Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-07-27
THE LABOR WORLD,

| THE button industry is booming thanks to
: the political badge wearers
! Mr.. POwDEBLY wants the workmen to
! boycott coffee until the corner is over
| THERE are prospects of great activity in
| railway construction in Southern Africa.
/ MORE hands at work in England at
present than have been employed in a long
/ time.
! THE German Federated Trades of New
! York have started a workingInens reading
room.
NEW JERSEY wire manufacturers are fur
nishing the Austrian cable railways with
cables.
THERE are about 5000 locomotives in use
IN the State of New York, and about 8, 900
IN the United States.
KRUPP, the German cannon maker, is SO
( rushed with business that he has to build
large works elsewhere.
A BOSTON company has put up $500 900 to
make welding machines to do all kinds of
welding by electricity.
THE iron and steel manufacturers in the
Mahoning Valley have formed the Iron Man
ufacturers' Association.
MANY Knights of Labor in Buffalo Gan
Dakota, have taken twenty acres each in tae
new oil and alkal fields.
I ABOUT 10000, 600 lead pencils are manu-
featured in the United States annually, one
fourth of which are exported.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company will
Pennsylvania, in a short time
HOUSES made of corrugated iron are being
erected IN England instead of brick stone.
They are to be introduced into this country.
The Bigelow Carpet Company mills at
Clinton, Mass, employing 1900 hands, have
shut down on account of the scarcity of
work.
ALL railway employees of Minnesota have
agreed to unite for the common good. En-
gineers fremen, brakemen and switchmen
are included.
MORE than LOCO, 900 working people in the
United States are now idle. In New York
city alone 81 900 men and $4,000 women are
out of work.
Alison J. STREETER. the nominee of the
Union Labor party for President, worked
his way through college by cutting shingles
on Saturdays.
MINERS employed at Shamokin. Penn,
have begun suits against their employers to
secure semi-monthly pay days, as provided
for by statute.
THE Government of Chill has ordered six
locomotives of home manufacturers. They
will each cost $21 900 in gold, and will be
like our engines.
THE dry goods and carpet manufacturers
throughout the New England and Middle
States are quite busy, and good fall and
winter demand is in sight.
THE Westinghouse Electric people of Pitts
burg have recently taken orders for II, 900
lights. The makers of electric appliances
are about the busiest people in the country,
OF the ten thousand piano-malzers in this
country, about five thousand live in New
York. Each one makes about S1S week
and belongs to an organization which takes
care of its members when sick or out of
work.
ACCORDING to the report of the Labor
Commissioner of New York, recently issued,
1000 wOrkmen engaged in strikes during
1897, in that State. They gained 1914, 900 in
advance wages, but lost over 81, 0OO. 900 while
out of employment.
IT will be quarter of a century next month
since the Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers was organized at Detroit, where four
weeks hence five thousand engineers are to
celebrate the event by the biggest picnic and
reunion in their history.
BUCK RIDGE COLLIERY, Shamokin, Penn
sylvania, owned by the Reading Company,
which has been idle since the disaster of 1888,
at which time seven men were SnlOthered by
firedamp, has again resumed operations
Employment is given to 400 men.