Omaha daily bee., 1889-06-15
THE INDUSTRIAL FIELD.

There are in Boston no less than a dozen
working girls clubs.
The garment cutters of New York have
organized an association called the Fortune.
They have adopted half-holiday resolution
which imposes IS tine upon any member who
works upon Saturday afternoon.
Bakers in Kansas City want a more nearly
uniform scale of wages and shorter hours.
They are getting from So to oS15 week and
board, and they work from twelve to eighteen
hours day. They want twelve hours work
and better wages.
An industry peculiar to Pittsburg is the
business of testing and inspecting structural
iron and steel, Over one hundred expert en-
glneers, carefully trained and thoroughly
competent for this work, have made it
special study and do nothing else.
Philadelphia BARRIERS are working industri-
ously for q reduction Of hours and an in
crease of wages. They want to work only
twelve hours day, instead of fifteen as they
are ut present doing. They wish to secure
the adjustment Of all Sunday labor.
''1f ever there was period IN the history
of the United States," says the Knights of
labor, when there existed a supreme neces-
slty for organization OF the working classes,
it is the year of grace 1889. The first of
May, 1890, will be red-letter day IN the
history of labor. Ii the workingmen fail
then to establish the eighthour day, it will
put back the labor movement twenty years,
or II Will be the precursor of storms and
tempests among the working classes, such
as the world has never seen."
A weeks work in the cotton mills Of Eng
land ia 56 hOurS. in tho mlllS nf Mnocachua.
etts, 60 hours; in Franco, ~ hours; in Ger
many, from 66 to 72 hours; in the wooden
mills of Germany, 76 hours; in France, 70
hours; in Massachusetts, go hours; in Great
Britain, SO hours; in Huddersield and Deus
burg, 81 hours. The productive capacity of
one operative in the United States, Great
Britain and Germany, taking 100 as the unit.
is: in the United States,- 100 in cotton, wool
ana silk; in Great Britain, 81 in cotton, n in
wool, Sl1l3 in silk; in Germany, 2715 in cot
ton, 90 in WOOL 6S in silk
An Iowa clergyman recently made the
startling assertion that "every year in the
United States 2, 200 bralsemen are killed and
10000 are crippled"
Twenty factories, having an aggregate cap
ital of Sl,500,000, have been opened in Flor
ence, Ala, in the last seven months, giving
employment to over two Thousand people.
The Knights of Labor library at St. Paul,
Mimi, has added several hundred volumes
to its catalogue within the past year, and has
now select list of reading matter in fiction,
history and political economy.
At Collinsville, Yorkshire town, lives
journeyman blacksmith invented peculiar
nail aad sold the patent to his employer for
500. His employer now realizes 81 900 year
from it.
The second annual convention Of N. Y. A
PAT will be held in Chicago on the second
Tuesday in July, 1889. All local assemblies
under the jurisdiction of the district are re-
auested TO send delegates, as business of
much Importance to the trade will be trans
acted.
Americans in England are engaged in COL
lecting money for the benefit of the sufferers
by the Johnstown flood. Already a consid-
cradle sum has been raised central fund
is being organized.
man named John Willet, while working
in a London iron foundry, last week, had his
right arm frightfully burned by molten
metal. He is disabled for life, and his en-
ployer handed him FL {S4), with the remark
that he ought to be thankful to get anything.
He instituted law proceedings. and his en-
ployer compromised for $1,000.
A man is employed by the Great Northern
railway, at Belfast, Ireland, at Is shillings,
or about s. per week, who is kind of un-
derpaid pooh bah. His duties include col
lecting the tickets, timing the trains, taking
the wagon numbers, making out returns,
keeping an account of demurrages and fill
ing up any spare time by helping the clerks.
When he asked for an advance last week he
was told that he was getting more than
some men who were engaged on more re-
sponsible duties.
Krupp. the gun man, employs $1,000 men.
He started IN 1888 with nine men,
BY the burning of the Buninton Steel
works, at Burlington, Ia, over one hundred
men have been thrown out of employment.
Journeymen shoemahers in England COM
plain of hard times. They can not earn moro