The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1890-01-22
WORK AND LABOR.


worker, says frst-class weaver In En-
cland on four looms weaves 1 100 yards
a week, and is paid Sc. In Fall River
the average is eight looms and 2,loo
wards for S912. 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 apun-
dant than in America.
NEWARK IN. J) hostlers work lS1H |
hours and makes $715 year; clerksanu
salesmen, IL hours, $675; bleachers In
thread mills average $3.50; carders, Soao
to 5000; spinners, $3.50 to S725; dyers,
$3.50 to Se7O, and strippers, $500. Brick
LAYERS work nine hours at S4.05 a day,
and average Ss46; hod-carriers at $S.2o
average 5000. Women shirt-makers aV-
erage 1894 a week; men, Sl4; children,
$50, and work 81 hours per week. Zinc
works employees get St.75, 10 hours, and
1864 per year.
JOHN BURNS says 1889 was the bright
est year for Great Britain's working-men
since 1S4S. In London alone 300 trades
have gained shorter hours and increased
pay. The gas stokers gained 10000
members and reduced their hours from
l2 to s. The bakers had their hours re-
duced from 100 to go per week, besides
an advance in wages. Over 100000 men
were added to the membership OF labor
unions.
BERLIN engineers mako from 70
cents to 81 per day. Workers in glass
ware and porcelain make less than 70
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 got S2.25 to $3.50; helpers, Sl.7b;
blasters, $500; leaders, Si.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'
q plicants to membership and damages are
/, claimed. The union decided to admit nc
6 members for year!
z The Brooklyn boss plumbers and gas
). filters and the journeymen's unions
!, have respectively agreed not to emplo!
q any non-union workers and not to wori
r for non-union employers.
Il PATERSON IN. J.) silk-workers com
g plain because their employers rul
r. branches in country towns Of Pennsyl
y vania, and in some cases pay only bal
y the regular wages.
o THE Connecticut Supreme Court ha
IL Just decided that an agreement TO tol
~ felt the wages of working-man II b
e leaves without two weeks notice is col
stitutional. seasFsV.
~ gosroN free-stone cutters have bee
y granted an eight-hour day at "A CEN
y per hour. They will demand 80 CEN
- in April.
ho THE one indianapolis unior that a
T. lowed itself to 60 down during 's9 h'
IN. Its wages reduced 20 per cent.
ar IN New South Wales the bosse
or. Amalgamated Miners Union has agree
ed 70 hire mono but union hands.
or NEW York skylight and corni
tc makers won their demand for SS da
red 1t was settled by arbitration.
.er COOPERATIVE bakeries started
ur. Newark and Brooklyn strikers are big
ere ly successful.
'nd ONLY the carpenters are expected
no strike4or eight hours at Cleveland.
ENGLISH working-men are electi
~. working-men to municipal bodies.
.ia ~. BRooKLYs granite cutters get sS
~ per day; non-union men, $3.50.
Il EIoHr-HoUR meetings are being h
,er throughout the country.
ier CANADIAN building tradesmen W.
bo, fifty hours per week.
t THE National builders will prepare
ins fight eight hours.
rely SICK benefit funds are being added
per various unions.
my BRISTOL (Eng.) has 10000 locked
'om boot-makers.