Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1889-08-10
THE LABOR WORLD,
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MOST of the canning houses manufacture
their own cans.
THr glass factories have about oil closed
for the stitiipier.
In lamp manufacture, female labor Is
largely employed.
,,IS Germany servant-naids receive from
go W $40 year
THE United Sststes railways employ about
100000 persons.
The furnaces of the South are selling everJ
.hn At iron they can make.
A NEW weaving mill TO employ 600 people
is in process of erectio1 ~ Providence, Il. l.
THE $1,000 iron and glass w6flsfs in tbs
vicinity of Pittsburg threaten to 90 on 3
strike.
WORKERS. I'm the various metal industries
are beginning ~ he confronted with female
competition.
OWING to the quarrel with Switzerland
Germany will not be represented in the LGbhr
Congress st Berne
THE backbone N the brickmakers' strike in
Chicago is broken and t1An are resuming
work on the old basis
THERE are more idle men in London noI
than were in it at the same time Of the year
for the past ten years.
The Whsle glass industry throughout the
six weeks to twomonths.
A BIG strike for higher wages has beer
begun among the cigarmakers of Havana,
Cuba, and is rapidly extending.
TINS recently organized National Associa
Hoft tf hachinsts had "a lodges and 2OOC
members III fifteen cities 6f the Union.
ORDINARY field hands in China get three
to four cents per day with food, and skilled
workmen receive from five to six cents.
The women are crowdinS out the men in
number of large shoe factories in England
Their wages are third less, and they turn
out very neat work.
MISS NANCY HUTCHINSON, handsome
SIXTEEN ear=old girl, has been found doing n
mans work at d Yuha County Cali logging
camp disguised as man.
TIE carpenters of New York uphold four
rival trade organizations-the Brotherhood,
the United Order. the Amalgamated Society
and the Progressive Union.
The fittsburg monument in honor Of Tom
Armstrong, formerly editor Of the LuboI
Tribune, is to cost $500. His figure will
stand upon granite pedestal.
A SCHEME for preventing the emigration Of
Turkish artiicers to foreign countries, with
out previous permission from the Porte. has
been submitted to the Council of Ministers
THE average wages for coal miners in
France are seventy to ninety cents per ton.
The average output is 100 tons per year per
man. In Germany the output is 200 tons per
man.
THERE are 5000 members in the sixty-eight
branches of the National HorscShoers' Union
and there were fifty delegates representing
forty cities ut its recent convention in st.
Paul
THERE is no heater joincry in the world
than among the carpenters of India Time
is no object with them. They spend days i'll
perfecting joint that no union could be
detected.
HEREAFTER only American citizens are to
be employed on public works in Chicago.
The Municipal Council has adopted resou-
ton to that effect for the guidance of con-
tractors.
THE employees on the Pellin Gazette in
China have had their wages advanced from
twenty to twenty-five cents per day. The
Gazette has been published continuously for
! 800 years.
Now comes a report from Charlottenburg
"a suburb of Philadelphia, that women will
| act as molders in some special articles of
cast metal. This applies especially to cheap,
small hardware.
II England the railway signaImen arc
a very poorly paid class of people receiving
only 81 per day and working twelve hours
| per day, except i'll Leeds and other larye CEN
| tres, where eight hours is the rule.