The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-01-10
THE LABOR WORLD.

THE use Of petroleum as fuel seems to gain
ground slowly.
A STRUGGLE for shorter hours is appre-
hended by English employers.
HELENA, Montana, seems to be . good
place for carpenters out of work.
THE number of fuli-grown men out of
employment in Georgia is incredible.
THE first assembly of the knights of Labor
was founded in Philadelphia in 1859.
The Glen Rolling Mill, at Allentown,
Penn, has been idle for over ten years.
NATIVES of Alsace and Lorraine at Cleve-
land, Ohio have formed a benevolent society.
PUDDLERS in Stoubenville, Ohio, mill
have accepted $3.50 per ton for scrap work
NOTHING booms city like having p enty
of work for the laboring men and mechanics
LESS than one.tenth of the wage workers
of the country are organized in any kind of
association.
The Boston stove trade is said to be NOV
ing toward Alabama, where the raw material
Is close at hand.
THE Chinese in New York city have de-
manded higher wages since the passage Of
the Chinese Exclusion bill.
THE paper-making industry ranks four
teenth in this country ia the matter of labor
employed and capital invested.
THE latest statistics from London show a
marked increase in the number Of women
employed in the different trades.
A GERMAN patent has been issued for the
preparation of wood fibre for spinning
Strong fabrics are made from the product.
A NEW Lehigh Valley passenger engine,
with q boiler sixty inches in diameter, is be-
ing built at the South Easton PENN shops.
FIFTY THOUSAND English miners have de-
manded an increase of wages. They base
their claim on the fact that times are getting
better.
The National Amalgamated Association
OF Iron and Steel Workers was formed
August i, 1876, with Ill lodges and 1855
members.
position to Mr.. Williamson's plan for estab-
fishing school in Philadelphia in which boya
may learn trades
IT is a fact that women are more persistent
strikers than men and married women par
ticularly. In the telegrapher's strike in 1883
the women held out to the end.
THE annual report of the National Associa-
ton of Stationary Engineers, which was or
ganized in New York city in 1882, shows q
membership of nearly $1,000 men.
| 1T is proposed in Kansas to petition the
| Legislature to make law providing for the
| weekly payment of wages to employees OF
municipal and private corporations.
THE Secretary of War has awarded the
contract for furnishing $500, 600 worth OF
steel forgings for s, 10 and Finch high-power
| guns to the Bethlehem PENN Iron Com
pany
The first yard of cotton cloth ever wover
] in Iowa was turned out recently at Des
Moines. The mill has capacity of 10000
yards day, and will employ from $50 tc
| go men.
The great strike of coal miners at New
Castle, Australia, has ended. The strike
lasted three months. Eight thousand men
were idle, and sl,500, 900 was lost by the
| masters and men,
UNDER the laws now enforced in Germany
| workingmen's societies are not permitted tc
indulge in political debates, and must indi-
| cate their loyalty to the Empire on the ban
ners they carry in public.
| ONE of the greatest window-glass factories
in the world is just starting in the Westmore
land natural gas region in Pennsylvania
Daily capacity, 5000 boxes. Four hundred
houses for sorsmep vii soon b. completed