Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-04-20
LABOR AND LABORERS.

IN New York 1,soo longshoremen arc union men.
 THE Fall River weavers had been averag- ing S.36 per week.
 THE Indiana Senate has passed bill to kill ''pluclz-me" stores.
 ABOUT one-h half of the nail machines in the W est are reported idle.
 IN Boston 5000 tailors arc idle New York firms are doing Boston work.
 SOUTHERN farmers save corn by feeding pigs and chickens on peanuts.
 4 NEW Tennessee bill Is intended to pre- vent the employment of persons under Is years.
 TEN years ago Indianapolis bricklayers made 9 cents an hour; today they make 45 cents.
 MADISON (Wis.) girl cotton workers want their days work reduced from twelve to ten hours.
 THE Minnesota Supreme Court has de- cided that the Cigarmakers' Union label is not alegal trademark.
 CHICAGO skilled hard-wo tinishers make from s2. 50 to s per day. Painters get from 20 to 35 cents per hour.
 DAY laborers employed by the city of Min. neapolis will hereafter work only eight hours q day i'll the municipal service.
 AT lLOWelly MdSS, lduOTeTS Oy builders were formerly paid S1 per day; now they receive 22lo cents per hour.
 MARTIN LANG, of Steubenville, O., will erect a glass-house to employ 100 men at Peru, Ind. :; free gas for five years will be given.
 OMAHA outside carpenters make from 20 to 30 cents per hour. Blacksmiths make from S3 to $350 day; carriage and wagon shop hands from $2 to S3 day
 THE New York Musical Protective Union blackllsted member. He sued the so, cie,y, got $500 damages in the Supreme Court, and his reinstatement was ordered. TwENTY-sEvEN iron furnaces in the Ma honing valley have reduced the wages of their employees 10 per cent. Reductions in wages, discharging of employees, and shut downs are common throughout PennSyl vania.
 FLoRIs, Davis County, la, reports new coal discoveries. It is asserted that there are veins, containing in tho aggregate | some 27 feet of bituminous and camel coal The whole deposits are said to be about 5O | feet beneath the bed of Soap creek WHAT are said to be the largest cast iron pipe-works in the world are now in | operation at Addyston, O., fourteen miles west of Cincinnati The works are owned and operated by the Addyston Pipe and
 
 | l, 200, ,0O0
 A LAW passed tho Indiana Legislature | which fixes line of $500 on such employers as may blacklist any worling-man. Another | demands better accommodation in mines, 1 and another has been proposed prohibitin g | the use of railroad cars which require en- | ployes to go between cars to couple them.
 THE works of the Edison Machine Com. pany at Schenectady, N Y, at present em- ploy 75o men, but additions which 1t is pro posed to make to tho present plant will is negotiating for the purchase Of eight acres of ground in the vicinity of the present works, and on the land there will be erected several large buildings. l REGENT reports indicate that the system | of workingmen insurance, which is main | tained by the German Government, is work ing very satisfactorily. 1t seems that Can ada is now anxious to introduce q similar system, and as the Canadians are 10th to es tablish poor-houses it is not unlikely thai she may. Of course, any plan which vii aid the working man in saving his earnings for old age is worthy of fair trial
 THE new plant of the Muncie Und) Mai Company has 16 pudding furnaces, 4 heat ing furnaces and capacious annealing fur | nacas. Its machinery includes 8 20-ncf l train of rolls, plate train, muck train, 5l | nal machines, a complete foundry for iror and brass castings and cooper shop for tho manufacture of kegs. When running at it: fullest capacity it will give employment tt | POO hands.