Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-09-29
WORLD Of WORK AND WORKERS
FACTS AND FIGURES FOR WORK.
EItS WHERE.
The Interesting story OF Industrial
Effort in ODr Factories,
Field and Workshop.

board OF trade w. ii. Mills Endorsed The
innovation OF putting boys at fruit pick
inginstead Of TIE employment Of Chinese.
Girls are employed Ut fruit drying. They
make s. per day, and are done ut )
o'clock. Boys and men get II per day.
1T is promoting habits of thrift and in.
dustry among u people, and dis
semlnating a knowledge Of horticulture
and agriculture, AID encouraging a taste
for these pursuits, said Mr.. Mills. 1T
is IN the nature Of a valuable reinforce
ment of our industrial! population and an
enlargement OF the productive capacity
of our people. The great commonwealth
of this union were built up without the
aid Of Chinese or slave labor. The
knowledge, the skill, the thrift, the dill
gencc and all attributes OF productive
capacity have been to lost to our people
by the employment OF "A foreign and
serviic labor. The employment, OF the
Chinese and the payment Of wages to
them is, in Uur Judgment, a process o.
impovcrish ncnt. The apparent cheap
ness OF such labor is deceptive. In real
IVY ~ ID lI'ONA AA'NAiN, anu RNli ltNift ~
commit Il most fatal economic error in
not recognizing these truths. Cooks
and tents viii be sent To the boys.
The Frick Coke company OF Connel)s-
vile, Ia, which employs zoo men, ad-
vanced wages ) per cent. last week
because of the improvement in business.
The rev scale pays haulcrs and rOadmen
81. 70 per day trappers. g. cents per day;
hosting engineers. 81 so per day; team
sters and carriers, $l.36 per day day men,
Sl.26 per day.
A S~teubenville co. firm will remove It's
glass plant TO THIN, O., and erect the
largest works III the United States. and
probably the greatest III the world. There
will be three fifteen Dot furnaces used as
"A starter, and room will be made for an
other furnace. The ground and some
money were donated.
The Retail Lumber Dealers association,
Of P%iitsburg, which is Goyootting the
Wholesalemcn's association, is buying
lumber in the west. The wholesalers
have agents out in other cities, and at
home they make contracts for the lumber
i'll big buildings.
f. L. Davis, Of Madison, Wis, who is
TO start in the egg business at PittsbuTg,
says northern eggs bring : cents per
dozen more Than the southern output.
This is because of the climate and the
northwestern wheat and corn our chick
ems eat.
A collier near Nagasaki, Japan, turns
out 800, 900 tons Of coal annually. Five
Thousand women and girls are employed.
They pass the coal in small bags TO the
hold of the vessel. They stand in n long
line and hand the bags to each other.
A Pittsburg company with 5000, 000
will establish q mill for the manufacture
of n machine which will do the fancy
ornamental work on wood which is now
being done by hand.
The strike of the brakeman Of the Buff
falo, Rochester and Pittsburg railroad
against double-hcaders and for extra pay
for more than fourteen hours per day has
been compromised.
A Baltimore street railroad company
has cut the wages of drivers (they also
conduct from 81 to S1.75 per day. Host
lers are TO be cut from $l.45 to 81 % per
day.
The Pittsburg Musical union put a boy
colt on "A theatre because a proprietor
brought an orchestra from Baltimore.
The theater proprietor caved in a week.
A sword factory at Albany, N. Y, en-
ployes over 1000 men. AT present they
are delivering 900 bayonets per day on
an order for the government Of Germany.
Wade's Fibre and Fabric says in Ger
many and France an expert weaver will
run three looms in England, four, and in
America six to eight.
The Argentine Pacific railroad, which
starts at Buenos Ayres, has the longest
tangent in the world-211 miles, without
a curve or a bridge.
Some questions asked of Secretary
Whitney by Senator Chandler filed 1900
pages, and when placed on the fioor stood
six feet high.
The National Association Of Marble
and Granite manufacturers and dealers
has $500 manufacturers. They employ
100, 900 men.
Weavers in The Palmer Mass Carpet
company mills have struck for an adj
vance IF one-half cent over the scale
81 cents.
There are several co operative factories
in operation near Pitisburg, and big
money was made by them during the
recent strike.
At Chicago some days ago William A.
Slater, of Norwich, Conn, paid $500, 600
down on a purchase Of real estate.
A Pittsburg company will establish
steel wheel works at Little Washington
with a capacity of 30, 900 per year.
The combination Of the Canadian cot
ton mills has collapsed through the deser,
ton of the st. Croix mills.
Workmen on wall at CohOes, N. Y,
who were receiving S1.50 per day, have
been granted So after a strike.
Five hundred iron workers in q Pitts
burg mill have struck against paying for
heats that are spoiled.