Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-02-04
The LABOR WOLD.


Reliable Reports From all Quarters
The Boston tonsorial artists will max,
another attempt to control sunday wOrl
this winter by legislation.
The Elson glass works, Martins Fer.y
o., has declared a len per cent dividend
since July 1, 1887.
The st. Louis industries are. with very
few exceptions, crowded with orders FOX
winter and spring.
Fine cotton prints made H. Taftyil,c.
Connecticut, are selling in competition
In England with English goods.
A thirty two inch vein OF coal has Just
been found at Rood House. Illinois,
eighty eight feet below the surface.
The Stewart Iron company, OF Sharon,
Pennsylvania, nave started eight pudding
furnaces. This department has not been
operated Tor n long time.
A new mine is to be opened near Shaw
nee, Ohio. The Xxx mine is ENJOYING a
splendid run Of trade; 50 also is the Shaw.
nee Valley mine.
A little cooperative mill in frankfort.
Penn, started by textile workers. is said
TO show q profit Of 20 per cent on the cap
ital for the first years work.
Two of the best working assemblies Of
the X. OF l.. In the city Of Boston are
those composed Of marble workers. They
both have efficient officers and well at
tended MEETINGS.
Wages OF western window glass blow
ers, which ere on a sliding scale. have
been increased five per cent because OF
the recent advance in the price of window
glass.
Kendall county, ILL.,, promises to come
up as a coal mining region. A four foot
vein has been found at 30 feet near York
vile. and it is thought that this is a true
vein.
The earnings Of farmers do not appear
to be increasing like the earnings of man
ufacturcrs. Government reports show n
decline in farm values from S14 and $15
to $500 per acre in 1886.
The Beaver Brook, PENNSYLVANIA.
stripping is proceeding in good shape.
The coal is in places as thick as 50 feet,
while the surface is from 9 to so feet,
~ - Ab''th i l''b III 'tI'iH. IL
removal of earth is done by hand.
a new and immense vein Of coal is
being opened at Williamsburg. Fremont
county, Colorado, by the Santa Fc Rail
way company. This mine will shortly
be producing largely aud assist in supply
ing the people in Kansas. who have been
short OF fuel.
The directors Of Mechanics mill, Fall
River, Massachusetts, have finally de-
cidcd to substitute ring spinning frames
for mules in spinning warp yarn. At the
time OF the last strike one of the officials
said shat he'd fix the mule spinncrs if
he lived many years longer, and the
change mentioned is probably u part of
the fixing process. 1t is said that the
Mason Machine works of Taunton will
build the frames, There are As pairs of
mules in the mill, having about 81, 600
spindlcs and DO, ;, 4 tubcrs and about 10
doilcrs. The contemplated change will
dispense with about half that number.
The crisis in the flint strike has passed.
and it appears that the workers are now
the doctors and the manufacturers the
sick patients. On Monday nineteen glas-
houses were idle in the west and thirteen
ut work. In the east, 50 far rs reported,
the suspension was more general. sixteen
factories being idle, and a few ut work.
Therefore the strike can now be said TO
have q legal existence, as the great second
Of January on which the manufacturers
built So much has past. The patient,
who is the manufactures, and who posed
until recently as Tho physician prcscrib-
ing ncdics To the worker is now en-
gagged in taking his own physiu. The
men are happy and contcntcd, drawing
fair wages. while the bosses are undcrbig
expense with no returns coming in.
Union No. 537, C~igarmakcrs' Internal.
ional uuion, asks you TO decline to usn
cigaIsmanr featured by Joseph Sthal. The
Morrisania, cigar manufacturer OF New
York. He is aiming to compel his work
men To make tcncmcnt-housc cigar manu-
featuring dens Of their own homes in
order to enforce Il reduction of wages
upon them, averaging thirty per cent.
We cannot give all the brands made by
this tyrant, but Sthal's factory number
is branded on the bottom Of each box. and
is: odd Nulnbcr-No. 406. 18th Con.
Dist The new number-No. 1872 14th
Coil. Dist. The Central Labor union of
New )ork, by . unanimous vote, has
given its endorsement to the movement
against Stahai, Cut this out and hand it
to your cigar dealers.
A prominent member Of The Stonecut-
tors union at Buffalo said: "Itis nostrike.
The scale Of wages that we were work
ing on WAS agreed to by the bosses AT our
last strike. Both sides were satisfied,
now Collingwood, Brady and Maltby. the
contractors, are trying to break il. Il is
not a strike; it is more Of Il lockout, those
firms are the only ones interested. IN the
other yards the men have all been laid of
because this is their dull season. Brady
& Maltby never had sevcnty-fvc stone
cutters working for them, rs is reported
in the morning papers, unless the laborerS
are counted. and those two are tho only
ones we had trouble with. We have over
-, O00 in the treasury, and that viii do
those men who are locked oat."
4 real estate company, composed OF
Chattanooga and northern capitalists,
with a capital Of &2, 600, 600 has purchased
, 600. 600 acres OF land near that city, and
has expended $50. coo on improving it. II
is laid of il. town lots. and will net the