The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1889-10-31
THE LABOR WORLD.

The Pittsburg, Penn, maltsters have asked
for shorter hours,
Two assemblies of the X. Of L. have been
formed In Ireland
ST. LOUIS musicians average about $40 a
year, or sl4 .s5 a week
THERE are nearly 81, 600 carpet workers OF
both sexes in Philadelphia.
SIXTEEN HUNDRED men are working at the
Chester, Penn, shipyards.
THERE will soon be national organization
of the tile layers OF tho United States.
TUE pantaloon makers of Boston, Mass,
have started union with seventy members.
AN advance of fifty cents a day has been
given TO tho plasterers at Connellsville
Penn.
Tue worklngmen in Chicago have sub
soribed to $500, 900 worth Of the Worlds Fair
stock.
THE Chinese tailors in Hong Kong are
fighting against the introduction OF sewing
machines,
The eight-hour system is satisfactorily
working in the British colony of Victoria,
Australia,
THE recent dock strike in London has, &c.
eording To John Burns, the leader, been the
means OF raising wages in at least 200 trades
there
THE second annual convention of the Jour
neymen BARRIERS International Union OF
America will be held in Detroit, Mich, De
cember Sd.
AT the request of the tailoresses of Boston
the labor organizations Of that city will
adopt label which is to be placed ON union
made clothing.
In the newly drafted Constitution for the
State of Wyoming it is provided that eight
hours shall constitute a days work in all
mines and on all State and municipal
works.
The new locomotive works of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad at Altoona, Penn, are TO have
capacity of 500 engines year, and are so
constructed that their manufacture can be
increased up to 1900.
FIpTy miners were lately killed by an ex-
ploSion IN the ironstone pit of the Maurice
Wood Colliery, Scotland. Subscriptions are
being raised all over the country for their
widows and families.
COOPERATIVE stores are gaining ground in
England and workingmen seem everywhere
anx ious to buy stock in them. Cooperative
hat stores ere 1ourishing in all the large
cities and have proved great success.
In order to replace the field laborers who
have emigrated to Mexico and South America
n company has been formed in Havana,
Cuba, to make contracts with number of
workmen in Spain to bring them to Cuba
with their families.
WoRKINGNEN in Paris are agtating for the
eight-hour movement A letter to that effect
has been sent TO the headquarters of the
American Federation of Labor in New York
city. The movement is the outcome of the
visit of American workingmen in Paris.
A NEW YORK unionist, who is in Buenos
Ayres, Argentine Republic, writes to New
York saying that it is not hard to get work
there. He says, however, that it would be
foolish for any mechanic to go there expect
ing to get an easy job or to become rich.
Carpenters get from 81 to $3.50; bricklayers,
from So to So, and bakers from 81 75 to 1925.
THERE have been just two interesting ex-
amples of moral action by labor organiza-
tions. The New York Hod-hoisting Engi-
neers Union expelled a member who offered
his boss So of his weekly wages ''just to have
a steady job and the Salesmen's Early Clos.
ing Association of Newark, n. j., expelled a
member for dishonesty toward his employer
THE United Typothete at its third annual
convention held in st. Louis opposed the
eight-hour movement, which the Confed.
Grated Assembly of Trades Unions has
declared will go into effect in May, $780,
Each local Typothetae was advised to take
such action as in its opinion may be necessa.
nv to meet the issue if it should be seriously
presented.