Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-06-15
THE LABOR WORLD.

MOTT HAVEN @. Y has female horse
sheer.
THE London England) Typographical As
ISOLATION now numbers 1893 members
The car-wheel plant at Birmingham near
Kansas City, No, has a capacity Of l25 car
wheels day.
THE citizens Of Altoona, Penn, have sub
scribed s45. 300 toward stock in a silk mill to
be started IN the near future IN that city.
LABOR troubles are spreading in Germany,
and strikers in Hamburg and Mayence have
attacked the police.
The K. of L. in .Mandan, Dakota, have
elected the Mayor and hfteen other munich
pal officers They are all members of the
order.
ALABAMA boasts of nineteen cotton mills
representing an investment of nearly So
100000 and an annual production of over
s., 800, 900.
THERE are 2O. 2G6 members in the Interna-
tional Cigarma+Iers Union with an outstand-
ing loan of S47, 513. 10 and bank account of
nearly 100000
THE average wages of railway employees
is 450 year, the averages of iron workers
1872 a year Bricklayers and carpenters re-
ceive higher wages
THE German Federated Trades, of New
York, decided to establish a free reading
room and library and a labor bureau for gem
eral use of the unions.
THE Erie Railroad has in its employ IS, 355
;.
The Erie has 49, engines, 2o5 passenger cars
and %, 10 box, fiat and coal cars.
The monster petition signed by over
million people and circulated by Knights of
Labor IN favor or Government telegraphy
was recently presented to Congress
JOHN WANAMAKER, of Philadelphia has
distributed S402Sl among his 272 employees,
as part of the years profits Of the concern.
1t was an average of nearly $50 to each
man.
LABOR statistics sent out from the Labor
Bureau at Washington make the statement
that the average earnings or increase of
wealth per annun to each wOrkingman IS
only $500 per year
THE Order of Railway Telegraphers Of
North America, which was organized in
June, 1886, has so unions and about -, 900
members. A branch has just been formed
at Denver, Col, with 100 members.
OF the men who struck on the 80" road
seven have committed suicide from despond-
ency, and scores of others will not be able to
work out of debt for some time Many of
the engineers who had homes partly paid for
have lost them.
THE new cooperative glass factory in
Sandwich, Mass. has started up. The build
ing is 10 by 30 feet in size, and has q siX-pot
furnace. 1t was built and will be opened by
lockout operatives of the Boston and Sand
wien Glass Company.
A SPECIAL inquiry is being made by the
English House of Lords into What is known
as the sweating system in London. In
this inquiry skilled shoemaker swore that
his average earnings the year round were
not over 81 20 per week.
THE women of a Knights of Labor local
assembly in Toledo, Ohio, have established a
cooperative association for the sale of home
products, banking, clothing. knit goods, etc.
Should it prove successful they contemplate
providing home for disabled and homeless
women.
THE stockholders of the Sycamore Manu-
featuring Company of Fall River, Mass,
have voted to build a new mill of 10000
spindles to cost 100000 and to increase the
capital stock from $3.50, coo to $500. 900 The
corporation has a surplus of S14S, 900, and in
sixteen years has averaged 9 per cent. in
dividends.