Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-06-28
THE LABOR WORLD.

THE Western coal trade Is still dull.
THE strikes in Bohemia are spreading.
BUILDING activity was never greater.
MACHINERY is driving out hand labor.
VALENTINE Neb., has an Indian hod car
rier.
AN expert electrician commands $500 a
month
DISTRESS prevails everywhere in the in
dustrial centers.
THE troubles among the Vienna employees
have been settled.
OMAHA carpenters make all their purchases
at cooperative store.
THE Western wire and steel nails manu-
tacturers are very busy.
THE volume of ship-building work Is now
larger than it has been for years.
THERE are ten shoe-peg factories in the
United States, employing about 300 hands.
In New York the stone masonry is mostly
done by Italians; Englishmen and Irishmen
lay the brick.
THE planters of Martinique, In the French
West Indies, allow their laborers noontime
recess Of two hours.
ABOUT 100000 600 feet of spruce, 600 men
and 100 horses are credited to the Connecticut
River lumber drive this year.
AN interesting attempt is being made to re-
VlVethe once-hourishing matchmaking indus
try at Prescott, in Lancashire England.
MISS IDA VAN ETTEN is about to organize
button workers union in New York CITY.
as this trade is wholly controlled by women.
OVER 500 persons gain living in electrical
employment in San Francisco. The pay for
electrical supply work ranges from S3 to SIS
day.
AN agreement with the walters has been
made by members Of New York oyster
houses to abolish Sunday work from June un-
til September.
A STATE organization is proposed by the
Journeymen BARRIERS of Pennsylvania, where
by they hope to entirely abolish Sunday work
in their business.
In all the trades, except plumbing, the
best Workmen, those who command the
steadiest employment in New York, are those
of foreign birth.
CERTAIN descriptions of labor in the United
States, such as the building of aqueducts and
bridges, formerly done by Irishmen, are now
carried out by Italians.
New YORK locksmiths and railmakers de-
mand nine hours and eight on Saturday,
tinlshers Sl2 per week, helpers 50, and for
sunday and holiday work doubepay.
SINCE january 1st there have been re-
ported 296 strikes, involving rs, ITO strikers,
against 3S9 strikes and POI strikers in
1883, and 511 strikes and 212, 317 strikers in
five months Of 1887.
The stonework of the future will be done
with recently invented pneumatic tool.
This tool is light and portable, powerful in
action, and has a continuous onward move
ment, requiring only to be guided by the
hands.
A RAILROAD publication issued in New
York says that the failure of the locomotive
engineers to down the 20" roads on their
strike has taken 1000 men out of the order,
and that it will be ten years before it will be
as powerful as before.
A STRONG movement is in progress among
the miners of Pittsburg to do away with the
pluck me" stores OF stores on which they
have orders instead Of being paid in cash.
They want cash payment, and say they will
not permit any stoppageS Of wages for store
goods.
THERE are special factories in Paris for
making children watches, which employ hun
dreds of hands. Thirty million are annually
produced; in other words, Paris provides
every year toy-watch for every child be-
tween five and ten in France, Germany, Rus
sia, Great Britain, Italy and Austria