Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-02-13
THE LABOR WORLD.
JPHoLsrERERs report that business is very

urHoIsTERERs report that business is very
dull.
CoHoEs, N. Y has thirty-four knitting
mills
NASHVILLE TENN bakers have abolished
night work.
Troy, N. Y, has an eighty three year-old
railroad engineer.
Two adjoining cities seldom pay exactly
the same wages.
THE Hebrew trades unions Of New York
City are fighting prison labor.
THE efforts OF the Earl OF Aberdeen to
settle the Scotch railway strike failed
VALPARAISO worknen have joile'. the i'll.
urgents in Chill; business is parayaed.
THE Confederation of Industrial Organixs-
tions finished its work at Washington and
adjourned.
ABOUT 200o0 unemployed men are now in
Chicago, ILL.,, and some apprehension is left
over tue situation
The strike of the train Dispatcher and con.
ductors on the Chicago and Lake Erie Rail
road was settled amcaby.
THE labor organizations Of Portugal will
participate in the international demonstra-
ton for eight hours on May |.
IT was decided in New York court that
ship-owners were liable 10 sailors for injuries
received at the hands of superior officers.
IN England the gradual reduction OF the
hours OF daily toll has been accompanied by
the decrease OF intoxication and general
betterinent of the moral condition Of wage
workers.
THE pay @. hotel bell boys varies with tho
experience Of the boy and the character OF
the house. II is nominal, as the boy is uni
formed, lodged and boarded and Of course is
tipped by the guests.
THE carpenters and iolners are working
eight hours in thirty-four cities OF this coun,
| try at present; in 30 cities the ninehour
work day prevails, while in sixteen cities the
hours are from tifty-three TO fifty-uiue per
| week.
THE Brotherhood Of Locomotive Firemen
has gained 1928 members during the last six
months, and IL has a total membership OF
$500 at present while the National Brother
hood Of Railway Office Employees has 100, 09o
/ members.
THE Swiss workmen's congress has passsd
a resolution affirming the necessity OF max
| ing ten hours work the limit of regular
working day. The congress also resolved
that Swiss workmen should observe May IL
rs labor day holiday.
THE London carpenters are at present agi-
tating for fortyseven hours per week, at
! twenty cents an hour, overtime to be paid
double travelling expenses on jobs over four
miles from the bos9es' shop, no subletting nor
piecework, suitable places to take meals.
In Austria women are employed TO carry
the mortar and brick to the builders. They
work from seven In the morning till six at
night, with one hour at noon, and receive
! twenty cents day. Most OF these female
hod-carriers are unmarried and homeless
THE International Workingmen's Union,
when revived, will have for Its object the
preventing OF emigrants from working for
ess wages than the men TO whose countries
they emigrate. Bureaus of information and
agitation are to be established in all the prin'
cipal parts Of Europe.
LABOR COMMISSIONER LEE MERIwETNER
of Missouri has suggested the formation OF
an association for the protection Of laboring
men against dishonest employers, installment
houses and similar npositions; and the labor
organizations of the State are taking steps
to carry out the suggestion.
THE number OF work people engaged In
American manufactures III 1880 was 2, 730, :
600, and they averaged less than 81 day
In the same year s, 000, 900 farmers and farm
hands received for their labor the average Of
$3.50 Taken collectively, the great mass Of
American producers received each about
eighty.tive cents per day.