Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1894-12-12
THE LABOR WORLD.

THE pig iron trade is reported duller than
ever before.
CLEVELAND (Ohio) bakers run an employ
ment bureau.
THE labor trouble seems to be a. an end
at New Orleans.
THE Garment Workers Trade council rep
resents 10000 people in the clothing indus
try in New York
CINCINNATI cloakmakers struck against
cuts In wages that have aggregated alxty per
cent. within year
THE Turkish laboring day is from sunrise
to an hour before sunset, with IN hour for
prayers and dinner.
PENNSYLVANIA coal miners and operators
have about agreed TO plan whereby the
truck store will be abolished
THE receipts OF the Furniture Workers
International Union during the last fiscal
year amounted TO Sl7,2lg.19.
THE Railway Conductors Insurance asso.
citation has disbursed 81 200, 900 among
widows and orphans OF members.
IL Germany all employers are obliged to
insure thei: employees, even when the EN-.
ployment IS temporary and unpaid.
ENGINEER RooT. the hero of the Wisconsin
forest fires, began his railroad career as a
brakeman on the New York Central.
UNEAsINEss prevails in the tin plate In
dustry Of Wales. Several large EMPLOYERS
have notified their hands OF reduction In
wages.
THE London and Northwestern Railway
has discharged a number Of plate LAYERS on
the Anelesly branch because they speak
only Welsh.
AT New Oyleans Grand Master Workman
James f. Sovereign. Grand Master Foreman
M. ]. Bishop and Secretary-Treasurer ]. W.
Hayes were reelected by the General AS
sembly of the Knights Of Labor.
IT is said that the pay of locomotive en-
gineers Is sometimes so much above that OF
minor administrative officers technically
their superlors that the amount Is not per-
mitted to appear upon the pay roll.
THE shoemakers OF Madrid, Spain, have
formed union and hired hall, In which
two balls are held every week. Admission is
ten cents, and every purchaser OF twenty
tickets Is entitled to new pair OF shoes.
BENJAMIN F. HUNTER, n New York colorei
man. will build several mills In Virginia and
the Carolinas, in which only colored labor
will be employed. All the cotton mills OF the
South ore now operated exclusively by white
help.
THE Government OF Spain has at last estab.
llshed national bureau for labor statistics,
which has been demanded by thelabor unions
OF that country for number OF years. The
bureau will be MODELLED after the labor
bureau in Washington.
Mas. MARY L. GEFFs, we'll known in labor
councils, has made study OF the labor sltu-
alton at Cincinnati, under commission
from the Ohio State Labor Commissioner,
and finds there are 30, 900 men and women
employed there under tho ''sweater" system.
She denounces the tyranny and injustice as
shocking, and charges that people are
starving.
RAILWAY employees in England are at times
compelled to work very long hours. A Sig
nal man worked twenty-five and half con-
secutive hours on one ocoasion. aud there
are frequent instances when shun.ers and
porters have been on duty sixteen and sew
enteen hours, with only brief intervals OF
rest. The most fragrant case recently re-
ported to the Board OF Trade was that of On
engine cleaner who was employed for thirty
four consecutive hours.