Omaha daily bee., 1889-03-22
THE HANDS THAT TOLL.

Minneapolis, MINI, has 1000 men who are
looking for work
strike has occurred among the weavers
at Armetieres, France.
A Nashua On H.) tool factory has cut
wages from to 35 per cent. a-
The Wheeling Hinge company Of West
Virginia has cut wages 10 per cent.
Wheeling wv. Va.) painters have struck
for So per day of nine hours, change from
SAT- and ten hours.
The strike among the employees at the blast
furnace of Andrew Brothers & Co. at Halle
ton, o., has been declared off.
The upper rolling mill of the Lackawanna
Iron and Coal company at Scranton, Pa, en-
poying 700 hands, has resumed.
The ''shaft lashing" weavers at Stead &
Miller's upholstery mill, Philadelphia, Pa,
are on strike against reduction in wages.
The Canadian Pacific railroad shops at
Vancouver, b. c., employ about one hundred
men, eight and one-half hours being days
work.
The Scott Foundry Rolling mill of the
Reading Iron Works at Reading, Pa, has
closed down. The works employed 1900 men
and boys.
A strike is threatened among the brcklay-
ers of Cleveland, o. They want As cents an
hour while the contractors refuse to pay
more than 40
Terra Gotta workers are warned to stay
away from Brightwood, Ind, where there Is
trouble among the men at the Inianapolis
Terra Gotta Works.
At New York city the boss masons and
the journeymen bricklayers settled the scale
of wages for the ensuing year at S4.05 per
day, nine hours five days of the week and
| eight on Saturday.
The puddlers of the Maiden Creek iron
company at Blandon, Pa, have accepted a
| reduction in wages from $3.50 to 1925 per
| ton, and all other employees have been re.
| duced in proportion.
| Kansas City now has a labor exchange
| Employment will be secured for idle labor
ers ana families of the poor be looked after.
| 1t is the intention also to establish night
| schools and furnish educational facilities to
the impoverished.
Kent (England) farm laborers make from
50 to $3.50 per week. Dorsetshire hands
average nearly 81 less, and at Torshire oper-
atives make $3.50 per week. The Boston
| Commercial says four room cottage with a
garden costs go cents per week; q fair cot
tage brings IS cents.
! Some Denmark railway companies en-
| ploy man and his wife together. The
women signal the trains and the men do the
track walking In case of the death OF
| either husband or wife the other half Of the
family must marry in six months or get out
the companys employ
Spokane Assembly, No. 1862. *. of L.,
warns all workingmen to stay away from
| Spokane, Washington Territory. There'i:
less prospect now than there was ever before
The town is full of idle men, and every
branch of labor is overcrowded.
In spite of its boasted natural gas, Toledo
is going to lose a large manufactory. as thu
cost of fuel is greater thai in Cleveland ant
other cities. The price o. gas is based on p
per cent less than of coal, but the latter fue
for manufacturing purposes costs only hal
as much in Cleveland as in Toledo.
The Wheeling, Lake Erie & Pittsburi
Coal company has recently gained control o
upward of 5000 acres Of coal lands nea
Smithfeld, Jefferson county, o., in what i
considered the richest coal field in eastern
Ohio. The company expects to give employ
ment to 1900 men, and which will turn ou
annually from 100000 to 100000 tons o
coal.
General Master Workman Powderly nov
keeps the following notice standing at tn
head Of the editorial columns in the Journa
of United Labor;
Invitations to picnics, balls, entertain