Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-11-15
THE LABOR WORLD.

BosroN's electricians are going to start
union.
MANY Southern unions are composed alto
gether of colored men.
THE National Association of Stationary
Engineers has now 4Sl1 members
THE eight-hour rule is observed by the
Cincinnati Board of Public Works.
ONE HUNDRED type-writers will be ems
ployed by the United States Census Bureau.
THE Knights of Labor claim that $40 men
Joined their order during August and Sep
Jember.
THERE are good prospects for the project
OF forming an international W God w orkers'
Federation.
TwO-THIRDs 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. \. 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 journeymen tailors' strike in Chicago,
which lasted five days, has been declared or
and the men have returned to work
STONECUTTERS in st. Louis complain that
5heir situations are threatened by the compe-
itiou of convict stonecutters in Illinois.
J. J. GERAGHTY, candidate of the miners
md other workingmen, has been elected
1ayor of Streator, H., after an exciting con-
est.
In New Hampshire working children be-
ween the ages of IA and Is years are COM
)elled to go to school three months of the
ear.
A UNION of machinists is to be formed at
indianapolis, Ind. The Bookbinders' Assem-
ply of that city is going to reorganize as an
Dpen union.
I n ~
5Ors has 1000 members enrolled in 1876 local
Unions The receipts last year were $6401;
expenses, $500.
THE silk trade in England is threatened by
france, which is running up large number
If silk mills and producing some of the finest
work in the world.
BROOKLYN has the largest and 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
o. the American Federation recently states
tnat 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 Me.
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 5000 flint glass workers in
the country, and all are union men with
the exception of less than 100.
IN 1870 there were 739, 1877 children under
sixteen years of age at work in factories in
rhe United States; in 1880 they had increased
1.11S,356 and it is believed that in spite of
factory laws there are more than ever of
children employed.
AN investigation lately made into the con-
tlitiOn 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 $500 are skilled workers.
THE latest scheme to relieve the employer
from liability in the case of in jury to an en-
plOye is the design of an insurance company
IN London. The workman takes out an &C
cldent policy and the premium is paid from
his wages. He also signs contract in
Identifying his employer.
A NUMBER of years ago attempts were
made to make paper in Ireland out of peat
moss, but the results were not satisfactory
A new process has just been discovered by
which good paper can be made out of this
material, and experiments on large scale
will be made to show its practicability.
In the Isle of Man, CHI is in the Irish
Sea, there are large lead Mines which are
believed to be very ancient and employ half
the population of Laxey, the village in which
they are situated. The men work for very
water-wheel in the world is at these mills, and
is used to ventilate the mines. 1t is visited as
curiosity by excursionists.