The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-02-13
WORK AND LABOR.

THOMAS EVANS, the FALL River cotton
worker, says a firstclass weaver In En-
gland on four looms weaves 1,100 yards
q week, and is paid 30. In Fall River
the average is eight looms and 2,1o0
Yards for S9.12. Within few years the
Fall River men have been cut 40 per
cent, while English operatives have
gained slight advances. He says social
enjoyment is cheaper and more abun-
dant than in America.
NEWARK IN. J.) hostlers work 1914
hours and makes s715 year; clerks and
salesmen, '12 hours, $675; bleschers in
thread mills average $3.50; csrders, $40
to 5000; spinners, $3.50 70 3726; dyers,
$3.50 to $e7O, and strippers, $500. Brick
layers work nine hours at $4.0b day,
and average Ss48; hod-carriers at 82.25
average 5000. Women shirt-makers av-
erage 1904 week; men, S14; children,
$3.50, and work "a hours per week. Zinc
works employees get $1.75, 10 hours, and
$5c4 per year.
JOHN BURNS says 1850 was the bright
est year for Great Britain's working-men
since 1e4s. In London alone 500 trades
have gained shorter hours and increased
pay. The gas stokers gained $4,000
members and reduced their hours from
10 to 8. The bakers had their hours re-
duced from 100 to 60 per week, besides
an advance in wages. Over 200, 900 men
were added to the membership OF labor
unions.
BERLIN engineers make from 10
cents to 81 per day. Workers in glass.
ware and porcelain mako less than 10
cents per day. These figures are from .
report Of the Chemnitz Chamber Of Com
merce.
THE number Of mining machines in
Illinois Is declining. Machine oper-
ators get S2.25 to $3.50; helpers, $1.75;
blasters, S2.00; leaders, 91.75; timber
men, $500; drillers, $500, and laborers,
S1.50 to s1.75.
TIE Newark Stone Cutters Union has
been sued to compel it to admit two ap-
plicants to membership and damages are
claimed. The union decided to admit no
members for year.
The Brooklyn boss plumbers and gas
filters and the journeymen's unions
have respectively agreed not to employ
any non-union workers and not to work
for non-union employers.
PATERSON IN. J.) silk-workers com.
plain because their employers run
branches in country towns Of Pennsyl.
vania, and in some cases pay only half
tho regular wages.
THE Connecticut Supreme Court has
iy,o IaA haf %<, fnp
felt the wages of working-man II he
leaves without two weeks notice Is con.
stitutional.
BosToN free-stone cutters have been
granted an eight-hour day at A cents
per hour. They will demand so cents
in April.
THE one indianapolis unioI that al
lowed itself to 60 down during 80 had
its wages reduced 20 per cent.
In New South Wales the bosses
Amalgamsted Miners Union has agreed
to hire none but union hands.
New YORK skylight and cornice
makers won their demand for s. day.
1t was settled by arbitration.
COOPERATIVE bakeries started by
Newark and Brooklyn strikers are high.
ly successful.
ONLY the carpenters are expected to
strike for eight hours at Cleveland.
ENGLISH working-men are electing
working-men to municipal bodies.
BROOKLYN granite cutters get $3.50
per day; non-union men, $3.50.
EIaHT-HoUR meetings arc being held
throughout the country.
CANADIAN building tradesmen work
fifty hours per ,;eek.
The National builders will prepare to
fight eight hours.
SICK benefit funds are being added 10
various unions.
BRIsToL eng has 10000 looked out
boot-makers.