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WORK AND WORKERS.

THE metal-workers will form Nations
union.
CHICAGO gas-house hands work eigh,
hours and make $3.50.
NEBRASKA BARRIERS must shave negroes
says the Supreme Court
PITTSBURGH painters struck against the
grading system and won.
ALL the unions of Minneapolis have rooms
in their big Labor Temple
An Illinois report is that seam of camel
has been found at Albion.
CHICAGO locomotive engineers average
from sl20 to sl70 per month.
1.-THE Amalgamated Machinists' Union has
joined the EightHour League.
PRoDDING for coal continues to be the pop
ular thing in Kansas and the West.
BUFFALO carpenters and painters viii
work nine hours the present season.
MECHANICS are advised TO steer clear Of
Seattle, ". T. More men than work
THE eleven FindIay (O.) glass-houses are
about to shut down-over-produ
CHICAGO iron-molders work entirely al,
piece work, and earn from s2.25 to $3.50 pei
day of ten hours.
NEW YoRKERs are working up National
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100000 journeymen.
THE coal production of Colorado in 1885
was 2, ,1S5,47 tons, an increase of 400, 600 tons
over the previous year.
IT is said that German musicians come
over every spring, and go home with their
wages after few months work. -. !.
TIE Laborers' Protective Union of Jersey
City has engaged physician with yearly
salary to attend sick members.
VIRGINIA CITY, New, has the biggest
electric plant on earth. 1t has six 100 horse.
power generators, and runs a mine and
mill.
TEEY say that the New Y York World build.
ing will be the highest in that city 1t
will contain a restaurant and reading
room.
DR. MCGLYNN has been reelected presi.
dent of the Anti-Poverty Society. 1t has
2,GG0 members, and the years receipts were
$4,000.
TIE Window Glass Workers Union al
Pitts burgh is the richest labor organization
in the country, and holds reserve fund OF
$500, 0O0.
PENNSYLVANIA knights are making siren.
uous efforts to secure much-needed legisla-
ton in the interest of miners and factory
employees.
TIE "J'' shaft, Braidwood, H., is now
lighted by electricity. The ''night'' Of
miners lamp and lard oil seems to be pass
ing away.
JUDGE BARRETT, of the New Jork Supreme
Court, has decided that joint stock private
organizations are not liable to taxation as
corporations.
SECRETARY DAMPF, Of Cigarmakers' Union
No. ia. of New York, declares that man
can't make over S11.50 per week On the best
work in that city.
LEADING Paterson On. J.) firms will estab-
lish an industrial school for the education Of
pupils in designing, dyeing and the weaving
of all textile work.
AT Peterton, Kan, the operators charge
miners so cents per 400 bushels for pushing,
and give the pushers 40 cents. It's a won
der they don't die of liberality.
THE National Forge and Iron Company,
organized at Chicago some time since for the
purpose OF erecting rolling mill, have Sc
cured very good location for their works
at Burnside, which is at Ninety-third street,
on the Illinois central railroad and the Belt
road, with other railroad lines in the imme-
diate vicinity. Contracts for the erection
Of the buildings and the construction of the
machinery have been let.
GLASS WORKS: Birmingham, Ala, the
Pioneer glass works will be enlarged; Peru,
o., is to have an eight-pot glass establish
ment; Anderson, Ind, will have flint glass
works, John Miller; at Vineland, n. j.,
green bottle works are talked of; La
Crosse, Wis, is to have glass works, Peter
Nelson; at Jeanette, Pa, glass works have
been delayed a month in the starting, owing
to some alterations necessary in the heat
inc apDIfon