The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1874-10-23
INDUsTRaALNOrES.


The Tailors' Union of New York |
nave under consideration the pro-
priety of building hall.
The Coal Miners Union in the |
north of England has entered Wig
orousiy into the work of o.opera-
ton.
The German railways employ
about 100000 persons. and their
average yearly pay is 1913 thalers,
or about $211.
The iron-workers at the Lancas-
ter Manufacturing Company's
works are on a strike. Reduction
of wages the cause.
The Austrian printers have two
successful cooperative printing
offices at Vienna. Over two
thousand printers are interested.
The women employed in tailor
ing in New York have been dis
cussing for some time past the or
ganization of protective associa-
ton.
The Cleveland trades unions
maintain an industrial council,
composed of three delegates from
every branch in the city. Twenty
branches are represented.
The Iron Molders' International
Union, ut its recent Richmond
convention, reported sixty-seven
branches or local unions existing
in seventeen States and the British
Provinces. They number about
1000 men.
Wages in Australia range, for
skilled trades, at from ~ pence to
10 pence per hour, or from $1I to
SIT per week. For unskilled labor
it Is So. The men in the gold and
other mines work eight hours, and
other occupations ten Fer day.
Cooperative farming, banking
and mining are being experiment
ed upon in Great Britain on ,
small scale. Until within a few
years the ownership and working
oflalds and mines, or the bust
ness of banking, could not be un
dertaken, under law, by co-opera
tive association.
A woman's strike recently oc
Cured at Lyons, France. TIL
silk weavers demanded franc q
confines, or 30 cents, per diem, in
stead of "a cents, which they wsr
then receiving. The sergeants d
vile were called In to coerce tn
stikers TO resume work, which the,
did.
In the way of technical art an,
industrial training and education
only on State { Massachusetts, ha
made the primary requirement
industrial drawing direct require
ment of her common school sys
tenn. All towns of over 10000 in
habitaDts are required to establis
free industrial drawing classes.
A large number of operatives i
Amsterdam live in cellar room:
A lively agitation is now progress,
ing in that city. The reporte
condition of these subterranea
tenements is worse even than tia
of our cigar-makers. A compan
has been organized, with 81, 000,O
capital, to construct improve
dwellings.
In England. there are few il
stances of successful co-operativ
production. The Paisley MANI
featuring Society (cotton), til
Hebden Bridge Fustian Societ,
the Eccles Quilt MANUFACTURER
Society and the Lurgan ireland
Damask Manufacturing Societ
are the best examples of small OF
erations we'll managed.
The reduction of wages
strongly marked in England an
Wales, and very largely resiste
by the operatives, who claim that
most instances it is unnecessar,
The coal mining interest propose
q reduction of 10 to 20 per cent
the cotton spinners of from 5
10, and the iron-workers general
about II per cent.
The Peterborough District u
ion of English Agricultural Labo
ers, besides aiding "locked. out
laborers directly, has organize
purchases direct and in larl
amounts. Meat and coal supple
are thus purchased, making a sa
ing of the latter to the amount
from 81 to $3.50 per ton. The
are now agitating the establish
ment of q Wholesale store for IL
sale of supplies at cost. Benei
al. 4, I'll fr,nnrnr.1