Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-12-06
THE LABOR WORLD.

TIE Order of the Knights of Labor iS just
twenty years old.
THE lace trade Of France gives employ
ment to nearly 200, 900 persons.
GEORGIA mill hands have been urging the
Legislature to pass bill making ten hours
days work.
SIR EDWARD GUINNESS, the big brewer,
has given million dollars for the erection OF
dwellings for the laboring poor Of London.
SHPBUmDING is SO active on the Clyde,
Scotland, that in many OF the yards work IS
carried on at night by means OF electric
lights.
MEssRs. KRUPP, of Essen, are about to
establish an immense iron foundry and steel
works in the neighborhood of Luxembourg,
Germany
THE prosperity of the cotton mills of Fall
River, Mass, during the entire year is with
out parallel in the history of Fall River man
ufacturing.
THE american Manufacturer Of Pitts
burg states that ninety per cent. of the forge
companies of tho country have formed
combination for mutual protection.
AT the session of the knights of Labor in
Atlanta the words ''of America" were
dropped from the name of the organization,
making it simply the Knights of Labor.
Few people are aware that there is q
trades union or industrial organiYssttef- GO 20
colored men that dates back TO 1000 h'o
years before the war, but such IS the t 34;
-, 4IUDnIU-, iesIdent of the Miners
Progressive Union, has called a convention
of the miners Of Northern Illinois, Indiana,
Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia for
Indianapolis.
COMPLAINT has been made to the Treasury
Department that the alien labor contract law
is being violated at Detroit, Mich, by Cana
dian laborers, who cross the line every day
to perform labor in the United States and
return to their homes at night.
THE knights of Labor as body are not
disposed to interfere in the eight-hour CUES
ton. They discussed it at their meeting in
Atlanta, and came to the conclusion that the
best policy would be to allow the local assem-
biies to deal with it as they saw best.
A MASS meeting of the striking block coal
miners of the central part of Clay County,
Ind, was held at Churchill mines near Cen
tire Point. twas unanimously agreed to re-
sumo work at tho operators order since forty
per cent. of the strikers were at work at the
reduction.
AT meeting of the Washington Typo.
| graphical Union, resolution was adopted
repeating the eight-hour rule that has hereto
| fore prevailed. The printers in the job and
newspaper offices opposed the resolution
unanimously, but it was carried by the men
from the Government Printing Office.
THE production of Bessemer steel ingots in
the United States during 1886 was 1880 100
gross tons. Of rails the output was COM
puted at !, 562, 410 gross tons. The produo.
ton of Bessemer steel ingots in 1886 was 6Sl, !
go tons moro than that of 1885, while the
production Of rails had increased by 602, 939
tons.
A VEIN Of coal said to contain several mil
ion tons has been discovered in Lawrence Sc
Browns colliery at Mahanoy Place. Penn.
Tho vein was struck by some men engaged ID
making a drift from an abandoned shaft to
another colliery. The find will go on record
as one of the greatest accidental discoveries
in the history'of coal mining.
1T is hoped that the discovery which has
been made in Trenton, N j., in relation to
the heating of pottery kilns may result adj
vantagcously to an industry which has al
ready made marked progress in this country.
By superheating the air before it enters the
kiln it is claimed that perfect combustion
may be obtained. The new method econQ.
mics coal, and largely reduces the time re.
CURED for firing kiln.