Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-02-15
THE LABOR WORLD.

THE Bakers Unions IN Connecticut nave
State federation
The sailors strike at Liverpool is assuming
serious proportions.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, thinks of pensionlng
her retired policemen.
THE Cement Laborers' Union has increased
Its death benefit to 800.
The native Samoan does not work. All
labor IN that country is imported
OVER 70, 100000 pairs of suspenders were
made in the United States last year.
Two HUNDRED Bohemian women cigar
makers have left New York for San Fran
cisco.
JACOB TOME, of Baltimore, has donated
50, 500, 900 for boys and girls training
school
A COMPANY is being formed in Melbourne,
Australia for the Importation OF domestlc
servants.
THE lockout of the two thousand miners
at Spring Valley ILL.,, has been ended by
compromise.
A PROJECT now on foot is a movement to
furnish protection to the operatives in sew
ing factories.
The striking seamen at Liverpool are
using violence to prevent men shipping on
vessels in port.
Mrs, AMBllE TkkVES ShANlEf, VIC 1uOho'
ess, has given 500 for the best essay on the
subject of child labor.
CoHoEs, N. Y, the chief seat of the knit
goods industry, reports that sixty-ive per
cent of its mills are idle.
SEVEN MILLION feet of spool wood was
lately shipped from Bangor, Me-, to firm
Of Scotch thread makers.
| THERE Is war of races between the
| hungarian and Italian miners at the coal
pits hear Carbonate, Penn.
THE colored washerwomen Of Albany, Ca,
have warned away several Cinnamon VINO
sought to compete with them.
FIFTY-EIvE cents day is the average
| earnings of the American working people,
counting in women and children.
THERE are six Knights of Labor and Trade
| Unionists smong the Representatives ana
Senators in the State of Indiana.
THE cooperative stove foundry Of Somer
set, Mass, has resolved upon reduction OF
| ten per cent. in the wages paid this year.
NUMEROUS Pennsylvania and Ohio manu-
| facturers have been forced back to the use
of coal, as the natural gas is running low.
The Duchess de Galliera has founded an
| institution in Paris for paying the rent OF
respectable working people in momentary
distress.
The Diamond Match Company of Con.
necticut has signed a contract to locate Its
| immense straw-board and paper works in
| Wabash, Ind.
| KNTrTERs in Donegal, Ireland, are paid
| three to four cents per pair for long socks
that the most nimble fingers cannot finish in
less than day.
| BoSToN's labor unions want the Legisla-
| ture to abolish the system Of fines in textile
| mills there, as well as to make eight hours
days work for employees of the State and
the city.
| A BILL has been introduced In the Penn,
| sylvana House requiring employers Of
foreign born unnaturalized laborers to pay a
| tax for every person so employed Of twenty
| five cents a day.
THE number of men engaged in American
| fisheries is 10l 1884. These, with shoremen de-
pendent on the fisheries, 30, 742, and seamen,
steamboatmen, canalmen, pilots, and water
men, 100, 992, make total OF 232, 32S.
THE hair spinuers lately held a convention
| in Baltimore and formed National Union
| and elected officers. There are only about
| 200 hair spinners In the United States, most
| Of whom are in Boston and Hyde Park,
| Mass.
A YOUNG working girl of Auburn, Mass 4,
recently wrote to her mother saying: II
| am doing stockings and get fourteen cents a
| dozen. 1t takes me two good days to do one
dozen, but am going to try to do more next
week."
Two New York organizations the
| Workingwomen's Society OF Sewing Machine
| Operators and the Ladies' Employment
| Society-have combined their forces for the
| accomplishment OF a number OF objects
whereby the lot Of the working girl may be
made easier,