Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-02-17
THE LABOR WORLD.

IN Europe brick maker makes 800 bricks
per day; here one makes 5000.
LAST year g. $50 locomotives were built in
the United States and Canada.
ENGLAND has one district assembly and
seventeen local assemblies of the Knights of
Labor.
The total number of coke ovens in the
United States up to the time when last noted
was %, 597; building, 4, 154.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
just placed orders at Altoona for 100 locomo-
tlves and $500 freight cars.
THE 5000 employees in the Baldwin works
at PIttsburg turned out two complete loco
motives every working day last year.
CARNEGIE BROTHERS have bought twelve
acres of land at Suter Station, Penn, where
1t is said they will put up several blast fur
naceS.
THE Brotherhood engineers on the Pitts
burg division of the Pennsylvania Railroad
have asked for an advance in wages and a
change in hours.
IT is claimed that in every case where
manufacturers have adopted the use of union
labels of organized labor they have proven
profitable to them.
A SYNDICATE of Lancashire England cot
ton spinnerS are negotiating with Lord
Tredegar for the purchase of a tract of land
i'll the vicinity of Cardiff Docks, on which 1t
is intended to build eleven cotton mills, each
of which is to hold 80 900 spindles.
SILK STOCKINGS ar bvoven in England,
France and in this CO tntry. Many of the
stockings sold as French are made in Amer
lea on French silk looms. All the cheaper
stockings in market are of American make,
and many of the best stockings too.
THE sugar refinery of Moller, Sierck &
Co, in Williamsburgh, n. Y, is to be closed
and the firm have notified their employees
that they are going out of business. This is the
fourth refinery absorbed by the sugar trust,
whose capital is estimated at 500, 100000.
THE general reduction of 10 per cent. in
the wages of th, employees of the Cambria
Iron Company, at Jamestown. Penn, ordered
some time ago, has gone into effect Upward
of 10 90 men are employed in the works and
mines, and all are affected by the reduction
THE National Tube Works Company of
MckeeSport, Penn, employing about 4OOJ
men, have posted notice ordering reduc-
tion of 10 per cent in wages OF all employees
If the reduction is not accepted the firm
threaten to shut down the entire establish
ment.
EDUARDO n. CATO, the king of Havana
Cigar Manufacturers, )" will shortly build in
Kew West Fla, the largest cigar manufac-
tory in the United States The building Is
to be of brick, iron and stone, with a capacity
for l, 900 cigarmakers,e bling them Co man
ufac:ure POO, 900 cigars day.
THE carpenters of Pittsburg and vicinity
have notified their employers that on the lst
of May next they will demand an advance of
ten per cent. on their wages and half pay ex-
ira for al overtime. Inc employers claim
that if the demand is enforced a general par
aIysis OF business will be the result.
THE State Assembly of h. OF l.. of North
Carolina met recently in Greensboro. One
hundred and fourteen delegates, nearly half
of them colOred, were present 1t was re-
ported that the membership had increased
100 per cent. within the year, and that there
are now 80 local assemblies in the State
Resolutions were adopted expressing sym
pathy for the striking railroad men and
miners in Pennsylvania