Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1890 — Labor Notes. [ARTICLE]

Labor Notes.

Montana has femala miners. Omaha brick-layers get 50 cents an hour. New York printers hare a dramatic club. In Germany women doctors cannot sign a prescriation. Wheeling hod-carriers demand $2.25 and nine hours. Brooklyn and New York cement laborers will demand eight hours. A home for Scandinavian workinggirls will be opened at Chicago. The Northumberland (Eng.) will not demand the eight hour day. John Morley and Lord Salisbury are helping the eight-hour agitation in England. Sioux City will have new stoveworks. in which will be employed four hundred men. Detroit barbers will join the eighhour movement and also demand six working days. The Coach-drivers’ Union of Jersey City has inpuced all but one undertaker to sign union rules. Broom manufacturers protest against a contract for making brooms in a peaitentiary at 25. cents a day.- " A New York firm sued a sewing-girl to prevent her from working with another firm. She is an expert sewer. The New York law which provides for the payment of $2 a day for laborers on public jobs has benefited all other laborers. The Long Island railroad is fighting the Union. One of the union’s rules does not permit its members to teach any one the trade. In nortem Mexico laborers get 37£ cents a day. In southern Mexico it is to hot to work more than three to five hours, and $1 a day is paid, An old man lives in a tower in the Austrian Alps, tbehighestmeteorological station in Europe: He gets S2OO a year, and hardly ever sees a human being. The Kansas Labor Bureau er ys the lowest average daily wages earned by laborers is $1.36; the highest by bricklayers, $3.46; the average for all. $2.11. The income to - each family averaged $612 and an expense SSOO, leaving a surplus of $lO6, or about 17 per cent