Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1890 — LABOR NOTES. [ARTICLE]

LABOR NOTES.

Paoiflc Co&£t minors work eight hours. New York has 3,010 union hoivxsmiths. ~ Non-union musician? at San fra* • cisco have organized. Spinning-mules at Woonsocket make 10,000 time a minute. About 500 Canadians come over to Detroit each day to work. Not five carpenters were at work in Cincinnati after the strike. London has a women's cigarmakers’ union with pearly 6,000 members. Employes of the Cincinnati Dessicating Company won 15 cents a day advance. A New York carpenters’ Union will fine any man $5 who works over eight hours. Hudson River, New York, tunnel workers, getting $2 for eight hours, struck for $2.50. The New York cigarmakers havegained 3 000 members by winning forty strikes this year. The Farmers’ Union, of Brooklyn, has donated SIOO to the striking farmers in Hamburg. The San Francisco molders’ strike iB spreading to towns around. Things look well for the men. Northumberland miners will have their gala day on July 12. The Durham miners will celebrate on the same day. . ; Brooklyn has the largest bakery—--70,000 loaves a day. The ovens are under the street. About 500 men are employed. The wages of Knoxville engineers on switch engines have been increased from $2.75 to $3. The road men now receive $3.45. . • "The Italian stone masons of New York who struck for an increase of wages of one dollar per day have had their request granted. The Toronto building laborers settled their strike by a five years’ agreement. After May 1, 1892, they will receive 21 cents an hour. The Aberdeen Trades Council, Enghas indorsed the Parliamentary ill restricting the hours of labor in a Hine to eight per day. The Massachusetts labor report shows that over 41,000 engaged in mechanical ‘manufacturing industries average less than $5 a week. The Yorkshire (Eng.) Miners’ Association has 42,000 financial members and £35,000 in bank. They will resist,,! any encroachment on their scale of wages. The Chattanooga Evening News has acceded to the demands of the International Typographical Union and will pay the scale of thirty-three and one-third cents per thousand asked for day composition. London postmen have been asked by the Postmaster General to give an explanation of their presence at the recent postal jubilee. It is thought that an effort will be made to disrupt the the Postmen’s Union. “Interest is the reward of abstinence,” says a contemporary. Of course it is. The lender abstains from work, and the borrower has to abstain from many of the comforts and luxuries of life.—Bellaire Independent. The Trade and Labor Councils of Reading, Pa., sent a committee to Harrisburg this week to urge the Republican State Convention to incorporate in the party platform clauses favorable to the Australian ballot Bystem and free text books. Typographical Union, No. 98, of Brooklyn, complained to the Brooklyn Central Labor Union Sunday that many labor organizations, among whom is D. A. 75, K. of L., are patronizing “scab” printing offices—Union Prints;.