Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1888-12-05
WORK AND WORKERS.

GIRLS ina New York feather shop won q
strike against reduction.
THE stone-pavers Of Omaha have organ
lied a union, with 100 charter members.
THE Harrison Rolling-Mill Company of
Kansas City will soon begin the erection OF
buildings.
The strike of house carpenters in Dundee,
Scotland, for an advance of a half-penny an
hour has been successful.
"THosE who build palaces should not
dwell in hovels," is the motto of the Broth
erhood of Carpenters and Joiners
A Fort SCOTT (Kan.) woman sued mer-
chant for putting her name on his dead-beat
list, and was awarded 800 damages.
THE first shoe factory in New England to
run exclusively by electricity is that of
Packard d Grover, at Brockton, Mass.
A NEW labor organization has been formed
and is known as the " Brotherhood of Rail
way Porters." 1t has membership of 60O0.
REPORTS from California show that there
are thousands of idle carpenters on the Pa
ciic coast and no hope of immediate employ
ment.
THE machinists of New York will ask of
the Metal Trades confederation that gen.
eral labor bureau be created for metal
workers.
The Surgical Observation-Disclosures Union
of New York will endeavor to unite the
craft in the United States in a National or
ganization.
The wooden-ware works in Indianapolis
are said to be running extra hours to fill
orders, and workers in wood are in demand
In that city.
A PRINTERS union was formed at Beaver
Falls, Pa, last week, and hereafter the
Offices in the valley will be run on strict
union principles.
TIE Bricl-Layers and Masons' Interna-
tional Union now has 176 unions Oven
100000 has been expended in strikes and
S350000 in benefits,
THE Wier Plow Company has Just CON-
pleted an addition to the foundry at Mon
mouth, III, and several additional hands
will be employed.
THE striking bakers of st. Louis ask for
a reduction of working time 10 ten hours on
all days but Saturday, when they agree to
work twelve hours.
CARPENTERS Union No. SoS, of Green
vile, Pa, has established the nine-hour
work day and the contractors are well
pleased with the system.
THE Minnesota Car Company, composed
of Virginia capitalists, with a capital Of
100000, will shortly begin the erection Of
rolling mills at Duluth, MINI.
NOTICE has been given to building trades
workmen to give Pittsburgh a wide berth,
as there are more than enough men there "a
do all the work now on hand
TaE carpenters OF Fresno, Cal, have
formed an alliance with the brick-layers,
the plasterers and the hod-carriers to uphold
their demand for ninc-hour dav.
CARPENTERS COMPLAIN that thcv have
been deceived by unscrupulous real uau,s
agents into going 10 Omaha, when there
was 90 hope OF finding work there.
A BIG woodenware factory is being
moved from Dayton, o., to Anderson, Ind,
and will be started mp about January 4.
1t will employ at least three hundred men
TRE New York Farmers Union has re-
Gently issued the order that any member
working with non-union men closes tho
privileges of the union for the tire beiag.
MISNEAPolIs tsfinn.) eoopcrs struck
when -four advanced, and were granted
"rtsen from five to six and seven cents per
barrel. Some now think they ought to get
ten cents.
The Political Association of Railway En-
ployes, which recently met at eiatesburG
III, has II 600 p.embess, and they vote for
the party that Will do them the greatest
good.
TUE n1srst attempt at building iron works
in Charleston, w. Va, has been made, and
a bolt and nut factory viii soou be started.
If tho enterprise succeeds foundry viii
also be built
THE best reports come from Indiananf.lis
in regard TO labor. In the tile works the
employees are obliged ia work overtime to
ill orders, and new pipe factory win give
work to 100 men.
SOME OF the places Of the 600 rattan work
ers of a Gardner tMass.) shop. who struck
against 20 per cent reduction, have been
filed by Russians and Fins. Some OF the
strikers arc Swedes.
SOME time ago at Hasstoa. Tex. the
Tallors' UIioa gained an advance in wages
Recently women were permitted to join the
association. and ten mcn left the union:
since then the employers haze cut wages.
COLONEL WRIGHT. the National Commits.
sioner of Labor. recently finishe.s kis report
on labor matters, lie states that in the las:
six years ending with Is59 there were =. 304
strikes in the United States. There were
1880 that succeeded.