Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-08-31
THE LABOR WORLD.

GERMANY has POS iron establishments.
CANADIAN cast iron pipe works are very
busy.
THE big Paris strike has been settled by
arbitration.
THE Scandinavians of Minneapolis, Mimi,
have wOrkingmen's society.
THERE are only three factories in this
country where comets are made.
THE Pittsburg glass factories have resumed
work, giving 1000 operatives employment.
THE Knights of Labor have established
cooperative farm at Glenwood Springs,
Col.
THE Pennsylvania Railroad Company will
expend $2S5, 900 in building shops at Altoona,
Penn.
THE American Minister at Pekin says that
wages in China at the highest are two cents
day.
The Brooklyn trainers have decided to fine
all of its members days pay who work on
Labor day.
= THE New York Legislature has passed a
law to establish school for instruction in
ship building.
The average earnings of all the manufac-
turing and mining operatives in this country
is $1.O2 per day.
Work has been resumed at Higgins's carpet
factory New York, about 900 OF tue $500
employees going to work.
EDWARD C. ELLIS, of Middlebury, Vt,
has just taken to BuenOS Ayres, South
America, 100 road wagons.
BEBEE GERoULD, a farmer near Waverly,
n. Y, has sold 1000 tons OF pottery clay to a
Newark On. J.,) manufacturer.
THERE has been received for the educa-
tionaI fund of the knights of Labor up to
the present time nearly 81, 800.
The mills of Lowell, Mass, use nearly
S9O,CO0OOO worth of cotton annually, and
send out more than 100000 600 worth of
cotton goods.
THE manufacturing of shoes, in Lynn,
Mass, is decreasing because Of the cheaper
production in country towns where less
wages is paid.
ONE THOUSAND MILLION steel pens are used
every year in this country. Most of these
are nome made, and they are better than the
imported pens.
NEW YORK stands at the head of the mo-
rocco trade in the United States. During
the busy season, 1880 goat skins are daily
turned into morocco.
THERE are 1889 industrial establishments
in the city of New York, which give employ
ment to 227, 1852 persons, and the value of the
RItput is S427, go, 49,
THE Reading Railroad Company has mott
fled its employees that they will be subject to
dismissal ii they fail to meet pecuniary obi
cations which they incur.
MONTREAL, Canada, mas thirty boot and
shoe manufactures. Four thousand persons,
all over fourteen years Of age, are employed
Wages average $l2 per week for men and 81
for women.
An Industrial Home for Girls, at Chilli
cOthe, Mo-, will be opened in the fall. 1t will
be conducted on the family or cottage plan,
and viii receive girls from seven to twenty
years OF age.
THE Baltimore & Ohio Company is having
a heavy engine constructed. which viii run
from Washington to Baltimore, a distance
Of forty miles, in forty minutes, making
three stops on the way.
Oh the CalendOnia Railway, of Scotland
the yardmen use a shepherds hook liz switch
ing cars for lifting the chain coupling and
save their fingers and hands from being
ground into mince meat.
The money that Andrew Carnegie pays |
out every month in wages to the employees of I
his vast iron ana steel mills at PiUtsDurg, !
would, ii converted into silver dollars, |.
amount TO 10000 pounds, or eight tons.
SIX hundred women employed in the gov
eminent cigar factory at Lille, France, have I
gone on strike. They claim that the quality /
of the tobacco supplied them prevents their /
making cigars which viii pass the overseers.
THE card room hands in the mills at Black. /
burn. England, have notified the masters !
that unless they are granted an advance of |
ten per cent in wages they viii strike. This (
would involve the stoppage of 15O, 900 looms !
and 100000 spindles and the Unemployment |
of &c, 900 operatives