Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-11-23
THE LABOR WORLD.

TIE Farm and Labor party is a Minnesota
institution.
DEAR bread this winter is what the labor
ing men must look forward to-
Mrs. M. THOMAS is practical shoemaker
living in Camas, Indian Territory.
New BRITAIN Conn Knights have de-
bates on the tariff at their meetings
ENGLISH co-operators now number abou
$50, ,0OO representing over 81, 100000
FIVE New York Union cigarmakers were
fined $26 each for working during a strike.
THE stone PAYERS of Omaha, Neb., have
organized a union, with 100 charter mem
bers.
SwITcHMEN along the line of the Northern
Pacific Railroad have struck for an increase
in wages.
THERE are thousands of idle carpenters on
the Pacific coast and no hope Of immediate
employment.
THE strike of house carpenters in Dundee,
Scotland, for an advance of a half-penny an
, hour has been successful
CHOSE who build palaces should not
dwell in novels, is the motto of the Brother
hood of Carpenters and Joiners
THE latest statistics from London show
marked increase in the number of women
employed in the different trades.
THE first shoe factory in New England to
run exclusively by electricity is that of
Packard & Grover, at Brockton, Mass
A NEW labor organization has been formed
and is known as the brotherhood of Rail-
way Porters" 1t has membership of six
. thousand.
THE Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
given contracts to three different concerns
tor 500 cars each, anda making 500 at their
| own works.
THE carpenters of Fresno, Cal, have
| formed an alliance with the bricllayers, the
plasterers, and the hod carriers to uphold
| their demand for nine hour day.
STEPS are being taken by the Carpenters
and Joiners Brotherhood in Massachusetts
tending toward the calling of a convention to
take concerted action in demanding eight
hours in 1870.
A SORT of Knights of Labor has been
started in London and called the Amalga-
mated Society of General Laborers. 1t is
composed of every description of laborers in
the metropolis.
THERE are now about twenty shirt manu-
factories in San Francisco, employing alto
| gether about 1000 men and women, and turn
| ing out manufactures that will be worth this
year 81 100000.
NEARLY 800 delegates, representing the
$4,000 employees of the Reading Railroad,
met at Reading, Penn, to act upon Pres-
| dent Corbin's scheme to create relief asso-
citation for the company employees.
WHEN the new mills are completed Trion,
Ga, will contain q, 400 spindles, 600 LOOMS
and will consume 900 bales cotton per
year. The number of operatives will be 500
and the pay. roll 5000 per month
A MEMBER of the New York Musical Mu-
tual Protective Union denies the report that
dummies were placed in bands supplied by
| laadare Of tha npiOp for Dnlitipal nara1as
The Balfe Club allows members only to play
in bands.
THE Amalgamated Society Of Railway
Servants in Great Britain and Ireland re-
Gently met at Preston. Their condition is
flourishing, the membership being II $50 and
the income for 1887 having been STA AIS and
the expenditures 49,, OPS.
ACCORDING to the report of the National
Bureau of Labor, there were 1892 strikes
ordered by labor societies in the six years
ending with 1886, and 1862 not ordered by or
ganzations. OF the whole number of strikes
10S75 were successful, 3064 succeeded par
TALLY ard 500 failed.