The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-11-21
THE LABOR WORLD,

THERE are $500 female printers in Eng.
land
CARPENTERS get but $3.50 day on the
Pacific Coast.
THE cigar factories in Havana, Cuba, are
running again.
THE Knights of Labor have gained big
victory in Belgium.
FIFTY-FoUR coopers' unions in the United
States have combined.
ENGLAND's eleven-hour day was gained
in 1916; the ten-hour day in 1874
The mills in Fall River, Mass, have paid
$l,5OO,O 600 in dividends the past year.
GIRLS and women in New York factories
work at from thirty to seventy cents day
ALLENTOWN PENN Hungarians recently
lost strike for an advance from 81 to ST. 25
per day.
THE strike inaugurated by the stone
cutters Of Kansas City, No. last March, has
ended disastrously for the men.
THE long fight between the Typographical
Union and the Journal. Of Indianapolis,
Iad., has been amicably adjusted
THE three painters unions of st. Louis,
Mo-, are making steady progress. and now
have in their combined treasures SIC, 900.
THERE are large number of carpenters
out Of work in Chicago because there are
comparatively few wooden buildings being
erected.
ABOUT 10000 women earn their bread in
tailors' shops, and $4,000 are saleswomen,
teachers, telegraph operators, typewriters
and nurses.
The December session of the American
Federation of Labor will definitely decide
upon date in 1890 for the introduction Of
the eight hour rule.
OVER ten thousand employees on the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
have had their time reduced one hour a day
each and half day Saturday.
A RETIRED jewe.er says that the main
spring OF watch, for which the charge is q
dollar and half, costs about eight cents, and
it takes only half an hour to set it.
THE Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen,
which was established in 1878, with one local
union and nine memners, has now $50 divi-
slons and $4,000 beneficial members.
A MOVEMENT for the appointment Of Eng
llsh workingmen as justices of the peace has
resulted in the select on of several with salts
factory results, and it is being pushed still
further.
The Operative Plasterers' International
Union was founded with five locals in 1882:
at present there are twenty local unions and
2SOO members, of whom 100 are in good
STANDING.
The Chicago street railway employees
strike has been settled by compromise, the
company granting an increase of wages of
eight per cent. land acceding to other demands
of the men.
FIFTEEN out of every fifty housewives of
Sacramento Cal, are obliged to do their
own housework because of the lack of efficient
help. Experienced rvantS can earn from
SIS to s24 month there.
FOUR hundred and eighty-eight canning
houses, with p, 600 employees, who receive
over SlO,!0J, 600 annually in wages, is an
epi; ONE of the canning industry of Maryland.
In addition to this 1907 men make living as
can-makers
Miss SARAH NoRcRoSS, woman seventy
five years Of age, has completed her tttieth
year of service Mt the Boot cotton mills in
Lowell. Mass. The agent Of the company
has presented her wish god watch and the
stockholders with Sl0U.
THOMAS L. BARRY, former member of
the Executive Board has been formally ex-
pelled from the Knights of Labor. Mr.
Barry was accused ami suspended from duty
last August. A month terwa-d he for
warded his resignation. but the Bord re-
fused to accept it, and expelled him,