The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-12-12
THE LABOR WORLD.

A FREDERICK (Md.) packing house employs
1900 persons.
THE Bethlehem PENN drug clerks have
formed union.
THERE are $500 watches made every day in
the United States.
"THE ELITE" is the title Of labor society
at Toronto. Canada.
THE Pittsburg coopers have had their scale
signed again this year.
THERE are $4,000 members In the Broth.
erhood Of Locomotive Engineers.
THFRE are more than million Of persons
emp'o Dyed by railroad companies in the United
States.
GERMANS are to a large extent dlsplacing
colored laborers on the sugar plantations in
Louisiana.
In 1851, 419 women worked in England at
printing, and their number has increased to
about $500.
FIFTY-THREE local assemblies were repre-
sented at the recent Coopers' National Con-
vention in Chicago.
THE working girls of New York city have
organized q society for their mental and
moral improvement.
THERE are 5000 male and female members
of the Metropolitan Stenographers' Associa-
tion in New York city.
THE rafting season throughout the Missis.
slpp1 valley is over and the men will so TO
the pineries for tfe winter.
ROTTEN boilers aud careless employees are
sending more victims out Of the world I'm.
prepared than would be slain in battle.
SIX Thousand Monongahela (P nn.l coal
miners will be thrown out Of work by the
shutting down of the mines by the owners.
e, ;n;-
great popularity among carpenters and
builders in Western cities is the bricking-in
Of frame houses.
WOOD pulp is product of twenty. one
States Of the Union; it represents capital
investment Of S25, ,000, ,000 and gives employ
ment to 1000 hands.
ABOUT twelve thousand American coke
workers were benefited by the advance in
coke, their wages being increased q little
more than six per cent.
THE Womens National Industrial League
telegraphed its disapproval Of the admission
Of Chinese into the K. of L. to +. V. Powderly
while at indianapolis, Ind.
The Princess Christina of Sweden gave a
dinner not long ago to the car drivers of
Stockholm, and, after the repast, read to
them lecture on tne care of horses
UNDER the present conspiracy law there
are thirty tailors, ten walking delegates Ct
building trades, twenty bakers and twenty
brickmakers under indictment in New York.
In England there are 347 female black.
smiths, not blacksmiths in the sense Of own
ing and running smithies merely, but actual
swingers Of the hammer and manipulators
Of the bellows
CHEF ARTHUR, Of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers denies the report that
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Rail
road strike is about TO be settled, and says
the situation remains unchanged.
THE manufacture of patsnt leather has
grown to such an extent that it practically
amounts to a separate industry. Several
new factories have just been started in New
England, and there is call for expert
workers in patent leather.
The Knights of Labor, as represented in
their General Assembly at Indianapolis,
seem to have full confidence in Powderly,
even to tho extent of investing him with
powers beyond those that he has already
exerci ed as General Master Workman.
The engravers who work on magazines are
having O great time. a magazine page
divided between artist, graver. and sonneteer
will cost about $3.50. or this sum about S12J
falls to the painter and Sl5J to the engraver,
while the poet gets what is left-if there is
any.