The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-12-05
TIE LABOR WORLD.

THE building season is over in most OF Che
northern cities
EIGHTY-EIGTT out of every hundred cigar
makers in California are Cinnamon.
WITH the closing of lake navigation 60:0oo
men were thrown out OF employment In Chl-
cago.
A FINE is assessed against all Chicago fore
men who pay the wages Of employees IN sa-
looms.
TIE piano-makers of the country will hold
q convention in Meriden, Conn, to form
National Union.
CHICAGO will soon have new bottle fac
tory, costing S25, ,0J0 and employing large
number of hands.
THE first annual convention Of boiler in.
spectors and stationary engineers has just
been held in Pittsburg.
THERE is growing tendency in all labor
unions to formulate some regulation which
will provide for apprentices.
The organized brass workers Of the United
States and Canada have adopted Il resolution
in favor Of the eight-hour rule
The total number OF persons employed in
BOOK binding in Philadelphia aggregates 1850,
two-th!rds of whom are women.
THElabor societies of Pittsburg have raised
over $500 for the monument to be erected
III Iue!1OTy Vi IuOIlitS AO0ou
labor leader.
A NEW organization in labor is the Brother.
hood of Machinery Molders, recently started
in Philadelphia. There are now four branches
of the order
GEORGE H. Vanderbilt has purchased
1000 acres near Asheville, N. c., on which
he will build an industrial school for poor
white children.
THE Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
decided 20 hold their next convention at
Denver, COL, October II, 1882 The grand
officers were reelected
CARPENTERS complain that they have been
deceived by INSCRIPTIONS real estate agents
into going TO Omaha, Neb., when there was
no hope OF finding work there.
EAU CLAIRE. Wis, has cooperative
store that recently declared a dividend OF
1015 per cent to purchasers. 1t has patron
age OF nearly two hundred families.
THE iron furnaces of Ensley, Ala, small
town near Birmingham, are now said to be
the largest in the world and with the increased
capacity will employ fully 3OO0 men.
THE only European delegate present at the
general assembly of the knights of Labor,
held at Indianapolis, was Secretary Delwarte
of the Universal Federation Of Glass W Work-
ers.
NoN-UNION carpenters are referred to in
Denver as ''busil- whackers," in Pittsburg as
"iay-hawHcrs." in Texas as "Funch-and-
Judy showmen," and in California as ''travel-
ing chips"
MONTREAL, Canada, has thirty boot and
shoe factories. -Four thousand persons, all
over fourteen years of age, are employed.
Wages average $12 week for menIand ST
for women.
THE female competitors Of Topeka, Kan,
have organized club, with Miss Mary
Abarr, o. the Topeka Capitot. as President.
They have also established, under the
auspices of the club, a magazine entitled
the Priafer Girl
THE Grand Jury in Buffalo, N Y, indicted
the Buffalo Street Railroad Company and
the Last Side Railroad Company for viola
tion of the law making it a mis:lemeanor to
exact from an emp'oye more than ten hours
labor in twelve consecutive hours.
TIE Furniture Workers International
Union was organized in July, 1872, with
nine local unions, having total membership
Of 1856 Now the number of local unions
has increased to twenty. six and the member
ship to over five thousand in good stand.
ing
MIs HAINEs, the lady agent of the Maine
labor bureau. is now engaged in exam ming
into the condition of the working women in
the sardine and lobster canning estaDlish-
ments Of the seaboard cities of the east She
will also visit the great factories on like
mission.