Wichita eagle., 1889-04-18
WORK AND WORKERS.


SOME New England mills have big bath
rooms for their employees.
The Jeffersonville Qnd) Car Company
discharges employees who getdrunk-
The United Silk Workers, of Hoboken, n.
j., will demand an eight-hour day next year
THE Missouri Senate has passed bill for
the protection of non-union men during
strikes.
WHEELING painters have struck for 50 per
day of nine hours, a change from S2.15 and
ten hours.
THE Astor Industrial Society, OF New
York, teaches young women in cooking,
| needlework, etc.
AN Ehzabethport On. " sewing machine
works has cut its force from 1000 hands TO
500 operatives within a few years.
MINERS at Helena, Ala, have had the size
of their screens increased from one-half
inch to two inches Their wages were re-
duced 80 per cent. in 1883.
ONE of the latest advances in electrical
Illumination is the lighting of the London
olnnibuses with electricity, the battery TO
be under the seat of the driver.
THE Minnesota Supreme Court decided
that the label of the Cigar makers Pro
tective Union is nota legal trademark, thus
reversing the lowe- courts decision.
- New YORK the boss masons and tho
journeymen bricklayers settled the scale of
wages for the ensuing year at 4.05 per day.
nine hours five days of the week and eight
on Saturday.
THE ordinance fixing the fare on Detroit
street cars around working time at
cents was put into force recently. This is
Z. no 90 oil RI m
tween Sis and Is p. N.
The Knights of Labor have chosen Gen
eral Master Workman Powderly as their
representative at the Paris exposition. MI
Powderly will endeavor to boom the organ
ization among the French.
A BILL has passed the Illinois Legislature
providing that when employees are com
PEELED TO sue for wages, the employer, If
Judgment be obtained, shall be compelled 10
pay claimant reasonable attorney fee.
A BILL making eight hours legal days
work has passed the Indiana House OF Rep
resentatiyes. 1t applies TO all classes OF
mechanics, working men and laborers, ex-
cept those engaged in agricultural or do
mestic labor, with provision tor overworh
with an extra compensation.
THE recent suicide of the New York car
penter who hanged himself to his bed-post
has called forth considerable sympathetic
comment. when a man has handled the
carpenters tools till he is seventy-tve years
DID," says the New ork Sun, ''he is apt TO
be crowded out of his trade by younger
rivals, but they must not forget that he
ought to get a show as long as his hfe Is de-
pendent on h-s labor"
ACCORDING 70 the secretary Of the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor various trades
throughout the country are falling into line IN
favor Of the eight-hour movement, and are
preparing 10 take action toward It's practical
support in May of next year. Even the men
Of the bakers trade, which has bad the
longest work-day Of any trade, are talking
of the eight-hour system, and q unanimous
vote 10 strive for its adoption was taken a
few days ago in one OF the local bakers
unions Of Chicago.
From present appearances IL locks es
though the lasters' union were. destined TO
have long conflict with the shoe uiznufact-
urers. The Introduction Of the lasting ma
chine is now becoming general Few manu-
facturers are willing to pay large force Of
men for lasting seventy-fve 10 10 pairs q
shoes 4 day when at little expense they
can secure machines any one OF which can
do twice as much work. The l2sters' unions
have been steadily opposing the machine,
but its use is constantly growing mere gen
erzl