Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-02
THE LABOR WORLD,

THERE are 1900 female printers in Eng
land.
CARPENTERS get but 50 so day on the
Pacific Coast.
THE cigar factories in Havana, Cuba, are
running again.
THE Knights of Labor have gained big
victory in Belgium.
FIFTY-FoUR coopers' unions in the United
States have combined.
ENGLAND's eleven-hour day was gained
IN 1916; the ten-hour day in 1874.
THE mills in Fall River, Mass, have paid
81, SOC, 900 in dividends the past year
GIRLS and women in New York factories
work at from thirty to seventy cents day.
ALLENTOWN PENN Hungarians recently
lost strike for an advance from 81 to 81 IS
per day.
THE strike inaugurated by the stone
cutters of Kansas City, Mo-, last March, has
ended disastrously for the men.
THE long fight between the Typographical
Union and the Journal, of Indianapolis,
Ind, has been amicably adjusted.
THE three painters unions of st. Louis,
Mo-, are making steady progress and now
have in their combined treasures SIS, 000
THERE are a large number of carpenters
out of work in Chicago because there are
comparatively few wooden buildings being
erected.
ABOUT 10000 women earn their bread in
tailors' shops, and $50, 900 are saleswomen
teachers, telegraph operators, typewriters
and purses.
The December session of the American
Federation of Labor will definitely decide
upon date in 1890 for the introduction of
the eight hour rule.
OVER ten thousand employees on the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
have had their time reduced one hour day
each and half day Saturday.
A RETIRED jeweer says that the main
spring of a watch, for which the charge is
dollar and half costs about eight cents, and
it takes only half an hour to set it.
THE Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen,
which was established in 1913, with one local
union and nine members, has now $50 divi-
sions and $4,000 beneficial members.
A MOVEMENT for the appointment Of Eng
liSh workingmen as justices of the peace has
resulted in the selection of several with salts
factory results and it is being pushed still
further.
THE Operative Plasterers' International
Union was founded with five locals in 1892;
at present there are twenty local unions and
$500 members, of whom 100 are in good
standing.
THE Chicago street railway employees
strike has been settled by a compromise, the
company granting an increase of wages of
eight per cent, and acceding to other demands
of the men.
FIFTEEN out of every fifty housewives of
Sacramento, Cal, are obliged to do their
own homework because of the lack of efficient
help Experienced servants can earn from
SIS to S24 month there.
Four hundred and eighty -eght canning
houses, with $4,000 employees, who receive
over SIC, 30, 900 annually in wages is
epi ONE of the canning industry of Maryland
m addition to this 1900 men make living as
can-makerS.
MISS SARAH NORCROss, a woman seventy
five years of age, has completed her fitch
year of service at the Boot cotton mills IN
Lowell, Mass. The agent OF the company
has presented her with a gold watch and the
stockholders with 500.
THOMAS 3. BARRY, a former member OF
the Executive Board, has been formally ex-
PEELED from the Knights Of Labor. Mr..
Barry was accused and suspended from duty
last August. A month atterward he for
warded his resignation, but the Board re-
fused to accept it. and expelled him.