The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-11-07
THE LABOR WORLD.

Our of 1860 convicts in the Eastern Penn.
sylvania Penitentiary only nineteen are said
to be mechanics.
THERE isa project for the formation of
National organization of the Picture Frame
Workers Unions of the United States
THE shepherds at Anteguesa. Spain, re-
Gently went on strike for an advance from
seventy to 12O reals per month They won,
THE unions of Massachusetts will request
the next Legislature to enact a law which
will prevent the counterfeiting of union
labels
In January next the International Tailors
Club of New York city will have two classes
for the instruction Of ifs members in ladies'
tailoring.
OWING to the protests of the unions oS In.
diana the directors of the South Indiana Peni-
Tertiary have decided to stop shoemaking in
the institution.
THE 713 convicts employed in the Riverside
PENN Penitentiary are making mats and
brooms, which, the warden says, are ex-
ported to Australia
The Columbus Ohio Trades Assembly
will make special efforts to defeat candidates
for the Legislature who refuse to sign their
eight-hour pledges.
CiGARMAKERs' UNION No, 100 of Phiadel
phia, has made a contract with Gumpert
t1ioo.i WIZ nave lIeH f.uD
slight advance of wages.
A NEW development of the labor question
Is the suit begun by two miners at Green's
burg Penn, against boss who called them
"Mollie Maguires" and Anarchists"
IT is reported that $50 new locals of the
K. of L., with $40 members. have been
formed within two months, and that Sc To-
Gals have been reorganized or reinstated.
AN organization of clerks has been
formed in Manchester, England, with a
membership beginning with 800. 1t includes
only those who are engaged in bookkeeping
An appeal has been issued for the forma-
ton of National Union of Tile Layers. 1t
is proposed to call National Convention Of
the trade if this appeal meets the approval
of the local unions.
Several ladies in Everlay, a village in
Yorkshire, England, have started a co-opera-
tive shirt factory. Stock is being bought
rapidly by workingwomen in other trades,
and the affair has been success from the
start.
1 THE Western Window Glass Workers
| Union has won its strike at Pittsburgh for
five per cent. advance in wages, and business
has been resumed. The plate glass workers
of Pittsburg have also been successful in their
strike.
FAVORABLE accounts of the prospects of
Master Workman Archibald, of the New
| York Paper Hangers Assembly, who has
! spent two months in Europe as a promoter
of the interests OF the order.
THE paving stone cutters have a national
union, with fifty-six branches and 100 mem
bers in nineteen States. Maine has ten
branches. About one thousand members are
| located in that State and they cut about one
hundred thousand stones daily.
sTHE new Brotherhood of United Labor has
already adopted seal bearing square and
triangle and the words Liberty, Equality,
Fraternity-Equal and Exact Justice to All
Special Privileges to None 1t already
claims membership of 10000.
A sKILLFUL cork cutter can produce from
1900 10 2000 corks day, his only tools being
two sharp, broad bladed knives. Machines
have been introduced which can turn out
| about 1000 corks an hour, but they are use
less for the cutting of the finer qualities.
The Shoe aud Leather Reporter says that
in the days of shoe manufacturing by hand
one person produced on the average a pair
and a half day. At that rate 1t would re
quire the labor of 1913, 333 persons to furnish
the $50 900 900 pairs Of shoes worn yearly by
the people. With the modern machinery
10000 make the shoes.
JOHN BuRNs, the leader of the London
dock laborers, says that the recent strike was
but preliminary skirmish, and that the
struggle of British woTkiugTnen will be con.
tinued. He has announced that the next thing
to be undertaken is the establishment of q
general Federation Of Labor, with branches
In all parts Of Great Britain