The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-06-13
THE LABOR WORLD.
.rrnEnN iron.mnkers nre hnsv

SOUTHERN iron-makers are busy.
TINES appear hard in the coal regions.
THERE isa demand for labor in Montana.
THE omnibus drivers Of Rome, Italy, have
gone ON strike.
MANUAL trimming schools are to be intro
ducedin Boston.
THE present production of pig iron is i4O.
600 tons per week.
THERE have been few strikes in the build
ing trade this year.
ONE-FoURrH of the Conncsvilc PENN
coke ovens are idle
THE carpenters at Berlin, Germany, are
nearly all out on strike
STRIKE is threatened in the lace factories
at Nottingham. England.
FIVE or six new coal roads are 10 be built
In Pennsylvania this year.
CoTroN seed oil mills and cotton factories
are going up fast in the South
TIE striking miners in the Kladno district,
In Bohemia, now number 1900
THE American Federation of labor has
Issued charters 90 1870 organizers.
The st. Paul and Omaha Railway Com.
pany will no longer employ Italians.
THE daily output Of iron from twenty fur.
naccs in Birmingham, Ala, is now 23iO tons
In Lynn, Mass, the idea of cooperation
otINeen ehlploNeIs unl NoIhIuen mas uleu
out.
THE Pittsburg aud Western road, in order
20 cut down expenses, has discharged go
men.
OVER 1900 miners were on strike In Illi-
nois because Of fifteen per cent reduction
In wages.
IN Paterson. ~ j., there are about 100 silk
mills. in which many thousands Of operatives
are employed
THE Socialstic Labor Party Of Ma,sa-
chuscttS will mold State Convention in BCs-
ton ON July IL.
lN Rochester. " V. shoemakprs are strik-
ing against the new shocmalmg machinery
that Is being introduced
4 REDUCTION of ten per cent. has been
made in wages of the furnace employees
throughout the Shcnango Valley.
IN Philadelphia silk and wooden mills the
workers earn 81 to 50 week, but have work
only eight months out of twelve
LocoMorivE-MAEERs are working twenty
I've per cent. below capacity. and car-huild
ers thirty-thrcc per cent. approximately.
The average wages OF ,hirt-mators in
Philadelphia, working twelve to eighteen
hours a day, Is the princely sum of - a
| week
IN Utah alone $50, OOoo 900 Of capital is in.
vested in silver and lead mining. which em-
plCys 1000 mon at an average daily wage of
SeaCh.
MoRU than one hundred of the leading re-
tail harness makers of New York and its vi
entity have organized the Harness Makers
Protective Association.
An active organizer, Miss Eva Mcdonald
has undertaken the work of inducing the fac
tory women in the Western States to Join
the order of the n. of l..
Is America a workman produces upon an
| average more than four tons of Bcsserncr
steel per week. In England his product is
but two and one-half tons.
THREE separate organizations are soon to
bc combined in a grand body under the title
| IT the United Brotherhood of Journeymcn
| Plumbers, Gas and Steam Filters of Amer
/ ca.
! Is Alabama, the Farmers Alliance, tho
| Knights of Labor aud other kindred bodies
/ are holding conferences with the view Of
uniting to obtain control II the state Lcgis-
| aturc.
UNDER the now Prison Labor Lill II New
| York state the hollow ware shop, the collar
| shop and the brass fittings factory are about
| 20 be opened in Auburn Pcntentary. Shoe
making is 10 b. one of the industries Of Sing
Sing Penitentiary.
| AN English paper gives figures 10 show that
! the modern labOr-Saving machinery intro
luced into the foundries and machine shops
IF England has enabled fifty workmen 10
| produce aS many castings ns were formerly
turned out 10y pos workinen.
A srRIKE prevailed at Berlin among
the masonS. They asked for nine hours
labor IA day and two and a half hours for
heir meals. They also wanted work sus-
pended an hour earlier on Saturday. and on
iays preceding holidays. They demanded an
increase of ten pfennings day IN their
wages and two weeks notice in case of dis.
charge.