Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1888-09-01
IN ALL THE LINES OF LABOR
CASUAL CHANCES IN THE FIELD
OF INDUSTRY.
New Enterprises and Fresh
Outcome or Various Labor
Struggles.

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City. New, man says in the Enterprise:
Tie wages earned by workingmen III
Canada compare favorably with those
paid east Of Colorado and Wyoming.
Laborers get 1875 per day in Ontario and
about 81 throughout Ontario. Clerks,
bookkecpers, amanuenses and general
office workers receive the poorest pay
Canada is tnronmca with educated peO-
pie and they will work for anything at
all that vii, support life. He says they
ought to develop HE abundant farming
land. With regard 10 us observations III
the eastern states he sayst thai dress goods
and clothing are - per cent. dcarcr IN
the east than in Virginia li'y. Food is
also cheaper. The way The worktngmcn
get along on their wages III the cast Is by
eating the commences OF food, wearing
cheap cl0thing and LIVING in huddled.up
cheap tencmenls The wealthy classes
skim the milk Of natures bountcous gifts
and the others worry along with the re-
fuse.
Reviewing The result Of the agitation
meetings in the English mining ten
years after the great strike the Labor
Tribune stated how pleasant ii was to
look ut the horses engaged in doing the
work that formerly had been done by the
men, women and children tand mostly 10y
the women and ChiidrCDI dragging The
coal from the face of the workings to the
bottom OF the shaft with straps OYcr then
shoulders and "a chain between Their feet.
Now the women were at their homes at
tending to the duties OF the household
cooking, washing and mcnding-whilc
the little children were clean. neat and
healthy, though poorly clad, playing in
Gods sunlight. breathing the pure, free
air of heaven or attending sChOOi.
John Finerty's Chicago Citizen says;
"Laboring men, girls willing TO work as
domcstics and people having trades or
professions are about the only class OF
persons that should immigrate TO Amer
lea: and even these might have consider
able difficulty in finding employment.
The Citizen would strongly advise the
rising generation in Ireland to stay at
home if by any means they can make a
living i'm their native land. Coming to
America even with a good education, but
without a trade or profession, is about az
risky a step as any young lrishman or
woman could take.
The 800 Cincinnati beer brewers have
lost their strike ana are out of work. Be
fore the strike the men worked ninehours
and "A { quarter a DAY ami made from Slo
to SIS per week. The new employees
work twelve and thirteen hours and re-
ceive $40 "A month. The union men claim
,l., ,l.,. N,.,,,t.1 ta,ta u~np tho Strika If
organized labor had refused to drink pool
beer for Two weeks While the union
gave 81. 600 to help other strikers last
year. only $500 was contributed by the
various unions to help the brewers.
The mechanics in the railroad shops of
Sacramento, Cal, intend to build a
statue To the late Master Mechanic Stev-
ems, of that city. The Wheeling Register
saws: Great as we nave been i'm battle,
in diplomacy, in erecting and administer
inc "A system of government, we have
been greater in what may be called the
industrial genius OF our people This
move is thought to be the first memorial
OF American libor.
VI. J. Modes o. StrcatC, H., the paten-
tee Of the tank glass furnace has estab'
lished a glas factory at Colorado Springs,
and will probably erect a house at Salt
Lake, Utah, because Ct the city s natur.
al advantages. The soda ash used in the
Strcator manufactory he gets from Eng
and Salt Lake contains the soda ash,
the lime. the silica. salt and everything,
but the expensive railroad rates are IA dis
advantage.
Farmers around Wilkesbarre, Pa.
wants protection against Jersey and Della
ware crops. They ripen earlier than tn
Wilkcsharrc product, and "A farmer sale
the other day thHt le had to sell potatoes
fer 81 80 per bushel that would bring hin
g if there were not competition.
The city Of Milwaukee, Wis, has in
creased the wages OF oilers, tircmcn anc
coal passcrs at the pumping station 50 pei
month. The oilers o receive 500 pc
month: hremen, $50, and the coal passer
SO.
An engine recently crectcdat Chihuhua
Mex, is said TO be the largest cwr con
structcd in sections. II has 400 horse
power ana wei4As 100 coo pounds. 1t il
"a compound condensing tandem Corlis.
The knights have started a O-opera
tive broom mill al Harrisburg, Ore
There are 2j0 shares in The CORPORATION
They cost 81 per share and nc cai
hold more than twenty shares.
The WcisbnGcn chamber Of commerc
says Russian petroleum. is not as good a
the American product. The Russian al
ticle is sold cheaper titan the American
petroleum.
Montreal mas thirty boot and shoe man
ufactories. Four thousand persons, a
over IA years Of age, are employed
Wages average Sl2 per week for men an
81 for
A London barber recently shaved siXt
men in ffty.ninc minutes on a bet. TIL
men had been lathered and the razor
were i'm good condition.
a California company with a capital {
ST, 800, 600 Will establish a big iron plar
near Milford, Utah. that will emrlo
about 500 men.
Some conductors and trainmcn on II
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