Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-19
WORK AND WORKERS.

In Japan nearly all the places OF business
are now closed on Sunday.
THE Phoenix Labor Club, Of Brooklyn, viii
start cooperative brass factory.
THE New York silk manufacturers have
granted 10 per cent advance in wages.
AT Schenectady, N. Y, the LOO hands in
the locomotive works have been notified OF
a 10 per cent cut in wages.
MEMBERS of the Bricl1layers' and Masons
international Union work nine hours per dag
and receive 40 cents per hour.
ST. Louis iron workers have adopted reso-
lutions declaring their intention to supper.
the carpenters in their efforts to secure an
eight-hour day.
BIRMINGHAM Comm bitmakers have
struck against 90 per cent. cut in wages.
New hands from Castle Garden are getting
from 81 to 81. 25 per day.
THERE is All interesting industry at Orne-
vile, Ne. One concern in that town makes
twenty different kinds of log and board
rules and four different caliper rules.
THE Labor Commission gives this account
of wages in North Carolina: Blacksmlths,
Si.3S; brick masons, 81. 05; carpenters, $40;
machinists, 81. 06; millwrghts, 81 10; paint
ers, s., 43; printers, 81 A, and wheelwrights,
$50
THE Stonecutters' National Association
met at Detroit and raised the monthly dues
to 20 cents, fixed the initiation fee at $40,
and $40 for foreigners, and decided that
members can not visit Europe except once
in five years" The last is funny.
THERE are two large carpenters societies
In the United States One is the Amalga-
mo- a1 T,i1 =
prising 464 branches and 25,226 members
The other is the American Brotherhood OF
Carpenters, which has a much larger mem
bership.
THE whole world can not produce fine,
stained glass works than can be found right
here in Philadelphia says the Philadelphia
Real Estate Record, speaking of the success
of a Philadelphia firm in getting a contract
for stained windows in spite OF the compe-
tition of foreign manufacturers.
The Omaha Herald vouches for the sue
cess of any of the following enterprises
which viii find a field in that city: Glucose
works, starch factory, large box factory,
hoIniny mill, large Touring mill, feed grind
ing mill, 100000 wholesale dry-goods
house, vegetable canning factory, large
soap works, straw paper mill, glue factory,
brush factory and many minor mills
The reports of the high rates of wages
pad on the Pacific coast frequently prove
TO be highly colored, and the unions of va
rious trades located IN the far West are
often compelled TO contradict the glowing
accounts published by Interested transpor
tatlon and real-estate agents. The latest Cd
these contradictions comes from carpenters
In washington Territory, who say then
wages are nowhere near what they have
been reported to be-
WRITING of the condition II labor in the
United States, an economist saws: "Cn-
Quesuonably, shorter hours of work would
help matters, if uniformly adopted and ng.
orously observed; in fact, one of the MAN
advantages which have already come &c
Labor through labor-ssving machinery Is ia
shorter hours already secured. Forbidden 2 |
chad labor would make another addition &c |
the proport3onate importance of the labor |
OF men properly employed, and would maks |
q corresponding addition to propor,i ona;e |
wages"
'THR suggestion that eight-hour leagues be |
established IS a good one says the Crafts |
nlan- ''out they should not merely ag1fx.s !
the matter in their meeting places and in |
the craft papers. The reason for the faith /
that IS ia Us should be made plain to the /
world. and the world should be made to IN
THAI we know what we want s-d |
why we want IL Our hopes THY 7s-s be /
progress and further con ana tho sxs,>.
ton as Al reiaSuers haFe oeae NncS ~
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