The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1890-07-18
IN LABOR'S FIELD
Points Of Interest About the Coun-
try's Industries.

T0lntS OF interest ABOUT the O0un.
ty's Industries.
News and Happenings About the Of
fee, Shop and Mil---Changcs In
the Wage-List.
New Orleans Picayune: "Ir Europe,
rank is first Of all a question of birth.
Mr.. Gladstone must go in to dinner
after a boy if the boy happens to be q
duke. This rule of precedence strikes
the American as preposterous. Our
countrynien have been so long rid of q
privileged class of titled a%ristocrats that
they cannot understand how genias and
eminent service may be reckoned after
q mere family distinction. We believe
in blood in this country, but we expect
it to tell in achievement before it is &C.
corded the first place of honor"
A European horseshoe is composed of
three thicknesses of COW skin pressed
into a steel mold and then subjected to
a chemical preparation. 1T is claimed
for it that it is much lighter, that it
lasts longer and that split hoofs are
eve known in horses using it. 1t is
perfectly smooth on the bottom, nc
calks being required, the shoe adhering
firmly on the most polished surface.
Tho New York Plasterers' union fined
IN employer s25 for putting on a coat Of
plaster before the first was dry. The
same man was owed So, 900 by two con-
tractors, and they had defeated him in
a lawsuit for the money. The union
compelled the payment by threatening
to strike on all their jobs.
These New York unions enjoy the
eight-hour day: Carpenters and %joiners,
trainers, artificial stonemasons, plaster
ors, paper-hangers, wood carvers, stone
cutters, fresco painters, and cigarmak-
erS.
The Labor Tribune says Pittsburg
iron and steel firms have enough work
on hand to run all tho mills on double
time to the end of the year, and some OF
the loading ones TO-. more than a year.
The miners Of Butte, Mont, own a
big hall, have 5000 members in the
union and $4,000. The l2th ami
versary Of the organization was cele-
brated by a parade and mass meeting.
AT Los Angeles, Cal, laborers have
formed a cooperative company, and
they are getting contracts. The eight
hour day is the rule.
New York blacksmiths and railing
makers won nine hours from a boss who
said he would rather throw away IS, 900
than accede.
The New York Workingwomen's 80
ciety is agitating a Wednesday halt
holiday in places where Saturday trade
is busiest.
O'Donovan Rossa's twenty years ban
ishment Will soon expire. They talk
of giving him a purse to go homo for
life.
Quicksilver miners in Spain get 20
cents a day. In five years the men are
physically unable to continue the labor.
New York boss union brewers refuse
to sign the now scale which calls for a
reduction from ten to eight hours a day.
Brooklyn tin and sheetiron workers
struck for 3d. so for outside wohk, So for
inside work and eight hours.
Columbus, o., street railway conduc-
tors struck for 16 cents an hour, drivers
Is and barn men $3.50 a day.
The Warren, Ind, Farmers union
asked for bids to supply its members.
No merchant made a bid and the union
has boycotted the town.
Great Britain's cooperative societies
have 1000. 900 members, a capital OF
/ $50, 900, 900, sell $3.50, 900, 900 worth q
year and make S., 900, 900.
Cohoes, Waterford, Schenectady, Am
sterdam and Little Falls, N. ", kni,
goods firms talk of a trust.
Tho Workingmen's Improvement as
ISOLATION of Chicago boards women lux.
uriously for S2.95 a week.
The Cleveland ~journeynnen BARRIERS
say they will spend $ 1000 to keep tn.
shops closed on Sunday.
New York paper-box makers will re
organize. Thor wages have been Gu
from $50 a week to $40.
1t is said hat Editor Jones, of tho
New York Times, was offered s., 900, OOt
to not expose Tweed.
The Cleveland switchmen struck fol
25 cents per hour, with 2T14 and 291!
cents for conductors.
In Boston, SomerTille and Cnmbridg,
1900 building laborcrs have struck fol
p;,n bovro ,n3 90 Sk
Birmingham, Ala, Htonecutters strucl
against a cut from 81 and nine hours t.
40 cents an hour.
Members of the typographical unio,
having cases must not work over 81,
days a week.
A Brooklyn employer settled a strik,
by paying 5000 owed the union by eigh
of his
Boston railroaders will prosecute
company for violating the weekly pay
ment law.
At Calumet, Mich, 1000 miner,
struck for eight hours and 10 per cent
advance.
Philadelphia glazed kid is crowdins
the French article out of the American
market.
The places of striking Liverpool tail
ors were filled by women at half wages
Washington (O.) shoe workers strucl
to aid girls whose wages were reduced
San Francisco stairbuilders kicl
against the use Of Chicago made stars
San Francisco will send delegates t
the seamen's convention at Glasgow.
st. Paul BARRIERS want early closin,
and paper hangers have organized.
New York has a Hebrew Plush Cas-
Makers and Bookbinders' union.
Vancouver Oh. c. miners working b
tho ton struck for eight hours.
New York drivers for an asphalt com
pany struck for ten hours and 81.
There is talk of tho amalgamation c
all Now York painters unions.