| day of eight hours.
The strike among the miners employed
| bv the Empire Coal Company, whose
| mines are located near Bellaire, Ohio,
! was settled by the company agreeing to
| nav the regular scale Of 50 cents a ton
| The organized miners had been out for
| a long time and their places had been
| taken by foreigners. who We're paid <Gl!a
! cents q ton.
| All the section foremen and laborers
| working for the Canadian Pacific and
| Canadian Northern Railway Companies
| in Manitoba and Assinaboia are organ
ling. Since the trackmen's great victory
| on the Canadian Pacific. divisions of the
| Brotherhood have been orSaniZsd at Win
nipeS, Belmont, Portage la Prairie and
! Ninnedosa.
The LOO carriage workers who have
been locked out for thirty weeks by a
| combine of bosses in Cincinnati and have
been repeatedly enjoined are to be given
the united support of organized labor in
a financial way. The American Fedora
ton OF Labor officials have Endorsed a
1 circular letter that will be sent to unions
everywhere.
The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad has in
1 creased the wages Of machiniSts. black
4 smiths, boilermakers, car repairers and
helpers and other shopmen in their EN-.
ploy. An advance of from one to foul
j cents an hour is made. according to the
class of labor There are 1000 shopmer
employed by the Baltimore and Ohio sys-
s, TEN and the raise will mean an addition
of $1,000 to $4,000 per month 20 the shol
Il nav rolls,