The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-06-28
WORK AND WORKERS.

Vienna car drivers gets co cents for eigh'
teen hours.
Tho Illinois womons Press Association
will Greet hall at Chicago.
Tho st. Puul and Omaha Hallway Com
pony will no longer employ Italians.
Londcn stroet-cnr drivers work fourteen
hours n day and got Sj'to 81 u week,
A labor congress will be held I'm Montreal, +,
Canada. tho first week September.
In China tho iron workers considered the
tsSt I'm the world) makes G:eonts per day.
Tho Aberdeou packets have stopped. run
Mug, owing to tho strike orlscamen aud fire.
men.
Tho Electric Gas General tor Company, OF
Detroit Intends to furnish & ~ at rs cents<per
thousand feet.
Tho Bro herbood OF Carp enters and. join
rrs gave 81, ,OOJ for tho relief OF the sufferers
ut Johnstown, Pu.
Tho wages Of tho I 100 girl shoe workers OF
Cincinnati have been cut 50 per cent during
tho plst year.
Tho talors are tho bnst orgopjzed workers
In Eng land, and arc able to earhgool wages
in tho large cities.
Massachusetts illiteratcs form eight per
cent. OF tho population, tho worst average in
tn" United States.
Th" productive power OF the machinery OF
tho United States is moro than equal to tho
labor OF 5UO, 900 ,OOJ mon.
The annual convention OF tho American
| Flint. Glass Workers Union will be held In
| tho muntn OF July ut BeIiairc. Ohio.
Tho Boston granite cutters scale has been
| Si,,i"d tor another year. Ten por cent. nd-
| vnuro on Westerly granite.
Women AFRO crowding men compositors I'm
! London The fuuinlv work Is not a5 clean
| tho mems, although tho women work as fast.
"A general reduction OF 10 per cent. has
| been male in tho wages of furnace employees
thruu ,hout tho Shcnuugo Valley, Pennsyi-
| vnnIa.
| Th. Pennsylvania Legislature failed to
m,uko an appropriation To cover tho expense I,
| ut tho bureau Of inspectors which 1t estaU
| !islIcd
| a number OF labor organizations OF Now
| York und l,ruukIyn arc holding Sunday
night mass meetings in favor Of tho eight
hour day.
| The strike OF tho stoncmnsons Of Pittsburg
| uird Allie. hruy has bceu settled by nm agree
u,'nt to arhitrate. Meautinlo the mon have
Resumed ut tho oil wages.
| El"von Philadelphia plumbers who wero
taken To Omaht 10y tho muster plumbers re-
turned homo ut the expense OF tho union
when they heard tho mems story.
Tho Pattern Makers League OF North
| America, in session ut Pittsburg, adoptc
rs'Iutiuns indorsing tho eight hour day. 1t
was ,iccId"d to abolish all piece work
Tho coal hcavers OF Ashland, Wisconsin,
huv- again struck for an advance of 50 con tS
per day, and mon have boen imported from
| st, l'uul and Duluth to tako their places.
The cotton mills of the Eastern states are
now running To their full capacity, aud a
number Of new plants ara under way. This
is udicatiyo uf u healthy condition Of bust.
| mss
During the past month seventeen new char
| t"rS have been ISSUED 10y tho general srcre-
tary Of tho Carpenters Brotherhood, which
shows that tho work Of organization is not
tagging among tho knights Of the saw and
| plane.
At IIclnisN lille, n manufacturing village OF
| Lancaster, Eng thrr" Is u lady who presides
at all Tn" labor meetings nnd has organized
| tho Operatives. Her nam" Is Eva Humboldt
and she is pretty ami Spirited brunette.
Tho Cleveland coal wharf hands were paid
- cents pr ton in lASI ami | cents last year,
,,ul cuupru..is,,i their strik" las: week by
accepting IL cents. They will get So Der
day for SUNDAY work. AMI arc allowed to se-
lrrt their own gang foreman aud work from
to O'Clock.
a reduction OF 10 pcr cent. i'm wages went
into effect May IL in tho Dickson Manufac-
turing Comp,ny'S locomotive works i'm
Scranton nni Wiki sburrc, Pa. Tho rcduc-
tloD, 1t Is said, applied to everybody EN-
ployoi by tho company, from the president
! down