Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-09-18
A Column of Particular In,,r... .. r..
who Earn Their Daily isr.ad-wh.t
Labor is Doing and What is Do;np f,,
labor.
trust.

fITTsBuRGH reporters have . union.
INDIANA has Bankers' Association.
VARN1sHERs talk of National Union.
A WOOD carving machine is success.
full.
New YORK BARRIERS want union pat.
ronage.
INDIANAPOLIS working women are or.
ganizing.
LOCOMOTIVE firemen will build
$3.50, 600 hall.
SAN Francisco paper hangers have
organized.
LONDONDERRY, Ireland, has 700
Knights of Labor.
ILLINOIS miners averaged $1.15 day
last year.
CANADA letter carriers get 1850 tc
5000 year.
BosToN plumbers will not push the
demand for 81.
SAN FRANCISCO painters and decora.
tors work eight hours.
WnKEsBARRE miners demand their
pay every two weeks.
FRISCO seamen kick against the com
petition of japanese.
CLEVELAND, Fort Worth and De.
catur unions will build halls.
A POUND of phosphorus is sufficient to
pit ], 100000 matches.
INDIANAPOLIS clerks object to stores
that are open on Sunday.
A New YORK Italian barber charges
10 cents extra for negroes.
ONE of the latest novelties in trade is
an electric carpet beater.
Boston freight handlers were refused
the Saturday half holiday.
TwENTY-E1GHr unions compose the
New York Hebrew Trades Union.
WOMEN in California canneries get
from 81. 16 to $l.90 per day.
Boston clothing operatives will send
delegate to the Brussels convention.
M1ssouLA (Mont.) laborers are boy.
cotting people who patronize the
A YOUNG woman is Secretary and
Treasurer of Helena (Mont.) lumber
company.
MEMBERS of the New York German
Farmers Union won As cents an hour.
INDIANAPOLIS laundry girls are Undue.
ing employers to pay for work after
6 p. m.
FRANCE has prohibited the working
of railroad fremen and engineers over
twelve hours day.
DURING the last ten years the Paris
Gas Company has paid into the city
treasury 100000.
To HELP the boycott on box factory
San Francisco grocers will not handle
goods packed in the companys boxes.
BROWNSVILLE q. I. cloakmakers will
build $4,000 hall. Each man will be
assessed SIS in installments of 81.
NEBRAsKA's Eight Hour law went into
effect. Most of the employers have
decided to pay by the hour. Brick
layers will get 81 instead of $3.50.
WITHIN two days after the Boston
street car companies put ON new time
table thai increased hours $500 men
Joined the union. They have beer
working ten. hours day.
A MUTUAL benefit society may be Or
ganized among men employed on cleo
trio railways throughout the country.
If the organization takes place head.
quarters will be in Boston.
A RAPIDLY revolving brush, which
gets it's motive power through flexible
tube attached to small electric motor.
has been found to operate practically III
the grooming of horses. ...-
The new University of Chicago will
include in its departments school o.
electrical engineering. A school o!
arts will be organized, in which the
electrical section will be a prominent
feature.
The harbor authorities at Southamp'
ton. England, have decided to adopt
electrical cranes for the unloading q
vessels on account of the greater rapid
ity with which the work can be per-
formed.
ACCORDING to recent estimate, four
fifths of the engines now working in
the world have been constructed during
the last twenty-five years. The steam
engines of the world represent, ap'
proximately, the working power OF
OOO. OOO. 600 men, or more than double
the working population of the world.
the total population OF which is usually
est,mated at 1856, 923, 600 inhabitants.
Steam has accordingly enabled man t. :,
treble his working power, making il
possible for him te economic his ii p, phys.
Ical strength While attending to his In
tellectual development.
FIFTY thousand men work on the
Liverpool docks. The best paid amona
them get S shilings 9 day when they
have work. The majority OF less @. ski.l'
full hands get very much less. o.ss a,s,
norters, and statesmen and women a6on'
~. ~. ma markets receive from s to IS shill'
mo-; inc - ner week. Tramcar drivers get as
i h;sh as "a shillings, but conductors
never neS above 81. BARRIERS, caretakers
janisors and wate chm n.1 Ri1kI ssa2
drivers express and :niix' gn Rac f1am
and freight collectors receive oniy IRON aap