Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-03-08
The LABOR WORLD.

BUILDERS favor trade schools.
THE Federation Of Bookkeepers has 1000
members.
FRANCE owes much of her wealth to her
industrial schools.
GREAT numbers Of discharged canal labor
srs are leaving Panama.
THE single strength glass blower averages
$12O for 100 hours work.
THE pay of telegraph operators varies
from $40 to 800 a month.
NEW YORK silk workers have lately re
ceived ten per cent. advance in wages.
PHILADELPHIA boasts that Just now she
makes the best stained glass in the world.
The Tennessee Legislature has just passed
a law requiring all barber shops to close on
Sunday.
MASTER WORKMAN PowDERLY, of the K
of L., is heartily in favor of the Australian
system Of voting.
THE army service corps in England is to
form a class for the instruction of smiths,
wheelSrs and saddlerS.
THERE are in New York city number of
Italian bricklayers and a good many stone
masonS Of that nationality.
EIGHTEEN out of ffty-eight National Trade
Unions of the United States have their head
quarters in New York city.
SOME of the railway companies in England
are forming their employees into railway
battaliOnS for home License.
THE BrickIayers and Masons' International
Union has 176 unions; $500, 900 have been
expended for strikes and $3.50, 00) in benefits.
a NATIONAL PATTERN-MA LEAGUE
has been organized in Philadelphia with
nine lodges, whose combined membership is
1000
BUILDERS of this country handle seven
hundred and fifty million dollars year, &C
cording to statements made at their conVen-
ton.
IN a short time an oysterman's national
union will be formed, which will take in
eleven existing unions, with membership
of 800
THE Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
was instituted in August II, 1868, and at the
present time has 1872 subdivisions and over
25, 900 members.
THE New Jersey silk weavers have had
their wages repeatedly reduced within the
last few years. They used to get SIC week;
they now get 50.
TENNESSEE iron makers plume themselves
not little over the fact that no boiler made
of their famous charcoal cold blast has ever
been known to explode.
THE double strength glass-blower in a ten
pot furnace makes an average of $l.75 an
hour He works seven hours day, running
his daily stipend up to $l2.25.
IN the New York State Senate a bill has
been introduced by Senator Cantor fixing
the wages of day laborers for the State at 81
day or twenty-fv cents an hour"
GERMAN mechanics are largely educated in
trade schools, and the London guilds are now
expanding their accumulated wealth in the
establishment of similar schools throughout
England.
WHAT is known as the Paving Cutters
National Union was organized on June /,
1887, at Baltimore, Md, with eleven locals
and 500 members. At present there are
thirtysix branches with 1900 members
OF the national labor organizations in the
United States, the Brotherhood of Carpen-
ters and Joiners has the most number Of
local unions, having 4S4. 1.-THE foot Of the
list is the International Boatmen's Union,
with two subordinate bodies.
BRUNSWICK, Ga, is to have the largest
cotton press in the Southern States. 1t
weights go tons, stands on a base twelve by
twenty four feet, connecting with four links
thirty eight feet long, each weighing nine
tons. 1t required six months time to build it.