Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1890-11-07
THE LABOR WORLD,

n New York city there are 80 600 tailor
1t is calculated that there are 10000 tail
ors in the United states.
MoRE than 5000 stone masons in Berlin,
Germany, are without work or money
FIRST grade cooks at ST. Paul, Mimi, gel
BOO Ia month; second, SIS; and third. $50.
WoRKIHGMES are strangely apathetic "a
the great questions of finance in this country.
NEW YORK CITY fresco painters are fined
IS for misrepresenting their hours or wages.
THE long strike Of bootmakers at Leicester,
England, has ended in a victory for the men.
THOUSANDS OF japanese will soon be
,olonized in Mexico. They are wanted as
laborers.
IT has been decided TO hold an international
labor congress in Brussels, Belgium, in su-
gust, 1871.
THE Ohio law compelling payment OF
wages every two weeks has been declared
constitutional.
ITALIAN stone masons at New York city
will form a $50 900 cooperative company.
Shares, SIS each.
Two New York city walking delegates
we're discharged for taking money from con-
tractors fer ordering strikes.
THE marble. cutters from sixteen cities met
| III convention Ill new 1OTk CITY TeConJl1,
| and formed IA national organization.
THE Grand Division OF Railroad Conduct
ors has paid off an indebtedness Of Sill 800 in
year and has large balance in Its treas
ury.
THE United Brotherhood Of Carpenters
and Joiners has now T29 local unions 55.S05
members in benefit, and 70, 000 enrolled mem
| bers,
NEWPORT and Monmouth England boiler.
makers struck to settle the point whether
they or the engineers shall do the angle IRON
work.
FOUR HUNDRED Boston (Mass.) walters,
white and colored. have organized branch
Of the National Culinary Alliance whose
headquarters is In Chicago.
NEARLY overy mining camp in Colorado
8 Just now experiencing q scarcity Of labor.
Hundreds OF men In addition to those now
employed will be wanted during the winter.
The average wages paid are % a day.
The strike Of ths cigar-makers In Bing-
namton N. Y, in about fifteen weeks cost
k20, 600 spent in contributions to the strikers,
and about a quarter Of million dollars In
wages Of strikers lost by not working.
BY a section Of the new election law every
Employer in New York State Is compelled
10 give to his employees two hours In which
10 NOUe, Hnu no ueuuCtlOu lTOu us WhSts ~
10 be made on account Of such absence
A YOUNG locomotive engineer on the
Southern Pacific Railroad Is the son of a
millionaire of Terre Haute. Ind. The son
voluntarily chose his present life on account
OF quarrel with his father. The family Is
trying to induce him to return.
LADY dixie, wife of Sir Charles Dixie. Ia
taking active interest in labor organization
in England, and has recently addressed
crowded meetings of women. She urged
them to form unions but warned them
against deserving the cause as soon as their
wrongs had been righted.
THE hours OF field labor in the Sounh have
always been from sun TO sun" White
farmers who do their own work-and the
freedmen also---adhere to the ancient usage.
The same rule holds good In other out-of-
door employments, such as railroad con.
struction and numbering
ACCORDING TO the official statistics Of Italy
over 50, 600 millers and millwrights have been
thrown out OF employment during the last
ten years in that kingdom by improved ma
chinery; and when In all mills In Italy such
machinery has been introduced the total
plumber of unemployed in the -four milling
Industry will reach 20, 900.
HUNTERS from the Moreau River country
In South Dakota report extensive prairie
fires raging In that portion OF the Siou,
reservation They also say that vast tract
oflignite coal land have commenced to burn
and fears are entertained that 1t may con
tinua to spread through the coal fields In th,
Bad River district west OF Pierre, Souti
Dakota.
TOURIST travel TO Alaska has been 3,
hoavy this year as to tax the boat transpor
taton facilities to their utmost. Next yeal
several new boats Of the palace order VIII b.