Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-03-01
THE LABOR WORLD.
NEW YORK PAYERS get 81 a day.

The seamen's strike is spreading.
THE Rome labor riots are becoming serious.
THE year has opened with surprisingly few
strikes
THERE are over 1900 baker shops in New
York city.
AMERICAN cast steel for tools is advertised
in London.
NEW JERSEYS Child Labor law is operat-
ing satisfactorily.
LESS than 5000 men are left at work on
the Panama Canal.
BALTIMORE'S forty trades unions have a
membershipof 81, 900.
VERMONT factories turn out some 6OO,O
snow shovels per year.
THERE is a general strike among the dock
hands of MamO, Sweden
LAST January only saw Is, 926 men go on
strike in seventy-one strikes
WILMINGTON DELI morocco factories need
the hides of 80, 900 goats daily.
A MOVEMENT is on foot for the formation
of new National Labor party.
THE freight handlers of Boston have re-
solved to ask for an increase OF pay.
The average weekly earnings of working
women are larger in Western cities.
THE Washington ordnance foundry when
finished will be the largest Of Its kind III the
world.
A FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLAR paper mill is
to be built soon in SatilIO State of COahulla,
Mexico.
THE Calumet and Hecla Mining Company,
of Michigan, pay out each year over S5OO,OOO
in dividends.
IN the large cities of Europe poor people
sweep the crossings, picking up few pennies
for their work
The united silk workers of New Jersey
about to form d State federation in
the interest Of their trade.
GENERAL MASTER WORKMAN POWDERLY
has been spending some tine among the
miners near Reading, Penn.
THE great draw back to progress in the
construction Of the United States cruiser
Texas is in want of skilled labor.
LOWELL Mass! policemen have a society
that pays 81 per week, twenty six weeks i'll
the year, for sickness and 500 at death.
SYDNEY (Australia) workingwomen have
opened a big hotel for themselves, where
board and lodgings are furnished cheaply.
ENGLISH swordmakers recently refused to
work for ten cents per hour, the scale that
Germans accept. he former want fifteen
cents.
THE standard wages for New York car
drivers or conductors is 81 per day, and the
law says tn y shall not work more than ten
hours
THERE are twenty-eight industrial schools
in this country which are attended largely
by women. To some of these institutions
women only are admitted.
IT is claimed that Chicago street car con-
ductor has stolen thousands of dollars by
knowing how to turn back the register. He
also sold the secret to other men for SO.
IL the city of Philadelphia are 112 carpet
establishments, with 800 looms and Il, $40
workmen. Their aggregate output in 1888
was 72,OOO, OOJ yards Of carpet valued at S45, -
O0OOJO.
AFTER three months of idleness the 5000
striking miners on the Monongahela and
Yohoghany in Pennsylvania have agreed to
resume work at the Old rate Of three cents
per bushel.
The Window Glass Workers Union of
Pittsburg is the richest labor organization in
the United States. and holds reserve fund
of $500, 600, with which it has been decided to
establish a bank.
SINCE the stoppage of emigration to this
country from China there has been doubling
of the wages of Chinese cigarmakers, tailors,
gardeners, laundrymen and other workers on
the Pacific coast.