Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-04-13
THE LABOR WORLD.

WASHINGTON, Penn, has subscribed $40,-
coo for a new glass works.
THE total production OF steel in the Unitd
States during 1887 aggregated 3, ,739, $50 net
tons.
IT has been estimated that it would take
from 1900 to 2lO0 days for one man TO make
a locomotive.
CHARLES PRATT, the Brooklyn millionaire,
has given 81 500, 900 for the establishment Of
manual training school in Brooklyn.
THE steel superstructure for the new $780,
900 Panhandle bridge over the Ohio, at Steu-
benville, is being prepared at Youngstown
Ohio.
In Augusta, Ga, a tree felled in early
morning was, before nightfall of the same
day, converted into paper and sent out bear
ing the current news.
THE employees of the Scot Foundry at Read
ing, Penn, have lately been granted time and
quarter time for night work, which the firm
had previously refused to give.
AN immense locomotive has just been con-
structed at a Paris foundry. Its builder pre-
diets that it will realize an approximate
speed of ninety-three miles an hour.
THE weavers, spinnerr and other piece
workers in tse employ OF the Cocheco Manu-
featuring Company, of Dover, n. H., have
had their wages Increased five per cent.
THERE is S35, 900, 900 invested in manufac.
turing in Kansas-$5, 600, 200 more than was
invested in 1886. Six tl1 usand hands find
employment in the lead zinc and coal mines.
The steam and boiler felters of New York,
who struck work because they were refused
an advance in wages, have started in busi-
ness for themselves, and are said to be doing
well.
ONE seldom hears of French calf boots or
shoes nowadays. American tanners are now
making as good calf-skin as the French ever
turned out, and importations are going the
other way.
BRACE BROTHERS, proprietors of a laundry
| at Pittsburg, have entered a suit against the
Trades Assembly for $40, 900 damages on ac-
count of a boycott instituted by the assembly
against their business.
A FORTUNE awaits the man who can invenl
substitute for plaster. The want is for
something made of pulp which can be pressed
| into sheets the size of the ceiling of room
and tackled to the joints.
OWING, it is said. to trade depression, the
| large envelope manufacturers, White, Corbin
& Co., Rockville, Conn, have reduced the
hours of labor from ten to eight hours day.
The factory has capacity of 2,OOO,O OO0 daily.
| TwENTY-THREE hundred men who went to
work in the rolling-mills at South Chicago,
February 9th, after an enforced idleness of
| three MONTHS will be out of employment
again, because they have received notifca-
tion that the mills will shut down from over
production.
A CONFERENCE of church janitors of all
/ denominations was held recently in New York
city, and arrangements effected for perma-
nent organization. They allege that their
work is overbearing and that the lowest
wages are paid. They also protest against
working on Sundays.
In shoe factories each part of the shoe has
men who work in teams and are paid differ
ent wages. The average pay of all hands is
from fifteen TO twenty dollars a week. The
busiest times are the spring and fall seasons,
when the men are often paid larger wages
than at other times.
THE brakemen and conductors of the New
| Jersey branch of the Delaware, Lackawanna
! and Western Railroad are incensed over the
order of the Board of Directors holding them
responsible for all injury to cars caused by
passengers and reqring them to make such
damage good to the company.
WARDEN BRUSH, of Sing Sing prison, has
issued orders to stop work altogether in the
shoe shops owing to the failure of the Legis-
lature to appropriate money to carry on the
prison industries. This has caused the idle
| ness of 400 UUITvicbs out of tho 1880 the
register. 1t also throws out of employment
80 citizen-employes, who have acted as in
structors and superintendent,