The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-06-27
THE LABOR WORLD,

Mosr Of the silk mills are crowded
CHINESE boatmen make $40 and Sl2 per
year
THE demand for sailors is greater than tho
supply.
LocHsdITHs in London earn from 50 TO $40
week
A GERMAN servant-maid receives from 500
10 $40 year
BOOT and shoe factory is 10 bo built e.
Cedartown, Ga.
A PARTY Of $50 American engineers are
travelling in Europe.
The Paris cabmen are a powerful BODY.
politically and otherwise.
THE prejudice against labor organization,
seems To he fast disappearing.
STEIEEs are almost unheard of in New
hampshire and North Carolina
SINCE 1886 three attempts havo been inn,lo
10 organize drug clerks union.
IHE bricklayers in Birmingham. England.
are earning frorl s. to $40 week
THE uso Of Cuban hematites for stee,
making IN the South is being agitated
The striking steamship fremen and
laoorerS at Liverpool have submitted.
THE profit'sharing idea is gaining ground
IN some OF the barge cities Of the West
THERE are trade unions in China. A skiIl,l
workman doesn't make over 81 per month
PAPER mill building is going ahead faster
than over ana there is great rush for
machinery.
The National Association OF Train Di,
patchers has just held its annual session at
indianapolis.
DURING the summon the glass manu-
facturers will make extensive improycmo,t,
in their plants
THERE Is but little trouble in the labor CIR
cles just at present outside of the mining and
steel industries.
The Day County Qnd.) miners hayo asked
Tue uovernor To issue an appeal 10 tho public
for aid for them.
DRIVERS employed by express companie,
now set on an average S65 a month; truck.
men about $50 month.
THERE is great activity at present in Tho
ship-building yards all over England, and
ne" "orEmen are constantly being taken on.
SEATTLE, Washington Territory, which
was recantly visited by Il disastrous fire. is
giving work to all men who want il at $. n
day. ~
THIRTEEN HUNDRED mon were employol
tho past year making railroad slry,y.
through Northern California for tho Union
Pacific.
IHb Swiss Government has inaugur.tel q
movement intended ~ bring about a uniyer-
sal reduction Of hours Of labor for work. ) in
factories and on farms
In England and France many women dress
IN mems clothes all the time They claim
that when they pass themselves Off for mon
they gct better wages and suffer less annoy
anco.
IN tho matchmaking districts in Clerseu-
well, London the dial painters earn $50 a
week. The work is so bad for the eyes that
twenty per cent. of the dial painters become
blind.
SrATIsTIcIANs estimate that there are over
3,OOOOU women in this country who are on
gagged In work which is not domestic. or
thls mum bor 275 are minister's and seventy
five arc lawyers.
AT delegate convention OF railroad min
ers OF Western Pennsylvania in Pittsburg a.
committee was appointed TO draft resolutions
demanding that the coal operators discon-,
tinue their stores
BALTIMORE leads tho country in tho MANI
facture Of oversils. In that olty 5000 women
are employed in this industry. Their wages
average Of about $3.50.
Hollow brick are beiHg largely used in
buildings in Eastern cities. They crush at
pressure OF 30, 900 pounds, which Is about the
same as solid brick bears. The bricks are
put on their ends in building. thus making
the wall hollow from top To bottom.
THE Secret Service Labor Bureau is com.
posed OF Knights of Labor, with Pinkerton
detective, formerly longshoreman, a. It's
head. 1t does effective work in roofing out
spies and emissaries who join labor organiza-
lions to hnd out the secrets Of the employes.