Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1890-06-27
THE LABOR WORLD.

CHICAGO paper-hangers have organized.
CONNECTICUT musicians have organized.
MEXICAN laborers kick against Chinese.
THERE are sixty brick yards in Philadel.
phia.
STRIKING New York cigarmakers are win.
ming.
New YORK housesmiths have labor
bureau.
CLEVELAND shoe workers struck against
& forewoman.
BROOKLYN. N. Y, letter. carriers are
Knights of Labor.
In St. Louis, many women get Sc for
seyenty.two hours.
THE new mills at Oldham, England, viii
contain so 600 spindles.
TIE iron and steel workers will demand
ten per cent. advance.
THERE is a great rush G. building activity
Ia all the Southern States.
THE Platt coal mines. Of Alabama, ara
now producing 5000 tons OF coal per day.
PATERSON, n. J., silk ribbon weaverS
wages We're cut fifteen to twenty per cent.
1T is said the iron WORKERS recently in ses-
son at P.ttsourg will demand s. a day.
TIE labor troubles in the Pittsburg iron
districts have been settlel, the agreement
10 last year
A PROPOSITION has been made to the blast
furnace people TO SHUT down their furnaces
for two weeks.
THE colliers OF Merthyr Tydvi, Wales,
numbering 1900 have refused 70 adop: tho
weekly holiday.
TIE new constitution OF tho Knights OF
Labor expressly regulates the ofacs OF
walking delegate
TIE Workingwomen'S Improvement Asso.
citation, OF Chicago, Ill board women luxu-
riously for s.. .2J week
BUILDERS end workmen in Montreal,
Canada, have entered into an agreement as
to wages fer five years TO come.
The Georgia Central Railroad Company
are about TO build car shoos at North Blr-
mingham, Ala, 10 employ 1000 men.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, OF Germany sent ex.
perts TO examine the hygienic condition OF
the mines and the grievances of miners.
QUICKSILVER miners in Spain get twenty
cents a day. In five years the men ara
physically unable TO continue the labor.
THE Swiss National Senate has pro-
nounced i'll favor of legislation TO insure
lahorers against sickness accidents and old
GREAT BRITAIN'S cooperative societies
have 900 0GO members capital OF so, OOO,-
COO, sell s1s0, 900 900 worth a year, and make
sl5,O00,OO0
AS result of the eight-hour-day strikes
about %, 900 wordugmen are supposed TO
have secured reduction to that limit OF
daily labor.
A CLEVELAND (Ohiol granite firm allowed
its men the nine-hour day and agreed to
abide by the same terms of settlement as
shall ensue in Massachusetts, and Rhode
Island strikes.
THREE journeymen bakers, impoverished
and deprived Of work by the recent strike in
Prag;e, committed suicide in that city the
other day, having been driven to the deed by
their unsuccessful efforts to obtain food.
IT is characteristic of the Chinese that they
sell their labor always at Just tride below
the market rate II the average standard OF
wages be, say, s. a day, tue coolie offers to
work for $50 day; II the current rate OF
wages be 81 a day, the coolie will work for
seventy-6ve or eighty cents,
ACCORDING totestimony taken by ths Con,
gressional Committee investigating the inl'
portation of contract laborers, Chicago has
about $50 900 Germans, lj0, 900 Irish, 90,0Ol
Poles, 1000 Scandinaviens, 10000 Bone
mians, 15, 600 Italians, 1000 Chinese and sew
eral Americans the exact number the com
mittee failed to ascertain.
SrUMM is the iron king OF Germany. He
owns enormous foundries at Neunkirchen,
where over 5000 men are employed. None
OF his workmen may get married, change
their place Of residence or join a society with
out his permission. He gives them good ad-
vice in regard 70 investments and aids them
In many ways. He is a member Of ths Reich
STAG and was ennobled bv Kaiser Friedrich