The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-12-27
THE LABOR WORLD,

GRAININo seems to be going out Of style.
LABOR strikes are occurring throughout
Italy.
Az cight-wheel locomotive costs about
ts5ON
ALL the pittsburg furnaces are in iull
blast.
ABOUT $4,000 women belong to the Knights
OF Labor.
tbs strike on the Montana Union road has
teen settled.
KRurr is erecting largo gun foundry at
Jekaterinoslaw, Russia.
JAcKsoNvILLE d'la.,) cigarmakers make
SIS and upward week.
PITrsBuRG steel is being used for manufac-
turing in Great Britain.
CEDAR loggers on the Florida gulf coast
usually command 81 day.
IN the jewelry and glove trades the X. OF
l., has advanced wages forty-fve per cent
BALTIMORE oyster Gamers pay out 81 ,500-
COZ every year in wages to their employees
THERE are over thousand women and
girls in Pittsburg who work in the iron
mis-.
NEW s urH WALES employs nearly 1900
persons in her telegraph and 5000 in her posi-
offices.
THE Boston Labor Leader announces the
formation of the Brotherhood OF Railway
Porters.
SOME 1900 unemployed workingmen are
on the eve of reviving the Trafalgar square
troubles in London.
THERE is wide spread discomfort among
the working people in the manufacturing
districts of Belgium.
THE spr ng of 1890 is the time set by car
penters ami DINERS for making combined
effort for an eight-hour day.
The third annual convention of the Silk
Workers National Union will be held in Pat
erson, N. j., during January.
A LOWELL, Mass, croGust company re-
Gently shipped three carloads of croquet sets
from their worSs to California.
( fsE Amalgamated Society Of Carpenters
confers more benefits on its members than
any other labor organization in the world.
A CARPENTERS union which has been
formed in Birmingham, Ala, will shortly
build self hall to be used only by labor
unions.
PHILADELPHIA leads all other cities in the
file making industry. Thirteen firms, en-
ploying over 200 persons, are engaged in the
business.
THE champion city of labor organizations
is Toronto, Canada, which has eighty OF
them, aud on hold weekly or fortnightly
meetings.
Two of the most prominent champions of
labor in Congress failed of reelection to the
next House-Weaver, of Iowa, and O'Neil,
of Missouri
ABOUT %, GOO employees of the Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad are affected by the
recent order for the reduction of wages and
the hours of labor.
THE name of the new organization to be
started by I. b. Barry, the expelled X. of l..
Executive Officer, will be The Brotherhood
of United Labor"
A coACHMAN's club has been formed in
New y ork and its memberships rapidly in
creasing. 1t has sick benefit fund, Eurial
fund and a widows relief fund.
PRESIDENT SAMUEL GoMPERs, of the
American Federation of Labor announces
that he will vigorously support the PROPOSE
tion to inaugurate a new eight-hour move
ment in 1890.
THE recent sct of the bakers of st. Thomas,
Canada, is said to be without precedent Tho
breadmakers of that town have reduced the
price of their leaves one cent on account OF
the fall in the price of wheat.
The American Flint Glass Workers Union
came into life July /, 1878, with eleven local
bodies. At present it embraces eighty-three
local unions and over 600 members, with
barely sever iy-tiye men in the trade outside
the Union.
One OF the richest labor organizations in
the United States is the Cgarmakers' Inter
national Union which is twenty-five years
old, has a membership of 2S, 900, and holds
the sum of $4,000 in its funds 1t pays
various benefits, including sick and funeral,
and its annual disbursements for them are
| very large