The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-09
THE LABOR WORLD.
PrArE.G1,Ass making is booming.


TIE Phoenix PENN Iron Company EN-,
ploys 1900 men.
A BRocroN, Mass, shoe factory will be
operated by electricity.
In England there are BAT women who make
living by shoeing horses.
SOME of the shoe factories OF Massachu
sets have adopted electricity as their motive
power.
AMALGAMAr1oN among trade and labor
organizations at present is experiencing Z
boom"
The question of eighthour labor is again
coming up and is being urged with reneWet
vehemence.
APuBL1c library for the exclusive US
of factory workmen has been established II
Houtzdale, Penn.
DURING the last ten years the wages OF th'
cigar-makers Of Buffalo, n. Y, have beel
doubled under the union system.
The men who do the chipping" OF
Georgia turpentine farms receive 81 per day
"dippers" get twenty-five cents more.
ACCORDING to O 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 $500, ,0oo.
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 massive machine.
THE coke consumers of Pennsylvania oh
ject to the increase in the price of COKE
they will not buy it at $l.5O 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 th,
process Of setting and sharpening.
IT is said that Of the PAL leading clothing
manufacturers in New York City, 254 are
Hebrew firms, and that the Jews are also
largely engaged in cigar making, employing
over s000 persons.
A NEW industrial school, the first Of IL
class in the West, has just been established
in st. Louis. 1t is for the purpose of teach
ing the art Of engraving on wood, and nigh
sessions only are held.
McMAsTER'S HISTORY tells the wages re
ceived in 1900: On the Pennsylvania canal
the diggers ate the coarsest diet, were housed
in the rudest sheds, and paid So month from
MAY to November, and S5 a month from
November to May.
In the late congress of Italian co-operators
held at Bologna last month, the report
showed that there were in that country al
present l16 cooperative manufacturing
societies, 22l cooperative agricultural in
stitutions, 43 bakeries, 4O5 cooperative stores
THE wages of firemen in Louisville, KY.
have been raised all around. Engineers wht
have been receiving sS3. 81 month, now gel
sos, and chief operators will hereafter R
paid $3.50 monthly. Captains Will receive
s2.6o; pipemen, $3.50, and stokers s2.25 6
day.
ALL the coal mines in the Monongahel.
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
2U, 900 to 25 QUO souls, will be without means
of support.
WITHIN radius of forty miles Of Roches-
ter, n. Y, there are more than 800 fruit
evaporators, giving employment during the
autumn and winter to about 5000 hands,
Last season the production OF these evapora'
tors was about 30,0O0,00O pounds, worth at
first cost about 81 00D,000 A large proper
ton of the product is exported.
BREMEN, Germany, cigarmakers get from
81. so to 81 per 1905. They average. 2O0(
cigars per week. Only the average workman
works over four days per week. Work begins
at Z o'clock. They work until 0 o'clock, and
take half hour for breakfast. The dinner
recess is from to o'clock. The days work
is over at Z P. H. Box fnishers get sixty
cents per 100 boxes.
HENRY G. RAwoRrH, Of Augusta, Ga,
said TO he the Oldest living railroad engineer,
was the engineer oil the BEST Friend" the
first locomotive built in America, and he has
fol owed 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 run OF
sixty miles an hour.