Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-09-28
LABOR NOTES.

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The meeting demands eight hours, M
night work, double pay for overtime
the same not TO be over four hours PEI
day, no work for employees under 1.
years OF age, one holiday per week, NJ
work on fete days, convict labor to b,
employed on great public works. equal
pay for women and men.
The Chicago police reporters wear a
star with the name of their paper on it,
Often they arrest big criminals by show
ing their stars and get big news from
them. One put on the clothes of a MUIR
dcred girl and scared the wits out of a
prisoner suspected of having killed her.
Another, TO get points, got an excom-
municated priest to hear the confession
OF a prisoner.
Many Brooklyn grocers won't sell nom
union bread since the bakers struck,
rather than leave the union. Co-opera-
tive bakeries are talked of. The organ
ization has reduced a days work from
seventeen hours per day to eleven, and
TO thirteen on Saturday.
At San Francisco the republican papers
indorse the denunciation of Secretary
WINDOWS decision allowing Chinese to
land as tourists. The Federation OF
labor and other unions heid-an=4nd&a-
The Lynn Lasters' Protective union
paid 81, 900 for ground for a hall to con-
tain a lecture room, library, billiard
hall, etc. The Protective union has TO-
900 members.
A railroad in the northwest built 1000
miles Of line in half as many days, and
had at one time 20 900 men at work,
nearly as many as Napoleon had in bat
tie at Marengo.
Adying woman was turned out of her
rooms in New York the other day be-
cause she owed $40 rent. Her husband
was out of a job and the landlord would
not wait.
All of the elections and public meet
ings of Greece, even to the court balls,
are held upon Sunday. The election
polls are in the churches.
Bids on the Buffalo Masonic temple
show an agreement between the stone
men. One bid was raised from S24, SOC
10 SIS, 400.
C Hundreds of both sexes have left the
cities for the New York hop fields.
Their fare and board is free, and soma
make Sl.20 per day.
Women have joined the striking Gin.
cinnati ~lasters. They get S. and SC
per week on what they used to make
SO and S12.
Baltimore Chinese have induced the
cutters TO fix their prices at 5 cents .
pair for ironing cuffs and 3 cents for
collars.
A proposed Chicago ordinance will
compel the payment of Sits to laborers
by the city and contractors on city work
The Washington Monument elevator
goes the highest, 500 feet. Some Chi.
cago lifts make 500 feet per minute.
The interior department reports thou
sands of letters asking for official state.
ments concerning the new states.
New Hampshire compels working
children Of from IA to 16 years to go to
school three months of the year.
Boston has a merchants week. Store
keepers from towns around have their
fares paid to the city.
Toronto talks of a boulevard along
the st. Lawrence river. Quincy, Ill, is
building one eighty feet wide.
Wheat production of England, Wales,
Scotland, 1000, 600 bushels; Ireland.
1000, 900.
New York makes all kinds of imported
mineral water. Imported Bavaria beer
is all made here.
Boston has 1000 organized ~tailors.
They want New York tenement house
work boycotted.
At jacksonville, Fla, 400 cigarmakers
struck to have their pay Brought to their
benches.
Two Holyoke, Mass, mills that were
to shut down IL Cleveland should be
elected are closed.
Spokane Falls, Wash, was a wilder
ness ten years ago; now 1T has 200 In
habitants.
New Haven saloonkeepers will test
the law forbidding screens on their wins
dows.
A few New York and Brooklyn cor
nicemakers have not yet gained 50 pes
day.
The mutual insurance companies
formed by southern cotton men are sue.
cessful.
Omaha demands the passage OF the or.
dinance making gas 81 per 1000 feet
The Turtle Tug-of-war
The latest fad that is now exciting
the sporting proclivities of men about
town is a tug-of-war between turtles;
says the New York Graphic. The orig
inal form Of amusement was started IL