Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-10-02
LABOR AND LABORERS::
ECHOES FROM THE OFFICE.
MILL AND BENCH,
Paragraphs Bearing ON Labor PICKED
From al the Newspapers of the World
How Wage Farmers In Every Country
Livs-strikes, Lockouts. Etc.
May Fact, for w.se E.rnsrs

Many Facts for Wage Earners.
CHINA is to have -four mills.
Our railroads employ 5000, 900.
ILLINOIS leads in railroad mileage.
UNcLESAMis worth s62, 500, 900, 900.
NEW YORK has 80, 1000 night-work-
erS.
THE world has 1926 electric rail.
roads.
Two BILLION dollars in varies
trusts.
A NEW locomotive consumes it's
smoke.
Coal is being mined now at Eli
wood, o.
LONDON buttonhole makers get 35
cents a day.
Missouri has the biggest fruit
farm, 1900 acres.
. SPANISH quicksilver miners get 20
cents day.
HUNGARIAN miners get from 80 to
624 cents day.
Boston cigarmakers have $4,000
IN their treasury.
THERE are 200, 900 Oil holes in the
earth. They cost $500, 100000.
LONDON omnibus drivers gained
100000 a year by winning their strike.
A WIRE nail mill for the coast will
be started at Port Gardner, Puget
Sound.
GIRLS in wire wooden mill at
Trenton were cut from II to 20 per
cent.
UNION cigarmakers at San Fran
cisco not in the Labor Day parade
will be fined.
Coal is reported to have been
found at Marble Falls, Tex. and at
Hopedale, Ill.
The late strike cost the coal miners
in the vincinity of Oskaloosa, Iowa,
nearly $500, 1000.
The cooperative foundry at Somer-
set, Mass, has failed after on exis-
tence OF twenty -four years.
MISSOURI employees are observing
the law compelling the payment Of
wages every two weeks
NEW YORK upholsterers will de-
nrand nine hours with ten hours pay,
and the prohibition of overtime
to not more than fifty-three hours a
week.
The band saw is fast superseding
the circular saw for all kinds of work.
The latest application is made by the
tailors, who are using it with great
success for cutting cloth
The cigarmakers of Chicago, have
spent about 100000 to win their
strike for higher wages. In less than
four months the money will be re-
paid by the increase of their wages.
The great l25 ton steam hammer
at the Bethlehem IRON works-the
largest in the world-has been COM
pleted, and has begun it's work of
making heavy forgings for guns and
armor plates.
THERE is said to be but one place
in the world where absolutely pure
sugar is made. The nlannfactory is
in Germany and supplies chemists
and druggists with the chemically
pure article.
Our of l ,145 strikes in England last
year. in which 344, 400 people took
part, 476 were successful, 2O7 were
failures and nfnety-four undecided.
The average duration of the strikes
was eighteen days.
IT has been reckoned that if the
whole ocean should be dried up, all
water passing away in vapor, the
amount of salt remaining would be
enough to cover S, 600, 900 square miles
with layer one mile thick.
MEMBERS of the Walters Alliance
seem united i'm the declaration that if
it were not for the generosity of
the public, hotel and restaurant
walters would find it impossible to
live and support their families.
HALLIDAY, the inventor of the cable.
street car system, states that the
sight OF six horses vainly endeavoring
to draw a car up steep hill at San
Francisco first suggested to- him the,
foundation for his invention.
The Cedar Mountain Steel Com
pany was recently organized at Knox
vile, Tenn. The company has bought
twenty acres of brown hematite iron
ore on the Doe River, five miles above
Elizabethton, and will Immediately
put up thirty ton blast furnace to
make steel ingots by the Candy direct
process.
In order to abolish the :'sweating
SYSTEM in their trade, the members
OF the Boston cloakmakers' branch of
the United Garment Workers Union
have decided to call public attention
to the necessity Of buying only such
cloaks as bear the white label issued
by authority of the parent organiza-
tion, which is said to be guarantee
that the garments bearingit are made
under healthful and other proper con-
ditions, and that fair wages have
been paid for their making.
AN English mining engineer has in
vented an ingenious device to prevent
accident in the case of the breakage
If an elevator rope, says the Industrial
World. In the center Of the winding
rope is a copper wire which carries a
current of electricity to electro-mag-
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