Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-02-03
THE LABOR WORLD.

KNIGHTS OF LABOR favor goverr:lut
telegraphy.
THERE is a boom in cotton factory building
in North Carolina.
CIGARMAKERs to the number of 200 are
striking in New York City.
LAST year there were 3S3 40i cases of shoes
shipped from Brockton, Mass, against $751;
534 in 1886
WILLIAM D. HARTUPEE is now preparing
plans for the new window glass factory TO be
built at Grapeville, Penn.
SEVERAL engineers on the Reading Rail-
road will be removed because they have
failed to pass the color test examination.
OF the 100 tons of zinc annually produced
in the world, Missouri turns out twelve tonr,
and the industry is only partly developed
there
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad coke shipments
ments show an increase Of 217,699 tons in
1887 over the previous year. The total was
3,757 ,344 tons.
J. j. MCGARRY, q Knight of Labor, got
verdict in st. Louies, Mo-, for $l.5OO
against the Missouri Pacific Railroad COM
pany for malicious prosecution.
REPORT from South California mills
states that cotton operatives commence work
at $50 in the morning, take forty minutes
for dinner. and leave off at $50 P. NJ.
The sultan has rel uested Prince Bismarck
b, send a competent German to Asia Minor
to instruct the natives in the better working
of mines and forests and in husbandry.
The long strike of tho shoemakers in
Rochester, which has continued since Novenl-
Der |, has collapsed, the men having re-
turned to work OF the manufacturers terms.
The National Tube Works. at McKeesport,
Penn, completed a new plate mill for rolling
sheets OF iron over six feet wide, to be used
in manufacturing twenty-four inch lap weld
pipe,
TAKING six trades as bass, the average
pay Of skilled laborer in North Carolina is
81 80 day; unskilled, 65 cents; farm labor,
without board, IS cents, and with board 80
cents.
THERE are number Of woolen mills nnd
knitting factories in operation in Utah where
hosiery, mittens leggings, ladies' knit skirts,
and mems knit underwear are turned out in
large quantities.
AT conference between Carnegie, Phipps
e Co., of the Homestead Steel Works, Pitts
| burg, Penn, and committee of the Amalga-
matel Association an amcable settlement Of
the wage question was effected.
| The Brotherhood of Carpenters OF America
| originally tia 1881 hal only twelve local
unions, consisting OF 2,042 members. On
| January ], 1889, it numbered 353 local unions,
located in 33l cities, with fl, III enrolled mem
| beIs
THE International Hattecs' Union is said to
be one of the best protective organizations in
| the world. There is a National Union i'll this
| country and one in Europe, and both are
affiliated under the name of the international
, body.
I The organizers of the Lon gshoremen's
! National District Assembly have received
communications from nearly all the organiza'
| tons of that class of workers in the United
Stats, and all thus far heard from favor the
| scheme.
THE total iron output in the South last year
was 500 4}6 tons-an increase of 80 per cent
in Two years, and represents one-eight OF the
| to al product on of the United States. The
total number of furnaces in blast January I,
1883, was: Charcoal, %; coke, 80, and anthra-
| cite, |.
A BIG petition which, when complete, will
! contain upward of 500,0 900 signatures, asking
for Government telegraph service, is being
prepared under the supervision of the CEN
eral Executive Boarl of the knights of
Labor. Mr.. Powderly expects to be able to
take it to Washington and present it to Con
| gre,s.
THE statistics from the Michigan Labor
| Bureau show many million dollars in mort
! cages on the farms of that State. In one
| county nearly half the farms are mortgage1,
| the total reaching nearly onefifth OF the
assessed value of all the farms in the county
! 1t is said that other counties are in a much
worse condition.
| On account of the agricultural depression
| in Great Britain farm laborers are not gen
orally employed during the winter as they
| formerly were As a consequence large
numbers of them come to cities to obtain
I something to do. AS the cities are crowded
| few of them succeed in obtaining employ
ment and their condition be zones distressing.