The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-07-10
THE LABOR WORLD.

MOST of the silk mills are crowded.
CHINESE boatmen make $40 and $12 Der
year.
THE demand for sailors is greater than the
supply.
LocKsMITHs in London earn from Sc to SO
a week.
A GERMAN servalt-maid receives from $40
to $40 a year.
A BOOT and shoe factory is to be built at
Cedartown, Ga.
A PARTY of 250 American engineers are
travelling in, Europe.
The Paris cabmen are powerful body,
politically and otherwise.
The prejudice against labor organizations
seems to be fast disappearing.
STRIKES are almost unkeard Of in New
Hampshire and North Carolina.
SINCE 1885 three attempts have been made
to organize drug clerks union.
TIE bricklayers in Birmingham, England,
are earning from IS to $40 week.
The use Of Cuban hematites for steel
making in the South is being agitated.
The striking steamship fremen and
laborers at Liverpool have submitted.
The profit-sharing idea is gaining ground
in some of the large cities Of the West.
THERE are trade unions in China. A skilled
workman doesn't make over 81 per month.
PAPER mill building is going ahead faster
than ever and there is a great rush for
machinery.
The National Association of Train Dis
patchers has just held its annual session at
indianapolis.
DURING the summer the glass manu-
facturers win make extensive improvements
in their plants.
THERE is but little trouble in the labor cir
cles just at present outside Of the mining and
steel industries.
THE Day County Qnd.) miners have asked
the Governor to issue an appeal to the public
for aid for them.
DRIVERS employed by express companies
now get on an average s65 month; truck
men about $50 month.
THERE is great activity at present in the
ship-building yards all over England, and
new workmen are constantly being taken on.
SEATTLE, Washington Territory, which
was recently visited by disastrous fire, is
giving work to all men who want it at 50 a
day.
THIRTEEN HUNDRED men were employed
the past year making railroad surveys
Pacific
THE Swiss Government has inaugurated a
movement intended to bring about univer-
sal reduction Of hours of labor for workers in
factories and on farms.
In England and France many women dress
in mems clothes all tho time They claim
that when they pass themselves off for men
they get better wages and suffer less annoy
ance.
In the Matchmaking districts in Clerken-
well, London, the dial painters earn SEQ
week. The work is so bad for the eyes that
twenty per cent. Of the dial painters become
blind.
STATIsTIcIANs estimate that there are over
5000, 900 women in this country who are en-
gagged in work which is not domestic. Of
this number 2T5 are ministers and seventy
i've are lawyers
AT delegate convention Of railroad min
crs of Western Pennsylvania in Pittsburg
committee was appointed to draft resolutions
demanding that the coal operators discon-
tinue their stores
BALTIMORE leads the country in the manu-
factrre of overalls. In that city 5000 women
are employed in this industry. Their wages
run from So to IS week, with general
average of about $3.50.
HOLLOW brick are being largely used in
buildings in Eastern cities. They crush at
pressure Of 80, 600 pounds, which is about the
same as solid brick bears. The bricks are
put on their ends in building, thus making
the wall hollow from top to bottom.
THE Secret Service Labor Bureau is COM
posed of Knights of Labor, with Pinkerton
detective, formerly longshoreman, at its
head. 1t does effective work in roofing out
spies and emissaries who join labor organiza-
tions to find out the secrets Of the employees.
In Severely, villege in Staffordshire,
England, there is girl who is forewoman in
planning mill. Her father was foreman, but
was killed by an accident, and the girl, who
was often in the mill with her father, offered
to take his place. Her offer was accepted
and she has nroved harsaf varY cornnafanh;