Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-10-12
Essex County Herald.
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THE LABOR WORLD.

THREE million women in the United States
work for money.
THERE are only three crutch factories in
the United States
THE File-Makers' Union has added a sick
benefit fund to its other financial advantages.
Mr.. A. l. RooT gives employment to l5O
hands about his bee establishment in Chicago.
THERE are about 5000 persons engaged
in the manufacture Of cigars in New Y ork
City.
TWELVE suits have been brought against a
Boston marble firm for importing contract
labor
THE Brotherhood OF Locomotive Firemen
have decided to amalgaDlate with the
Knights Of Labor.
On the pay rolls Of the Pennsylvania system
of railways there are constantly the names
OF 5000 employees
THERE are $500 persons employed by the
131 firms engaged in the wagon making in-
dustry IN Philadelphia.
CUBAN troops are under arms to suppress
an expected riot among the %, 900 striking
cigarmakers in Havana.
THE baskets for peaches are made in
Laurel, Del, and the workmen and work
women get eighty cents a hundred
CHESS for the working classes is a new
experiment of the English chess players, and
The National Federation of Miners and
Mine Laborers contemplate putting the nine
hour system into effect at an early date.
THE tanning of boa constructor skins forms
a branch of industry in Hamburg, n. j.
They are made into pocketbooks principally.
The labor societies of Pittsburg have raised
oyer $500 for the monument to be erected in
memory of Thomas Armstrong a noted labor
leader.
IT is stated that the National Union of the
United Brewery worlmen, which was Or
ganized in August, 1886, has already spent
$780, 900 in strikes.
SINCE the organization of the insurance
feature Of the Knights of Labor the order
has paid out in benefits over $50, 90 0 to bene.
ficaries of deceased members.
SEVENTEEN trades societies have forward.
ed to the English Labor Bureau reports show.
Ing an aggregate membership of 1S6, ,l3O, of
which total 1000 were unemployed
THE Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen,
which was established in 1873 with one local
union and nine members, has now $50 divi-
sions and 10000 beneficial members.
THERE were 253, ,S52 manufacturing estab.
lshmentS in the United States when the last
census was taken, with a capital of 81, 790,-
212605. The number of men employed was
2,732,595.
The employees of Baltimore box factory
struck because the firm put in mailing ma
chimes during the busy season. The machine
needs four men and can nail 5000 boxes per
day. The average man can nail only 225
boxes per day.
MEssRs. WYMAN AND Sons, printers and
publishers, of Lincoln's Inn Fields, have
given pension Of $500 per annum for life to
W. H. Phillips, on his retirement from the
position of case-overseer, which he has filled
for a number of years.
IT is asserted that the American Fedora.
tion Of Labor is numerically the strongest
labor organization in the world, even sur
passing the Knights of Labor, having 61S, 900
members, while that of the Knights is ofici
ally set down at $50, 900.
A CONVENTION wNl soon be held for the
formation of National Oystermeus Union.
Already eleven local unions have been
formed, and iG is intended that the National
Union shall have a sick benefit fund allow
ing a member IS week and death benefit
fund by which his heirs will receive S75.
Asa general thing shoemakers profits arc
better in this country than in England. An
American shoemaker can make at a cost TO
himself Of sixty-siX cents what an English
shoemaker has to pay 81 for, while in manu-.
facture of ladies shoes the expenditure Of
twenty-five cents in this country is equiva-
lent to that of thirty four cents i'll Eng land