The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-11-06
THE LABOR WORLD.

In New York city there are 80, eco taiIors.
ors in the United States.
MORE than 5000 stone masons in Berlin.
Germany, are without work or money.
FIRST grade cooks at st. Paul, MINI. get
800 month; second, SIS; and third. $50.
WoRKINGMEN are strangely apathetic to
the great questions Of finance in this couutry.
NEW York CITY fresco painters are finei
IS for misrepresenting their hours or wages,
THE long strike of bootmalers at Leicester,
England, has ended in q victory for the men.
THOUSANDS OF japanese will soon be
colonized in Mexico. They are wanted as
laborers.
IT has been decided to hold an international
labor congress in Brussels, Belgium, in Au-
gust, 1891.
TIE Ohio law compelling payment OF
wages every two weeks has been dec arei
constitutional.
ITALIAN stone mssons at New York city
will form $4,000 cooperative company
Shares, S25 each.
Two New York city walking delegates
were discharged for taking money from con.
tractors for ordering strikes.
THE marble cutters from sixteen cities INST
in convention in New York city recently,
and formed a national organization.
THE Grand Division OF Railroad Con iuct-
ors has paid off an indebtedness of $ll,G0l in
year and has large balance in its treas
ury.
The United Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Joiners has now 729 local unions, 5J,S07
members in benefit, and 10, 900 enrolled mem
bers.
NEWPORT and Monmouth (Eng!ard) boiler.
makers struck to settle the point whether
they or the engineers shall do the angle IRON
work.
Four HUNDRED Boston (Massl walters,
white and colored, have organized branch
of the National Culinary Alliance whose
headquarters is in Chicago
NEARLY every mining camp in Colorado
Is Just now experiencing scarcity OF labor.
Hundreds of men in addition to those now
employed will be wanted during the winter.
The average wages paid are s. day.
THE strike Of the cigar-makers in Bing-
hamton, n. Y, In about fifteen weeks, cost
go, 600 spent in contributions to the strikers,
and about q quarter OF a Dlillion dollars in
wages of strikers lost by not working.
BY section of the new election law every
employer in New York State is compelled
to give to his employees two hours in which
to vote and no deduction from his wages is
to 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 bis father. The family is
irving to induce him to return.
LADY dixie, wife OF Sir Charles Dixie. is
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 Sourh 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-o[-
door employments, such as railroad con
struction and numbering.
ACCORDING to the official statistics of Italy
over IS, 900 mllers and millwriyhts 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 sucst
machinery has been introduced the total
number Of unemployed in the -four milling
industry will reach 10000