Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-03-08
THE LABOR WORLD.

BUILDERS favor trade schools
THE Federation Of Bookkeepers has 1000
members.
FRANCE owes much of her wealth to her
Industrial schools.
GREAT numbers OF discharged canal labor
ers are leaving Panama.
The single strength glass blower averages
$120 for 100 hours work.
The pay of telegraph operators varies
from $40 to 500 month.
New YORK silk workers have lately re
ceived ten per cent. advance in wages.
PHILADELPHIA boasts that just now she
makes the best stained glass in the world.
TIE Tennessee Legislature has Just passed
a law requiring all barber shops to close on
Sunday.
MASTER WORKMAN PowDERLY, of the K.
of L., is heartily in favor of the Australian
system of voting.
The army service corps in England is to
form class for the instruction or snlths,
wheelers and saddlers.
THERE are in New York city number OF
Italian bricklayers and good many stone
masons of that nationality.
EIGHTEEN out of fifty eight National Trade
Unions Of the United States have their head
quarters in New York city.
oOhh VI Vic runway COHlpdul0S IA AhSldIl9
are forming their employees into railway
battalions for home defense.
THE Bricklayers and Masons' International
Union has 176 unions; 100000 have been
expended for strikes and $350,000 in benefits.
A NATIONAL PATTERN-MAKERs LEAGUE
has been organized in Philadelphia with
nine lodges, whose combined membership is
1000.
BUILDERS of this country handle seven
hundred and fifty million dollars a year, &C
cording to statements made at their conven-
ton.
In a short time an ovstermans national
union will be formed, which will take in
eleven existing unions, wihs membership
of 500.
THE Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
was instituted in August II, 1868, and at the
present time has 392 subdivisions and over
IS, 900 members.
THE New Jersey silk weavers have had
| their wages repeatedly reduced within the
last few years They used to get SIG week;
they now get &c.
! TENNESSEE IRON makers plume themselves
not little over the fact that no boiler made
of their famous charcoal cold blast has ever
been known to explode.
THE double strength glass-blower in a ten
pot furnace makes an average of $1.75 an
hour. He works seven hours day, running
his daily stipend up to $l2.25.
IN the New York State Senate a bill has
been introduced by Senator Cantor fixing
the wages of day laborers for the State at 81
day or twenty-five cents an hour"
GERMAN mechanics are largely educated in
trade schools, and the London guilds are now
expanding their accumulated wealth in the
establishment of similar schools throughout
England.
WHAT Is known as the Paving Cutters
National Union was organized on June ],
1887, at Baltimore, Nd, with eleven locals
and 500 members. At present there are
thirty-six branches, with 1900 members
OF the national labor organizations in the
United States, the Brotherhood Of Carpen-
ters and Joiners has the most number of
local unions, having 4S4. At. the foot of the
list is the International Boatmen's Union,
with two subordinate bodies.
BRUNSWICK, Ca, is to have the largest
cotton press in the Southern States. Ii
weights $50 tons, stands on a base twelve by
twenty-four feet, connecting with four links
thirty EIGHT feet long, each weighing nine
tons. 1t required six months time to build it.