The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1888-10-11
THE LABOR WORLD.

THREE million women in the United STATES
work for money.
THERE are only three crutch factories in
the United States.
THE File Makers Union has added SICK
benefit fund to its other financial advantages
Mr. A. I. Roof gives employment TO lou
hands about his bee establishment IN ChlcaGo.
THERE are about $1,000 persons engaged
In the manufacture of cigars IN New iork
City
TWELVE suits have been brought againsta
Boston marble firm for importing conHae'
labor
THE Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
have decided to amalgamate WIN 'ne
Knights of Labor.
on the pay rolls of the Pennsylvanla system
of railways there are constantly Vuo h''i'e'
of sc, $50 employees.
TurRr are 2503 persons employed by the
131 firms engaged in the wagon making IN
dustry IN Philadelphia.
CUBAN troops are under arms TO suppress
an expected riot among the 23,ooJ STRIKING
cigarInakers in Havana
The baskets for peaches are made IN
Laurel. Del, and the workmen and work
women get eighty cents hundred
CHESS for the working classes is new
experiment of the English chess players, ana
1t Is meeting Will CUuo.uCluDC . ouSSSoSs
THE National Federation OF Miners and
Mine Laborers contemplate putting the nlne-
hour system into effect at an early date
THE tanning of boa constructor skins forms
a branch of industry in Hamburg, n. D.
They are made into pocsetbooas principaiy.
TIE labor societies of Pittsburg have raised
| over $500 for the monument to be erected IN
| memory of Thomas Armstrong, noted labor
| leader.
| IT ia stated that the National Union of the
| United Brewery workmen, which was Or
| ganized in August, 1856, has already spent
| 1000 in strikes.
SINCE tine organization of the Insurance
feature of the Knights of Labor the order
| has paid out in benefits over 500, to tene-
| ficiaries of deceased members.
SEVENTEEN trades societies have forward.
ed to the English Labor Bureau reports snow.
ing an aggregate membership of lS6, l3o, OF
which total 1000 were unemployed.
/ TAN brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen,
| which was established in 1873, with one local
union and nine members, has now 3S0 dlyl-
sions and 1900 beneficial members
THERE were 253. $50 manufacturing estab-
lisbments in the United States when the last
census was taken, with capital of s., 19o,-
272.6OS The number of men employed was
2,752, 595.
THE employees of Baltimore box factory
struck because the firm put in mailing ma
chimes during the busy season. The machine
needs four men and can nail 5000 boxes per
day. The average man can nail only 20
boxes per day.
MEssRs. WYMAN AND Sons, printers and
publishers of Iincoln's Inn Fields, have
given pension of 500 per annum for NE TO
W. H. Phillips, on his retirement from the
position of case-overseer, which he has fnied
for number of years.
1T is asserted that the American Fedora
tion of Labor is numerically the strongest
labor organization in the world, even sur
. passing the knights of Labor, having 6lS, ,0O0
members, while that of the Knights is oiici-
ally set down at 5SS, 900.
A CONVENTION wal soon be held for the
formation of National Oystermens Union.
Already eleven local unions have been
formed, and it is intended that the National
Union shall have sick benefit fund allow
ing member IS a week and death benefit
fund by which his heirs will receive Ss5.
As general thing shoemakers' profits are
better in this country than in England. An
American shoemaker can make at cost to
himself of sixty-six cents what an EngiIsh
shoemaker has to pay 81 for, while in manu-
facture of ladies' shoes the expenditure OF
twenty-five cents in this country IS equtva-
lent to that of thirty-four cents IN Eng and
The Maori foot bali players who will soon
visit England. are bouni by written con-
tract with their conductor not to take strong
drink under any circumstances during thelr
! visit to that country.