Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-11-30
THE LABOR WORLD.


THE building season is over in most of the
northern cities
EIGHTY-EIGHT out of every hundred cigar
makers in California are Cinnamon
WITH the closing of lake navigation 60 0Oo
men were thrown out of employment In Chl-
cago.
A FINE is assessed against all Chicago fore
men who pay the wages of employees IN sa-
looms.
The piano-ma of the country will hold
convention in Meriden, Conn, TO form
National Union
tory, costing $25, 900 and employing a large
number of hands.
TIE first annual convention of boiler in
5pectOrs and stationary engineers mas JUST
been held in Pittsburg.
THERE is a growing tendency in all labor
unions to formulate some regulation which
will provide for apprentices.
The organized brass workers Of the United
States and Canada have adopted d resolution
in favor of the eight-hour rule.
THE total number of persons employed in
boOkbinding in Philadelphia aggregates $780,
two-th.rds of whom are women.
THE labor societies of Pittsburg have raised
over $500 for the monument to be erected
in memory of Thomas Armstrong, a noted
labor leader
A NEW organization in labor is the Brother
hood of Machinery Molders, recently started
in Philadelphia. There now four branches
of the order.
GEORGE II. VANDERBILT has purchased
1000 acres near Asheville, N. c., on which
he will build an industrial school for poor
white children.
THE Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
decided to hold their next convention at
Denver, Col, October II, 1882 The grand
officers were reelected.
CARPENTERS complain that they have been
deceived by INSCRIPTIONS real estate agents
into going to Omaha, Neb., when there was
no hope OF finding work there.
EAU CLAIRE, Wis, has a cooperative
store that recently declared dividend of
1011 per cent to purchasers 1t has patron
age of nearly two hundred families.
THE iron furnaces of Ensley, Ala. a small
town near Birmingham, are now said to be
the largest in the world and with the increased
capacity will employ fully 5000 men.
THE only European delegate present at the
general assembly Of the Knights of Labor
held at Indianapolis, was Secretary Delwarte
of the Universal Federation of Glass Work
erS.
NON-UNION carpenters are referred to in
Denver as 'bush-whackers, in Pittsburg as
"jay-hawkers," in Texas as "Punch-and-
Judy shOwmen," and in California as travel
ing chips"
MONTREAL, Canada, has thirty boot and
shoe factories -Four thousand persons, all
over fourteen years of age, are employed
wages average Sl2 a week for mensand 81
for women.
THE female compositors of Topeka, Kan,
have organized a club, with Miss Mary
Abarr, OF the Topeka Capitol, as President.
They have also established under the
auspices of the club, a magazine entitled
the Printer Girl
THE Grand Jury in Buffalo, N Y, indicted
the Buffalo Street Railroad Company and
the Cast Side Railroad Company for viola
ton Of the law making it misdemeanor to
exact from an emplOye more than ten hours
labor In twelve consecutive hours
The Furniture Workers International
Union was organized in July, 1873, with
nine local unions, having a total membership
OF 1856. Now the number of local unions
has increased to twenty-six and the member
ship to over five thousand in good stand
ing.
MRS HAINEs, the lady agent of the Maine
labor bureau, is now engaged in examining
into the condition of the working women in
the sard1ne and lobster canning establish
ments of the seaboard cities of the east She
will also visit the great factories on a like
mission.