Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1888-05-11
THE LABOR WORLD.

DENVER Coll brlcklayers get IS per day.
They work eight hours.
THERE are nearly 1000 people employed in
the Australian copper mines
A CLorHEs-?IN factory at Montpelier, Vt,
has capacity Of 200 gross per day.
ONE of the largest blast furnaces ever built
has been put up at Knoxville, Tenn
THREE THOUSAND people earn their living
in Kansas coal, lead and zinc mines.
THE cooperative town of Powderly, Ala
now boasts of more than thirty houses
UPWARD of forty five tons of paper are
manufactured daily at WATERFOWL, \. y.
A BRIDGE is TO be built across the Ohio
River at Owensboro, KY, to cost one million
dollars
An organization of New York city work
ingmen proposes to establish a cooperative
coal yard.
ONE THOUSAND children in Fall River.
Mass most of whom work in the factories
cannot read.
OPERATORS in the cotton and iute mills Of
Bombay, India, receive from ten to twelve
cents per day.
NEAR Coburg, Germany, whole village
of people has for many generations made
nothing but toys.
BETWEEN 6O00 and 1000 men will be thrown
out of work by the shut down in the Con-
nellsville PENN coke region.
IMMENSE iron works, costing 81, 900, coo, are
to be erected at Duluth Mimi, including
blast furnace, steel mills and rolling mills.
SHOr manufacturing is in bad way at
present. Owing to the protracted peace ii is
possible to buy a ton of shot for the same
price as ton of lead.
LABOR strikes are spreading in Germany.
The Labor Central Committee has requested
workmen to stay away from the districts
affected by the strikes.
IT is said there are farmers wives on Long
Island who make boys trousers for three
cents There are women in New York who
toll sixteen hours day.for sixty cents.
IT has been estimated that only 1000 men
are at present employed around the mines in
the Shamokin PENN district. Heretofore
5000 have usually been at work at this time
of the year.
ONLY five hundred out of the three thou
sand striking workmen at Carnegie's steel
works, near Pittsburg, are active in their
opposition against the cooperative PROPOSE
ton made them.
THERE is a downward tendency in wages
and cost of production all over the United
States. A ten per cent reduction in wages
is to take place among two thousand miners
at JohnstOwn, Penn.
THE proprietor of large cigar factory at
Havana employing 400 hands, has sgnified
his willingness to remove to Punta Gorda,
Fla, if the people there will donate sufficient
land for factory and cottages.
THE annual production of print cloths in
the United States is 791 100000 yards, of
which amount 651 900, 900 yards made in
the New England States, and in Fall River,
Mass, alone the production is 4SO,OOO,OOO
yards.
A NORTHERN machinery firm has just
closed a contract for an enormous engine and
plant that will weigh 2,O0l,O 600 pounds and
which will furnish 10, 100000 gallons of water
every "a hours 1t is for Louisville. The
diameter of the wheel will be SO feet.
A SUCCESSFUL experiment has been made
at the Etna Iron Works, Pittsburg, by which
the lap welding of tubes is done in one heating
instead of two. Less metal is required. In
fact, the new way saves great deal of labor,
and the cost is from p to 4Oper cent cheaper
An employe is the inventor
AT Carthage, Mo-, the other day. a re-
markable blast was made at limestone
quarry. There were eighteen holes ten feet
deep. ten feet back from the ledge, covering
$50 feet in length. In these were placed 2O4
sticks of giant powder, fired by an electric
battery Over 3,00),000 pounds of pure lime
rock were blown out. The shooting was
witnessed by several hundred people, and
was perfect success