Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1891-01-08


PowpERLY only eats two meals day
and they are light.
THE New York Central Railroad has
twenty-six women employed as station
agents, it is said.
The heirs of wealthy Austrian have
given SIS, ZOO to found school of house
keeping for girls.
The total production of steel rails at
all the mills in this country for the cur
year will probably run 100000 tons
ahead of 1895 figures.
WITHIN 60 years Mexico has had 54
Presidents, one regency and one empire,
and nearly every change of government
has been effected by violence.
JAPAN, it appears, has already over
1000 miles of railroad in operation,
while as many more miles are under
construction or being surveyed.
ACCORDING to the annual report of
the Pullman Palace Car Company,
5,023, ,057 persons were carried in their
cars last year, against A, 342, 542 the year
before.
COUNT Won MoLTKE has adopted the
eight-hour rule for the laborers on his
estate at Crisan, and is said to be we'll
satisfied with the result of his expert
ment.
In Paris, out of the 2,7oO,OOO resi-
deets it is calculated that one in
eighteen, OF 10000, live on charity
with tendency toward crime. In Lon
don the proportion is one in thirty.
LABOR COMMISSIONER PECK, of New
York: thine was when the relation of
employer and employed were such that
the will of the employer was absolute
and self-assertion was impossible"
LAST year the most notorious trust
was the Bread Union in London. 1t
took in all the important bakers, 277 in
number, in the metropolis. The fail
ure and entire dissolution of the trust
is now announced.
A REPORT from Berlin states that the
shoe manufacturers at Erfurth have de-
clared a lockout in consequence of dis
pute arising from the dismissal OF
workman. Three thousand men are
thrown out Of employment.
THE British South Africa Company,
it is reported, has proposed to its en-
ployes that any servant discovering a
mine in the country covered by the
Company's charter will be made CO.
proprietor of it with the Company.
The wages of the freight engineers
and firemen Of the Lake Shore and
Michigan Southern Railroad have Eeen
increased 20 cents O day. The en-
gineers are advanced from So. so to So. 70,
ana tbs firemen from ST. .65 to $1.85.
ONE thing that should be looked afte,
by the railroad employees of this coun-
try is the employment of boys and girls
cheap labor-in the telegraph offices
on the different lines of railroad. We
400 miles in length, which has in its
employ two-thirds OF this class of op.
orators, and pays them on an average o.
$25 month, and they perform the du
ties of station agent also. 1t is posi-
lively dangerous to work in the trair
service of such company.
GERMANY employs 5.500,000 women
in industrial pursuits, England, 1000,
600, France $780, 900 and Austro- Hun
gary about the same number, and still
women are the weaker sex, the lesser
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benefcence.
MEETINGS were held throughout Bel
gium in favor of an eight-hour working
day and universal suffrage. Many
speakers advocated Belgian Republic.
Money was collected in anticipation of
general strike. Bills were thrown
over the barrack walls in Brussels, urg-
ing the soldiers to cooperate with the
workingmen.
SAID A. W. Wright, of the Knights of
Labor, in q recent address: "The labor
agitators, as they are called, are trying
to organize the working people for their
own interests, and yet you will hear the
manufacturers say labor organizations
are all right if it were not for the labor
ngitators. That is what the slave own
ers said about Wendell Phillips and
Garrison. But we labor agitators pro-
pose to keep on with our work of max
ing the working people dissatisfied with
their condition when their condition is
not what it should be.