Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-01-02
THE LABOR WORLD.

THE Scotch railway men have gone on ths
strike for shorter hours.
THE Cloakmakers' Union hus increased
from 200 to 1000 members within the last
two years.
In short time the Window Glass Workers
Association of North America will operate
plant Of its own.
THE Princess of Wales has revived the
antiauated manufacture Of Irish pophns TO
benefit the half starved weavers.
THE American Federation of Labor at its
Detroit (Michl meeting decided to ask for
the appointment Of women factory inspect
ors.
COUNT Won MoLTxE is the first landed pro-
pretor in Germany to adopt the eig1t-hour
rule for the peasants working for him upon
his estate at Kreisau.
THE Austrian Government has given $4,000
! to the unemployed mother Of pearl workers
| OF Vienna and $1,000 will be expended to en-
able them to form a cooperative factory.
The Mexicans object to the employment
on their railroads of Americans as con-
ductors They say that Americans are rude,
and moreover, they do not speak Spanish
well.
THE shutdown at the five mills run by the
| Oliver Bros, at Pittsburg, Is caused by the
changing of the furnaces for the use OF gas
as fuel to coal as the gas in their private
lines is exhausted.
THE Census Bureau in Washington has
sent out schedules to all known labor organi-
cations in this country to be filled out and 10
be returned with information as to the
strength and objects of the organizations.
THE Italian journeymeu BARRIERS, Of New
York, who are agitating for the closing of
harber-shops on Sunday, have formed the
American Sabbath Union, which has been
Incorporated under the laws OF that State.
In most Of the shops in st. Louis the work
men have a half hour for lunch from $50 to
loan When recently the manager of a
big establishment attempted to abolish lunch
time 800 people went on strike, and they car
ried their point.
THE rate of wages paid to flremen on ships
sailing from London is $lS. IS per month on
VOYAGES un the Mediterranean to Australia
and New York. To the Cape of Good Hope,
, Natal, China and India it stands at from
SIS. rs to $50 per month.
) THE City Council, Of GAINESVILLE, Ohio, has
passed an ordinance applying TO the laborers
employed by the city. IL makes eight hours
: a DAYS work on all city work, and provides
I that workmeu employed by the city shall be
paid 1875 cents per hour.
.. THE Central Labor Union, OF Brooklyn,
N, Y, has asked all labor organizations to
/, | cooperate in movement against bne intIo-
u duction of Pinkerton men into strikes and to
, amend the conspiracy law so as to partially
A favor the labor organizations.
n ACCORDING to official reports the coal
d miners of Silesia, Germany, receive about
d afty cents per day, while the saddlers at the
IL artillery workshops in Spandau earn but
Il twenty-five to fifty cents The average
t. wages Of bookbinders in Germany are sixty
le six cents per day.
n THE Shirtmakers' Union, of San Francisco,
10 has established cooperative factory, and q
8; general boycott against shirts made anc
~ Iaundered by Chinese has been procisimed
y by the labor organizations OF the Pacific
; coast. Over $500 girls might be employee
. at manufacturing shirts in San FRANCISCO II
,. the Chinese were driven out OF the trade.