Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-06-12
WORK AND WORKERS.

NEW York bricklayers get 45O for nine
| hours, work
SOUTHERN stove manufacturers have
| formed trust.
| MANY New York tailors work sixtaen
hours for 81 per week.
CLEVELAND painters won their appeal for
% cents per hour all the year
MASSACHUSETTS, cooperative creameries
make 10000 pounds Of butter yearly.
WISCONSIN painters make about 50 per day
and S343 per year; sign painters, 1854 per
year, and paper-hangers $3.50.
In 1888 we exported g, 0O0, 600 worth of
sewing machines and 5000 GOO worth of
steam engines and machinery.
A WHEELING firm says that the Ameri-
can laborer thinks while he works and an
Italian simply works like horse.
SAxoNY wool, the very finest in the
world, comes from sheep that are cross of
the Spanish upon the Saxon Merino.
MoLDERs in Milwaukee iron works ac-
cepted cut from 80 to 90 per mold, but
struck when obnoxious rules were made
THE fleece of ten goats and the work of
several men for half year are required to
make cashmere shawl yard and half
square.
Mr.. DuvoLL, a Sonora (Cal) Frenchman.
was worth 81, 0O0, coo few years ago, made
by striking gold. He lost it all in specula-
ton and is now out of work
Ar San Francisco, says a letter to the
knights Of Labor journal, the wages of
painters are s. for nine hours work, but
plenty are to be found for $3.50.
THE Government printing office now de-
mands only eight hours work of employees
The reduction of hours was brought about
by the Typographical Union of Washin gton.
The National Textile Workers Union,
which holds charter in the American Fed
GRAFTON Of Labor, now has membership of
5000, distributed among nineteen branches.
A COTTON fabric which has been patented
in England has the appearance and soft feel
OF chamois leather, and it is guaranteed
will not lose its special qualities when
washed.
THE Canadian Labor Commission, in a re-.
cent report, suggests that the Government
create Official boards OF arbitration for
settlement of disputes between EMPLOYERS
and wage-workers.
A BALTIMORE & ONO railroad brakeman
got $3.50 damages for injuries caused in
railroad accident. The company claimed
that 1t was not liable when the air-brakea
refused to do their work
THERE is demand for labor in Montana.
It's said that at no time within the history
OF that Territory have so many important
public works been contemplated or so many
individual enterprises outlined.
THE custom of providing sick relief funds
IS on the increase among trades unions.
The Wood-Turners' of New York, Painters,
Nos. and 8, Of Philadelphia, and the Bos.
ton Shoe-Makers' Progressive unions are
the latest to adopt the plan.
THE Central Labor Federation In New
York Is trying to induce the United Ger
man trades to unite with it. The main diff
Guilty in the way is the fact that all the
business of the latter organization is trans.
acted in the German language.
The Central Labor Union of New York
has receded from its position in support of
Sunday-closing laws. The workmen claim
that 1t stores are closed on Sunday "the
meat for their Sunday dinners would spoil
II 1t were not delivered in the morning"
THE action of the National Journeymen
Bakers Union in removing George c. Bloch
from the editorship of the trade journal has
brought many local unions into rebellion
against the national officers, and there is a
vigorous demand coming from all parts Of
the country for reorganization of the Ma
tional Union.