Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-08-03
THE LABOR WORLD.

JASPER, Tenn, will soon have a rolling
mill.
THE Minneapolis labor temple will be fin
shed this year.
KEY WEST, Fla, furnishes employment
for 1870 cigar makers.
THERE are 9134 journeymen carpenters
and 2420 apprentices in Scotland.
A NATIONAL Trades Assembly of Clerks
and Statesmen is in course of formation.
NEVER before in the history of the country
have manufacturing establishments changed
about SO much at this time.
THE Society of Associated Carpenters of
Scotland, has been in existence twenty-six
years and reports a membership of SS77.
In Lancaster, Penn, there are three cork
factories. The annual production is $50, 600
900 corks, or one-half of this countrys manu-
facture.
THE owners of the Seaconnet Mill, at Fall
River, Mass, are being prosecuted for viola
ton of the ten-hour law in Overworking
minors.
BUCK RIDGE COLLIERY, Shamokin, Penn,
which has been idle since 1888, has resumed
operations. Employment will be given to
400 hands.
RICE & GRIFFIN sash and blind manufac-
turers of Worcester, Mass, have Just de-
vided S1476 among their employees as their
share of the profits of 1887.
GLAssBLowERs' cramp, adeformity of the
fingers produced by continuous grasping, as
described by NJ Poncet, is an ELECTION of
nearly every g1assblOwer.
AN employer of 1900 persons says: ''The
best women are more faithful than the best
men, but the average record of the men is
much above that of the women"
The strike of the stone cutters, which has
CAUSED so much trouble in the building trade
at PittShUrg has terminated. The cutters &C
cepted the terms offered them by the masons.
HOTEL-KEEPING on the Continent is a
trade. and like most trades learned In Europe
must require at least seven years apprentice
ship, and under a most accomplished teacher
at that.
THE capacity of the Findlay Ohio natural
gas wells squirting already is $4,000, 600 feet,
and it is claimed that if all the beds were de-
velOped sufficient Oil could be OBTAINED TO sup
ply the world.
ALL organized labor of Rock Island, Ill,
has combined for the purpose of building
hall to be devoted to labor meetings and
other uses in connection with the further
ance OF the cause.
ACCORDING to the report of the Depart
ment of Agriculture the present average
rate of monthly wages for farm labor in the
United States is S1S.24 without board, and
SIP. 35 with board.
THE Bethlehem PENN Iron Company has
started up its rail mills under a new scale
which reduces the wages from five to twenty
per cent, and guarantees continuous work
until January. The men accepted the reduc-
ton
"A
of the $500 hands employed by the Reading
Iron Works, at Reading, Penn, has gone
into effect. All the employees except fifty
went to work, under protest, at the reduced
wages.
ACCORDING to the investigation of Mr..
Edwin Chadwick, the average life of the
English wageworker is twenty-three years.
No less than forty eight in every 100, nearly
one-half of the children of wageworkers die
under five
ACCORDING to certain statistics the cotton
mills at Nashville, Tenn, now affords en-
ployment to more than 100 persons
and use yearly about Is, 900 bales of cotton,
whose finished product is double the value
of the raw material
ATRoxbury, Mass, is big factory having
an deliberately constructed fre-escape, which
terminates ten feet above a deep stream OF
water. Thus the choice of death by fire or
water would be neatly set before the opera
tiyes ia case of a cOndagratlon-
CLARK'S machine shops at Pittsdeld, Mass,
RECENTLY purchased one of the largest lathes
in New England. 1t weighs 5OOOpoundS, mas
q face-plate with wing of seven and a nall
feet. a bed thirty-two feet long, and the dis
lance between the centers is twenty-five feet
A CERTAIN car, No. 145, of an Indianapolis
street railway company, has had so many
persons killed or wounded in, on, or by 1t,
that the drivers have signed petition asking
TO have it taken off and either demolished
or generously presented TO some other com
pany-
TWENTY-FIVE employees in the Louisville
XIV office of a New York life insurance
company went over to another company Che
other dav because the firm sent men from
New York to take the places OF the superln
tendent and his assistant instead OF giving
the Louisville men show.