Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1889 — INDUSTRIALNEWS. [ARTICLE]

INDUSTRIALNEWS.

Brass workers complain of doll trade. Stone cutters are advised to remain away from Omaha. Trade very dull. Hand labor has been driven oat of English nail mills by machinery. Union waitere receive $2.25 per day, and 25 cents per hour for overtime. L. A. 280, K. of L., at Cincinnati, has just celebrated its twentieth anniversary. Eastern furniture workers will in* augnrate a general movement for highef wages. The productive power of the United States is equal to the labor of 500,000,000 men. The glassworkers at Newcastle-on-Tyne, England, have received an increase of wages. The Newark Sunday Standard is being boycotted for violating the Typographical Union scale. President (rompers has issued a charter for the Tin and Sheet Iron Workers’ National Union. Daring the past quarter the Brotherhood of Railway Brakemen has paid out $66,606 in benefits. The shoe cutters in Creighton’s factory at Lynn, Mass., are still idle, pending the settlement of the question. The New York Tailors’ Union, by a vote of 676 to 89, has decided that female apprentices must join the organization. Word comes from Australia that both manufacturers and employes are well satisfied with the wordings of the eight hour law.

The Glassbiowers’ National Assembly has been notified by the President of the pool that wages will be reduced September 1. The Newark bakers won their strike, and will hereafter work bnt ten hours per day. They formerly worked from twelve to fifteen hours a day. The Cleveland Wire Mills have reduced the number of horns of labor from twelve to eight. This will give employment to 300 additional persons. Union workers in the Weber Piano Factory struck against overwork. After a hot contest the firm yielded and agreed to pay for all.. the extra time worked before the strike. The cowboys employed in place of the striking car drivers at Bt. Paul, were promised $3 per day. After the strike they were informed that their cpmpenation would be fifteen cents an hour. Eccles Robinson, one of the Pennsylvania K. of L., who stumped Indiana for protection during the recent campaign, has resigned as Master Workman of N. D. A., 352, apd will go to California to engage In business. James Campbell, M. W. of the Glassbiowers’ National Assembly, is charged with siding in the importation of Belgian glassworkers to take the places of Americans. About $506 is needed to complete the monument to the memory of Thomas Armstrong, the veteran labor editor, at Pittsburg.— The monament is being constructed by Windsor, of Allegheny, and will cost $3,500. The design represents the veteran leader standing upon a pedestal of light-colored granite, the whole to be fifteen feet seven inches high, and will present a very imposing appearance. The Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, in Woburn, Mass., have reduced the day from ten to nine hours; in Jackson, Tenn., they have secured an advance in wages of 50 cents per day, and a nine-hour rule for Saturday, in Hartford, Conn., they have effected the nine-hoar system, to commence Jane 1, 1889, in Nyack, N. Y., they pave gained the eight-hoar system for Saturday; in Norwood, Mass., they have got nine hours; Little Rock, Ark., nine hours; Seattle, W. T., nine hoars. All branches of the building trades are now organized in Seattle and are working nine hoars, except the plasterers and they work only eight.

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