Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-10-04
THE LABOR WORLD,

IMPORTED laborers in Alabama recently
we're paid five cents per day.
ENGLANDs Engineers Union has 50 900
members, and has spent .14, 092, SIS in bene-
fits since 1852.
THE A1nalgamated Machinists' Union of
New York city is active in its efforts to form
a national organization.
THE convention of the International
Cigarmakers' Union of America was recently
in session in New York city.
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL has become
one Of the foremost champions of the eight
hour movement in England.
THREE workmen were discharged by a
leather manufacturer in Newark N J =, be-
cause they did not work on Labor Day.
IN some of the densely populated districts
OF London there are BARRIERS VINO shave Gus
toners for the moderate sum of one cent
each
ACCORDING to the news from Maine all
the sawnlillS on the PenObscot River are now
in full operation under the new adjustment
Of wages.
THE greatest single industry in any city in
the world is said to be the manufacture Of
carpets in Philadelphia. 1t employs 1850
looms and 1880 worknen.
IT is not likely that there will be another
strike OF the seamen on the ocean steamers at
the English ports for a long time again. The
last strike was a miserable failure.
The National Textile Workers Union,
which holds charter in the American Fede-
ration Of Labor. now has q membership Of
1000, distributed among nineteen branches.
AT the Convention of the National Brew
ers' Union in Cincinnati eighteen branches
represented. New York will continue
to be the headquarters of the National
Union.
THERE are limestone works at Glenarnl. III
County Antrim, Ireland, where several hun
dredS of people are employed at wages ave
raging 81 per week for very hard work and
long hours.
THE organized bakers in New York and
other parts of the United States are still
keeping up those efforts that have been the
means of securing important advantages for
them within the past few years.
THE percentage of wages paid for food by
American wOrkingmen as shown by recent
return from various countries is much less
than is paid by the wOrkmen of either Ger
many, Spain, Great Britain France, Italy or
Belgium.
THE daughter of the celebrated Professor
Agassiz is busy in Boston establishing man
ual training school. Over 1000 boys and girls
shared in the advantages Of this school last
year. Efforts are being put forth to have
the school adopted by the city.
The 1900 miles of new railroads built in
1855 called about 36, 600 new men into the
service, reckoning five employees to the mile,
including officers and men in all capacities.
The present railway system Of the United
States has an army Of 7S5, 600 men.
New YORK CITY has an Interesting society
devoted to the discussion of labor questions
1t is known as the Church Association for the
Advancement of the Interests of Labor, and
10Th capitalists and wageworkers join In the
debates, which are apt to take a religious
turn.
The report of the Saxon factory inspectors
in Germany states that during the past year
no less than &c, 652 children, from twelve to
fourteen years of age, an increase of 1000 III
round numbers over the previous year, are
employed in the various industrial establish
mentS
A BRICK wall can be built more cheaply in
Columbus Ohio, than in Leipsic, Germany.
The bricks cost more than in Leipsic and the
laborer is paid about the same in either city
but the American bricklayer does so much
more work in given time that the difference
in the price of bricks is more than offset.