The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-02-22
THE LABOR WORLD.

In Europe brick maker makes 300 bricks
per day; here one makes 5000.
LAST year 1850 locomotives were built In
the United States and Canada.
ENGLAND has one district assembly and
seventeen local assemblies Of the knights or
Labor.
THE total number Of coke ovens in the
United States up to the time when last noted
was 22,597; building, 4,154
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
just placed orders at Altoona for lQO locomo-
tives 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
it is said they will put up several blast 1ur-
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 AsYND1cATE of Lancashire Englandl cot,
ton spinners are negotiating with Loro
Tredegar for the purchase OF tract OF lana
in the vicinity of Cardiff Docks, on which II
is intended to build eleven cotton mills, each
Of which is to hold 81, 900 spindles.
SILK STOCKINGS are woven in England,
France and in this country. 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.
TIE 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 s6o, ,OO0,000
TEE general reduction Of 10 per cent. in
the wages of the employees of the Cambria
Iron Company, at jamestown, Penn. ordered
some time ago, has gone into effect Upward
of 10. .00O 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 OOo
men, have posted notice ordering reduc-
tion Of 10 per cent. in wages of all employees
If the reduction is not accepted the frm
threaten to shut down the entire establish
ment
EDUARDO q. CATO, the .'King Of Havana
Cigar Manufacturers" will shortly build in
Key West, Fla, the largest cigar manufac-
tory in the United States The building is
to be of brick, iron and stone, with capacity
for l,OOO cigarmakers, enabling them to man
ufacsure 20O, 900 cigars day.
The carpenters of Pittsburg and vicinity
have notified their employers that on the lst
of May next they will demand all advance Of
ten per cent. on their wages and half pay ex-
ira for all overtime The employers claim
that if the demand is enforced general par
alysis of business will be the result.
THE State Assembly Of K. 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 sthe year, and that there
are now $50 local assemblies in the State.
Resolutions were adopted expressing SYM
pathy for the striking railroad men and
m .ners in Pennsylvania.