The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-04-12
LABOR NOTES.

Detroit t~elegraphers held q ball.
Chill has excluded John Chinanan.
Beef costs 5 cents per pound in Ne.
yada.
San Francisco carmakers receive 49, IS
per day.
Clevelanders have formed an eight-hour
East st. Louis has only five non-union
carpenters.
Missouri will pay $3.50 for the best FIVE
acres of corn.
Syracuse, N. Y, tinsmjths demand
50. so per day.
Minneapolis has 9, 1000 men who are
cooking for work.
Paris will license a few organ grinders
and arrest any others.
Kansas has adopted 8 per cent. as the
legal rate of interest.
At Howard City, Mich, potatoes cost
12 cents per bushel.
Strawberries bring 30 cents per quart
at Orange City, Fla.
A South Bridge, Mass, mill pays its
hands on Wednesdays.
Boston steam filters want nine hours,
with eight on Saturday.
The Lyon shoe workers have decided
10 stick to the knights.
San Francisco butchers will bold an
exhibition on March II.
A. Nashua, N. H., tool factory has cut
wages from 5 to 50 per cent
Some New England mills have big
bathrooms for their employees.
The Wheeling Hinge company cut
wages 10 per cent. last week.
Mahanoy Valley, o., furnace men have
accepted a 10 per cent. cut.
Omaha b%ricklayers want an eight-hour
day with no change in pay.
Enfield, N. Y, wooden weavers struck
against u cut of / cent per yard.
Englishmen are being brought to Pitts
burg by the iron manufacturers.
Seine Fall River %spinners won a strike
to have a srare spinner re-employed.
Buffalo carpenters and %joiners wan
nine hours and % cents per hour.
Jeanette, Pa, painters want an in
crease from So, 25 to So. so per day.
The Co operative Tailoring company
of Chicago made S43, 900 last year.
The Jacksonville, Ind, Car compan.
discharges employees who get drunk.
The mayor of Boston listened to an ap
peal for an eight hour day on all cit,
work.
The San Francisco White Labor lea
CUES hall contains q library and billiard
room.
The United Silk workers of Hoboken
N. j., will demand an e%ight.hour da,
next year.
Buffalo dealers are opposed to sellin
berries by weight, and want the law re
pealed.
Hamilton, Ont, molders have accepte
a 10 per cent. cut. Day workers receiv
S.. 25 per day.
The Canadians are increasing thei
consumption of beer, and the drinking q
spirits is declining.
The Astor Industrial Society of Ne'
York teaches young women in cooking
needlework, etc.
Syracuse, N. Y, painters want a Mint
hour day and 22t cents per hour. an il
crease OF q cents.
The A. O0-foot fiume which is to suppl
San Diego, Cal, was dedicated with
parade, speeches, etc.
Tacoma, Wash, steamboat hands, NAL
} ing over $50 per month, have had the
wages cat 10 per cent.
The first Typographical District COZ
~vention ever held in the United States r
Gently met at San Francisco.
A carload Of freight is about 900
pounds. Ninety barrels of -four ia a ca
: load, and sixty barrels of whisky.
!, The business annually transacted {
the London stock exchapge-the world
great center of speculative enterprise
amounts to about "a, 800, coo, 900.
Syracuse, NY, in-scamcrs have strut
/. for an advance of 4 cents per pair. Tht
make from 81 &c to 81 SO per day.
An Elizabethport, N, T., sewing m
: chine works has cut its force from 4,0t
> hands to 800 operatives within a fe
+, years.
/. The Milwaukee Cooperative store i
: debtedness is the cause of or assessme
of 80 80 on each of Chicago's 1900 unto
lists.
: One of the latest advances in electric
illumination:s the lighting of the Lond'
/; omnibuscs with electricity, the battery
a be under the seat of the driver.
: Miners at Helena, Ala, have had Il
u size of their screens increased from on
half inch to two inches. Their wag
. we're reduced so per cent in 1888.
e Francis w. Lasak. the fur man vi
: has just died, was worth Sc, 900, 900.
hadn't a cent when he arrived in Il
country, but he had learned the fur trat
The ordinance fixing the fare on L
troit street cars around working time
a 8 cents was put in force on Monday. tt
5 is the fare on all cars up to Z a. m. a
between Bio and 6:15 p. m.
y A Montreal street car driver threw
n laborer off the platform because he
fused t go in the car. The passeng
got $50 damages from the driver q
S400 from the company.
d Kansas City now has a Labor exchanl
Employment will be secured for il
/, laborers, and families of the poor look
= after. 1t is the intention also to establi