The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-01-10
LABOR AND SCIENCE
What Practical Men are Doing
for Progress.
A Mess Of knowledge Condensed for
Ready Reading-Many Use
full Hints.

"A nail is lead-headed.
London has Is, 900 cabmen.
There are paper flower pots.
Waters unions are spreading.
Frisco BARRIERS close at pm.
-Pittsburg is short on natural gas.
Co operation sentiment is growing.
Sacramento reporters have union.
India uses old rails for telegraph poles.
Brooklyn bakers unions amalgamated.
New York has $4,000 walters and bar
tenders.
Great Britain uses Switzerland con-
densed milk.
Denver clerks want stores closed on
legal holidays.
Steam engineers talk of home for dis
abled engineers.
knights want the Chinese exclusion
act renewed after 1892.
Berlin street car conductors work
eighteen hours for 62115 cents day
"A Chicago firm has taken several old
employees into partnership.
The cigarmakers have spent $4,000 in
advertising the Union label.
Frisco furniture workers are being as
sessed 81 for defense 1und.
Frisco unions want municipal and state
contract work aOollSned.
Hebrew sections of the Socialist party
will hold national convention.
"A boycott brought non-union beer boss
brewers to terms at Hoboken.
The municipal eight-hour bill has been
defeated in the city council of ST. Louis.
The pin factories of the United States
manufacture about 5000, 000, GOO pins per
year.
The work Of twenty five years will sup
port family for one year In Madagascar.
The total export from New Zealand
gold mines has been over &54, O00,OGO ster-
ling.
Over seven tons of diamonds have been
taken out of South African diamond mines.
There are only six local unions of tail
ors not yet affiliated with the national or
gaDizatlon of their trade.
Electric lights have been introduced
into svery house in Hammerfest, Norway,
the nOrthernmost village in Europe.
Frisco coopers were discharged for kick
ing against twenty-five year old appreu-
tice. The union rule is for twenty-five
year old boys.
Great Britain talks of loans to improve
! the dwellings of farm laborers and to assist
them in getting small holdings.
About 100 union men are now imprison-
ed in Australia for alleged violence during
the sheep shearers' strike.
Ali working girls using the cars of q
! Dayton, Ohio, railway ride at half-price
and work women carrying their baskets
! travel free.
The receipts this year of the Vienna
walters union were 81, 81. so, the expendi
| lures amounted to Sll. 63232, and there was
SIS. lt4 81 in the bank.
] Of rpbohae for+,, oo-,
turtles ago, possessed the art of staining
glass, and they produced the commodity il
the utmost profusinn.
The local unions of the Internationa
! Furniture Workers union have contribu
| TED 50, OBS 80 TO the strike fund of their fell
! low workmen in Chicago.
| In the manufacture of carriages it useC
! to take one man thirty-ive days to make 6
carriage. 1t is now made by the aid o.
! machinery with the work of one man il
I twelve days.
The tinplate works in Wales will be shu
down in January, the intention being tt
give the market chance of absorbing pres
! ent stocks and, by curtaliing production, u
bring about an improvement in prices.
Many of the London photographers ar
introducing electric lights in their studio
both for taking the pictures and for print
ing the negative, the long periods of fogg,
weather preventing the use o. direct sun
light.
Since the holding of the Brussels labo
congress. hundreds of unions have beef
organized in Europe. In Paris alone Il, co.
new members have been gained by trade
unions, while the growth in Germany
Austria, Italy and England has been mar
velous.
Trade unions must have been YER
strong, even in ancient times, if we ma
Judge by the unanimity of 10000 mine
workers striking for an increase of wage
from II to IS cents per day in 413 B. c.
just 1904 years ago-witn the result 0
overthrowing the Athenian government.