The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-03-18
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the World

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The double-headed tobacco trust is
gobbing up more of the independent
plants.
The gamblers of Nashville, Tenn,
have formed a trust to keep gamblers
from other cities from interfering
with the Nashville trade. They see
that the day of competition is passed,
even in the gambling business.
In Paris, France, $4,000 day labor
ers and masons, employed on the ex-
position grounds, are on strike. They
demand an increase of their wages
- cents per hour.
Telephone companies in half doz-
en- western states have formed huge
combine.
The big Westinghouse Co., Of Pitts
burg, capitalized at $15,00O,Oo0, and
the Walker Co., of Cleveland, with ST.,
100000 capital, have been consolidated,
l.
Co. may also become part of the new
combine before long. The three con-
Germs named have practically mo-
nopoly of the electrical and motor
| construction business of the country
and also a large foreign trade. The
organization of industry is progress
ing splendidly and all the time social
| ism is coming nearer and nearer. &c..
A $15,00O,OOO fish trust has been
formed. It will fish for suckers on the
land as well as those in the sea.
In bne factory in Detroit, Mich, is
machine on which a boy not over
! fifteen years old is doing the work
(which until recently required six men
working by hand The six men, who
were of necessity capable mechanics,
could not be had for less than $1.50
a day each. What will become of the
six men thrown out.
There are seven young lady conduct
ors OH the electric cars of Chillicothe,
O., and five at Vincennes, Ind. They
work nine hours day and receive 81
a week. In Chillicothe there were over
100 applications for the position.
| A committee of printers, pressmen
Philadelphia to make final arrange
ments for the Inauguration of the
nine-hour work-day for the printing
trades east Of the Allegheny noun
| tains.
President Diaz, Cornelius Sullivan,
John Dunphy and other prominent,
citizens of Mexico are building an
enormous cordage and linen factory
within a few miles of the City of
Mexico, where model Irish colony.
will be settled. It is expected that
5000 persons will receive employment
within year. Each family will be
provided with beautiful cottage,
with running water and electric light,
and situated in the center of a garden
800 feet square. :
The wages of all day: laborers in the
tin plate plant of the Newcastle dis:
trict have been advanced from five to.
ten per cent. The advance will affect:
between 1900 and 1900 men.
The Reese Hammond Brick Manu-S
featuring Company at jeanette has
advanced the wages of its $50 EN-.
ployes from S to 20 per cent.
France employees over 5000 women.
in her civil service, telephone, and tele-.
graph offices. The municipality of
Paris alone gives work to 900 women,
while the Bank of France pays sal
aries to 400 more. Two hundred wo-.
men have permanent positions: in the
Credit Foncier, with earnings varying
from SITS to 1915 a year. j.
A thorough report covering labor
from 1870 to 1897 has just been issued
in four volumes by the French bureau
of labor. In 1905. the daily wages
in France averaged Ala cents for men
and 2O.4 cents for women, while in
} 1918 they were rs and 43 cents, re-
spectively. Roughly speaking, wages
have doubled in France during the
last so years. It's estimated that the
| cost of living has increased 25 per
cent in the same period. In Paris the
average wages for men are $1.s3 per
day and of adult females GO cents.
The average working day is 10 IL
hours. There are no statistics as to the
stability of employment, matter
| which, according to the Revue Social
| iste, is of grave concern, many work.
ingmen being unemployed for long
periods .
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