Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-09-28
THE LABOR WORLD.

THREE million women in the United States
are working for wages
The Northern Pacific is having 1000 box
cars made at Troy, N. Y.
AGRICULTURAL labor is in demand in the
Tar West but at low pay.
BIG chemical fibre paper mill Is to be
built at Huntingdon, Penn.
The $1,000 harness makers of the TTnitaa
States have formed National union.
The brickmakers' strike in Cbicaoo i.
estimated to have cost nearly million dol
lars O0-
The paper makers all over the country ara
increasing the productive capacity of their
mills
ONE-HALF of the brass workers of New
York city are out Of work because of dull
ness in trade.
LIME-cRUSHER has just been invented at
Johnstown, Penn, which will do the work
OF hundred men.
THE entire output of Lisbon, N. H., shoe
peg mlli-360O bushels for the past season-is
shipped to Germany.
IF men were employed to furnish the
power to carry on the industries of TINS
country, IL would require 2l,OO00O0.
-, THE cedar shingle mills of Oregon and
Washington Territory have united, The
-
The employees of the Laclede mill, at st.
Louis, will let one third of their wages sand
back in oruer to run the mill on a co-opera-
tive basis.
A HUGE pumping engine has lust been
ordered by Welch mine owners from a New
YORK house, because none others can be had
which are safe from bursting.
The capital invested in paper mills is $50.
OOO,O0O, value of production SS5, ,OO0. 900.
wages paid per year slS, 800 coo, tons of paper
made 2OO,0OO, number of hands employed
10000.
HYoRK, Penn, is said to have the greatest
rag carpet works in the United States. Six
hundred women and girls make carpet rags
and there are one hundred weavers and
spoilers.
TRENTON, N. j., has over $4,000, 900 In.
vested in potteries and the army of workmen
employed receive i'll the aggregate $75, QUO q
week. The average earnings of the employees
are about $3.50 a week.
A PROVIDENCE (R. L. foandry is engaged
in casting the largest mining pump in the
world, for the Calumet and HecIa, of Mich
lgan. A single section of it has been COM
pleted and weighs twenty tons.
PILLsBURY MILL IA" at Minneapolis,
grinds, 1000 barrels of flour daily, which is
enough for New York, Brooklyn, and Jersey
City. 1t is eight stories high, and work is
never stopped 1t keeps 2OO railway cars
busy.
AN important invention in the method of
planning lumber has just been perfected. 1t
is des gned to enable the person using it "a
dress the lumber in the log while he saws it
SO that when the plank drops off it is planed
ready for use.
SEVERAL Of the labor organizations OF
New York have halls and cub-rorms OF
their own Two unions in Brooklyn are said
to be particularly well fixed, having large,
roomy quarters and everything necessary to
comfort.
| SOMETHING new in the proft-sharing line
has been begun at Burnley England. Each
employe is allowed to take S25 share In the
concern, to be paid in installments. At the
end of year the profits of the concern will
be divided in proportion to each persons
earnings.
THE Bricklayers Union Of Chicago has
| Just awarded the contract for what is to be
the finest edifce owned by any one labor
organization in the world. The main hall
with its immense gallery, will have seating
capacity of nearly 1000. When finished this
investment will cost the union about $50, 900.
The National Travellers Total Abstinence
Union, in England, composed of travelling
showmen now numbers between five and six
thousand members