Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930, 1905-11-30
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The ordinary Cuban bricklayer does
/ we'll if he can put up 800 bricks
| day. The American on rough work can
| lay 1900.
There are about 1900 carpenters in
Cuba. Good men are paid from $1.5O to
81 day in the cities; in the smaller
places they work for much less.
Thirty-twO new cigar factories were
| started during October in Pennsylva-
| MIA, as against Is in September, 80 in
| October, 1904, and 81 in October, 1903.
A few days ago James e. and Joseph
G. Murphy, merchant talors of Chicago,
were held for the grand jury for misuse
| of the label of the United Garment
| Workers.
Nine more companies, employing over
5000 men, are dismissing their working
force and leaving Chicago forever, for
the country, on account of the ceaseless
labor troubles.
Belgian female workers on handmade
lace earn but from % to 80 cents day
of twelve to fifteen hours work. In
eastern Flanders the wages are still
lower, ranging from IL to 20 cents
day.
The general membership Of the Broth
erhcod Of Painters, Paperhangers and
Decorator by majority of $4,000 has
voted to hold convention during the
coming winter. Memphis, Tenn, will
probably be the place. The union has
!! not held convention in four years.
Boston lodge of machinists has &C.
Tod thn ;,.r o;r
by the n. Y, n. H. & H. Il. r., and
which will increase the machinists' pay
! roll of that system just $1,000 year.
The increase will not interfere with the
increase expected May 1 of next year,
it is said.
The annual report Of the New York
State Commission on Prisons for 1904
shows that all inmates able to work
We're employed that the sales of manu-
featured articles for the year amounted
to $7OS.S2S, and that not one dollars
worth of prison-made goods was sold in
the open market.
The United States District Attorney of
New York has caused the arrest of elev-
en- heads of manufacturing concerns of
that city on warrants charging them
dunn of an employers association, to
violate the alien contract labor law by
the importation of foreign workmen.
The printers have adopted the follow
ing slogan in the present eight-hour cam
paign: 1--WE propose to sell to the en-
plOyer hours out of "a, and we will
do as we please with the remaining 16."
This is the union printers answer to
the aspersions made upon the union by
its opponents in their effort to cast obi
UNI upon the movement of the men for
the shorter workday.
A joint convention of the United Mine
Workers of the three anthracite dis
tricts will be held at Shamokin, Pa,
beginning Thursday, Dec. IA. This con-
vention will formulate the demands to
be presented to the operators next
spring. The chief demands will be as
follows: An eight-hOur workday; wage
payments according to weight; uniform
wages for all employees; uniform scale
for rock slate. water and dead work;
an agreement between the United Mine
Workers and the operators.
At the close of 1904, England, Scot
land and Ireland, with a population of
100000, had trade union member
ship of 1,9O2,3OS. In other words, 1 in
% of the population was trade union
list. In Germany there were 1,276,S31
trade uniOnists in a population of &c.
100000, or 1 in A. In France, with a
population of 3S,3OO,OOO, there are 49,
SIC trade unionists, or 1 to So. Italy,
with 32,5OO,O0O population, reports 49,
go members of trade unions, or 1 to
$50. In Austria the trade unions have
III 92 members in a population of g.
10000, or 1 to $50. Spain has pop
ulation of 1S6OO,OO0 and trade union
membership of $1,000, or to $780, Hun
gary has 80, 40 trade unionists in pop
ulation of 19,50O,O00, or 1 to 366. In
Denmark the ratio is 1 to %, and in
New South Wales 1 to q.