Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-03-20
THE LABOR WORLD.
PIG iron is slack.

PIC iron is slack
DENVER. Col, has 5000 idle.'
OMAHA, Neb., has a labor palace.
BosToS contractors are organizing.
ST. PAUL Mimi carpenters want eight
hours.
The West is taking the lead in labor legis-
lation.
NEW YORK has 10000 Russian Hebrew
workers.
THE indianapolis Trades Council has 5000
members.
PrrrsBURG's Trades Council holds open
meetings.
BROOKLYN wood-workers will demand
eight hours
UNION retail clerks NJ San Francisco, Cal,
wear button.
THERE are 2S, 200 unemployed workmen in
Boston. Mass.
AUSTRALIA sent $1,000 20 the London
dock strikers.
A MACHINE threatens to throw hundreds
of stOnecutters out.
The organized shos trades are coming
rapidly to the front.
THE girls shoe filters union of San Fran
cisco has 800 members.
BosroN paper workers want the State to
prohibit Sunday work.
INTERNATIONAL bakers and confectioners
will meet at Indianapolis
OVER $1,000 people are connected with the
stage in London, England.
GOVERNOR RUSSELL of Massachusetts,
recommends labor legislation.
SAN Francisco shoe hands want forty-hve
cents pair for turned work.
A SAN FRANCISCO shoe strike secured
thirty-eight to forty nine cents
THERE are in the world 100000 coal
miners AMI 1000, 900 metal miners.
BUTTE (Mon.) claims to be the best organ
izsd union town for its population.
TRADE union statistics show that 1000 900
workers average $3.50 year wages
THE Brussels (Belgiuml Cooperative
Bakery will supply the city fremen.
INDIANAPOLIS colored plasterers won forty
cents an hour and the eight-hour day.
TYPEwRITERs and stenographers are or
ganizing unions throughout the country.
IT is thought few foreign delegates will at
tend the Worlds Fair Labor Convention.
NEW YORK painters insist on the enforce
ment OF 50 so and eight hours on April o.
THERE are now over 1900 carpenters ami
planning mill employees idle in Indianapolis.
New YORK slipper makers working from
sixteen TO eighteen hours day get Sl.25 to
$l50.
FINES were imposed on $50 miners at Dur
ham, England, for leaving work without
giving notice.
TIE general fund of ths international
Cigar-Makers' Union amounts to about
$4,000 at present.
A BILL to distribute $50, 900 among the un-
employed OF San Francisco is before the
California Legislature.
A CUT in wage, OF from thirty to sixty per
cent. has been made in an Akron Ohio
mower and reaper works.
Or the British railways 3l4 women vera
employed in 1899, and Il, 5,463 were working
in the coal mines of England.
BY the efforts Of union men sl.50 will be
the lowest pay for unskillei men on the
Worlds Fair work in Chicago.
THE average salary paid to men CLERKS in
Washington Is 1891 year, while that paid
to women in the same departments is only
1869.
An indianapolis vonens society will fur
nish coffee at two cents a cup, soup at three
cents per bowl and bread and butter at a
penny.
THE ConstantinopIe dockers have formed
a union, established a picket system, AMI
threaten violence to other Turks who will
not join the union.
DELEGATES from nearly every town AMI
city in Massachusetts were present at So
cret session of leather workers in Boston, and
decided to continue the fight in Lynn.