Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1890 — LABOR NOTES. [ARTICLE]

LABOR NOTES.

Denver clerks want shorter hours. Lansing’s (Mich.) mayor gets $1 a year. 1 Chicago worsen cloak makers are organized. Brooklyn has a German stone-cut-ters’ Union. The unions of Lancaster ha\ e e tablished a free library. The Newark Trades Assembly is dead. It once had 150 unions. The walking delegate of a New York union gets $27.50 a week. Cincinnati furniture workers will hold an exposition this summer.

American woolen and worsted importations from Yorkshire are decreasing. The Brooklyn Workmen’s General Mutual Benefit Union has 2,111 members and $3,800. The local bosses and plasterers have agreed upon $1.75 per thousand as the rate of wages. San Francisco harness makers won a strike against the employment of girls at men’s work. A Berlin union of 800 salesgirls, dues, 10 cents a month, gives medical care, medicine and secures work. John Burns, of the London dock strike, was offered SIOO for the old straw hat he wore during the strike. San Francisco butchers want meat peddling stopped, and demand that the license be raised from $lO to $75. The New York W orkingwomen’s Society is investigating the charge that girls are overworked and some underpaid. Belgian magistrates who were crowded with oases of men arrested during strikes, struck themselves for higher pay. Russia has only sixty-eight woolen yarn spinners, 190 light-weight woolen mills, and carpet manufacturing employs 800. The following towns are without newspapers: Fairville, Pa., popular tion, 1,300; Fredericksburg, Pa.,2,000 Arlington, Va., 4,500; Martinsville, Pa., 2,500. The labor unions took no part in the dedication of the statue of Seth Boyden, the mechanic, because non-union labor made the granite base and foundation. The book-binders object because the publishers are using Dutch metal for edges instead of gold. The metal turns black, and costs one-tenth the price of gold.