The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-10-24
THE LABOR WORLD.

GIRLS are employed as shingle packers in
the mills at Bay City, Mich.
GREAT BRITAIN mines 100000 tons OF
ron per year and imports 3,0O0,0)o tons
IT is estimated that eight millions of UNI
brellas are made in this country annually.
THE indianapolis Car Works are turning
sars out at the rate of twenty-five par day.
In the United States $4,000 women are
mployed in manufactures, and 53O,U0o IN
hundries.
PATERSON, N. j.. may he called the Lyons
N American, for it manufactures silk and
,ther fine gools.
SIXTY employers in the United States
ihare in some measure their profits with
heir employers.
WALLACE GRUELLE, assistant editor of the
Labor Signal, and prominent Indiana
abor man, Is dead.
COWBOYS used to get $50 month each and
board. Now So is a top figure, ana the aver
age is $25 month and board.
THIRTEEN hundred men have been thrown
,ut OF work at Boston and Brooklyn by the
Sugar Trust closing retineres
DIRECT returns from producers show that
The total value of bu ldng stone quarried IN
he United States during lSSI was 81, 0OO,-
100.
TWELVE hundred boilers employei in
the cotton mills at Bolton, England, have
rome on O strike against new system OF
weighing cotton.
The hours of labor in England were twelve
per day up to lS48, when they were reduced
10 eleven; and again reduced to ten in 18Th,
where they now stand
FIVE hundred convicts in the Kings
County IN. " Penitentiary make shoes for
The Bay State Company, under contract
which expires in NJ 'rch next.
Ar Manistee, Mich, girls feed the planers,
in the hop-mills and do other like work.
Thew also do the sacking at the dairy salt
works, and make from 81 to sl.25 day.
TRENTON. N. j., has over $4,000, ,ooo in
vested in potteries, and the army OF work.
men EMPLOYED receive in the aggregate OF
the employees are about $3.50 week.
HsRMAN STEIN, the New York shirt con.
tractor who recently went before tho Con.
pressional Committee and stated that he had
reduced the wages Of his employees alli would
do so again f he felt so inclined, has kept MS
word.
THE Brotherhood Of Carpenters and Joners
of America was founded in convention IN
Chicago, August II, 1881 AT first It nae
only - local unions and 2O42 members. NO"
it has 4Sl local unions in over AID cities an
$4,000 enrolled members.
THERE are 5000 women telegraph operators
in England. earning anywhere from S3oo tS
5000 year. The tee graph being branch
of the civil ser vice in England, it's necessary
for them to pass competitive examination
before employment is given them.
MOST combination tools are SO clumsy tina
carpenters have generally abandoned then
as wasting time instead Of saving it. Ons
tool, however. Of recent invention, is handy
and S mple. and likely TO become of grea
service. 1t is piece of steel or other mat,
rial cut so as to form square, mitre or trl
square.
THE work OF doubling the capacity OF
Pauw,s plate glass factory at New Albany
Ind, which has been in progress for tw
years, was entirely completed n few day
since. The capacity OF the works is 2,O0J, W
.' feet Of plate glass, 20 1000 boxes OF wlndo7
xlass and 80, 900 gross of fruit jars
many establishments where the daintie
and more artistic of the artisan trades ar
ariel on-wood carv ng, scroll work, chm
Z. .rorating and the like-the wo-.. IS turne
..,r largely to women. The employers tin
I ns the sex generally have fine hands lite
70. work requiring delicacy and hrmness
gooI artistic taste, and q fondness Tor tn
aamploymant ,.......