Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-28
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ROCHESTER has opened free labor
bureau and library.
The Boilermakers' Union gained 4, $50
members in year.
New YORK Typothete will fight the
demand for nine hours.
NEW HAVEN railway hands work |
eighteen hours for $1.83.
BosToN hat and cap makers have
opened cooperative shop.
AT Boston seamen ON steamers get
$25 a month; fremen, $50.
WEST VIRGINIA employers are not |
observing the Weekly Payments law.
A COOPERATIVE printing company in
New York has adopted nine hours.
SAN FRANCISCO carpenters cay few
bosses are trying to drop eight hours.
KNIGHTS OF LABOR will erect monu-
ments to founders Stephens and Fenni-
more.
Miss SARAH SHEA is the manager of
the K. of L. cooperative shirt factory
of New York.
OVER $500 was raised at q Chicago
mass meeting for the striking architec-
tural iron workers.
BROOKLYN Central Labor Union is
seeing that schoolhouse repairs are be. :,
made by union men.
No WORKMAN can secure employment
on the streets of New Bedford, Mass,
until he shall have been naturalized.
The Denver Hold Carriers Union has
700 members, and physician is in the
employ of the union to attend their
families.
The San Francisco cigarmakers have
issued circular containing the names
of dealers who do not sell Chinese
made cigars.
New YORK trainers won eight hours,
seven on Saturday, forty-fve cents an
hour, and double pay for overtime and
Sunday work.
The Musicians Union of San Fran
cisco gained its point in protesting
against the Fifth Artillery Band playing
below union rates.
ILLINOIS has larger railroad mileage
than any other State in the Union. It
has 10, 1853 miles of main lines and 2, 928
miles of sidings.
An electric typewriter is said to have
been invented by a Philadelphian, by
means of which the operator can trans
NIT his typewriter manuscript hun
dreds of miles.
The State Inspector of Shops and
Factories of Ohio ordered a number of
cigar manufacturers in Dayton, Ohio,
to discharge minors in their employ, as
required by the new law.
AT present there is decided move
ment in New England in the direction
of utilizing water powers for the gener-
ating and transmitting of electrical
force over long distances.
The glassblowers' convention in. st.
Louis has decided to withdraw from the
knights of Labor by considerable ma
jority. 1t is supposed the organization
will affiliate with the Federation of
Labor.
The increasing solidarity among
workingmen is witnessed by the action
of the Central Labor declarations of
New York in sending delegate to the
international Labor Convention at
Brussels.
The Mutual Life Insurance Associa-
ton Of the Locomotive Engineers has
10000 members at present, of whom
$500 are insured for $1,000. Last
month eighteen death claims from ST.
500 to $4,000 were approved.
In Cincinnati overalls and trousers
are being made at three and five cents
each. Women are making from $1.25
to So per week, and many children are
working for six cents per day, subject
to fines that often equal their wages.
INSURANCE against accident has been
provided in Germany for nearly 49,
300, 900 workmen, it is stated. of whom
over one-third are operatives in shops
and factories, and somewhat less than
two-thirds are agricultural laborers.
HITHERTO all the fuel used on the
Italian railways has been imported, but
an attempt is now being made to use
the Ignite of which the country pos
sesses large beds. Very satisfactory
results have so far attended the expert
ments.
| SpANDAN workingmen have petitioneo
the German Minister of War to erec1
| uOlu0S 1OI WOAA1uS POopA0 az SoVOAA
ment expense. The petition says that
rents are going higher and that tene
ment houses, as rule, are dangerous
to the health.
The French Government has adopted
a policy in regard to abandoned mine!
that may have far reaching consequent
ces. It has ordered that the sixty
three mines in France which have beer
abandoned are to be transferred to an,
person willing to start them again. O
these mines, twenty-one are iron or
mines. nine are coal, eleven are lignit,
and the remainder consist of copper
lead and zinc mines.
The salaries of teachers at the public
schools in Germany are so low, especi
ally in smaller towns and villages, tina
the number of candidates has fallen OF
remarkably during the last few years
The income for male teacher is abou
$3.50 year. The highest salary is abou
$500, but few of the teachers eve
reach it.
The statistics OF the average size G
families IN the various countries c
! Europe are the following: France. 80