The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1890-07-24
THE LABOR WORLD.

CHINAMEN are to build Mexican railway.
COOPERATION has not been successful Ber.
lin, Germany.
MICHIGAN copper miners have received an
advance OF ten per cent.
THERE is titled lady in London, Eng
land, who makes caps for living.
A READING-RooM for messenger boys when
off duty has been opened in New York city.
EMPEROR WILLIAM, Of Germany, recently
addressed the workingmen at Krupp's gun
works.
SEVERAL factories are closed in Catalonia
and over 10000 workingmen are unem-
ployed.
THE salary of New York city walking
delegate is 1878 a week, paid by the Union
to which he belongs.
SIX THOUSAND coal miners in Alabama
have gone on strike for higher wages and
against the sliding scale.
COTTON factories, knitting mills, pillow fac
tories, and electric plants are springing up
all over North Carolina.
In America, the workingman's Eldorado,
nearly 900, 900 willing workers were thrown
out of employment in 1885.
THERE has been a revival in the diamond
cutting industry at Antwerp. Nearly all the
workmen are at work again.
1T is said that the Adams Express COM
pany has reduced the wages of its employees
from $50 and $50 to $50 month.
AN English syndicate is trying to buy out
the American sewer pipe manufacturers; 81
100000 is the price asked for the works.
EIGHTY women are employed in the Post
Office Department at Washington, with
alaries ranging from S720 to $1,000 a year.
THE American Federation of Labor has
sent out circular calling for an Interna-
tional Labor Congress at the Worlds Fair.
THE Polish and Hungarian laborers in the
coal regions of Pennsylvania are known to
their employers only by nu nbers and not by
names.
| Six DOLLARS AND A QUARTER month,
with the privilege of dining in the house."
were the wages paid to a governess in York
shire, England.
THE General Executive Board of the
knights of Labor has decided that the Gen.
eral Assembly of the order be held in Dem
yer, Col, beginning November II.
! THE railroad clerks at Albany, N. Y, have
| organized an association for social inter.
course and the maintenance of high stand.
ard OF ability among its members.
THE bill declaring that no person employed
as a laborer on Government work shall re.
| ttlfo lcsS uiidu % u ia has betu ldNOThDly
reported to the House of Representatives.
SEvENTY-oNE firms in Berlin, Germany,
have conceded the demands of the journey
men machinists and thirty-six still refuse to
| do so. The journeymen struck for nine
| hours
THE wages Of the Northumberland Eng
land) miners have again been advanced two
and a half per cent. making q total increase
| of thirty per cent. within the past few
months.
ONE of the most skilful watchmakers in
| Atlanta, Ca, is woman-Mrs. A. Z. Key.
| She is the daughter of once famous jewell
| err and by means Of her trade she supports
herself and children in comfort.
A CAREFUL statistician estimates that the
wages of 5, 200, 900 unskilled laborers were in
1884 less than 500 year, while the average
wages of workmen engaged in manufacture,
| including skilled laborers, was but 1916 q
year.
NINE trades in New York city are working
under the eight-hour law They ara the car
penters and joiners, trainers, artificial stons
masons, plasterers paper hangers, wood
carvers, stone cutters, fresco painters and
| cigarmakers.
CHIEF ARTHUR, of the Brotherhood Of
Locomotive Engineers, authorizes the state
me1t that he is opposed to the federation
movement among railroad employees which
| is now threatening strikes in different part
Of the country, and he repeats his endorse
! ment Of organization on special trade lines.