The Odessa herald. (Odessa, Del.) 1888-1892, 1888-11-03
THE LABOR WORLD.
We now sxnort locomotives.

WE now export locomotives.
ENGLISH employers fear a struggle for an
eight-hour day.
THE Troy IN. " milkmep had 5000 PEG.
pie at their recent picnic.
CoLoRED men are drivers and conductors
on Savannah (Ga.) street cars
NEW York women are furnished with free
workingwomen's Sunday concerts.
A COLLEGE of carpentry for women has
been started at Cambridge, England.
A PITTsBuRG firm has offered soft steel for
structure use at the same price as iron.
JAPAN never imports workmen, but sends
its citizens to study the arts and sciences.
OVER 10000 female workers were thrown
out of work in 1887 by strikes and lockouts in
New York State.
A CHICAGO firm supplies the world with
burial Shoes The output is from fifty to one
hundred pairs per day.
TWENTY THOUSAND Yorkshire golfers de-
manded ten per cent. advance in wages
and failing to get it, struck.
Two-THIRDs of the flour barrel coopers in
Minneapolis have struck for an advance from
five tc seven cents per barrel.
PRINTERs are subscribing quite literally
to the fund for a statue of Horace Greeley to
be erected in New York City.
THE West Shore Road is having great diff
Guilty in repairing the West Point IN. "
tunnel, men being afraid to work init
AT Antrim, Penn, the operators have no
| titled the miners Of a reduction equaling
| fourteen per cent. of their fifty cents ton
| work.
AN average of one man for every million
| is killed daily on the railroads OF this coun-
try, and one OFT Of every thousand is in
jured.
AT Jersey City, N. j., the Workingmen',
Sick and Death Benefit Association, has beer
organized of exclusively members in Labor
| Unions.
A lew days ago, in gun foundry al
Petershoff, the Gar of Russia lifted mas
of steel weighing nearly 700 pounds, to the
cheers of the surrounding workmen.
OK the Nolga River, in Russia, the longes
stream in Europe, there are 1000 vessels a
work, and 2OJ,6Oj men work on it, handling
5000, % tons of merchandise per year.
THROUGH reports gathered from over 10t
cities in the Unitet States, the Nationa
Labor Bureau at Wa hington has ascertainet
that the average yearly earnings OF Ameri
can workingmen is $500.
THE estimated strength of the Brotherhood
Of Brakemen is liO, 900 members Its cast
receipts for the year we're sl45, 400, of which
i123, Jos were paid out for benefits. Their
have been 2jG new lodges instituted durin,
the year.
ITALIAN immigrants to New York live OIL
nine cents a day. They make soup with
bit of pork and cast-of shreds Of cabbage an
serve 1t with black bread. Some Italia
laborers who are receiving seveuty-hve cent
a day are growing rich.
THE International Union of Furnitur
Workers Of America was instituted July
1873, with . local unions and 1855 member,
At present II numbers 20 locals and over 500
memDers in good standing. The Union he
areserve fund OF SlS,0D0.
AT n conference of miners heidi at Mar
, chester, England, at which 100000 minel
were represented, it was decided to stril
unless the deman for an advance of 10 pt
cent. in wages was acceded to. 1t was ais
, decided not 10 accept the advance unless
was made general. As consequence oy'
10000 are now out on strike,