The national leader., 1889-09-14
THE LABOR WORLD.


Dership of over 1000.
ALL of the slate quarries of North Wales
are to be worked by an English syndicate.
1T is a matter of history that inventions
which have eased labor have increased wages
JOHN SwINToN, not long ago a power in
the labor movement in New York, is writing
labor novel
In Holland new law for the regulation of
the labor of women and children in factories
has been adopted.
AN immense new cotton mill, with a ca,
pacity of 5000 spindles, is to be built at Hall.
fax Court House, Va.
A AwoRKINGwoMAN's society has been es-
tablished in Liverpool, England, to organize
factory and shop girls.
THERE has been great growth of manu-
featuring and trading cooperative eStab-
hshments in Great Britain within the past
few years.
A MASTER carpenter on the PENNSYLVANIA
road moved bridge 259 feet long, weighing
$500 tons in twelve minutes; it was moved
forty-fve feet.
THE Brotherhood of Painters and Decora-
tors of America, which was founded in Balti-
more two years ago has now branches in 100
American and Canadian cities, with a large
membership.
tional Union, in its latest report, shows
yearly income of 100000, and a total MEM
bership of 5955. There are less than 100 non
union men in. the entire trade.
FEWER passenger conductors have been
discharged from the Missouri Pacific road, it
is said, than from any other railroad in the
West. Many of the conductors in the roads
service have been with it from the start
A LETTER has been sent by William
O'Brien, the Irish NJ P to Thomas O'FIynn,
manager Of the Irish National Colonist, Bos-
ton, Mass, asking his assistance in promot-
ing industries in Ireland with American cap
ital
THERE are two large carpenters societies
in the United States. Oneis the Amalgamated
Union of American Carpenters, comprising
4G4 branches and 25. 226 members The other
is the American Brotherhood of Carpenters,
which has much larger nEecship.
THERE are several spinning mills in the
County Down, Ireland in connection with
which the employers have built villages for
their employees and let the houses to them
They also own the village store from which
the employees must purchase everything they
need.
THE rapid growth of the Italian barber
shops i'll New York city is alarming the old
time BARRIERS The Italian five-cent shaving
shops are now to be found not only in Little
Italy" and the other quarters in which swarms
of Italians have taken up their abode, but
also i'll other localities up town, down town
and on both sides of the city.
IF the reports are true, the London street
car drivers seem to have anything but a
pleasant time. They are required to work
fourteen hours day and are given only one
days rest in fourteen. Their pay varies
from one dollar to dollar and a quarter
day nominally, but a system of fines for the
slightest infraction of discipline reduces
these rates
AT a conference of the bakers unions held
recently in Berlin, Germany, it was resolved
that the working day should not exceed
twelve hours and that the weekly wages
should be at least twelve marks $3.50. 1t
was also resolved that Sunday labor should
be discontinued and that organization should
still go on in spite of obstacles raised by the
Government.