Wichita eagle., 1889-02-23
WORK AND WORKERS.

A NEW coal shaft is to be sunk at Say.
brook, III.
The Star coal mine at Jackson, Mich, has
been abandoned.
THE New York News says that New York
has but 80 labor unions, out Of 600 in exist
ence year ago.
THE Buffalo Cigar-mal1ers' Union won its
case against manufacturer who used tho
unions blue label.
THE soft-coal find near Davenport, Ia, is
three and one-half feet in thickness. 1t is
not yet known how much there is Of it.
THE city electric lighting plant of To-
peka, Kan, is burning petroleum for its
steam fuel instead of coal. as heretofore.
SOME of the Spanish Havana cigar makers
of New York have gained their demand for
an increase of SO per 1000.
SYDNEY (Australia) working women have
opened big hotel for themselves, where
board and lodging are furnished cheaply.
THE Bricklayers' and Masons' Information
al Union has 116 unions; 100000 have been
expended for strikes and $3.50 000in benefits
THE New York Independent Cigar max
ers' Sick and Death Benefit Association has
paid out nearly $685. since its formation
in 1868
ENGLISH sword-makers recently refused
to work for ten cents per hour, the scale
that Germans accept. The former want fif-
teen cents.
THE twenty-third annual convention of
the New York State Trades Assembly de
clared in favor of 50 day for Government
laborers.
IN Brooklyn the Marble Cutters Union
allows one apprentice to four men; but the
bosses are breaking the rule, some of them
reversing the proportion.
MANCHESTER, No., is booming manufact-
uring center and there is a demand for
good machinists there. 1t has a number Of
big industrial concerns, and others are con-
stantly being established.
A sIxASD-A-HALF foot vein of coal seven
ty feet under the surface has just been
opened by S. w. Little, five miles from
Oakland City, Ind, on the Straight Line rail
road
A FIvE-FooT vein Of coal has been found
at Volins siding, nine miles east of Yank-
ton, D. T., and an eight-foot vein eighteen
miles east of that place. 1t will be devel-
oped at once.
A NEW coal mining company called the
Humboldt has fled articles of incorporation
at Beileville, Ill. The incorporates are
Staehle and Kate Oexner.
Los ANGELES tCal.) carpenters get 81. Is
to So per day; Wilmington, Del, carpen-
tiers, SO per week; Bowling Green, O..
81. % per day; Louisville, KY, SO % to 8. so;
Lima, O., 81 Is; Indianapolis, Ind, Us
HoUsAToNIC (Mass) weavers struck to
have a boss discharged who had dis
missed two girls for having attended the
funeral of a fellow worker after he had re-
fused to let them off. The girls were re-
engaged.
THE two houses of the California Legis-
lature have, by a unanimous vote, passed
resolutions sustaining the Exclusion act,
and denouncing the movement to repeal it.
Public indignation meetings have been held
in San Francisco Denis Kearney has been
among the speakers.
The leading labor organizations all over
the country are making unusual endeavors
TO secure the passage of certain labor meas
ures by the various State Legislatures. One
of the things especially desired is the pas
sage of an employers liability act modelled
upon the English law.
THE North Chicago Rolling Mill Compa-
nv has one Of Its North Chicago furnaces
in blast on spiegeleisen with satisfactory
results. 1t has been in operation over
three weeks, and produces about 600 tons
per week of thirty per cent. metal. The
ores used are from Batesville, Ark. a
small quantity of spiegeleisen has been
made heretofore in a few furnaces in The
West as an experiment, but this is probably
the first time of the manufacture Of spiegel.
eisen on considerable scale in the West
ern States.