The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-07-25
THE LABOR WORLD.
NEW York has a Russian labor paper

| NEW York has Russian labor paper.
ARCHITECTURAL ability is in demand.
| THERE are 100000 women lacemakcrs In
| ireland.
A NEW shoe factory has been started at
Omaha, Neb.
THERE are bad times In England for un-
KILLED laborers.
NEW YoRKERs are working up national
inion Of BARRIERS
THERE are 100 ministers who belong TO the
Knights Of Labor.
II, ABOUT 10000 women are employed IN
making woven goods.
| CHICAGO locomotive engineers average
from s120 to sl70 per month
THE International Union Of Bricklayers
and Masons comprises lI6 unions.
A LARGE number of people in France are
engaged in the manufacture Of celluloid.
| The efforts at Cleveland TO increase fire
mems pay from $500 to $1,000 per year failed.
THE Cigarma'crs' International Union has
| about sixty thousand members in New York
/ city.
| A BosToN organization is attempting TO
| form ''self-improvenlent clubs Tor working
| uen.
THERE are 100000 men. who would be
glad to work, unemployed in the United
| States.
SOME Albany IN. W stove molders have
struck to have their castings counted in their
own alleys.
| PADRoNEs are at their old work of furnish
| ing italian laborers TO corporations at SO
| much n head.
THE reports Of the high rates OF wages paid
on the Pacific coast frequently prove TO be
highly colored.
THERE are four concerns in New York city
In which the employees get share of the pro-
fits every year.
CHARLES PRATT of Brooklyn one OF the
Standard Oil Company magnates, is a
machinist by trade.
SEVEN THOUSAND miners are idle in the
Allegheny Mountains because they can earn
only ninety cents per day.
HUGO ZIEMAN. the steward Of the White
| House, is under a bond of 10000 for good
behavior. His salary is $500 year.
NUMEROUS unions IRE complaining that
| manufacturers are rapidly organizing all
ovcr the country while workingmen are luke
| warm.
| THE Window Glass Workers Union at
Pittsburg is the richest labor organization in
the country, and holds II reserve fund of
| $500, 600
The practice Of forming benevolent and
| protective organizations and benefit funds Is
1
trade societies.
THE boss masons and iourneymnn brcklay-
| crs. of New Norl. city, at n recent conference
fixed the scale Of wages for the ensuing year
at -. 80 day.
TWENTY factories having an aggregate
| capital Of Sl,5OO,OOO. have been opened IN
! Florence, Ala, in the last seven months Civ
ing employment 60 over 2000 people
The watchmakers, OF Prescott, England,
| trade is declining, have decided 10 build d
factory and work ON the American plan.
THE molders employed in n Reading
| penny foundry, have formed "burn asso-
ciation' 10 take care Of those of their NUM-
her who are injured by burns scalds, or
melted metals.
FACTORY girls in Massachusetts wooler
! mill laid of some time ago because the fore
man persisted in keeping picture OF white
| horse on his desk. Ten of the girls had haii
which was decidedly auburn in color.
INCLUDING policemen, postoflice officials
| ma.'Sctmen and women, caro-takc-s, hoSaiG.
| nurses. and newspaper writers and primers
it is estimated that fully 1000 of the inhab
itants Of London are night workers.
QUEEa VICTORIA imports a new cargo OF
Indian servants every month or two, whereat
| the rest of the English royal household ar,
| much displeased. while the British lackeys al
Osborne and Balmoral are in high dudgeor
over sights thus imposed.
Iy tobacco factories in New York, Brook
! lyn and the neighborhood, there are children
only four years of ago-somctimcs half ,
| dozen in n single room. Others are eigh
years of age and range from that up TO III
| teen years. Girls and boys of twelve 90 four
teen years can earn from four 10 five dollar
| u week.
New YORK STATE las law which pro
| hibitS the cmployment of children under ia,
| age of thirteen in any of the 5000 manu
| featuring establishments in the State, and
which makes sixty hours the limit os week
work in such factories for all women undo.
tie age Of twenty-one, and boys under
! eighteen.