Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-05-08
WORK AND WORKERS.

rHsY say 1000 book keepers are idle in New ork.
 BRADFORD, Conn.,, has seventy year-old telegraph messenger boy. AURORA ml.) girl nickel burnishers struck against a 30 per cent. cut. OMAHA brick-layers want an eight-hour day with no chan ge in pay. CHICAGO employers want painters to work an extra hour, or nine per day. CLOTHING cutters and trimmers average S2O per week throughout the year. A NEW YORK cigar firm has cut wages 50 per cent, leaving weeks pay at S5 A MIN NNEsoTA bill proposes to have fruits, vegetables, eggs, etc, sold by the pound. THERE are 10000 900 dogs in the United States, and SOC, ,OO0, 900 is required to sup port them.
 THERE are twenty five mines in Kentuc ucky, which produced last year IS, FOG, 190 bushels of coal of all grades.
 DENIsrowN, Scotland, has the largest bread factory. The little bread baker is dis appearing in Great Britain.
 THE Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis railroad are having land graded for the machine shops at Nashville, Tenn, to cost e235, 900.
 A BILL before the New Jersey State Legi lature makes it unlawful for employers to demand of their workmen that they will join no labor unions.
 CAsTLEToN, Vt, has the only slate-pencil mill in the United States. The daily produc- tion is 5000. One man can sharpen 5000 pencils daily on his emery wheel.
 THE delegates who compose the Central Labor Union, recently established in Phia- delphia, represent sixty-fve societies, the aggregate membership of which is over POO, 900.
 IT is said that the local assemblies of the Minneapolis Knights of Labor, which two years ago represented total membership of 15,0O0, now numbers about 7.5OO-a de- crease of just one-half.
 WORK has begun on the new car foundry at the rolling stock works at Annistown, Ala. These works are now carrying be- tween 500 and 9C0 men on their payroll, and expect to increase the force to 1,500 during the year.
 THE New Yoork Cnfectioners and Cake Bakers U nion has started movement which will probably be participated in by a large number of unions. Applicants for membership to this society are examined as to their knowledge of the trade. Unless competent they are refused admission.
 A LAW in force in Massachusetts prohib- its any sort of labor on Sunday save that of necessity and charity. Under it's provi- sions the marine engineers of Boston are making an effort to stop the towing of yes sels about the harbor on that day. The en- gineers have secured the best legal talent in the State and will probably win.
 AN engineer writing in a trade journal a dvises his fellow craftsmen who may be so unlucky as to get q foreign substance, such a cinder, chip of metal, etc., into the eye, to rub the other eye-the one not affected. He claims to have experienced immediate relief invariably by this plan ot treatment, unless the particle was so sharp as to cut into the ball of the eye and re- quire removal by surgical means.
 The largest steam boiler ever constructed in America has been manufactured at Scranton, Pa., for some copper mines in Michigan. The boiler is 35 feet four inches in length, 10 feet 6 inches wide and II feet inches high. It Is made of steel, weighs A tons and is 1, 900 horsepower. One sheet ot steel used weighed two tons. Tho metal from the "crown sheet" to the ''wagon top" is 1ss of an inch and the other parts 9-16 of an inch in diameter. There are 19s three-inch tubes in the boiler, double fire box connecting with the f1ues, and stay bolts and rivets are used, varying in length from six to ten inches.