Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1889-05-23
THE LABOR WORLD.

The iron trade is in a bad way.
+. STEEL rails are down to $26 per ton.
KANSAS CITY has labor exchange.
TIE oatput of crude iron is 15O, 900 tonsper
week.
A CENTURY ago only charcoal iron was
produced.
THE demand for glass blowers far exceeds
the supply.
THE United States has 100000 journey
men BARRIERS.
THE new Edison Electrical Company has a
capital of S2,0O0,0OO
THERE is great activity In the mining re-
gions all over the West.
In the ranks of the Knights Of Labor there
are 100 ministers enrolled.
ALL the unions of Minneapolis have rooms
In their big Labor Temple.
BRICK makers and bricklayers and the
building trades generally have all they can do.
THE master builders of the United States
do $3.50, 600, 600 worth of building every year.
THE paper-mill industry is prospering, and
much capital is rushing into paper making.
In Belfast, in the north OF Ireland, good
clothing cutters earn from 50 to $15 per
week.
have raised the wages of their employees
lately.
THE Disstons, at Philadelphia, employ
2100 hands and turn out four hundred dozen
saws day.
THE tailors are the best organized peoplei in
England and are able to earn good wages IL
the large cities. .,
AT Skowhegan, Me-, factory for turn
Ing out coats alone is being built. 1t viii
employ 14O men.
In the 1867 factories in Berlin there arr
1870 apprentices, or sixty-six apprentices t.
| every 1000 workmen.
THE Hematite Iron Works at Barrow-in
Furness, England employ about 5000 men
They are paid from S4 to 81 week.
THE industrial organizations of Chicago re
, Gently got up an elaborate union directory
and they made lots of money out of it.
IT is calculated that the labor organiza
tions of the United States collect abou
| $4,000, 900 annually for various purposes.
THE organized shirt-makers of Philadel
phia receive 81 week. The girls who d.
not belong to tine union are getting only s4
SEVERAL of the labor organizations of New
York city will take part in the celebration
of the centennial celebration of the fall of tn
French Bastile ON the 14th of July.
THE iron workers in China are said to b
the most skillful in the world. They earl
about six cents per day on an average, am
extraordinarily good workmen sometime
reach eight cents.
TIMOTHY PUTNAM QUINN, famous among
New York labor circles for organizing tw'
local assemblies of Cinnamon and for his at
tempt to organize the policemen, has becom
editor of an Irish revolutionary paper.
TEN men employed in tanning factory a
Bergen, N. j., struck because their en-
ployers hired dude bookkeeper who wen
into the tanning yard every noon, and, seal
ing himself on box, poked fun at the worl
| men.
AGRICULTURAL laborers in the South c
Ireland seldom eat fresh meat and regard
as q curiosity when they see it on any table
There are many of them who have not taste
beef Or mutton more than once or twice
| their lives.
| MANUAL training schools and schools c
applied science are steadily growing in popl
larity. In Maine these branches of educatio
ore booming wonderfully, and the schools II
Gently established at Philadelphia and Bosto
are meeting with great success.
DISTRESS has been felt in the coal distric
/ OF Germany in consequence Of the strike {
the minarS. "A committee appealedfor funt
and a number Of Westphalia newspaper
opened subscription lists. The number {
strikers and their dependents is estimated {
100000. Emperor William told delegate
of Westphalia striking miners that he woul
himself order the soldiers - shoot and ba
ter" rioters. ..