The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-10-17
THE LABOR WORLD.

A FIRM in Connecticut makes eighty-one
different styles of axes.
A STRIKE of bakers in France has been
followed by bread riots.
The total labor cost in ton of American
steel rails is about $3.50.
The florists Of Richmond Va, have or
ganized protective society.
A CINCINNATI brass firm has ordered its
men to work sixty hours per week.
THE 49, 600 convict laborers Of the United
States erage about twenty-five cents per
day.
THE striking cotton operatives at Bolton,
England, have resumed work on the masters
terms.
NEARLY 100000 females are agricultural
laborers, mainly il the cotton fields of the
South.
THE Stark Mills Corporation of Manches-
ter, n. H., lately shipped 1000 bales of drill
ing to China.
ABOUT 200 elevators will be built during
the next twelve months for the farmers of
the Northwest.
STATISTICS show that France employs over
five thousand women in her civil service,
telephone and telegraph officers
THE average wages paid for farm labor in
the United States is SlS.2l without board,
and Sl2.24 with board per month.
THERE is strike threatened by the work
men on the big 1000 foot Eilfel Tower at
Paris unless their wages are raised.
THE largest -four mill in Minneapolis runs
on the proft-share system, and has just
divided S40,U00 among the employees.
AMERICAN locomotives are superior to the
German, except as to length of service-the
latter lasting twelve years and half
SOME Elkton, Md, stonecutters, have
struck against the employment Of men who
have not paid their dues to the union.
In Poland the laborers work from in the
morning to and 9 o'clock at night. WomeE
are employed in all kinds OF hard work
THE Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi.
neers, in Atlanta, Ga, has formally approved
of federation with the engineers and switch
men.
Four hundred Irish stevedores employed
in Glasgow iScotland) harbor, have been dis.
missed They will LIE replaced by Protestants
from Belfast.
EASTERN towns manufacture $1,000, 900
worth OF collars, cuffs and shirts yearly, the
annual output of Troy, N. Y, amounting to
no less than $7,000,0O0.
THERE are 1850 industrial establish
mems in the city Of New York, which give
employment to a27 ,352 persons, and the value
OF the OutpuU Is Stoi ,'OO, 5oi
MARTIN IRONS, who led the great railroad
strike of 1886, and was bigger man IN the
West than Jay Gould, is driving bobtailed
street car i'll st. LOUIS ct present
THE displacement of muscular labor by
labor saving machinery in the past fifty
wears has been enormous. Some learned po-
Iitical economists reckon it to be more than
500 per cent.
THE North Carolina Farmers Alliance rep
resenting 4U,0UO farmers, in convention
short time ago, demanded tine discontinuance
of the practice Of making convicts work for
railroads and corporations for no pay.
THE Brooklyn City Railroad has dis
charged twenty eight mon, reduced the work.
jnr lime of its force five minutes per man
and called in several cars, OH account OF IN
creased loss Of patronage through the ee-
waited railroad.
THE Watson Car Company, Springfield,
Ohio. has received an order for a first-ciaSs
passenger coach for the royal railway of
Portugal, to be finished and shipped with the
drawing room car which the company have
been building for the same road.
IN 1865 the foreigners engaged in New York
cent. Now the percentage is over ninety.
About fifty per cent. are females The for
e;rn element is made up of Hungariaus, Bo-
helnians, Poles, Russians and SlavS
AN experienced mach: mist in q recent
article advises all mechanics to make their
own hammer handles, Sc Getting good, strong
wood, and fitting them with care. Handles
may be bought for ten cents. but they are
frequently unsafe, and it takes abuut as much
time to fit them as it would to make new
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