Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-08-02
THE LABOR WORLD.
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New York has Russian labor paper.
ARCHITECTURAL ability is in demand.
THERE are 100000 women lacemakers in
ireland.
A NEw>shce factory has been started at
Omaha, Neb.
THERE are bad times in England for I'M
skilled laborers
New WORKERS are working up a national
1nion of BARRIERS.
THERE are 100 ministers who belong TO the
knights of Labor.
ABOUT 100000 women are employed in
making woven goods.
CHICAGO locomotive engineers average
from $120 to $40 per month.
THE International Union Of Bricklayers
and Masons comprises 176 unions.
A LARGE number of people in France are
engaged in the manufacture of celluloid.
THE efforts at Cleveland to increase fire.
mems pay from $500 to $1,000 per year failed.
THE Cigarnakers' international Union has
about sixty thousand members in New York
city.
A BOSTON organization is attempting to
form ''seH-improvement clubs" for working
men.
THERE are 100000 men, who would be
glad to work, unemployed in the United
States.
SOME Albany IN. " stove molders have
struck to have their castings counted in their
OWN alleys
PADRoNEs are at their old work of furnish
Ing italian laborers to corporations at SO
much head.
THE reports of the high rates of wages paid
on the Pacific coast frequently prove to be
highly colored.
THERE are four concerns in New York city
in which the employees get share Of the pro
fits every year.
CHARLES PRATT, of Brooklyn, one Of the
Standard Oil Company magnates, is a
machinist by trade.
SEVEN THOUSAND miners are idle in the
Allegheny Mountains because they can earn
only ninety cents per day.
HUGO ZIEMAN the steward Of the White
House, is under a bond of $4,000 for good
behavior. His salary is $500 year.
NUMEROUS unions are complaining that
manufacturers are rapidly organizing all
over the country while workingmen are luke
warm.
THE Window Glass Workers Union at
Pittsburg is the richest labor organization in
the country, and holds q reserve fund OF
$500, 900.
THE practice Of forming benevolent and
protective organizations and benefit funds is
becoming almost universal among united
trade societies.
THE boss nasons and 1ourneymen bricklay-
ers, of New York city, alta recent conference
fixed the scale of wages for the ensuing year
at $3.50 day.
TWENTY factories, having an aggregate
capital Of $500, 900, have been opened in
Florence, Ala, in the last seven months, Civ
ing employment to over 1000 people.
THE watchmakers, of Prescott, England,
Who have long been famous, finding that their
trade is declining, have decided TO build a
factory and work on the American plan.
THE molders employed in Reading
Penn.) foundry, have formed 'burn asso-
citation" to take care of those of their num-
Der who are injured by burns, scalds, Or
melted metals
FACTORY girls in a Massachusetts, wooden
mill laid off some time ago because the fore
man persisted in keeping picture of white
horse on his desk. Ten of the girls had hair
which was decidedly auburn in color.
INCLUDING policemen, postoffice officials,
marketmen and women, care-takers, hospital
nurses, and newspaper writers and printers,
it is estimated that fully 100, 900 of the inhab-
ttants of London are night workers
QUEEN VICTORIA imports new cargo Of
Indian servants every month or two, whereat
tho rest of the English royal household are
much displeased, while the British lackeys at
Osborne and Balmoral are In high dudgeon
over Sights thus imposed.
In tobacco factories in New York, Brook
Ign and the neighborhood there are children
only four years of age-sometimes half a
dozen in single room. Others are eight
years of age and range from that up to flf-
teen years. Girls and boys Of twelve to four
week.