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Show THE INDUSTRIAL FIELD. Buffalo has a working-boy's home. They . talk of making bread from wood. ; Cleveland butchers will manufacture ice.. , . ... - Movable iron houses arc made in Kngiaud. Tiffin, O., plasterers work ten hours for!J.50. Painters in a New York shop are out for$i).50. The average (lay's work in Saxony is thirteen hours. Brooklyn plasterers have won eight hours and a day. Some Boston clergymen are advocating advo-cating eight hours. A Dubuque, la., judge decided that Sunday shaving was a necessity. Boston eleetrotypcrs by a striko compelled com-pelled a man to join tho union. New Britain (Conn.) painters have been granted nine hours, ten-hour pay. A Brooklyn bricklayer lost a suit to compel the union to take him back to the society. , At Poineroy, Pa., a dozen eggs bring only ten cents worth of merchandise in exchange. At Oltou, Switzerland, a convontion with 548 delegates, represented lliO.OOO workmen. In Victoria, B. C, no masou or stonecutter stone-cutter will work on a building where Chinese help is employed. The Detroit street railway company has invited its employes to join the beneficial ben-eficial association which tho company is forming. . In Australia when'1 the carpenters worked ten hours. they got twenty-four shillings a week. Now they get sixty shillings for eight hourc. Berlin gold beaters havo succeeded in producing sheets of gold only i-y&i,-000 an inch in thickness, yet capable of shutting out tho strongest electric light. Herr Rebel, the Gcinian socialist, is a genuine workiugmau. He started as an ivory-turner, and even now when something displeases him in tho estab- U.-l...-..-.- rt L.UrtU tL L..l...l .. 1 ..! of which he is a partuer, ifo tucks up his sleoves and shows the iguoraut or obstinate workman "how it shoiuit be done." The . International Boot and Shoe Workers' society has 107 unions and 22,000 members; only 20U0 remain in tho Knights of Labor. Tho Rochester branch celebrated the anniversary of organization by a parade and mass meeting. Tho condition of Philadelphia shoe workers was deplored. |
