Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1889 — LABOR NOTES. [ARTICLE]

LABOR NOTES.

The labor movement is spreading rapidly throughout Germany. In Great Britain there are 203 tin plate mills, employing 100,000 people. - Thousands of laborers at Panarpa-are idle on account of the suspension of work on the canal, and business is paralyzed. Carpenters employed by the city government of Chicago. HL, now get the union rate of wages, thirty-five cents per hour for a working day of eight hours. Some women in England make good salaries by manufacturing the dainty silk and lace lamp shades now so popular. A dealer in London, who glories i n the royal patronage, pays one woman S2OO a month for the shades she makes. The Pennsylvania Coal Company informed the miners, as they were leaving off work, Saturday night, at Scranton. Pa., thit a “shut down” had been decided upon, to take place at once. This general suspension affects nearly 2,000 men. The company has been operating fifteen large collieries. The officers of “shut down” is Ohly temporary. Old miners assert that in eleven years there has not been so continued a period .of dullness as at the present time. For the past six months the men have been working quarter time. Their earnings have not exceeded sls a month, have frequently falien as low as $6 a month. Ihw Spring; Crop in Oklahoma. Chicago Herald. The Oklahoma boomers are taking no agricultural implements into the Territory, but are well supplied with revolvers, rifles and bowie knives. The spring planting, if there is any at ail, will consist in planting persons who re«ist land grabs.