Connecticut western news., 1889-08-07
LABOR NOTES.
Of Interest to Trade Unionists and Knights of Labor.

New Haven plumbers get thirty-three and
 a third cents per hour.
 New York painters get $3.5O for nine
 hours.
 At Pittsburg iron mills head rollers make
 $50 day.
 Dallas, Tex, hod-carriers gained two and
 one-haf cents per hour.
 New Zealand runs its railroads and so does
 India.
 Socialism has over 150,OOO adherents in
 Paris alone.
 Reno, Cal, bricklayers work nine hours
 and get $5.5O. Indianapolis hod-carriers get $2 and $2.25 for nine hours.
 West Superior, Wis, coalheavers get fifty
 cents per hour.
 Plattsmouth, Neb., bricklayers want fifty cents per hour.
 They say that 9 men will soon own all l railroads in America. Retailers complain of shoe manufacturers
 running retail stores. The Spencer, Mass., cooperative shoe plant is being enlarged. New York claims the best diamond cutters.
 They make $6O per week. Tacoma, w. T., tin and cornice men now work nine hours at 10 hours pay. Missouri Valley stone contractors have l fixed 45 cents per hour as the scale. l Minneapolis councils tell the railroads | what cars are to be run, their number, time, | etc.
 Bakers averaged $s.2O in 1881 and average | $12.95 in 1889.
 The German Typographical Union men work eight hours. The painters of Marquette, Mich., have se- | cured the eight-hour day for Saturdays, and l that too with full pay. | At it's recent convention in Denver, the In- ternational Typographical Union decided to l locate the printers home at Colorado Springs, a healthy summer resort within three hours 1 $25 ,OOO for the projected home, and the site for it was the gift of the citizens at the | Springs.
 The Somerset, Eng, miners still hold out for the 10 per cent. advance. There are up- wards of 5000 men out on strike. The convention of the National Trade As sembly of Leather Workers, K. of L., was held in Philadelphia last week. | The factory inspectors in New Jersey are l giving orders that fire escapes shall be put | ill the mills and the factories there for the | protection of the operatives. The executive board of N. T. D., 226, | (street car employes) has changed the place l of annual meeting from Chicago to New York city, and the time to Aug, 12. Five hundred carpenters and joiners in Copenhagen, Denmark, are at present locked l out for resisting reduction in wages, An | appeal for financial aid has been issued. | It ought to be understood that the officers l of the American Federation of Labor have no l authority either to order any strike or to | stop it. Each union belonging to the Feder- | ation attends to it's own affairs. Thomas J. Curran has been reelected to I the office of president of the American Broth 1 Builders. The brotherhood has 2,OOO mem- 1 bers and their average weekly pay is $15. English Engineers Society: Rather than | lose the day of eight hours we should be 1 prepared to advise the acceptance ef a lesser wage for the time being, as the wages would soon return by the demand for greater | number of men. Delegates to the annual convention of the Wood Carvers' National Union have been | elected in this city and in many other cities | throughout the country. President Gompers of the Federation of Labor has sent to the secretary of war at l Washington formal protest against per | mitting government bands to compete with | other musical bodies, and gives an example | of this kind of competition in San Francisco. The agreement that was made at the set | clement of the strike in the Carnegie steel works at Pittsburg secures full recognition of the Amalgamated Association of Iron
 and Steel Workers. The sliding scale of
 wages was adopted. | At the conference of the 1000 striking hard | silk winders, doublers and others of Pater- | son, N. J., held with the employers lately,
 the latter made a concession of per cent to | the strikers at their request, on their pronis- ing to return to work next morning. The strike was therefore declared off that night