The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-15
THE LABOR WORLD.

telegraphy.
THERE is boom in cotton factory building
in North Carolina.
C1GARMAKERs to the number of 1,2o0 are
striking in New York City.
LAST year there were 3s3, ,404 cases of shoes
shipped from Brockton, Mass, against 3Gl, :
5S4 in 1856
WILLIAM D. HARTUPEE is now preparing
plans for the new window-glaSS factory to be
built at Grapeville, Penn.
SEVERAL engineers on the Reading Rail-
road will he removed because they have
failed to pass the color test examination.
OF the 100 tons of zinc annually produced
in the world, Missouri turns out twelve tons,
and the industry is only partly developed
there
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad coke shipments
ments show an increase of 90, $50 tons in
1881 over the previous year. The total was
3,757, 344 tons.
j. j. MCGARRY, a Knight of Labor, got
a verdict in st. Louies, No., for 81, 500
against the Missouri Pacific Railroad Com
pany for malicious prosecution.
A REPORT from South California mills
states that cotton operatives commence work
at $50 in the morning, take forty minutes
for dinner, and leave off at $50 P. N.
THE Sultan has requested Prince Bismarck
to send competent German to Asia Minor
to instruct the natives in the better working
Of mines and forests and in nusbandry.
THE long strike of the shoemakers in
Rochester, which has continued since Novem-
ber l, has collapsed, the men having re-
turned to work on the manufacturers terms.
The National Tube Works, at McKeesport,
Penn, completed new plate mill for rolling
sheets of iron over six feet wide, to be used
in manufacturing twenty-four inch lap weld
pipe,
TAKING six trades as basis, the average
pay of skilled laborer in North Carolina is
SLIGO day: unskilled, Is cents; farm labor,
without board, IS cents, and with board 30
cents.
THERE are a number of woolen mills and
knitting factories in operation in Utah whore
hosiery, mittens, leggings, ladies knit skirts,
and mems knit underwear are turned out in
large quantities.
AT q conference between Carnegie, Phipps
& Co., of the Homestead Steel Works, Pitts
burg, Penn, and committee of the Amalga-
mattel Association, an amicable settlement OF
the wage question was effected
THE Brotherhood Of Carpenters Of America
originally lin 1881 had only twelve local
unions, consisting of 2,042 members. On
January /, 1885, it numbered 353 local unions,
located in 331 cities, with Al, 72l enrolled mem-
bers.
THE International Hatters' Union is said to
be one Of the best protective organizations In
the world There is National Union in this
country and one in Europe, and both are
affiliated under the name OF the international
body.
THE organizers of the 'Long ngshoremen's
National District Assembly have received
communications from nearly all the organlza.
tions OF that clas, Of workers in the Unitei
States, and all thus far heard from favor the
scheme.
THE total iron output in the South last year
was sro9. 1876 tons-an increase of 80 per cent
in two years, and represents one-eiGht OF the
total production of the United States. The
total number of furnaces In blast January l,
1885, was Charcoal, 2S; coke, 80, and anthra-
cite, l.
A BIG petition which, when complete, will
contain upward of 100000 signatures, asking
for Government telegraph service, is being
prepared under the supervision OF the Gen.
eral. Executive Board of the knights or
Labor. Mr.. Powderly expects to be able to
take it to Washington and present it to Con-
gress.
THE statistics from the Michigan Labor
Bureau show many million dollars in mort
cages on the farms Of that State. In one
county nearly half the farms are mortgage1,
the total reaching nearly one-fitth Of the
assessed value of all the farms in the county.
It is said that other counties are in much
worse condition.
On account of the agricultural depression
in Great Britain farm laborers are not gen
erally employed during the winter as they
FORMERLY we're. As consequence large
numbers of them come to cities to obtain
something to do. As the cities are crowded
few of them succeed in obtaining employ
mept and their condition becomes distressing