The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-03-13


twelve clubs in the city and suburbs,
and January /, 1890, had a total mem-
bership of abont 1OUO. Hartford, Conn,
has q united workers and woman's K
change-and organization of busy girls
Of the city for social intercourse and
self-improvement. During the year
l12 girls have attended the various
classes. Paterson, n. J., has a working
girls society of over 130 members,
which is growing encouragingly. In
Connecticut eight of the leading towns
have clubs, some more than one. Phila-
delphia is not behind in the movement.
It's working women's clubs OF guilds
have q regular organ, the Working
Wome,a's journal. now in its third
year. Philadelphia evidently wants to
earn the title of the City Of Sisterly
Love also. Its New Century Guild of
Workingwomen has regular classes in
dressmaking, millinery, type-setting,
and work with stained glass. Far and
Near, the new organ of the working
girls societies of America, also'gives in
teresting information regarding work
ing girls at Newport, N. Y, Columbia,
S. c., London, England, ETC., and from
every side comes the news of the
birth aud growth of these necessary or
%ganizations.
ISN'T THIS SLAVERY?
Horse car drivers and conductors in q
western city are agitating for a reduc-
ton of their hours of labor to twelve
daily. They complain that they are
now compelled to work sixteen and
sometimes eighteen hours a day. EN-
p!oyes of a street car line in another
city have been notified that only ten
mimi es will be allowed them for meals.
Both of those incidents have been re.
corded in the newspapers, and now we
read that the Ciaizels' Traction Com
pany Of Pittsburg, Pa, has forbidden
its conductors and drivers 70 buy q
newspaper under pain Of instant dismis.
sal. The men have no leisure to read
while making their trips, but ut the end
Of every tsip they have a wait of abuut
twenty minutes. and tue company de.
eide, that during this interval they
must twiddle their thumbs rather than
lersue a newspal er.
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.
The strike of the coal miners of Az
bama is still on. About 5000 Of Tie
5000 men are out of work.
MAY l Brooklyn upholsters will de-
mand nine hours and the adjustment
of overtime and Sunday work.
BosToN pIasterers won eight hours.
The pay is AZ cents an hour, or $40 6
weak, instead of $2l.
The government reports show thai
the average wages Of railroad hands il
this country is S243 per yea. The
average EN- ployment is LAT days, the
re.t of the year being enforced idleness
The Trades and Labor Union of st
Louis has established its own head
quarters with o library and reading
room, and labor bureau for the bene
tit of organized labor. It is s%elf-sup
porting and of i%nestimable value.
OVER $1,000 men are on strike il
Melbourne, Australia, for higher wage
aud the employment of Union me
only. Laborers get about 50 q da
and the mechanics So. Eight hours
aday. The employers are organize
and repre- eut $50u, QUO.
MEN make and are made by their en-
y%ironment. Conditions of labor ma
produce virility or ~emascula:ion. TIL
tweive-hour q day man eventually he
comes the inferior, bodily and mer
tally, of the eight hour day a Sui
mission to the tyrant of the shop sui
verts independence. The employment
of children of tender age knocks tn
undermining from the school-house an
predicatei future corruption of til
ballot box. The corruption wonl
produce flesh and blood machines. Tn
philosophy of trade unionism assert
the dominion of mind owe matter. ]
condemns all cheapening processes tbs
produce cheap men and women. ]
afirms the right of the ~wage-corner
have the use and faculties distinguish
ing men from beasts.