The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-11-07
THE LABOR WORLD.

BosToN's electricians are going To start n
union.
MANY Southern unions are composed alto
gether of cUlOrel men.
THE National Association Of Stationary
Engineers has now 4Sl members.
The eght-hour rule is observed by the
Cincinnati Board of Public Works
one HUNDRED typc-writers will lie en-.
ployed by the United States Census Bureau.
THE Knights of Labor claim that $40 men
joined their order during August and Sep.
tember.
THERE are good prospects for the project
OF forming an international Wood Workers
Federation
Two-THIEDS Of the cigar dealers Of San
Francisco have pledged themselves not 20 sell
cigars made 10y Cinnamon
THE e!ght-hour movement has been started
IN Albany, \. Y, the trades unions aud the
knights of Labor cooperating.
FIVE assemblies of the knights of Labor
IN Cincinnati have joined the International
Boot and Shoe Workers Union.
The iourneymcn tailors' strike in Chicago.
which lasted five days, has been declared of
ana the men have returned to work.
SroHECurTERS in st. Louis complain that
their situations are threatened bv the cumpe-
titlonof convict stonccutterS in Illinois
j. j. GERAGHTY, candidate Of the miners
and other worEmgmen, has been elected
Mayor of Strcator, ILL.,, after an exciting con-
test.
IL New Hampshire working children be-
tween the ages of IL ani lG years are COM
PEELED TO go 70 school three months of tho
year.
UNION 0f machinists is Ia be formed Mt
indianapolis, Ind. The B1okbinders Assem-
bly, Of that city is going 10 reOrganize as an
open union.
THE Brotherhood OF Painters and Decora-
tors has iOOO members enrolled in 1886 local
unions. The receipts last year were S6i0l;
expenses, $500,
THE silk trade in England is threatened by
France which is running up large number
or silk mills and producing some OF the finest
work IN the world
BROOKLYN has the largest AMI best ap-
pointed labor hall in the country. II is owned
and managed 10y workngmen. IL is known
as the Labor Lyceum.
TRADE is very good in the iron and steel in
dustry at youngstown, Penn. All the mills
are running at full blast and no one is idle
who is willing Ia work.
A FRENCH letter, which reached the office
OF the American Federation recently, states
that number of unions in Paris have begun
10 agitate for an eight-hour workday.
OVER seven hundred men are now enlployed
at the granite quarres of West Sullivan, Me.
The product of the quarries averages from
three 10 four millions OF paving blocks year,
besides other work.
The strongest labor organization in the
United States Is the Flint Glass Workers
Union. There are GDO0 flint glass workers in
tne country, and all are union men with
the exception Of less than 100.
In 1870 there were 739, 1867 children under
sixteen years Of age at work in factories in
the United States; in 1880 they had increased
l,lls,355, and IL is believed that in spite of
factory laws there are more than ever OF
children employed.
AN investigation lately made into the con-
dition of colured labor IN the South i'm blast
furnaces rolling mills, iron works. mines.
lumber mills and similar industries showed
that 800 colored people were so employed.
or these $500 are skilled workers.
THE latest scheme TO relieve the EMPLOYER
from liability in the ease of injury to an EN-
ploye is the desiga of AN insurance company
In l.c.rdon. The workman takes out an, ac-
cident policy and the premium is paid from
his wages. he also signs a contract in
Identifying his employer.
A NUMBER Of years ago attempts were
made 10 make paper in ireland out OF peat
moss, but the results were not satisfactory,
new process has just been discovered by
which good paper can be made'out OF this
material, and experiments on a large scale
will DO made to show its practicability.
In the Isle OF Man, which is in the Irish
Sea, there are large lead mines, which are
believed 10 be very ancient, and employ half
the population Of Laxey, the village in which
they are situated. The men work for yery
small wages but are contented. The largest
water-wheel in the world Is at these mills and
is used 20 ventilatc the mines IL Is visited as
curiosity 10y excursionsts.