Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-05-08
THE WORKING WORL0.

CHICAGO has 1,500 union cigar makers.
THE Indiana Legislature has repealed the
Conspiracy act.
WHEN some Chattanooga colered freight
hands struck the other day white men took
their places.
ST. LOUIS master builders have agreed to
pay carpenters IS cents per hour for On
eight-hour day this season.
THREE feet of coafsfias been found 1SO
feet under the surface near Independence,
Kan. also similar vein at Salina.
THE international Typographical Union
was organized on December 5, 1850 It has
275 local unions and IS, 600 members
The Colorado Legislature has passed q
bill which compels children between the
ages OF and II years to attend school.
The Iron Molders' Union was organized in
1859, and has $50 locals and q, 600 members
Wages have been raised from 50 Ito 81. rs TOR
tent hour day.
The National Forge and Iron Company,
recently formed, with capital stock of
1000, will build mill In the immediate
vicinity of Chicago.
THE California State Board of Trade will
receive names Of people wanting work and
employers in search of men. These lists
will be kept in different towns.
TROY, N. z, at one time made 20 per cent.
of the stoves manufactured in this country.
Now she turns out only Is per cent West
ern foundries have caught the trade.
NEARLY all Of the geo Minneapolis cigar
makers are idle because of the competition
Of goods from the Eighth district Of Penn
sylvania and the New York tenement
houses.
The Hat Finisheps' Union was organized
in Philadelphia on June 5, 1854 It has 4, 200
members and fifteen locals. The initiation
is SIS, and the dues are fifteen cents per
week. Brooklyn hands average SO per
week.
The Woman's National Industrial League,
the headquarters of which are located in
New York, holds forth standing invitation
for all working women who are maltreated
by their employers to send in Statements
Of their grievances that corrective meas
ures may be adopted.
AT Baltimore this scale of wages Is paid:
INSTRUMENTATION, a per day; non union,
1928. Prlnters-Union, 81 20 and 50 per
day; non-union, Sl25 and $150 Painters
and decoratoEs-Union, $3.50 per day; nom
union, 81 so. Carpenters Union, 81. so per
day; non union, 81 .25 and S15e -
A BILL has been introduced in the Mis-
souri, Legislature to amend the law relating
to the health and safety of persons EN-.
ployed in coal and other mines, and 10 thu
inspection of such mines. This bill pro-
vides that the mine inspector shall be q
practical mining engineer, and raises his
salary.
"A BOSTON writer has discovered that the
average sum paid to working women for
any given piece of sewing is nothing like q
just compensation for the work done, and IS
endeavoring to form So Tom Hood society,
each member pledged to wear no muslin or
linen garment which has not yielded fair
price to the seamstress who made it."
ONE Of the objects Of the women's coun-
ell which the National Women's Council
hopes to establish in every leading city and
town Of the United States IS to ssdo much
for the protection of shop girls in furnish
ing them better conditions of living by Sc
curing local ordinances requiTing the best
sanitary conditions, limiting the number
IN one room, and in every way amelioratink
the present situation, while using their ut
most influence to increase the wages Of
this class of workers.
THE Union Steel Nail Company. of
Omaha, has abandoned its works at that
place. 1t viii continue its corporate exist
ence, however, for the purpose Of caring for
its realestate interests, which are central
" located IN the city of Omaha and are yerv
valuable The company will plant itself At
st. Joe, No., where large Inducements
were presented. Active work on buildings
viii begin soop. New machinery has been
purchased. and merchant bar iron. wire
nails and cut steel nails VIII be manufact-
Hred.