The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-11-28
THE LABOR WORLD.

THE Order Of the knights of Labor is just
twenty years old
TIE lace trade Of France gives employ
ment TO nearly 100000 persons.
GEORGIA mill hands have been urging the
Legislature 10 pass n bill making ten hours a
days work
SIR EDWARD GUINNESS, the big brewer,
has given a million dollars for the erection OF
dwellings for the laboring poor Of London
SHIpBUILDING is go active on the Clyde,
Scotland, that in many Of the yards work is
carried ON at night by means of electric
lights.
MEssRs. KRuPP. of Essen, are about TO
establish an immense iron foundry and steel
works in the neighborhood of Luxembourg,
Germany.
THE prosperity of the cotton mills of Fall
River, Mass, during the entire year Is with
out parallel in the history of Fall River man
ufacturing.
THE American MdntJdoturer of Pitts
burg states that ninety per cent. OF the forge
| companies of the country have formed
combination for mutual protection.
AT the session Of the Knights Of Labor in
| Atlanta the words ''of America" were
dropped from the name OF the organization,
making it simply the knights of Labor.
FEW people are aware that there is n
| trades union or industrial organization OF
colored men that dates back TO 1856, five
( years before the war, but such is the fact.
JouN McBRIDE, President of the Miners
| Progressive Union, has called n convention
of the miners Of Northern Illinois. Indiana,
! Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia for
indianapolis.
COMPLAINT has been made to the Treasury
. Department that the alien labor contract law
is being violated at Detroit, Mich, 10y Cana
dian laborcrs who cross the line every day
! TO perform labor in the United States and
return TO their homes at night
THE Knights Of Labor as body are not
disposed 90 interfere in the eight-hour qucs-
tion. They discussed it at their meeting in
Atlanta, aud came to the conclusion that the
lest policy would be to allow the local assem-
blics to deal with il rs they saw best.
A MASS meeting O; the striking block coal
miners of the central part of Clay County,
Ind, was heldat Churchill mines, near Cen.
tire Point. II twas unanimously agreed to re
sumo work at the operators order since forty
per cent. Of the strikers were ut work at tn,
reduction.
Ar meeting Of the Washington Typo
graphical Union, resolution was adopted
repeating the eight-hour rule that has her eto
fore prevailed. The printers in the job ant
newspaper Offices opposed the resolution
unanimously, but il was carried by the mel
from the Government Printing Office
THE production of Besscner steel ingots II
| iif 'Hlu'h ENlhlfS lNNN WIS 1bi, isN
gross tons. OF rails the output was com
puted at ,562, ,4l0 gross tons The produc
tion of Bessemer steel ingots In 1856 was $50,
GO tons more than that OF 1885. while tn
production of rails had increased 10y COZ, 93
tons.
A VEIN Of coal said to contain several mill
ion tons has been discovered in Lawrence a
Browns colliery at Mahanoy Place, Penn
The vein was struck by some men engaged Il
making drift from an abandoned shaft 4
another colliery. The find will 20 on recor
rs one of the greatest accidental discoverie
in the history of coal mining.
1T is hoped that the discovery which ha
been made in Trenton, n. j. in relation /
the heating of pottery kilns may result ad
vantageously To an industry which has a
ready made marked progress in this country
BY superheating the air before IL enters TIA
kiln IL is claimed that perfect combustio
may be obtained. The new method econt
mizes coal and largely reduces the time N
quired for firing kiln.