Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-06-29
THE LABOR WORLD.
THE nail-makers are forming syndica

IHE na1l-makerS are forming Sy ndlcate.
NUMEROUS industrial enterprises are
springing up throughout Louisiana.
GEORGIA is rapidly coming to the front as
railroad building, mining and manufacture
ing State.
The Stove Founders National Defense
Association have just held National Con-
vention in Pittsburgh.
OVER fifty new unions have been organ
lied during the past three months by the
Brotherhood of Carpenters.
THE National Convention of the Iron
Molders' Union of North America was held
at Anchor Hall, st. Louis, June II.
LABOR generally is we'll employed; organi-
cation is general, but is less combative and
more conservative than for years past.
THE Clark's o. N. 7. Thread Company is
erecting in Kearny, N. j., opposite Newark,
the largest mill of the kind in the country.
A NEW milling process saves $40 on every
100 barrels of -four, by using more of the
wheat than it was possible to utilize by the
old process
ACCORDING to an estimate in Bradstreet's
the whole number of strikes last year in the
United States was S58, involving $40, S54
wage workers.
COTTON factories, rice manufactures,
creameries and shops of every character are
and material can be had.
THE Spiegel furnaces of the Lehigh Zinc
Company at Bethlehem, Penn, have been
lighted after a years idleness. This puts the
entire plant in operation.
THE Buffalo IN. w. Boiler Works is the
largest in the United States. 1t has the
largest tools for riveting the heaviest metals,
one that strikes a 10O-ton blow,
THE operatives in Rich g. Woodbury's shoe
factory, Gloucester, Mass, have struck for
higher wages. The girls made from 50 to
$3.50 per week, and the men less than $1.25 q
day.
AS Chinese immigration is now prohibited
the Chinese laundrymen of California have
combined to advance the price of washing,
mo longer fearing competition from their
countrymen.
ANOTHER glass factory will be located at
Findlay Ohio. This makes eleven since nat
ural gas was struck. The new place will
employ one hundred men. A speciality Of
the firm will be lamp chimneys.
NEW ENGLAND shoe manufacturers are
sending special agents to work up the South
American trade, and South American coun-
tries are opening up promising fields for
American commercial enterprise.
A wELL-KNowN London firm of refresh.
ment contractors recently advertised for
1000 additional walters, and 10000 applica-
tions were received in response, the whole of
the candidates claiming to have had expsri-
ence.
THE bootblacks have caught the organiza-
ton craze and it is being talked over among
themselves to advance the price of shines to
ten cents. An organization of this kind has
been established in Omaha, Neb., with great
success
THE employees of the National Tube Works,
Mckeesp TT, Penn, have accepted the seven
and one-half TO ten per cent. reduction
ordered by the company, and work will be
continued without interruption. About 1000
pen are affected.
THERE are 1853 cigar factories in California
where only white men are employed, and ia
factories where none but Cinnamon can get
work OF the former 1l3 are in San Fran
cisco and Oakland, and there are ia Chinese
places in the same cities
JUDGE BREWER, Of the United States Cir.
cult Court has just decided a case of interest
TO railroad men. A fireman was injured by
a shock from the sudden stoppage OF train
when there were insufficient brakemen. He
sued the company, and the Judge decided iR
favor Of the plaintiff.