Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-01-04
THE LABOR WORLD.


THE Phoenix PENN Iron Company EN-
ploys 100 men
A BRoCToS, Mass, shoe factory Will be
operated by electricity.
IN England there are 341 women who make
a living by shoeing horses.
SOME of the shoe factories OF Massachu
sets have adopted electricity as their motiv'
power.
AMALGAMATIoS among trade and labo,
organizations at present Is experiencing
boom"
The question of eight-hour labor is again
coming up and IS being urged with renewet
vehemence.
PUBLIC library for the exclusive US
of factory workmen has been established il
Houtzdale, Penn.
DURING the last ten years the wages OF thu
cigar-makers of Buffalo, \. Y, have beer
doubled under the union system.
THE men who do the chipping" Oh
Georgia turpentine farms receive 81 per day
clippers get twenty-five cents more.
ACCORDING to a recent consular report,
American shoe makers turn out much better
work than their European fellow-craftsmen
ALL the furniture workers unions repor
their employers anxious to encroach upol
the nine-hour rule by making ten hours
days work.
THERE are fifty cooperative stores in New
England under the management of the Sow
ereigns of Industry. The yearly sales amour
to s., 800, 900.
The old Lehigh Valley engine Hercules
which was in the collision at Easton, Penn.
lately was wrecked six times within the pas
year. 1t is a massive machine.
THE coke consumers of Pennsylvania OBJ
iect to the increase in the price of coke. I
they will not buy it at 81. 50 the burners can
not get their increase in wages.
AN electric hand-saw is the latest invention
for carpenters. 1t works like any ordinary
saw, the electricity being applied only in tbs
process of setting and sharpening.
IT is said that of the 24l leading clothing
manufacturers in New York City, pa are
Hebrew firms and that the Jews are also
largely engaged in cigar making, employing
over 5000 persons.
NEW industrial school, the first of IE
class in the West, has just been established
in st. Louis. It is for the purpose of teach
ing the art of engraving on wood, and nigh
sessions only are held.
MONSTERS HISTORY tells the wages re
ceived i'll 1907 On the Pennsy lvania canals
the diggers ate the coarsest diet, were housed
in the rudest Sheds and paid ST month from
May to November, and SIS month from
November to May.
In the late congress of Italian co-operators
held at Bologna last month"; the report
showed that there we're in that country al
societies, 221 cooperative agricultural in
situations, 43 bakeries, 4O0 cooperative stores
THE wages of firemen in Louisville KY
have been raised all around. Engineers whe
have been receiving $S3. 35 month, now gel
S95, and chief operators will hereafter be
paid $50 monthly. Captains will receive
$3.50; pipemen, 81 50, and stokers 1925 &
day.
ALL the coal mines in the Monongahels
Valley, in Pennsylvania, have been closed fol
an indefinite period, and over 5000 miners
and hundreds of river men will be without
employment, and they and their families.
numbering altogether probably not less than
10000 to $1,000 souls, will be without means
Of support.
WITHIN radius of forty miles of Roches-
ter, n. Y, there are more than 1900 fruit
evaporators, giving employment during the
autumn and winter to about 30, 0JO hands.
Last season the production of these evaporar
tors was about 80 900, 900 pounds, worth at
first cost about s., 900, 900. A large proper
ton of the product is exported.
BREMEN, Germany, cigarmakers get from
81. so to 81 per 1000 They average 20Oe
cigars per week. Only the average workman
works over four days per week Work begins
at Z o'clock They work until 9 clock, and
take half hour for breakfast The dinner
recess is from to o'clock. The days work
is over at P. N. Box hnlsherS get sixty
cents per 100 boxes.
HENRY G. RAWORTH, of Augusta, Ca,
said to be the oldest living railroad engineer,
was the engineer OF the BEST Friend" the
first locomotive built in America, and he has
followed his business for fifty-one years.
When he first handled the throttle twelve
miles an hour was considered good time while
nowadays no one is surprised at a run OF
sixty miles an hour.
ISAAC STAPLES has sold $4,000 acres OF
nine lands on the Snake River, Mimi, to-
Fred Weverhauser, of Rock Island, III. The
consideration is over 100000. The purchase
was made for a down-river syndicate which
is rapidly buying up all the pine lands On the
st. Croix River and its tributaries.