The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-10-17
THE LABOR WORLD.


THE. boss BARRIERS of Philadelphia have
formed another association.
THE Newsboys' Union of San Francisco
claims membership of $50
NoN-UNIoS carpenters in Rome. Ga. worn
eleven hours a day for 81. .25
THE plate-glass works throughout tbe
country are all in active operation.
In making bread boxes three men can do
the WORK of thirteen men by the old meth
In the manufacture of boots and shoes the
work OF 800 operatives is now being done by
100. ~
CLEvELAND's journeymen BARRIERS will an.
peal To the Ohio Legislature for a SUNDAY
closing law.
A STRIKE which lasted seven months at
.he rolling mills of Lancaster. Penn, has
been settled by Il compromise.
ACCORDING to IFS Secretary. the Brother.
hood of Painters and Decorators has now
1000 members and 1876 local unions.
DISTRICT ASSEMBLY 30, of Massachusetts.
VIII form Central Council of Boston's CITY
'aborers, who are Knights of Labor.
TIE wages of the Boston and Maine
freight handlers ut Boston, Mass. have been
advanced from Sl.6j TO Sl.75 per day
The Iron Car Company, OF New York city,
has closed contract with the Minnesota Car
company, of Duluth, to build 1900 cars.
THE national organization new most active
IN promoting the eight-hour movement is the
United brotherhood of Carpenters and Join
ers.
ALI the painters unions in New Yor,
city have combined against the German.
American Painters Union, which was re-
Gently organized.
THERE were COO delegates from almost No
many cities Mt the annual convention held
IN Kansas City 10y the National Association
Of Fire Engineers.
THE Hospital Fund Assessment upon tho
4,OOO employees of the Union Pacific Rail.
road is to he advanced from twenty five To
forty cents per month.
WITHIN the past few months there In,
been general advance for the iron workers
IN the Schuylkill valley of Pennsylvania,
and about GOOD of them are affected bv it.
IN is claimed by the three carpenter,'
nntoBs in Boston, Mass, that they have en-.
rolled 100 new members in a month and that
they have 30 more members than they ever
had before.
Two THOUSAND women workers of the
East End of London held meeting at which
they resolved To organize for the purpose of
improving their condition. The Bishop of
Bedford presided.
To permit the men employed in the great
Carnegie PENN works at Braddocls 10 at
tend the funeral of their late Superintendent,
Captain Jones, involved an expense for the
company of $4,000.
Two THOUSAND tramway and omnibus
employees of London formed a union TO OBJ
tain shorter hours and the redress of n num-
Der of grievances A manifesto appealing
Tor aid was issued. Lord Roscberry pre-
ided.
ABOUT l03 delegates from Mississippi Val
icy States met at Superior. Wis, two weeks
ago To urge ON the general Government to
build ship canals twenty feet deep through
the shadows and rivers connecting the great
lakes.
AN organization Of clerks is talked of in
London, where there are thousands Of clerks
from people who can read. write and cipher
up to experienced bookkeepers out of work
The future of clerks in London and other
large cities in England is very discouraging
THE cooperative bakery recently cstab-
ished by the bakers of BROOKLYN, n. Y. il
being helped along by the BROOKLYN labor
organizations, who have taken liberal blocks
OF stock in the new venture. All the organ.
lzations in New York city have been re
quested TO buy stock.
CURIOUS strike occurred at Rochester.
n. y. The osterologists and taxidermists
In Wards Natural Science establishment,
where Jumbo's skeleton was prepared
stopped work and. as n result, many rare
birds and animals being prepared for calcc-
tions in different parts of tho country, were
loft nnrtly mounted.