Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-04-12
THE LABOR WORLD,

MASSACHUSETTS silk operators average s12
weekly.
BOILER-MAKERs in San Francisco average
So 50 a day.
THE miners at Wellington, British Colum-
bIa, are on strike
THE soap stone industry of Vermont is in
q f1ourishing state.
chill has decided that the heather Chi
nese must not come
THE Amalgamatsi Union of American
Carpenters has 464 branches.
STEEL rails have grown in weight from SIS
pounds to the yard to 30 and 100.
SAVANNAH Ca colOred men refuse to
work in gangs with Italian Iaborers.
THE New York silk manufacturers have
granted a ten per cent. advance in wages.
San FRANCISCO clerks are supporting
movement TO have stores closed on Sundays.
A TEN-TuOUSAND spindle cotton mill. to
cost S2OO,OOJ IS to be put up at Waco, Texas.
OVER 80, 900 men, women and children are
employed IN the tobacco industry of New
York city.
THE labor movement is spreading through
out Germany. Many strikes are reported in
the provinces
PLENTY of farm hands are to be had in
China for Sl2 year and women for two
cents per day.
THE Sons of Labor is an opposition order
to the Knights of Labor, which has been
started in England
OLD miners assert that in eleven years
there has not been so continued period OF
dizziness as at the present time.
THE coal miners of Indiana have agreed to
join the new organization entitled the Ma
tional Progressive Union of Miners.
THE Laborers' Protective Union of Jersey
City, n. j., has engaged a physician with
uoa ri col arJ +0 oft cir
A QUARTER OF A MILLION plowS were
turned out in Louisville last year for the
Southern trade, and their manufacture gave
employment to 1000 men.
THERE is said to be a great demand for
help of all sorts in South Africa, and thou
sands of artisans and mechanics of all kinds
are wanted at good -ages.
The French Chamber of Deputies recently
enacted a law prohibiting the employment
of women at any sort of labor between the
hours or P. NJ. and A. NJ.
THE workingman's blacklist law, which
passed the Indiana Legislature, provides
that such employers may blacklist any
WorkinGman shall be fined so.
ACCORDING to reports given at the
" oman's Congress in Detroit, 100000 of
the women and girls of this country are en-
gagged In work other than domestic.
THE coal miners, as a rule, live in rented
houses, the monthly rent of which averages
from SO TO -, leaving not more Than 81 at
best with which to support their families.
THE total immigration from Hungary and
Bohemia last year amounted to 1855, most
of which found its way to the coal fields,
coke ovens and iron mills Of Pennsylvania.
A BILL recently brought into the States
General of the Netherlands by the Minister of
Justice, makes provisions for the prevention
of excessive labor of youthful persons and
women.
IT is claimed that there are 5000 tailors in
and near Boston out Of work, because as
alleged, the local clothing manufactures send
their goods to New York city to be made up
by the cheap labor Of the tenement house
districts.
THE new Brotherhood of United Labor has
adopted a seal bearing the motto: 'Liberty.
Equality, Fraternity" The membership is
already reported to be large and five hun
dred organizers and missionaries are to be
put into the field.
AT the Master Tailors' Convention re-
Gently held in New York it came out that
the Gothanlite taiOrs keep lists of their Gus
toners, after whose names are such signs as
IN. g." ID. B." "Blaclz Sheep Fair"
Delinquent" Undesirable" and the like.