The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-04-03
THE LABOR WORLD.


PLENTY Of new railroad work Is projected.
WAGON and carriage makers are doing
we'll.
The Carbon and Hillsville PENN strike is
over.
SKILLED Northern labor is in demand in
the South.
PUMP and mining machinery makers have
all they can do.
A GOOD many Southern factories are run.
ming night and day.
WoHEN weavers at Fall River, Mass.
make about sS a week.
AN industrious laborer in Mexico can com.
mand eighteen cents day.
EDISON has an absolute monopoly of all
incandescent Lighting in England
ONE stove concern at South Pittsburgh,
Tenn, will make 1000 stoves this year.
The hardwood fiuishers are struggling
very hard to form national organization
MORE firms are trying the plan Of dividing
profits among workmen in addition to wages
ROLLING mill men will try hollow rolls
stuffed with SILICA, instead Of solid cast-lron
ones.
A CONVENTION of walters unions will be
held in New York city to organize Ma
tional Union.
IT takes over 1000, 900 boxes of window
glass for the country, made in 117l pots. At
present 142 are idle.
SOME branches of the tobacco trade are
almost monopolized by girls. For instance,
the making of cigarettes.
The Umbrella, Pipe and Cane Makers Ma
tional Union has five local unions ard total
membership Of 1900 parsons.
THERE are nearly 5000 co operative socie-
ties in this country with an average member
ship Of 200, or 100000 in all.
A woMAN's trade union recently organized
in Glasgow, Scotland, has now membership
of eighty-nine working women
In Pennsylvania, by an act OF Legislature,
soldiers and sailors of the late war ara to be
given the preference employment.
The largest lathe order ever placed was
placed by the Westinghouse people for 2l4
(athes, each twenty -one-inch cut.
A BILL to abolish night work by b2ys un-
Ter eighteen years and girls under twenty
mo is under consideration in France.
PHILADELPHIA wants five or six manual
Draining schools to meet the requirements OF
the local industries fo: skilled mechanics.
CIGAR making has Of late years become so
Improbable to the working people that the
average weekly wages range only from So
to 81.
ONE HUNDRED girls employed in the Eagle
Cotton Mills, Of Madison, Ind, are striking
Tor ten hours instead Of eleven and half, as
heretofore.
The Central Labor Union, of New York,
once q powerful labor body, is now divided
40 into two hostile camps over tho question
Of socialism.
THE Governor Of the Province Of West
Prussia, in view of the scarcity Of farm
hands, has suggested the introduction OF
Chinese labor.
THE New York State labor appropriation
allows SIS, 900 to the Board of Arbitration,
$50, 600 for factory inspection and So, 900 for
labor statistics.
The green-glass bottle blowers that left the
K, of L. about two years ago have returned
TO that fold, 14O0 members strong, with q
cash balance Of $4,000.
AT present 2S5 cotton mills are making
cotton goods in the South, and seventeen
more will soon be finished, besides forty are
under erection; total 202.
In the German city of Frankfort there is
an old bakers shop in which successive gen.
srations Of dough workers have carried on
their trade since the year 14G1
THE New Jersey Legislature is considering
n bill which forbids, under heavy penalties,
any employer asking an emp.oye whether or
not he belongs to labor union.
SOME of the working women of Boston
have organized themselves into society "for
tho nrotection of their rights and the inl-
provement Of their condition socially and
mentally"
THE manufacture Of counterfeit American
sewing machines in Germany has been SO
extensive that combination has been formed
at Crefe.d to check the importation Of
machines Of American make.
r. BELL1NGHAM the oldest engine driver
ON the Great Northern Railway, and proba.
bly in England, has had a record few men
Fan boast of, having been fer forty years in
he service of the Great Northerp Company.