The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-08-07
THE LABOR WORLD.


THERE are 100000 women ncemakers in
ireland.
A NEW shoe factory has been started at
Omaha, Neb. .-s
THERE are bad times in England for un
skilled laborers.
NEW WORKERS are working up national
union of BARRIERS. oil. t
THERE are 100 ministers who belong to the
Knights Of Labor.
ABOUT 100000 women are employed in
making woven goods. ... .,r.
CHICAGO locomotive engineers average
from S120 to $40 per month. ,..
THE International Union Of Bricklayers
and Masons comprises 176 unions.
A LARGE number Of people in France are
engaged in the manufacture OF cellulold.
THE efforts at Cleveland to increase fire
mems pay from $500 to $1,000 per year failed.
TIE Gearmakers International Union has
about sixty thousand members in New York
city. s,-
A Boston organization Is attempting to
form ''self-improvement clubs" Tor working.
men. ...
THERE are 1,O00, 900 men, who would be
glad to work, unemployed in the United
States. ....
SOME Albany On. ~ stove molders have
struck to have their castings counted IN their
own alleys.
PApRoSEs are at their old work of furnish
ing Italian laborers to corporations at SO
much head.
THE reports of the high rates Of wages paid
on the Pacific coast frequently prove to be
highly colored.
THERE are four concerns in New York city
In which the employees set share OF the pro-
fits every year.
CHARLES PRATT, of Brooklyn, one Of the
Standard Oil Company magnates, Is
machinist by trade.
| SEVEN THOUSAND miners are idle in the
Allegheny Mountains because they can earn
only ninety cents per day.
HUGO Z1EMAN, the steward of the White
House, is under bond Of $4,000 for good
behavior. His salary is $500 year.
NUMEROUS unions are complaining that
| manufacturers are rapidly organizing all
over the country while workingmen are luke
| warm.
THE Window Glass Workers Union at
Pittsburg is the richest labor organization in
the country; and holds reserve fund or
| $500, 900.
TIE practice Of forming benevolent and
protective organizations and benefit funds IS
becoming almost universal among united
trade societies.
THE boss masons and journeymen brlckIay-
ers, Of New York city, alta recent conference
fixed the scale Of wages for the ensuing year
at $3.50 day.
TWENTY factories, having an aggregate
| capital Of 81, 500, 900, have been opened Id
Florence, Ala, in the last seven months, CIV
ing employment to over 2O0O people.
THE watchmakers, of Prescott England,
who have long been famous, finding that their
trade is declining, have decided to build
factory and work on the American plan.
THE molders employed in a Reading
| Penn) foundry, have formed "burn asso-
ciation' to take care of those of their num-
Der who are injured by burns, scalds or
melted metals.
FACTORY girls in a Massachusetts, woolen
mill laid of some time ago because the fore
man persisted in keeping picture OF white
horse on his desk. Ten Of the girls had halr
which was decidedly auburn in color.
INCLUDING policemen, postoffice officials,
markatnen and women, care-takers, hospital
nurses, and newspaper writers and printers,
it is estimated that fully 100, 600 Of the inhab-
itants of London are night workers.
QUEEN VICTORIA imports new cargo Of
Indian servants every month or two, whereat
the rest Of the English royal household are
much G.spleased, while the British lackeys at
Osborne and Balmoral are in high dudgeon
over sights thus imposed.
In tobacco factories in New York. Brook
lyn and the neighborhood, there are children
only four years Of age-sometimes half
dozen in a single room. Others are eight
years Of age and range from that up to tf-
teen years. Girls and boys Of twelve to four
teen years can earn from four to five dollars
q week.
New YORK STATE has law which pro-
hibits the employment OF children under tho
ace of thirteen in any of the $4,000 manu-
featuring establishments in the State, and
which makes sixty hours the limit Of q weeks
work in such factories for all women under
the age Of twenty-one, and boys under
eighteen.