Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1890 — THE LABOR WORLD. [ARTICLE]

THE LABOR WORLD.

Boston slate and metal roofers demand eight hours and $3.25. The San Francisco union will establish a co-operative shoe factory. The shearers of New South Wales and Queensland have gone on strike. Catasauqua, Pa., silk plush weavers have struck against a cut to 6| cents a yard. Great Western (England) Railroad hands received increases and shorter hours.

In Italy 200,000 people live in cellars. Many laborers there average only 25 cents a day. In 1888 the New York Maltsters’ Union men got sl6 a week for ten hours. The loss of a strike cut wages to $lO and sl2 and increased the day to fourteen hours. They are organizing". Mme. Tkatcheff declares that Russia’s factory operatives, male and female, sleep in the mills and cannot afford to buy leather shoes. Paper serves for stockings and shoes are of wood. Shocking immorality prevails. The Russian would rather do without his food than his weekly bath. The law allows children under 15 to work eight hours per day if they attend school three hours. Children can not be employed in thirty-six dangerous industries. Women weavers and spinners must not work at night. Where over 100 persons are employed medical attendance must be provided.