The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1890-02-22
WORKSHOP AND FACTORY.

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granite auarries when fully employed:
Overseers, $17.63; stonecutters, $i5.S6;
paving cutters, SIT. "a; quarrymen, $l0.33;
sharpeners, S12. "a; blacksmiths, $3.50;
polishers, $40. "a; transfers, $l1.02; COM
mon laborers, Ss.94. They work about
$50 days 4 year.
THE Master Painters and Decorators
Union of New York State has decided
that the apprentices pay for the first
year shall be SIS per week; for the sec
ond year, 81 per week; for the third
year 50 per week; for the fourth year,
81 per week, and for the fifth year, Sl3
per week.
THE st. Louis Working-Men's Self
Culture Club has a clubhouse, library,
etc. Lectures are given weekly, and
excursions to the art museums are made
by the members and their families.
One night the lecture Is for the work
ing girls.
THE bricklayers OF the country don't
average over s. Il day for the whole
year, according to the secretary Of the
National Union. The Bricklayers' and
Masons' Union has 80, 1O1 members, an
increase of IL, 400 in a year.
New York CENTRAL engineers get 32H
cents per hour; conductors, IS cents, and
brakemen, 16 cents. The switchmen de-
| mand IS cents per hour for work over IL
hours per day.
THE piece workers at the Pennsyl-
vania railroad shops ot Altoona, Pa,
| have been cut 20 per cent, and by tho
hardest work u mechanic makes from -
to 1925 aday.
Of Kokomo, Ind, employs $50 men, and
will add the manufacture of plate glass
mirrors, making place for 100 more.
AT New York painters on city work
get $3.50 a day; PAYERS, 81; blacksmiths,
$3.50; bricklayers, 81; plumbers, $3.50
roadway laborers, 50.
TILE farmers and faborers' unions OF
France do not NEEDLE in politics. They
devote their work to cooperative and
technical matters.
THE bill before the New York Legis
lature will prohibit the employment o
sny but American citizens on public
contracts.
THE Tin and Sheet Iron Workers
Union has 2,ls0 members, and has In
creased wages from S1.75 to $3.50 per day
AMERICA stands first among the ma
tons OF the globe in the manufacture o
finished iron and steel products.
AT Danbury, Conn, the l,20O hat fin
ishers who demanded the dismissal of
man have returned To work.
A BROOKLYN man has sued the Brick
layers Union for reinstatement in tn
union and $500 damages.
A BAKER at Washington, ID. c., wa
fined 81 apiece for each loaf below tn
legal weight.
THE Beggar Trust Of Paris sells tn
right to beg in certain sections OF tn
city.
THE San Francisco Nationalist Gu
wants the city to own the water-work
EUROPEAN glass workers say the DO
tle-making machine is not u success.
DETROIT car drivers get S1.62 a da,
conductors, 81; long hours the rule.
A BANGOR (Me.) shoe manufacture
pave q banquet to his employees.
RAILROAD laborers at Red Bluff, Cal
get $50 a month and board.
JAPAN exported s.. 600, 900 worth
silk to this country in 1889.
, TIE International Tailors' Union
> New York runs a trade school.
, RAILROAD carpenters at CheyenR
Wy. T., struck for 30 cents an hour.
THE sixteen hat factories in Dahbur
a Conn, employ 5000 hands.
, THE Hoe Press Company runs a trat
I school for its apprentices.
D IN 1880 300, 900 Europeans settled
o the Argentine Republic.
D A NEW match machine packs 10
boxes u minute.
1t THE silk workers talk Of Il Nation
p organization.
y MOUNT CARMEL, Conn, has a girl IL
o chinist,
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