The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-08-29
THE LABOR WORLD.

: BRfcKLAyERs In London areprospering.
THE Paris Carpenters Union is COO years
old.
A KNITTING mill is to be built at Madison,
Fla.
THE fre-brick makers in the West are very
busy.
NEW YoRK painters get $3.50 for nine
hours.
BosroS councils appropriated $1,000 for Lo
Dor Day.
CALIFORNIA bricklayers work nine hours
and ges $50.
THE canal payroll Of New York State con.
tains 1900 names.
HARVEST hands In Oregon demanded 50 o
day and board, and got it.
THE Cambria Iron Company, of Johnstown
Penn, has $500 men at work
LABoRERs are arriving in large numbers to
work on the Nicaragua Canal.
THE national convention of brewery EN-.
ployos is to be held in Cincinnati.
THRRE is great depression in the clothing
making trade among the workers.
THERE are 1900 cooperative unions in Eng.
land, containing 992, 42S members.
FLOODS have interfered with manufactur.
ing operations oil over the country.
FARM hands in France earn n little over
dollar n week and manage TO save out of IL.
CUBAN planters are struggling for good
field hands. The wages demanded are very
| high.
MoRE than 10 600 Connellsville CPenn.) coke
ovens are now being worked under the nov
scale,
THERE are indications that the centrnliza
tion Of American labor organizations will be
| effected.
The 10000 washerwomcn Of Paris have
| for a tyt nd vaftf ~,
| five cents day.
Tue demand for sailors is brisk just now,
able seamen getting so and ordinary sea.
| men Sl5 month.
THIRTY THOUSAND persons. mostly foreign.
| crS, are employed in manufacturing tobacco
| in Now York city.
Ten years ago indianapolis hricklayer
made twenty-five conts per hour; to-day they
make forty-tlve cents.
THE Labor Conference which was to have
been held ut Bcrne, Switzerland, has been
postponed until next spring.
TIE mining troubles in Illinois aud Indiana
are far from being settled. Great distress
continues among the operatives
NEARLY every strike Of recent occurrence
has been of short duration and has ended in
the virtual victory of the strikers.
CHICAGO skilled hardwood fnishers make
from s.. 25 to 50 per day. Painters get from
| twenty 10 tnlFty-nFO cents poE nOur.
THE workmon in some parts OF the country
are combining aud employing physicians 70
attend them at 80 much per 100 or l0OC
families.
THR tailors OF Salvador. South America,
have signei petition requesting tho Govern
meut tO prohibit the importation of reaGy
mado clothing.
THE Chicago City Council has authorized
the Commissioner Of Health 10 employ iiv,
female sanitary police to inspect factories
and tenements.
IT is estimated that thcro arc in Londor
$4,000 persons wholly dependent on caSua
labor, and nearly l,O0O,O 900 who never go in
side OF n church.
THE National League Of Musicians 4
about to adopt an insurance system, unde
which the heirs of each deceased member
shall be entitled to $500
| THOMAS DELwoRTH, u colored American
who was once slave in the Southern States
is now President of the Builders Laborors
OF st. Catharines, Canada.
| Is good many tailoring shops in New
| York and Boston, persons work from four
teen to eighteen hours day. A good many
earn only from So to 50 per week.
GEORGIA and South Carolina have between
them 1876 cotton mills, S13, 7:9S spindles, 81 36'
looms. This is by l3O, 900 more spindles ant
$500 more looms than the entire South con
tanned in 1880
| AT Glenarm. on the coast of Count,
Antrim, Ireland, there are whiting mill
which give employment to nearly half th
population. Whiting is unslacked linn
ground down and cleansed. The wages o
the men average from $3.50 to siper week.