The Irish standard., 1888-12-01
WORK AND WORKERS.

THE stone-pavers of Omaha have organ
lied union, with 100 charter members.
THE Harrison Rolling-Mill Company Of
Kansas City viii soon begin the erection OF
buildings.
THE strike of house carpenters in Dundee,
Scotland, for an advance Of half-penny an
hour has been successful
"THosE who build palaces should not
dwell in hovels," is the motto of the Broth
erhood of Carpenters and Joiners.
A FORT SCOTT (Kan.) woman sued mer-
chant for putting her name on his dead-beat
list, and was awarded $500 damages.
TIE 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-
REPORTS from California show that there
are thousands of idle carpenters on the Pa
cif1c coast and no hope of immediate employ
ment.
THE machinists of New York will ask Of
the Metal Trades confederation that gen
eral labor bureau be created for metal
workers.
The Surgical Observation-Disclosures Union
of New York will endeavor to unite the
craft in the United States in a National Or
ganization.
The wooden-ware works in Indianapolis
are SAID to be running extra hours to I'LL
orders, and workers in wood are in demand
IN that city.
A PRINTERS union was formed at Beaver
Falls, Pa, last week, and hereafter the
Offices in the valley will be run on strict
union principles.
The Brick-Layers and Masons' Interna-
tional Union now has 176 unions. Over
$500, 1000 has been expended in strikes and
<350,O00 in benefits.
TIE Wler Plow Company has just COM
pleted an addition to the foundry at Mon
mouth, ILL.,, and several additional hands
will be employed.
THE striking bakers of st. Louis ask for
reduction of working time to ten hours on
all days but Saturday, when they agree to
work twelve hours.
CARPENTERS Union No 39S, of Green
vile, Pa, has established the nine-hour
work day and the contractors are well
pleased with the system.
THE Minnesota Car Company, composed
Of Virginia capitalists, with capital OF
100000, will shortly begin the erection OF
rolling mills at Duluth, MINI.
NOTICE has been given to building trades
workmen to give Pittsburgh wide berth,
as there are more than enough men there to
do all the work now on hand.
The carpenters of Fresno, Cal, have
formed an alliance with the brick-layers,
the plasterers and the hod-carriers to uphold
their demand for a nine-hOur day.
CARPENTERS complain that they have
been deceived by unscrupulous real-estate
agents into going to Omaha, when there
was no hope of finding work there.
A BIG woodenware factory is being
moved from Dayton, o., to Anderson, Ind,
and will be started up about January /.
1t will employ at least three hundred men.
The New York Farmers Union has re-
Gently issued the order that any member
working with non-union men closes the
privileges of the union for the time being.
MINNEAPOLIS (Minn.) coopers struck
when -four advanced, and were granted
strise, from five to six and seven cents per
barrel. Some now think they ought to get
ten cents.
THE Political Association of Railway EN-
ployes, which recently met at Galesburg,
ILL.,, has Il, 600 members, and they vote for
the party that will do them the greatest
good.
THE first attempt at building iron works
in Charleston, W. Va. has been made, and
bolt and nut factory will soon be started.
If the enterprise succeeds foundry will
also be built.
The best reports come from Indianapolis
in regard to labor. In the tile works the
employees are obliged to work overtime to
fill orders, and new pipe factory will give
work to 100 men.
Some of the places of the 500 rattan work
ers of Gardner (Mass.) shop. who struck
against 20 per cent. reduction, have been
filed by Russians and Fins. Some Of the
strikers are Swedes.
SOME time ago at Houston, Tex, the
Tailors' Union gained an advance in wages.
Recently women were permitted to join the
association, and ten men left the union
since then the employers have cut wages.
COLONEL WRIGHT, the National Commis-
sioner of Labor, recently finished his report
on labor matters. He states that in the last
six years ending with 1885 there were @,30A
strikes in the United States There were
10,375 that succeeded.
A STARTLING STORY.
A Dead Man Arises and Partakos Freely
of T2r0tf, and Vino.