Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-04-27
THE LABOR WORLD.

THERE are over 1000 electric lights in use
in English mines
ITALY's linen industry is represented by
1000, 600 spindles.
AT Oldham. England. $500 looms in the
velvet mills are idle
j. B. MILROY has been nominated for Coy
ernor by the Union Labor Party of Indiana.
REVOLUTION is promised in the glass
making trade by the use of granite, very
finely ground.
The New Jersey laborers have succeeded
IN gaming their demand of 1925 day, with
two exceptions.
OUT of the $4,000 carpenters in New York
City there are little more than one third of
them organized
THERE is talk at San Francisco, Cal, of
importing 5000 girls from Europe to work as
servants in that city.
The San Francisco Girls Association in
structS young women in household duties and
furnishes girls to families.
A SINGLE blast at Fair Haven, Vt, re-
Gently moved block CT slate 60 feet long, 40
feet wide and 20 feet thick
The tubular axle works at McKeesport,
Penn, has been put double turn, giving
employment to 600 more men.
THE Iahon1ng Valley Iron Company, of
Youngstown, Ohio, intend to erect a blast
furnace that will cost $3.50, 600
ABOUT $4,000 young women are employed
in downtown New York business offices in
one clerical capacity or another.
A COMPANY with capital of $1,000, 600 is
being established at Admission, Ala, to build
an Ice factory and cold storage plant.
HUNGARIANS are nearly all leaving the
ConneIlsvllle PENN coke regions Wages
have recently been reduced three per cent.
THE Standard Oil Company is contempla-
ting the purchase of 200 miles Of natural gas
pipe to build lines from gas fields to manu-
featuring centerS.
DELEGATES from ten States, representing
10000 textile workers. met in Philadelphia
recently and organized a national trade dis
trlct of knights of Labor.
HE only slate pencil factory in the United
States is at Castleton, VT, near the beds.
Thirty thousand pencils are made daily. One
man sharpenS 500 a day emery belt.
COKE is now being shipped from Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, to FL Paso, Texas Most of
the coke Is make at ShOddv, north of Chatta-
noOga, on the Cincinnati Southern railroad
where there are 146 coke ovens in operation.
THE plant of the United States Rolling
STOCK Company, at Admission, Ala, is the
largest car works in America. Twenty-Five
freight cars can be made there in a Gay, and
from hve to ten passenger coaches every
month.
An authority says that 50 900 pianos were
manufactured last year in the United States
The average life of this instrument is twenty
years Only few factories make the piano
entirely. there being about nineteen trades in
the composition.
THE four furnaces that are in course of
erection az Emsley City, near Birmingham
Alabama, are to produce 720 tons of pig-iron
a day Two thousand men viii be employed.
This great establishment viii cost nearly
81 goo, 600 for construction.
The United Order of American Carpenters
and JoinerS and Brotherhood of Carpenters
and Jolners have decided to amalgamate. a
committee has been appointed from each
Order 60 confer with each other and arrange
the articles of amalgamation.
DR. WARMAN's investigations in Europe
snow that operatives in American potteries
enjoy better health than their European
brothers and live longer. He accounts for this
by the fact that the mills here are OF more
recent erection and more work is done bv
machinery. Besides, our climate is dryer
than that Of Europe