Omaha daily bee., 1889-10-25
THE INDUSTRIAL FIELD.

The working hours of the tramway en-
,ployes of london have been reduced from
fourteen to twelve hours per day.
In the British colony of Victoria, the eight
hour system has been established, and is sat
isfactory both to employers and employees.
The shoe strike in North Adams still con-
tinues. The old help are getting places else
where while tho manufacturers are teaching
new hands.
The trades unions of England arc better
supported by the worliingmen than the trades
OF this country. One union has 100000 in
its treasury.
The strike agaidst the reduction of wages
in the Edison electric lamp works, near New
ark, n. j., lasted only few hours and the
strikers won.
John Burns, the leader of the recent sue
cessful doclkers' strike in London says it has
been the means of raising wages in at least
200 trades there.
Favorable accounts of the prospects of the
X. OF l.. in Great Britain are given by Mas
ter Workman Archibald of the New York
Paper Hangers assembly.
The paving cutters union, organized in
Baltimore in 1856. now has fifty-five branches
| in nineteen states and runs a trade paper.
| Its headquarters is at Berlin, Wis
A new development OF the labor question
| is the suit begun by two miners at Green's
| burg. Pa, against a boss who called them
| ''N1ollic Magures" and anarchists"
'Never before says the Paris correspond.
| ent of the London Telegraph "has work
| been so abundant and so we'll remunerated
| in the city as during the exhibition season."
| In the newly drafted constitution for the
| state of Wyoming it is provided that 'eight
hours shall constitute a lawful days work in
| all mines and on all state and municipal
works"
Two years ago thore were but twenty six
| unions in the journeymen tailops organza-
| tion, now there are over one hundred; two
| years from now there is expected to be at
| least two hundred.
| The boycott that was recently declared
| against popular dining saloon of New York
| city for driving out its union walters was too
| heavy for the proprietor and he surrendered
| after short struggle
There are 200 delegates at the St. Louis
| convention of the National Typothete (em.
| ploying printers) aud resolution was adopt
ed that there was nothing in the condition
the printing trade to justify reduction of
| the hours of labor from ten to eight.
A number of labor organizations are de-
| manding that the ninth census be taken IN
| the winter at the time when the houseless and
homeless are compelled to take refuge in the
| cities and towns, and the fashionables have
returned from the country and from Europe.
1t IS reported from Birmingham, Ala, that
| Scotch chemist named Archibald has dis
covered process by which all phosphorous
may be removed from iron and the ore con.
verted into Bessemer pig at a cost of only SO
cents ton. The process is said to have been
successfully tested.
There will soon be national organization
of the tile layers Of the United States.
Favorable responses have been received to
the circular calling for its formation that
was recently sent out by Progressive Tile
Layers union No. 600 Of New York city.
The long strike of SCOTS coal miners at
Spring Valley, ILL.,, is still unsettled, and II
looks as though the strikers, who have re-
jected the offer of a slight advance, would be
out all winter. They are yet receiving aid
from labor organizations The strike of the
coal miners at Brazil, Ind, is now in its
| sixth month. s.tu