The national leader., 1889-07-11
THE LABOR WORLD,

hAILROAD building is active in Bolivia.
ORGANIZED labor is making good progress.
MOST of the canning houses manufacture
their own cans.
THE glass factories have about all closed
for the summer
In lamp manufacture female labor is
largely employed.
In Germany servant-maids receive from
800 to $40 a year.
The United States railways employ about
1,0O0000 persons.
THE furnaces of the South are selling every
ton of iron they can make.
A NEW weaving mill to employ 600 people
is in process of erection at Providence, r. l.
THE $4,000 iron and glass-workers in the
vicinity of Pittsburg threaten to go on
strike.
WORKERS in the various metal industries
are beginning to be confronted with female
competition.
OWING to the quarrel with Switzerland,
Germany will not be represented in the Labor
Congress at Berne.
THE backbone of the brickmakers' strike in
Chicago is broken and men are reSuming
work on the old basis.
THERE are more idle men in London now
than werein it at the same time Of the year
for the past ten years.
The whole glass industry throughout the
country was shut down for a period of from
six weeks to two months.
A BIG strike for higher wages has been
begun among the cigarmakers Of Havana,
Cuba, and is rapidly extending.
THE recently organized National Associa-
tion of Machinists had "a lodges and 1000
members in fifteen cities of 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 crowding out the men in a
number of large shoe factories in England.
Their wages are third less and they turn
out very neat work.
Miss NANCY HUTCHINSON, q handsome
sixteen year-old girl, has been found doing
mans work at a Yuba County Call logging
camp, disguised as man.
THE carpenters of New York uphold four
rival trade organizations-the Brotherhood,
the United Order, the Amalgamated Society
and the Progressive Union.
THE Pittsburg monument in honor of Tom
Armstrong, formerly editor Of the Labor
Tribune, is to cost $500. His figure will
stand upon granite pedestal.
A SCHEME for preventing the emigration of
Turkish artificers to foreign countries, with
out previous permission from the Porte, has
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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 29O tons per
man.
THERE are 5000 members in the sixty-eight
branches of the National Horseshoers' Union,
and there were fifty delegates representing
forty cities at its recent convention in st.
Paul.
THERE is no neater joinery in the world
than among the carpenters of India. Time
is no object with them. They spend days in
perfecting joint so that no union could be
detected.
HEREAFTER only American citizens are to
be employed on public works in Chicago.
The Municipal Council has adopted resolu-
ton to that effect for the guidance of con-
tractors.
THE employees on the Pekin 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
Ia suburb of Philadelphia), that women will
act as molders in some special articles of
cast metal. This applies especially to cheap,
small hardware.
In England the railway signalmen are
a very poorly paid class of people, receiving
only 81 per day and working twelve hours
per day, except in Leeds and other large cen
tres, where eight hours is the rule.