The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-10-03
THE LABOR WORLD.

IMPORTED laborers in Alabama recently
were paid five cents per day.
EsGLAND's Engineers Union has $4,000
members, and has spent S14, 092, SIS In bene-
fits since 1855?
THE Amalgamated Machinists' Union of
New York city sactive in its efforts to form
national organization.
THE convention of the International
CigarmaRers Union of America was recently
in session in New York city.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL has become
one of the foremost champions of the eight
hour movement in England.
THREE workmen were discharged by a
leather manufacturer in Newark, N. j., be-
cause they did not work on Labor Day.
In some of the densely populated districts
of London there are BARRIERS who shave GUS
toners for the moderate sum of one cent
each.
ACCORDING to the news from Maine, all
the sawmills on the Penobscot River arenow
=, in full operation under the new adjustment
Of wages.
THE greatest single industry in any city in
the world is said to be the manufacture of
carpets in Philadelphia. 1t employs 1850
looms and 1900 workmen,
II is not likely that there will be another
strike of the seamen on the ocean steamers ct
the English ports for long time again. This
last strike was miserable failure.
The National Textile Workers Union,
which holds charter in the American Fede.
ration of Labor, now has a membership OF
5000 distributed among nineteen branches.
AT the Convention of the National Brew
ers' ution in Cincinnati, eighteen branches
were represented New York will continue
to be the headquarters of the National
Union
THERE are limestone works at Glenarm, in
| County Antrim, Ireland, where several hun
dreds of people are employed at wages ave.
raging "a per week for very hard work and
long hours.
THE organized bakers in New York and
other parts of the United States are still
keeping up those efforts that have been the
means of securing important advantages or
them within the past few years.
THE percentage of wages paid for food by
| American workingmen as shown by recent
! return from various countries, is much less
| than is paid by the workmen of either Ger
MANY, Spain, Great Britain, France, Italy or
Belgium.
The daughter of the celebrated Professor
Agassiz is busy in Boston establishing man
uai training school Over 1000 boys and girls
shared in the advantages of this school last
year Efforts are being put forth 70 nave
the school adopted by the city.
TIE 200 miles of new railroads built In
1885 called about Sc, 900 new men into the
service, reckoning five employees to the mile
including officers and men in oil capacities
The present railway system OF the United
States has an army of 7s5, 900 men
NEW York CITY has an interesting society
devoted to the discussion of labor questions
1t is known as the Church Association for the
Advancement OF the Interests of Labor, and
both capitalists and wageworkers join in the
debates, which are apt to take religious
turn.
THg report of the Saxon factory inspectors
in Germany, states that during the past year
no less than 1852 children, from twelve 70
fourteen years Of age, an increase OF l0O0 In
round numbers over the previous year, are
employed in the various industrial establish
meDtS.
BRICK wall can be built more cheaply In
Columbus, Ohio, than in Leipsic, Germany
| T'ha bricks cost more than in Leipsic and the
Isborer is paid about the same in either city,
but the American bricklayer does so mucf,
| more work IN given time that the difference
| In the price of bricks is more than Offset.