Omaha daily bee., 1889-09-23
THE INDUSTRIAL FIELD.
The Paris Carpenters union is 900 year

The Paris Carpenters union Is 6UO years
old.
Chattanooga, (Tean.) brIcklayers get 40
cents per hour. The stonecutters get 50. 80
and 81, and want ten hours pay for nine
hours on Saturday.
There are 1,500 cooperative unions in
England, containing 992 42S members. In
1888, $l7, or OBS profit was made on sales
amouting to slS3,675, 225. OF this sum
SIPS. 100 were devoted to charity.
Eleven one-armed switchmen on the Chi
cago & Northwestern railroad at Chicago
struck for an advance in wages, and the
other switchmen sustained the demand. The
company granted the advance and the men
returned to work.
Brushmakers in England are beginning to
organize They have to fight an army OF
itinerant brushmakers who travel about
from town to town making brushes by hand
and selling the brushes at cheap rate.
Attera careful investigation the New York
Sun estimates that there are in that city
400 900 workingmen receiving wares so low
that they must embrace vice, apply for char
ity or starve.
The Orrell Coal company Of Grafton, w.
Va, has noJified the managers of their works
at Newbury, Tyrconnel and Fairmount that
all of the company's works are to be closed
indefinitely because they cannot afford to do
business at the present rate This will
throw over eight hundred men out of en-
ployment.
A Boston railroad works its engineers and
fremen 1877 hours one week and ninety two
hours the next. They get SIS and Sl1 per
week respectively.
Two children, twins, belonging to one OF
the locked-out miners, died at Spring VAL
ley, ILL.,, of starvation.
In Russian cities carpenters earn 81 to So
per week and consider themselves well off if
they average IS a week all around.
The Baltimore & Ohio railroad company
has reduced the working time Of about half
the force at the Mount Glare shops from ten
to eight hours. This will reduce the earn
ings of skilled workmen, it is said, from
$l0s0 to about S. ~ week.
Massachusetts factory laws are being en-
forced. Children are not allowed to clean
the machines, and girls must tie up their hair
to avoid being scalped.
Farm hands in France earn little over 81
n week and manage to save out of it.
Brcklayers in London are prospering and
have been advanced lately cent an hour in
wages.
There is a movement to form an Eight hour
league in some Of the large towns in Scot
land.
English molders work nine hours and
their average life is fifty-one years. In Ohio
they work ten and die at forty.
In Glasgow, Scotland, there are more fac
tories to the square mile than IN any other
city in the United Kingdom.
For 500 years previous to the Elizabethan
and Cromwellian wars handspinning had
reached perfection in Ireland not surpas sed
in any other country.
Except tradesmen or people who have
some live profession or employment, no one
is made welcome in Australia from other
| countries. The large section of people known
as 'clerks," from people who can merely
| read write and cipher, up TO experienced
| book-keepers, are not wanted AT all,
The Durham (England) miners have taken
vote on the question of accepting the 10 per
| cent advance offered by the owners. The
| result was in favor OF accepting this ad-
vance by a majority Of one. This decision
averts strike which would have proved the
| greatest on record.
The United LABOR league Of Philadelphia,
| Pa, has asked the director of public works
| to enforce the eight-hour law Of the state in
| the bureaus under his control The director
replied that, whenever employees complained