Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-09-20
THE LABOR WORLD.

THE United Hebrew Trades claim MEM
0ership OF over 5000.
ALL of the slate quarrias of North Wales
are to be worked by an English syndicate
IT is q matter Of history that inventions
which have eased labor have increased wages.
JOHN SwINTON, not long ago a power in
the labor movement in New York, is writing
4 labor novel.
MIDLAND, new law for the regulation Of
.he labor of women and children III factories
las been adopted
AN immense new cotton mill, with a ca
aacity Of 5000 Spindles is to be built at Hail
tax Court House, Va.
AWORKINGwOMANS society has been es-
tablisEad in Liverpool, England, to organize
factory and shop girls
THERE has been q great growth of manu-
featuring and trading cooperative estab-
ishments ir Great Britain within the past
lew years.
A MASTER carpenter on the Pennsylvania
road moved a bridge 25S feet long, weighing
$500 tons in twelve minutes; It was moved
fOrty-fve feet.
THE Brotherhood Of Painters and DecOra-
tors of America, which was founded in Baltl-
more two years ago has now branches IN 40
American and Canadian cities, with large
membership.
THE American Flint Glass Workers Ma
5iOnal Union, in its latest report, SHOWS a
yearly income Of $1,000 and a total mem
bership of $3.50 There are less than 1O0non-
union men in the entire trade
FEWER passenger conductors have been
discharged from the Missouri Pacific road, IL
is said than from any other railroad III the
West Many of the conductors in the roads
service have been with it from the start.
A LETTER has been sent by William
O'Brien, the Irish NJ. P, to Thomas OFlynn,
manager of the Irish National COlOnlst, BOs-
ton. Mass, asking his assistance in prOmOt-
~, IraIol,1 with American
tai
THERE are two large carpenters societies
the United States One is the Amalgamated
Union OF American Carpenters comprising
AGA branches and p, 226 members The other
is the American Brotherhood OF Carpenters,
which has much larger memEe~shlp.
THERE are several spinning mills in the
County Down, Ireland, i'll connection with
which the employers have built villages LOT
their employees and let the houses to them.
They also own the village store from winch
che employees must purchase everything they
need
THE rapid growth of the Italian barber
shops i'll New York city is alarming the old
time BARRIERS. The Italian fve-cent shaving
ShoDs are now to be found not only in Little
ItaIv~ and the other quarters in which swarms
1f Italians have taken up their abode, but
also in other localities up town, down town
and on both sides of the city.
If the reports are true, the London street
car drivers seem to have anything but g
pleasant time. They are required to work
fourteen hours day and are givcn only one
DAYS rest in fourteen: Their pay varies
from one dollar to q dollar and quarter q
jaynominalIv, but a system OF fines for the
slightest infraction of discipline reduces
these rates.
Ara conference of the bakers unions held
recently III Berlin, Germany, IT was fesolV e
that the working day should not exceed
twelve hours and that the weekly wage
should be CT least twelve marks (S4.oV. l
was also resolved that Sunday abor shoui'
be discontinued and that organization shoul'
still 90 on in spite OF obstacles raised by III
Government.
RAIN in the valleys and snow in the mount
aims have extinguished the fires that hav
been raging for the past month in Montana