Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-02-10
1'Hb LABOR WORLD.

IL Europe brick maker makes 500 bricks
per day; here one makes 3,000
LAST year 2,230 locomotives were built in
the unitcd States and Canada.
ENGLAND has one district assembly and
seventeen local assemblies of the Knights of
Labor.
The total number of coke ovens in the
United States up to the time when last noted
was 22,591; building, 4, 1854.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
Just placed orders at Altoona for loo locomo-
tves and $500 freight cars.
THE 3,C00 employees in the Baldwin works
at PittSburg turned ont two complete loco
motives every wo: king day last year
CARNEGIE BROTHERS have bought twelve
a.cres OF land at Suter Station, Penn, where
1t is said they will put up several blast fur
naceS
THE Brotherhood engineers on the Pitts
burg division Of the Pennsylvania Railroad
have asked for an advance i'll wages and
change in hours.
IT is claimed that in every case where
manufacturers have adopted the use of union
labels OF organized labor they have proven
profitable to them
A SYNDICATE Of Lancashire England cot
ton Spinuers are negotiating with Lord
Iredegar for the purchase of tract of land
in the vicinity Of Cardiff Docks, on which it
is intended TO build eleven cotton mills, each
of which is to hold $4,000 spindes.
SILK SToCKBfGs are woven in England,
France and in this country. Many of the
stoc kings sold as French are made in Amer
lea On French silk looms. All the cheaper
stockings i'll market are of American make,
and many OF the test stockings too.
THE sugar refinery OF Moller. Sierck &
- u, " So, 81 L.. II,
and the firm have notified their employees
that they are going out of business. This is the
fourth refinery absorbed by the sugar trust,
whose capital is estimated at sou, 100000
TIE general reduction of 10 per cent in
the wages of the employees of the Cambria
Iron Company, at Jane. town, Penn, ordered
some time ago has gone into effect. Upward
of 1000 men are employed in the works and
mines, and all are affected by the reduction.
TuE National Tube Works Company Of
Mcheesport, Penn, employing about 4,00J
men, have posted notice ordering a redue.
ton of 10 per cent. i'll wages of all employees
Ii the reduction is not accepted the firm
threaten to shut down the entire establish
ment.
EDUARDO H. CATO, the king of Havana
Cigar Manufacturers, will shortly build in
Key West Fla, the largest cigar manufac-
tory in the United States The building is
to be Of brick, iron and stone, with a capacity
for 1000 cigarmakerS. enabling them to man
ufacture 20O, 900 cigars u day.
THE carpenters of Pittsburg and vicinity
have notified their employers that ON the lst
of May next they will demand an advance of
ten per cent. on their wages and half pay OK
ira for all overtime. The employers claim
that if the demand is enforced a general par
alyss OF business will be the result.
THE State Assembly of K. of l.. Of North
Carolina met recently in Greensboro. One
hundred AMI fourteen delegates nearly half
of them colored, were present 1t was re-
ported that the membership had increased
100 per cent. within the year, and that there
are now $50 local assemblies in the State.
Resolutions were adopted expressing sym.
pathy for the striking railroad men and
miners in Pennsylvania.