Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-01-19
LABOR NOTES..


was held and the cut denounced.
A new fire company is to be organized
demand that the council shall appoint a
company of colored men.
The New York uptown CLERKS and
statesmen talk Of dropping the early clos
ing demand until they shall have gained
n twelve-hour day.
Dunbarton Scotland carpenters have
won an advance of 5 per cent, and the
craft at Dundee now receives Ct pence
per bour.
Hamilton OOnt.) bakers were fined s.
each for selling light weight bread. The
money was handed over to local charities.
At Mobile, Ala, only those having
stalls in the market house can sell poul-
try. Grocers are thus deprived OF part of
their trade.
The Car Of Russia recently picked up
700 pounds of steel in a Petershofr gun
factory. The workers cheered.
The Kansas City butchers have sue
ceeded in their demands that the packers
should discontinue retail trade.
In Paris, France, "a big company has a
monopoly of the funerals. This company
handles $1,000 bodies yearly.
George Hotis of Albany got S12, 600
damages from the Central Hudson rail
road. He lost a leg while braking.
There are 30, 600 men in tAe Stationary
Engineers ASSOCIATION. The union was
formed in New York in 1882.
The Cincinnati Butchers union has de-
clared a boycott against all dealers who
sell Chicago dressed beef.
Spokane Falls, w. t., labor unions re
Gently held a public reunion. The mayor
of the town presided.
lnGermany w%orking1en' S societies can
not hold political debates nor carry ban
ners other than loyal ones.
At Parana, according to the Buenos
Ayres Herald. textiles made from rushes
look like wool and silk.
America supplies China with black
artificial teeth, and South America takes
yellow molars.
In Louisina no private market can be
within six squares q, 100 feet Of a public
market.
The Omaha PAYERS get 40 cents per
hour and 30 cents for work outside the
city limits.
AT San Francisco bread sells for 5
cents per loaf and stale bread two loaves
for 5 cents.
In San Francisco each hydrant has s
metre which registers the amount o.
water used.
Tx New York Custom Tailors' uniol
has secured the dismissal of a non-unior
man.
The New York Bottlers' Protective
unions initiation fee will be S25 after
January 1.
San Jose, Cal, butchers will close at
p. m. after January 1 and all day Sun
day.
Hot house strawberries sold for 81
cents each at New York a few days ago
Fort Dodge, To-, coal miners hav,
struck for an advance of 10 cents pc
bushel.
AT Austin, Tex, there is deaf, duni
and blind institute for colored people.
Thirteen cotton mills in and arounc
Augusta, Ga, employ 300 persons.
A manual training school for coloret
boys is being agitated at Baltimore.
Norfolk, Va, timers struck last weel
for $3.50 instead of 81 per day.
The United States has 700 railroads
They employ 500, 600 persons.
Doctors of Lansing, Mich, have or
ganized against bad pay people.
The New York Workingwomen's soci
ETY. will open o labor bureau.
Denver switchmen have struck for al
increase Of 5 cents per hour.
Lake Shore railroad conductors carry
surgical instruments.
Canadian wooden manufacturers say
trade is almost dead.
Milwaukee milk has gone up from 5 { o
Z cents per quart.
The United States consumes 2S, 600, 900
Holsters yearly.
Brooklyn street railway men held a big
ball last week.
Maine packed 70, 600. 600 ans of corn
this season.
Youngstown, O., saloons must close al
10 p. m.
Nebraska Dairymen have a state asso-
citation.
Wood is 81 per cord at Grass Valley,
Cal.