Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-04-13
THE LABOR WORLD.

WASHINGTON, Penn, has subscrloeu Sfo'
900 for a new glass works.
THE total production Of steel in the Unlte e
States during 1887 aggregated ., '3'' 'oo he'
TONS
IT has been estimated that it would take
from 1900 to 2lOO days lot one Hl0ii ~
locomotive. --.---.-
AN immense locomotive has just been con-
structed at Paris foundry. Its builder pre-
diets that it will realize an approximate
speed of ninety-three miles an hour.
THE weavers, spinners and other piece
workers in the employ of the Cocheco Manu-
featuring Company, of Dover, n. h., nave
had their wages Increased five per cent.
THERE is So, 900, 900 invested in manufac-
turing in KanSas-$5, 0OO,O 600 more than was
invested in 1886. Six thousand hands find
employment in the lead, zinc and coal mines
THE steam and boiler felters of New York,
who struck work because they were refused
an advance in wages, have started IN busl-
ness for themselves, and are said to be dong
well.
ONE seldom hears of French calf boots or
shoes nowadays. American tanners are now
making as good calf-skin as the French ever
turned out, and importations are going the
other way.
BRACE BROTHERS, proprietors Of a laundry
at Pittsburg. have entered a suit against the
Trades Assembly for $4,000 damages on &C
count of a boycott instituted by the assembly
against their business.
A FORTUNE awaits the man who can invent
a substitute for plaster. The want Is for
something made of pulp which can be pressed
into sheets the size of the ceiling or room
and tackled to the joints.
OWING. it is said. to trade depression, the
large envelope manufacturers, White, COrbin
& Co Rockville, Conn, have reduced the
hours of labor from ten to eight hours a day.
The factory has capacity OF 2,OOO,OOO daily.
TwENTY-THREE hundred men who went TO
in ba mi at South Chicago
February 9th, after an enforced idleness OF
three months, will be out OF employment
again, because they have received notifica-
ton that the mills will shut down from over
production.
A CONFERENCE of church janirors of all
denominations was held recently in New York
city, and arrangements effected for perma-
nent organization. They allege that then
work is overbearing and that the lowest
wages are paid. They also protest against
working on Sundays.
In shoe factories each part of the shoe has
men who work in teams and are paid differ
ent wages. The average pay of all hands s
from fifteen 10 twenty dollars a week The
busiest times are the spring and fall seasons,
when the men are often paid larger wages
than at other times
THE brakemen and conductors Of the New
jersey branch of the Delaware Lackawanna
and Western Railroad are incenSed over the
order of the Board of Directors holding them
responsible for all injury 20 cars caused by
passengers and reqiring them TO make such
damage good to the company.
WARDEN BRUSH, of Sing Sing prison. has
issued orders TO stop work altogether IN the
shoe shops, owing TO the failure of the Legs
lature to appropriate money TO carry on the
prison industries. This has caused the idle
ness of 400 convicts out Of the 1880 on the
register. 1t also throws out OF employment
81 citizen-employeS, who have acted as in
sructors and superintendent.