Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-07-20
THE LABOR WORLD.

AN immense car factory to employ $500
men is to be built at Duluth, Mimi.
A GREAT combination of wire mat manu-
facturers has been made at Chicago.
OVER 1000 workmen in pipe and tube
works have been discharged since June.
THREE blasting furnaces, costing S7OJ,O 900,
will soon be erected at Birmingham, Ala
STEEL picket fencins. will be turned out in
immense quantities 4 ! Beaver Falls, Penn
The Scranton Pe;.II) Knights of Labor
Cooperative Overall Factory is a success.
THE wife of Senator Stanford has founded
a home for working women's children IN Al
bany, n. Y.
ABOUT 200 elevators will be built during
the next twelve months for the farmers OF
the Northwest.
THE pin factories of England, France, Hol-
land and Germany are said TO turn out IT,
OOO,0 pins daily.
THERE are at least go, 900 women in Mas
sachuSetts alone who earning living by
industrial occupations.
THE Pennsylvania Railroad Company en-
ploys %, 600 men on it's Eastern lines. About
5000 will be gradually discharged.
WE used to get our shipping ropes from
France. but now we manufacture them
ourselves and get a small quantity from
Canada.
THE Pittsburg and Lake Erie Railroad en-
ployes who were discharged for ticket
frauds, have sued the company for $4,000
damages.
ONE of the biggest and best nail works in
the United States has just been started at
Wichita, Kan. 1t will turn out 500 kegs
every day.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, is the great furni-
ture-making centre of the United States. 1t
has fOrty-tvo furniture factories which en-
plOy 1000 men.
RAILWAYS are said to consume more than
half the worlds production of iron, the car
wheels required in the United States alone
taking over :, 100000 tons
AN achievement in American manufacture
was the construction of class A anthracite
locomotive, weighing 10000 pounds, in six
teen hours and hfty-ive minutes, at Al
tOOna, Penn.
THE car-building capacity of the country
has reached such point that it is almost i'm
possible to keep all going, and builders are
cutting prices terribly to get orders Wages
are coming down.
IT is reported that the first run of Dakota
tin was put through the new smelling process
at Rapid City successfully, and plans for the
erection of large works for treating tin are in
course of execution.
THE maritime labor unions of Sydney,
Australia, have resolved that the Chinese
hands on board the steamer Alameda must
be replaced by Europeans, otherwise the
steamer will not be allowed to load.
LADIES in Allegheny City, Penn, to the
number of 200 have agreed that they will
not make purchases at stores which keep
open after o'clock on Saturday night.
They argue that the saleswomen are made
SO tired with their late hours and hard work
on Saturday that they are not able to enjoy
their holiday on Sunday
THERE is still rush of labor to the West,
and great deal of new work is projected.
The SHOULDERS all over the West and
South are having about as much work as
they can handle. Architects busy. At
no time were there more fine residences
going up for men who ten or twenty years
ago lived in cheap rented houses.
BRITISH and German manufacturers are
complaining more bitterly of the progress
American manufacturers are making with
the expectation of their goods in the markets
of the world. Stoves, machinery, scales.
agricultural implements, kitchen utensils.
and a hundred other products of American
shops and foundrieS are cutting out British
and European products
AN enumeration taken at Rea ling OF the
furnaces in the Schuylkill Valley, Penn,
which have recently gone out of blast be-
cause of the depression in the iron business
shows that out of twenty one first-class fur
naces in the district from ConShohocken to
Pottsville, which were going month ago,
eleven have closed down and taking adj
vantage of the temporary dizziness to make
repairs.