West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1890-05-22
THE LABOR WORLD.
Anon troubles In France are snbsldinr.

LABOR troubles I'm France are subsidiny.
ENGLISH iron masters are mailing money.
WArERPowER Il cheap AMI plentiful ia
Idaho.
Tue eiyhthour movement Is very power
ful I'm England.
ENGLAND still unlsr5iis all tbs Continent
In locomotives.
A ONE HUNDRED ton blast furnace Is 10 bs
built ut Lawrencsyills, KY.
TnE knights OF Labor have imbibsl the
eight-hour working day spirit.
The PruSsian labor bill fixes the maximum
OF WON ms work 1T eleven hours.
EMPLOYERS throu shout Germany are
forming union against strikes.
BrgLIN employers have resolved 10 abolish
Sunday WORK In their esttbisini snts.
1T is estimate th,t thrOl ,h0ut Euroos a
million worxnen celeJraf~l ''LI5or Day"
FEARS ara expressed IN Englanl o, an
early revival OF the resent monster coal
strike.
FOUR blast furnaces with n cl21city o.
145 tons cash, are 10 bs erscssl at Johns.oa
City, Tenn.
THE relative enciency OF French and
English railrol1 workman is foul1 10 be as
Ave TO three
The Krupps, OF Germany, have bought "a
entire village, and intend TO turn IL into one
The Baltimore aud Ohio Railroad Com
pany has 3)OCms1 engaged In making loco
motives near Baltimore.
In Victoria, British Columbia no mason
or stonecutter will work on a building where
Chinese help is employed.
liz Hamburg, Germany, nine thousand
workmen were dismissed In n sin yle day for
taxing part in tho LIST of May PROFESSIONS.
MANY labor oryanizltionsot Penn3ylvania
nre a5itatins for n State Labor Federation
ofall trades unions and X. OF l.. aysenblies
A RICH company will erect ship-buildiny
plant at New Bedford, Mass, for the con,
struction of iron an1 steel sailing steam
saips.
A GOOD many Welsh miners arc ben,
driven back to Wales by the competition OF
Hungarian labor in American mining
regions.
IN Italy field labor Is pail sixty-fiye cent,
day, and mechanics from sixty-flye csuts
To <l.2J. LieuteDlnts I'm the army get about
81 n day.
THE labor men have achieved an almost
complete triumph In New York CITY 50 far
rs their demands for eight hours a day are
concerned
PoRK-PACKIHG house, seven stories high
mud To cost 100000, is to be- erected at Sioux
fal's North Dakota; its capacity bo 800
hogs per day.
States, as well as Great Britain aud Euroo,.
are at this time attracting moro attention
than ever before in tho worlds history
The sewing women are now tho poorest
paid OF any female workers. Next t. them
are placed the dry goods notions and grocery
worxers, fully ten thousand strong, ayeraI-
ing S. weekly.
A NEW industry has sprung up out in
Kausis-that OF collecting oil tinware.
watch Is used at the Argentine smelter for
huxing. An Industrious man can gather up
ton of it in day, which brings about 50.
liz the slate mines at Cochem. on tho
Moselle, in Germany, men aud lads carry no
all the blocks OF slate on their backs, coming
up with their hands upon the grouu 1. bant
almost double under the weighto OF the block.
ABOUT $4,000. 900 OF women are engarei
in British India In some description of ciassi.
fed worS-rou ghly, little less than one
third OF the entire female population, which
inclu les, of course, an enormous pro portion
OF infants aud young girls.
THE servants au1 mistresses of Vie,na
Austria, have TO manage their affairs Jude.
tho superintendent OF thu police Tho lat
ter keeps servants book" In which each
girls diSmssals and re-en3agon snts ars re-
corded, together with copie; OF charaotS
given by each employer.