The Russellville Democrat., 1892-03-03
TRADE AND lNpsTRY.

{ PJVVV inOH1Hleht ths " 0fiu l Fair.
 1 The market value telegraph and
 telephone girls in CIV York aver
 age $5 week.
 In Boston bricklayss apprentices
 are not full iourneynln until they
 have become of age. Baltimore unions hve introduced
 a bill in the legisGaturs making nine
 hours day on dty work. There is no trsth in the stste.aent
 going through dhe newspapers that during the coning spring ne brick
 layers will denand the dght hour
 day at forty-lEe cents an lour. Boston hdlmakers, Jon ship
 builders andrnachinists rill demand
 the nine-hor system or May l
 Throughlbe agitation of organized
 labor the inkerton detectives has e been barrl out of Arkansas, Idaho,
 Minnesota Colorado, Wyoming and
 New Mexso.
 Mine ispectors have found that
 one padHne in New York city had
 made whin the last two years over $100,00 furnishing immigrants to
 the mie owners.
 Thefroy Co operative Society has
 declard a quarterly dividend of six
 per cat. for members and three per
 cent. or non-m members who are pat
 ronsf the store.
 Ts typesetters' strike in Ger
 mart has ended in complete failure.
 It est the men about $200, 900 and
 thepublishers about $750, 900, and
 it fought foreign typesetters to Ger
 may that now hold the places.
 sSo long as in this country" says
 tb Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, men
 'vrk twelve hours a day, with no
 tnne to court their wives or kiss faeir children, SO ons my heart and fny hand are enlisted in any and every movement that gives fair promise for the emancipation of in- dustry." ]"
 A dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa, dated January 21, says: It was learneJ to-day thas twenty-one flint glass manufactures Nave decided to shut down for an indefinite period. This action will throw out of en- ployment 2500 men and boys. The cause assigned is over-production and inability to make a satisfactory agreement on freight rates.
 The Cigar Makers International Union Is considering the building of a permanent headquarters. At the last international convention com mittee was appointed to look up site. The union now has general fund of $400, 900 and membership list of 25,000. Besides building headquarters, the union has in mind at present scheme to build home for aged members, and a committee will soon be named to consider sites. It is said that the home will proba- bly, be located in Colorado. Adolph Strasser, ex-president of the Cigar makers International Union, will probably be made lecturer. MT. Strasser was president fourteen years, and he is now succeeded by G. w. Perkins, who was vice presi- dent for seven years.
 The Textile workers International will be held in New York on March l4.
 The Cigarmakers' International Union has expended $25, ,000 to ad- vertise its blue label.
 Miners in New South Wales were IffRed from $5 to $25 fer failing to give forty -eig'At hours notice before going on strike.
 Birmingham. Ala, has passed taxing and licensing al- most every trade, occupation and profession in that city for municipal revenue.
 Several large Vienna bankers and announce that they will prohibit all their employees from going to the races during the com ing spring season.
 The miners in the Clearheld re- zion of Pennsylvania have demand ed an advance in wages for mining "local coal" The operators say they will refuse the advance and close the mines.
 One hundred and forty thousand persons have emigrated from Ger many in eleven months of the past year by the port of Bremen. Eleven thousand of these went to Brazil.
 The coal industry, of .he United States furnishes Employment to 300,000 rersezs. to whom $110,- 000 GO is paid annually in wages, and the capital invested is estimated at $350 ,000, ,000.
 The Trades Council of Glasgow has petitioned the town conncil of that city to establish municipal workshops for the purpose of mak- ing all clothing needed for the in- mates of public institutions, and uniforms for the police and other officials.
 The differences which have exist ed for nearly two years between the East New York Boot and Shoe Com pany, of Albany, and the United Boot and Shoe Workers National District Assembly PIG and the Las ters' Protective Union, due to the