Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-05-19
LINES ABOUT LABOR
Fresh Facts for Our Working
men
A Mammoth neutrality-suspicious.
Authorization of Various
industries Many
Newsy Notes.

The Workingmen's Benevolent a~ssocia-
ton and the Union association. OF Savan-
nah, Ga, have fixed wages for the com
ing year. The stevedores are to wOr1
from ; Il. IN. TO 2 80 p. m. and from 1.30
p IN. To 6 p. IN. STOW men will re
ccive $3.50 per day; roll up men 81. 40
and the men who unlock *2.S q per day
for loading rOsin or turpentinc. In
handling cotton holders and swingers will
be paid ~ a day, and winchers and stag
crs S3. Foreign vessels loading lumber
will have to pay So a day for showers and
-. 90 for carriers.
The scale of wages that Carnegie put
in force in the Braddock works when
they started last week differed a. follows
from last years schedule. IN 1881 the
! keepers men who cork at the furnaces
were paid $40 for eight hours work.
Under the new scale they will be paid
$3.50 for twelve hours work. In 1856
they were paid but 81 90 for eight hours.
If the wages had but advanced ia the
same proportion as the number Of work
ing hours they should So. go for the
twelve hours.
Among the new industries arc a Checs"
factory at Leon, la. creamery at Ludlow,
VI; creamery at Lake City. Ia. pulp
mills at Holyoke, Monroe and Deerticld,
Mas: canning factory, Washington,
Kan; watch factory, lndlanola, Ncb.;
stove foundry. Barrie, Ont. and "A l0G,-
600 bushcl grain elevator at Fort Dodge,
10. The Riverside cotton mill AT Dan.
yi11, ~, Mill I,,h1a tic ,.,a,ttr
The Minneapolis. MINI, sewing girls
who struck were receiving 81, 3 and s
cents for shirts; 8 and : cents for jean
trousers; 10 cents for threc-stitch Jean
trousers; cashmere trousers. If cents; en-
g%inecrs' jackets, q cents; California over
ais, 5 cents, and for overalls, : cents;
bib Overalls: 80 cents a dozen. The aver
. pay of 100 of these girls was Sl,5l a
week.
1t has been claimed that the two whales
which were brought from Australia in
1873 at the instance Of james Nickham,
Of England, and placed in the great Salt
Lake, Utah. have grown from ~thiIty-fiyC
fceet to about sixty feet in 'ength, and
have "A progeny Of several hundred,
" J. iDhINN NllhilAs N''b WHY ''A'S
OF oil comes from a good sized whale.
The longest tunnel in the world is the
one at Schcmnitz, Hungary. 1t has "A
length of 1927 milestone mile longer
than the st. GCthard, and two and "A half
miles more than the Mont Cents tunnel.
When the contract was made, in 1872,
the work was let at about $50 Il yard, but
for some years before its finish, a little
while ago, the cost was about Sll0 a
yard.
A New York dealer says that 10000
600 pound Of rubber come to this country
every year from Borneo, Africa, and
Para, South America. The sap from
which rubber is made is obtained by
boring a hole in the tree. A process
which lasts from one to four months is
gone through with before the rubber is
marketable.
Most of the industries of Germany are
in operation on Sunday. In some fac
tories the workmen after they become too
old TO work receive full pay, and in others
half pay, the rest of their lives. In some
factories the employees are insured for
$500 and $3.50. Savings banks are also
connected with many industries.
The trouble between the bricklayers
and masons of Hamilton, Canada, has
been settled by an agreement to work at
335 cents an hour, with "A non union or
union boss, TO be the choice OF the en-
ployer. The carpenters get 1928 a day.
Hold carriers are to receive 1S4 cents an
hour for a seventy pound load.
A San Francisco (Cal.) butcher sued
the Butchers Protective association fol
s25. 900 damages for distributing a cir.
cular which stated that the plaintiff was
selling Chinese pork, which. the circular
claimed was diseased. The butcher die
not turn up on the trial day, and the case
was dismissed.
The Florida Times Union says; The
strikes and struggles and conflicts anC
lockouts that mark the Reorganization O
society in the north and west are almOs
unheard of the south, and the reason il
that labor here is satisfied, on the whole
with its condition"
st. Paul (Minn.) people are after thu
Indianapolis, Ind. Car Works. They
offer $50, 900. a free site and buildings, nc
taxation for ten years, a bonus for every
employe who may come with the works,
and fuel as cheap as natural gas. The
works employ 800 men.
The movement toward dairying in Da
kota is said to be phenomenal. Report
of the organization Of creameries, ant
here and there a cheese factory. COM
from all quarters. Minnesota, also. i
rapidly becoming a great and prosperou
dairy state.
The capacity of the salt vein discovere'
in Kansas will soon be over 5000 barrels
day. The salt is claimed to be the hes
il the country. The vein is 300 feet thick
One Hutchinson company has begun wit
a production of 600 barrels a day.
Last years new street railway mileag
in the United States was about 1900 miles
and this years will reach 100 miles
The Street Railway journal has estimate
the cost Of this years new building a
SO, 73S, 900.
Stonecutters in Omaha, Neb.: Topeka
Kan: Denver, Col. Little Rock, Ark
st. Paul and Minneapolis, Mimi, get 81
day. Kansas City CMo stontCutters, VIII