Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-12-05
LABOR NOTES.
OF Interest to Trade Unionists and
Knights of Labor.


Detroit seamen demand $3.50 per day.
Snow shovellers at Omaha get 81 a day.
Wheeling painters get 81 cents per hour.
San Francisco has 1000 Chinese cigar
makers.
November 30 will be the 20th anniversary
of the X. of l..
Sacramento (Cal.) stonecutters work eight
hours for $500.
Common painters at Hull, England, get II
cents an hour.
Two assemblies Of The X. Of L. have been
formed In Ireland
The swtchmen's Union pay 5000 on the
death of a member.
The German miner, since the strike, can
make $3.50 per year.
ST. Paul ieamstcrs union runs a cooper
alive wood and coal company.
In I.ehigh county, Penn, corn-huskers get
81 to 70 cents a day and board.
There win soon b. II ,tional organization
OF the tile layers Of the United States.
An advance OF so cents day has been
given to the plasterers at ConEellsville, Penn.
The Chinese tailors in Hong Kong are
fighting against the Introduction OF sewing
machines
Tacoma. Seattle and other ssboom' West
ern towns are oyerrun with labOrers; wages
are 81 per day.
1t costs 81 900 for transfer card from the
European Goldbeaters Union to the New
York Association.
Cuban cigarmakers are boycotting street
railway at Key West, Fla, because the owner
is a "scab' cigar manufacturer.
Gilbert Delamatyr, once prominent labor
advocate and representative in Congress, Is
ha M ~ a s.t,ttral. In, Ohio
The threatened strike OF coal miners in
Fifeshire, Scot, has been ayerted, the mine
owners having granted the men an advance
The second annual convention of the Jour
neymen BARRIERS International Union of
America will be held In Detroit, Mich, De-
cember 3.
1t is said that many London unions sent
their idle members to this country, paying
their passage and giving them "a allowance
to get rid Of them.
The knights of Labor are still boycotting
the Fuller-Warren Company of Troy, al
though nearly every man in the shop is
member of the Iron Moulders' Union.
The first organizations of laboring people
known took the shape Of trade-unons. and
5000 years has, in all probability, proved it
the best possible form of organization.
A reduction has again been attempted by
The employees strcnuously object, and over
1000 have Joined the union within the past
three weeks.
There are more than 10000 Chinese in San
Francisco. They form nearly one-seventh of
the city's population. and it Is computed that
they send So, 100000 year from their earn
ings to China.
Cooperative stores are gaining ground in
England and workingmen seem everywhere
anxious to buy stock in them. Cooperative
hat stores are fiourishing in all the large
cities and have proved great success.
John Burns made an address lately at
demonstration held in Hyde Park, Lordon,
by the bakers. Resolutions were passed de-
elaring a boycott on the master bakers who
refused to concede to the demands of the
men.
The visit of yice-President Lloyd of the
brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners to
Massachusetts has been productive of much
good to the local unions. Many new menu
bers have joined, and a renewed interest is
being taken by the old ones.
Actor Secretary Batcheller has decided
that Chinese laundrymen are laborers within
the meaning of the Chinese restrictive act
aud are therefore prohibited from landing in
the United States, no matter whether they
have been here before or not.
Workingmen in Paris are agitatIng for the
eight-hour movement. A letter to that effect
has been sent to the headquarters of the
American Federation Of Labor in New York
city. The movement is the outcome of The
visit OF American workingmen in Paris.
The red flag itself is an emblem of trade
unions, and was carried by the mechanics'
union 1.-THE 'sEranoi' Of the Creek 1000 wears
before Christ, when workinginen were fol-
lowers OF Zoroaster, FIRE worshippers, s Chill
dren Of the Sum- the color Of which was
emblematized in their scarlet banner.