The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-08-22
THE LABOR WORLD,
OREGON saw mill men get 81 day.
DAKOTA farm hands are paid 50 day.

DAKOTA farm hands are paid 50 day.
EIGHT thousand laborers are on strike at
Paris.
CAMPAIGN literature is now in demand and
the printer is happy.
On the California railroads they are using
steel rails from England.
THE K. of L. cooperative watch-case mill
at Brooklyn employs 100 hands
AN East Saginaw (Mich) firm has an
order from Liverpool for 10000 doors.
ABOUT $4,000 persons are employed on
Great BritaiA's 19, 332 miles Of railroad.
AT Toledo, Ohio, women knights Of Labor
have started cooperative knitting-mill.
PITTsBuRG expects to carry off the palm
for the biggest demonstration on Labor Day.
LARGE numbers Of English miners have
left for the gold mines at the African Trans
vaal
SERVANTS get 50 and So month in west
ern North Carolina and parts of South Car
olina.
THERE are now over $50 local unions in
the Ericklayers' and Masons' International
Union
A BENEVOLENT and protective association
is being talked Of for street railway men Of
Boston.
ACCORDING to Bradstreet's the number of
strikes in the United States from June to
Is was 1897.
GERMAN manufacturers instead Of riveting
the joints OF boilers weld them at slightly
greater cost.
THE glass bottle blowers have arranged
satisfactory wage scale, and work will be re-
sumed September l.
The Grand Lodge of the Pienomakers
Union has decided that each lecal union Siust
have an American flag.
AT London a machine which takes the
place Of the glaSSblower has been patented
1t does twice as much work as the man.
A RECENT conference Of tanners Of New
York, New Jersey and Massachusetts, formed
an Interstate Federation for mutual protec-
tion.
In many places in Georgia, Florida, Ala
bama, Tennessee and North Carolina farm
hands are paid from thirty-f1ye to fifty cents
per day.
EIGHTEEN special agents of the National
Bureau of Labor are now engaged collecting
statistics regarding employment on railroads
in the Eastern States.
THERE are fifty co operative stores In New
England under the management Of the
SoVereigns Of Industry. The yearly sales
amount to IS, 5C0 900.
4OHh, IeUu, IN Salu W nave Uuo SEtaGeoU
rag carpet works in the United States. Six
hundred women and girls make carpet rags,
and there are 100 weavers and spoilers.
THE first strike of workingmen in this
country can be attributed to the journey
men bakers The strike occurred in 1741,
and was against a reduction in wages
T. DAw, Japanese civil engineer, mas
been up at the Connellsvile (Penn.) coke
ovens getting points about the manufacture
for copying in Japan, where ovens will be
established.
ALL the shipyards along the Delaware
river are crowded with orders. Several yards
have been obliged to double their working
capacity. Roach's yard has five large ships,
one to cost 81, 100000.
COMPARATIVELY speaking there are now
very few makers in this country who
can make an entire shoe. A recent census OF
tradas unions shows that it takes, on an
average about sixty men to manufacture
complete boot from the raw materials
Iris fact, though rather strange one,
that three-fourths Of the bakers who are en-
ployed in the United States are men OF Ger
man birth. Comparatively few women are
engaged in the occupation, although some es.
Establishments employ women for fancy work.