The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-10-12
THE LABOR WORLD.

IT takes 500, 900 men TO WORK the worlds
coal mines.
IL Naples. Italy. compositors are paid as
little as 3l25 u week.
SEVERAL Pittsburg mills that were idle all
summer have started up.
Ten THOUSAND people are employed as tele-
phone operators In this country.
IT Is estimated that since July S00,-
900 employees have lost their situations.
~ Chicago, according to an exact count,
1861 wage workers are out OF employment.
NEARLY 100000 wageworkers are out OF.
employment in England since the coal strike
began.
4 LARGE number OF idle miners from the
Michigan Upper Peninsula districts are leav-
Ing for the mines in Alaska.
A LAW in England provides that no
person under eighteen years shall be en-
ployed about Il shop for longer than seventy
iour hours, including meal times, in any on3
week.
The Chinese in California have n chance TO,
go to u warmer climate. They are offered
s21 head In British Guiana TO hoe sugar
cane and dig gold. The colony only wants
5000 OF them
The north of England miners live on an
average. three years longer than Englishmen
taken as whole. They live eight years
longer than the Cornish and nine years longer
than the South Wales miners.
BRASS grinders working by the piece are
able TO earn about $40 week. but their
average life time is not quite thirty-nve years
Most OF them die from hemorrhage of the,
lungs. caused 10y particles ofthe brass inhaled
by the men while at work.
ALL the collicries OF tho Philadelphia and
Reading Coal and Iron Company at Shenan-,
doah, Penn. have resumed operations under
orders to work six days each week for two
months, the miners TO be paid at the rate OF
five per cent. above the S2. so basis
STATISTICS show that the entire agriculture
OF the world furnishes employment 10 $50 ,000.-
900 men and represents an invested capital of
1924 ,OO0, 900 900. The annual product IL
worth over SO, ,000, ,000. 900. II is estimated
that the civilized Nations pay annually for
food Sl3, ZOO, ,000,0
A PARIS shop girl ordinarily begins at a
salary OF from 80 to s8 month. Besides
she invariably has commission ON her
sales. varying from one half to one per cent.
according TO her success. Many receive as
high as $50 a month in salary and make
much more In commissions.
THE Government of Portugal has ap-
propriated sufficient funds to establish
labor exchanges. under the control OF
organized labor, in the larger cities and in
dustrial centres of that country. These ex-
changes are under the supervision of the
Department for Commerce and Industries.
LABOR bureaus which were expected to
solve tho problem OF tho unemployed in
London have proved n dishearteninG failure.
Al one office some 800 applicants in search
OF work OF any kind registered, and only
three employers applied for help so that
after three months work the bureau found
employment for only two men.
TUE shutdown of the Youngstown (Ohio)
ls... IL. Il. ~. 1. A
of idleness in the history OF the iron business
in the Mahoning Valley, is causing much
distress. Fully 10000 men arc idle, and the
breadwfnners, having had no income for
three months, are, with their families, su.-
iering for tho actual necessares Of life.