The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1890-02-20
WORK-sHOP AND FACTORY.

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granite quarries when fully employed:
Overseers, $17.6S; stonecutters, $15. SO;
paving cutters, 81. "a; quarrymen, $40. SS;
sharpeners, $12.S4; blacksmiths, $3.50;
polishers, $10.s4; teamsters, S11.02; COM
mon laborers, $500. They work about
$50 days year.
THE Master Painters and Decorators'
Union Of New York State has decided
that the apprentices pay for the first
year shall be $5 per week; for the Sec
ond year, 81 per week; for the third
year, 30 per week; for the fourth year,
I'll per week, and for the fifth year, S13
per week.
THE st. Louis Working Mems Self
Culture Club has Q clubhouse, library,
etc. Lectures are given weekly, and
excursions to the art museums are made
by the members and their families.
Ono night the lecture is for the work.
ing girls.
The bricklayers Of the country don't
average over % q day for the whole
year, according to the secretary Of the
National Union. The Bricklayers' and
Masons' Union has 80, ,101 members, On
increase of 10, 400 in year.
New YORK CENTRAL engineers get S21<
cents per hour; conductors, 25 cents, and
brakemen, is cents. The switchmen de-
mand 1s cents per hour for work over 10
hours per day.
THE piece workers at the Pennsyl-
vania railroad shops at Altoona, Pa,
have been cut 20 per cent, and by the
hardest work mechanic makes from 50
to $2.26 a day.
THE Diamond Plate Glass Company,
Of Kokomo, Ind, employs 75o men, and
will add the manufacture Of plate glass
mirrors, making place for 100 more.
AT New York painters on city work
get $3.50 day; PAYERS, 81; blacksmiths,
$3.50; bricklayers, 81; plumbers, $3.50;
roadway laborers, 50.
The farmers and laborers' unions of
France do not meddle in politics. They
devote their work to cooperative and
technical matters.
The bill before the New York Legis-
lature will prohibit the employment Of
any but American citizens on public
contracts.
THE Tin and Sheet Iron Workers
Union has also members, and has in
creased wages from S1.75 to $3.50 per day.
AMERICA stands first among the ma
tions Of the globe in the manufacture Of
finished iron and steel products.
AT Danbury, Conn, the 1900 hat fin
ishers who demanded the dismissal of q
man have returned to work.
A BROOKLYN man has sued the Brick
layers Union for reinstatement in the
union and $500 damages.
A BAKER at Washington, D. c., was
fined 50 apiece for each loaf below the
legal weight.
THE Beggar Trust Of Paris sells the
right to beg in certain sections of the
city.
The San Francisco Nationalist Club
wants the city to own the water-worlxs.
EUROPEAN glass workers say the bot
tle-making machine is not success.
DETROIT car drivers get $1.62 day;
conductors, 50; long hours the rule.
A BANGOR (Me.) shoe manufacturer
gave banquet to his employees.
RAILROAD laborers at Red Bluff, CAL,
get $50 o month and board.
JAPAN exported $4,000, 900 worth of
silk to this country in 1889.
THE International Tailors' Union Of
New York runs trade school.
RAILROAD carpenters at Cheyenne,
Wy. T., struck for 80 cents an hour.
THE sixteen hat factories in Danbury,
Conn.,, employ 5000 hands.
The Hoo Press Company runs trade
school for its apprentices.
In 1889 100000 Europeans settled in
the Argentine Republic.
A NEW match machine packs 1000
boxes minute.
THE silk workers talk Of Nationsl
organization.
MOUNT CARMEL, Con n, has girl ma
chinist,