Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1894-12-28
THE LABOR WORLD.

TS Chicago girls are now employed to run
elevators.
The next annual convention OF the New
York Stata Federation OF Labor will be held
In Albany.
CARrESTEns in the car shops OF the Phila-
ieiphla and Reading Road now work on the
pieco work plan.
IL Russia all regular officers and employees
on State railroads must retire on reaching
their lfty-fltth year.
JOHN BURNS. OF Boston, Mass, has driven
4 hack for forty years, and claims to have
the record for long driving.
CORRESPONDENCE with manufacturers
shows that l0.2 per cent. more men are en-
ployed now than year ago.
AT Limoges, France, during 1894, twenty
two young women employed TO paint porce-
lain ware died OF lead poisoning,
USEMrLoYBp workmen in Pullman and
Kenslngton, Chicago, suffering for food, are
circulating petitions asking State and oity
aid.
In Chicago, in the various lines allied un-
der the name OF tho furniture trade there
are 28, 900 men employed, by total OF 278
firms, big and little.
JOHN MCBRIDE was elected President otthe
American Federation OF Labor at Denver,
Col. Socialists are alleged to rejoice at
Gompers's beating.
THE Compagna General. OF Manila, en-
ploys 10, 900 hands rnd rs out every year
| B0, ,000, 900 cigars, 40, D cigarettes ana
| $500 tons OF cut tobacco
President DRBs, o. American Railway
Union, will appear before the Wisconsin
| Legislature this winter to urge the passage
! Of bills for the benoft OF railway employees.
| THEE HUNDRED AND EIaHTY-sIx candidates
have passe the necessary Civil Service ex-
animation and have been plucod on the list
for appointment us letter-carriers In the New
York Po3tohce
THERE Ia n medical stat connected with
the British Postal Service-forty-one sur
! geons, hospital stewards aad nurses being
attached to the London office to look after
lis corps OF II $50 employees.
CONFERENCES OF German railway servants
are 10 be hell throu ,hout the Empire TO DIS
suss the possibility OF stopping freight trains
from running on Sundays. The Object - 10
enable the railway officials to obtain rest on
the Sabbath.
JoHs NJ. EaAS, who was Chairman OF the
General Managers Strike COMMITTEES on the
Pullman d,sturoances OF last summer, Is q
natiye OF New England. He began his rail-
road experience 10 the machine shops o: the
Illinois Central.
MANY sealing sohooners are being fitted
out at San Francisco. Oal., for tho winter
,ruse in japanese waters aud subsequent
operations In Berlng Sea. Wages OF sailors
and hunters have been reduced because OF
Encouraging reports from the London mar
ket.
The diamond cutters OF Amsterdam, Hol-
land, have again gone out on strike. Sew
sral thousand stopped work and paraded the
streets, aad tried to intuoj the others 10
quit work. The police charged them when
they bccnms disorderly and several strikers
were injured.
The surgeons In the employ OF the hBlR
Four" Railroad system arc making arrange
menls for the Establishment OF chain oi
hospitals alonS the line OF road The hospi
tails will be maintqiued by monthly assess
meItA on the employees, anl every employ,
will hhvo the right OF being cared for ne
maiter for how long time.
MEXICO 10 interested In ne Madagascar
question, ss one OF the objects OF the French
invaders OF the Hovss kingdom Ia to drfvl
the Msxisaa dollar out Of circulation.