Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1890-08-15
LABOR WORLD.

CARNEGIE's new pipe line in Pennsylvania
Is thirty-three miles long.
THE average pay of London policeman Ia
trife less than 81 per day.
THERE are 5000 licensed cabmen actually
employed in London, England.
A LARGE cotton mill, backed bv 800, 00U
capital, is to be built at Kearney Neb.
THE National Convention Of Furniture
Workers will be held at indianapolis, Ind.
THE forty unions OF the New York build
ing trades have now about GO, 900 members.
FRENCH labor has increased its saving
banks deposits since 1873 from $3.50, 00o, 900 to
$500, 000, 600.
A LONDON magistrate has decided that O
servant cannot be discharged summarily for
reading in bed.
CAPTAIN DE CANA, Of the Brazilian Navy,
Is studying American shipbuilding in thu
Philadelphia yards
THE mine workers Of America will, at their
next meeting, demand that eight hours shall
constitute days work.
THE Knights of Labor have 119 trade 10
calls Of moulders In the United States, with q
total membership OF over 1900.
IL pulverized coke can be used instead OF
spiegel, the cost Of making Bessemer pig at
Pittsburg can be reduced 90 per ton.
THE bridge over the Firth OF Forth, Scot
land, cost the lives of fifty-s six workmen dnr.
ing the seven years of It's construction.
The employees of the British admiralty,
war office and postofflce have begun the for.
nation OF union OF government workmen,
TOR strike or other purposes.
In the Board of Walking Delegates Of New
York city, there are now thirty-o repre-
sentatives Of forty-two organizations, having
at fair estimate about 40, 900 members.
SHORTER hours OF labor Is the battle CT,
now of the organizations and no workngman
can be found who does not approve OF the
movement, whether he himself Is 70 get 1t or
not.
THE greatest rises Of wages In general
have come from the increased productivity
OF the workingman, whether that increase be
due to improved machinery or increased
skill
LAKE ship building yards are over
crowded with work; one Is building a vessel
at Toledo, Ohio, to be 325 feet long; one UNI
der construction at Cleveland, Ohio, Is to bs
800 feet long.
AMERICAN farm machinery will do per
hand from double to Ave times the amount
OF effective work on Western plain lands
that Is averaged by farm laborer working
under the conditions Of English farming.
THE total average earnings OF mechanics
family Of five workers, including ohildren)
In Massachusetts per annum, Is $685. ~, in
Great Britain, s5l747. The average total
expenses for same In Massachusetts, Ia
664.42, In Great Britain, e50s.85
No union has increased moro rapidly In
membership and influence since its organize
ton than the Tea and Grocery Clerks Union
II has succeeded during the last year or two
In reducing the hours Of labor and ADVANCING
wages all along the line very materially.
THE United Brotherhood Of Carpenters ana
Joiners which had but twelve unions with
1000 members in 1881, has now b7b local
unions with membership OF nearly 90, 900,
OF whom over 80, 900 are entitled to benefits;
and they are determined to win the eight-hour
day on May 1.
The largest official statistics show that In
England 4, 500, 900 females are employed In
factories; In France, 3, 750, 900; In Germany,
3, GOO 600; In Italy, $500 900, and In Austria,
$3.50 900. The entire number of females
working at tho industries Of Europe IL esti-
mated at over 2s,000,0O0.