The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-10-04
THE LABOR WORLD.

A FIRM in Connecticut makes eighty-on
different styles of axes.
A STRIKE of bakers in France has been
followed by bread riots.
THE total labor cost in a ton Of American
steel Fails is about $3.50.
THE florists Of Richmond, Va, have or
ganized protective society.
A CINCINNATI brass firm has ordered its
men to work sixty hours per week.
THE As, 600 convict laborers Of the United
States average about twenty-five cents per
day. >
THE striking cotton operatives at Bolton,
England, have resumed work on the masters
terms.
NEARLY 100000 females are agricultural
laborers, mainly in the cotton fields Of the
South
THE Stark Mills Corporation of Manches-
ter, n H., lately shipped 1000 bales OF drill
ing to China
ABOUT 20O elevators will be built during.
The next twelve months for the fa mers Of
the Northwest.
STATISTICS show that France employs over
five thousand women in her civil service,
telephone and telegraph officers
THE average wages paid for farm labor in
(,he Unitei States is SlS2i without board.
AMI Sl2.24 with board per month.
THERE is strike threatened by the work
men on the big 1000 foot Eiffel Tower at
Taris unless their wages are raised.
THE largest flour mill in Minneapolis runs
on the proft-share system and has just
divided $4,000 among the employees.
AMERICAN locomotives are superior to the
German, except as to length of service--the
latter lasting twelve years and half.
SOME Elkton, Nd, stonecutters, have
struck against the employment of men who
have not paid their dues to the union.
In Poland the laborers work from 5 in the
morning to and O'Clock at night Women
are employed in all kinds of hard work.
THE Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers, in Atlanta, Ca, has formally approved
of federation with the engineers and switch
men.
FOUR hundred Irish stevedore8 employed
in Glasgow Scotland harbor, have been dis
missed. They will be replaced by Protestants
from Belfast.
EASTERN towns manufacture 10000, 900
worth of collars. cuffs and shirts yearly, the
annual output of Troy N. Y, amounting to
no less than 100000.
THERE are 1889 industrial establish
mems in the city of New York, which give
employment to 221 ,352 persons and the value
of the output is Si31, EST, ,437.
MARTIN IRONS, who led the great railroad
strike of 1856, and was bigger man in the
West than Jay Could is drivInga bobtailed
street car in st. LOUIS at present.
THE displacement of muscular labor by
labor saving machinery in the past fifty
years has been enormous. Some learned po-
litical economists reckon it to be more than
500 per cent.
THE North Carolina Farmers Alliance rep
resenting 4O,0O0 farmers, in convention a
short time ago demanded tine dscontinuance
of the practice of making convicts work for
railroads and corporations for no pay.
THE Brooklyn City Railroad bas dis
charged twenty eight men, reduced the work
ing time of its force five minutes per man
and called in several cars, on account OF n
creased loss of patronage through the eie-
waited railroad.
THE Watson Car Company, Springfield,
Ohio, has received an order for first-class
passenger coach for the royal railway of
Portugal, to be finished and shipped with the
drawing room car which the company have
been building for the same road