The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-20
THE LABOR WORLD.

BosToNs electricians are going to start
union.
MANY Southern unions are composed alto
gether Of colored men.
The National Association Of Stationary
Engineers has now 4S11 members.
THE eight-hour rule is observed by the
Cincinnati Board of Public Works
ONE HUNDRED type-writers will be en-
ployed by the United States Census Bureau.
The knights of Labor claim that S340 men
Joined their order during August and Sep
tember.
THERE are good prospects for the project
of forming an International Wood Workers
Federation.
Two-rH1RDs of the cigar dealers of San
Francisco have pledged themselves not to sell
cigars made by Cinnamon.
The eight-hour movement has been started
in Albany, N. Y, the trades unions and the
Knights of Labor cooperating.
FIVE assemblies of the Knights of Labor
in Cincinnati have joined the International
Boot and Shoe Workers Union.
The iourneymen tailors' strike in Chicago,
which lasted five days has been declared of
and the men have returned to work.
SToNEcUTTERs in st. Louis complain that
their situations are threatened by the compe-
tition of convict stonecutters in Illinois.
J. j. GERAGHTY, candidate of the miners
and other workingmen, has been elected
Mayor of Streator, ILL.,, after an exciting con-
test.
In New Hampshire working children be-
tween the ages of IA and IL years are COM
PEELED to go to school three months of the
year.
A UNION of machinists is to be formed ut
Indianapolis, Ind. The Bookbinders' Assem-
bly, Of that city is going to reorganize as an
open union.
The Brotherhood of Painters and Decora-
tors has 1000 members enrolled in 1876 local
unions. The receipts last year were SB401 !;
expenses, S5260.
THE silk trade in England is threatened by
France, which is running up large number
Of silk mills and producing some of the finest
work in the world.
BRooKLYN has the largest AMI best ap-
pointed labor hall in the country. 1t is owned
and managed by workingmen. 1t is known
as the Labor Lyceum.
TRADE is very good in the iron and steel in
dustry at Youngstown, Penn. All the mills
are running at full blast and no one is idle
who is willing to work.
A FRENCH letter, which reached the office
Of the American Federation recently. states
that number of unions in Paris have begun
to agitate for an eight-hour workday.
OVER seven hundred men are now employed
at the granite quarries of West Sullivan, Ne.
The product Of the quarries averages from
three to four millions of paving blocks year,
besides other work.
THE strongest labor organization in the
United States is the Flint Glass Workers
Union. There are G000 flint glass workers in
the country, and all ARE union men with
the exception of less than 100.
In 1870 there were 7S9, 167 children under
sixteen years of age at work in factories in
the United States; in 1850 they had increased
LIS, 356, and it is believed that in spite of
factory laws there are more than ever Of
children employed.
AN investigation lately made into tie con-
dition of colored labor in the South in blast
furnaces, rolling mills. iron WORKS. mines.
lumber mills and similar industries showed
that 5000 colored people were SO employed.
Of these 250O are skilled wor