The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1894-01-18
THE woRLD OF INDUSTRY.
What Busy Men and Women ar
Dong Nowadays.


Detroit has a pastors union.
Baron Sakelburg is a nihilst.
La Crosse ships tramps East.
Japan has 100 national banks.
Denmark has Il, 900 Socialists.
England has female bank clerks.
The idle are warned against IeHas.
Topeka ENJOYS deaf mute barber
BOSTON has fifty three labor uuions
Omaha packing houses employ 4,2oo.
Springfield (Mo.) has a coiored union.
Pittsburg has trade school for girls.
The Federation claims G52,300 mem-
bers
Australia has 5000 organized Social
lists.
New Haven unions will publish a
paper.
The British miners strike cost $3.50, DOE,
000
CornellsviEe has 9,CCo coke ovens run
ming.
Portland, Ore, has a Central Labor
Council.
Volnntum Conn cotton business is
booming.
Wheeling miners struck for sixty cents
ton.
Beaver Fall, workers demand. lower
rents.
Farmers are establishing colonies in
Texas
Jersey City stores have begun closing
at p. IN.
Salt lake has an AfroAmerican Repub-
lican Club.
Apples are thirty cents q dozen at
Charlevoix, Mich.
from America.
In Great Britain 900 miners are killed
annually
Michigan has $500 union commercial
dru,nmers
Parker, Pa, is to have cooperative
glass mill.
Mahoning Valley puddlers struck
.ainst 3d. ton.
Cleveland (Ohio) iron workers were
cut 10 per cent.
The depression in Canada is greater
than for thirty years.
The Manchester worsted mill has shut
down; 700 hands.
Denver City is getting screened nut
coal for $2.10 a ton.
Grand Rapids street railway men have
been cut 10 per cent.
Glassworker Eberhart of Pennsylvania
is to run for Congress.
Meriden Comm Cutlery Company cut
wages to 25 per cent.
Milan Italy, is to have an international
workingmen's Congress.
Pittsburg printers who struck two
years ago. are being reinstated.
Plttsburg, Shenango and Lake Erie
Railroad cut wages 10 per cent.
New Ravens Central Union repre-
sents twenty>seven organizations.
Hatford's Central Union will not re-
ceive saloon keepers as delegates.
A Monte Vista (Col.) man got 800 an
acre for potatoes shipped to Texas.
A Stonington Comm carriage hard
ware company cut wages 10 per cent.
The Nashville Presbyterian Publish
ing Company has dropped the union.
Boston garment workers protest against
work being sent out of the city.
Lowell saloons have been reduced so
per cent. in number within two months.
Twenty-six railway systems, covering
$4,000 miles, center at Kansas City, Mo.
Toledo associated charities will ex-
pose landlords who press tenants during
these times.
The first tarpon of the season was
caught at Fort Myers, Fla, on the last
| day of 1898.
A Providence political club is utilizing
its quarters to store food and clothes for
the poor.
Sag Harbor Comm watch case mill
has resumed full time, after, six months
at half time.
Materno SPAIN weavers cooperative
society owns MILL clubhouse and fifty
houses.
Weavers held convention in New
Bedford, Mass, on Friday to discuss
proposed labor laws.
California quicksilver producers con-
yened. The price, $50 flask, is lower
than for many years.
Ten trade organiza lions work eight
hours.
Railroad tfainmen paid $2,2l3,00O in
benefits in decade.
Every circular printed in Magdeburg,
Germany, must be approved by the
police before distribution.
Wheeling unions want an election held
SO that the city can appropriate funds
to aid the glass industry.
Mechanics at Mare Island Navy Yard
have had their pay cut from twenty i've
to fifty-six cents per day
Tacoma Trades Council debated with
the Chamber of Commerce against re-
duction i'll salaries of the city employees.
Japan people oppose foreign immigra-
ton.
Two New Haven men paid for 900
dinners for the poor on one day.
A Maryville (Mo) cigarmaker has been
beqeathed $4,000 by relative in Swit>
zefiand, but he works every day.
Government ownership of the tele-
graph system will be debated by the
New Haven Central Labor Union next
Sunday.
New Ravens hardware factory, the
largest i'll the State, is now running only
an hour day below its usual winter
schedule Governor Lewellng of Kans
sas screeches for the employment of
married men in place of single ana has
his daughter as type writer.
Work on the South ella dam Arizona.
will be resumed with 600 men. The dam
Will cost $l,0oo,ooo, make a lake $4,000
miles long and irrigate 100000 acres.
Flint glass workers claim to have won
their long strike against the trust. The
strike has been on six months. and e Oo0
employed men have supported tbo