The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-27
THE LABOR WORLD.

NEBRASKA plumbers have State society.
BRocKToN, Mass, has eight shoe factories.
OVER 1900 New York car strikers are idle.
WINDOW glass men have plenty Of busi-
ness.
THE number of the unemployed in London
, is enormous.
The Pacific Coast seamen's Union has
5000 members.
All of the Chicago papers are now employ.
ing union hands,
THE stereotypers of Detroit, Mich, were
organized lately.
THERE are three thousand telegraph oper-
ators in England.
A BILL to prevent blacklisting is before
the Indiana Legislature.
IN some Of the deepest mines the workmen
wear no clothes it is so hot.
The iron and steel makers are generally on
full time but prices are down.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, has the greatest
furniture factory in the world.
FIVE THOUSAND men are employed by
Pinkerton's Detective Agency.
THE Connecticut Legislature has voted to
make Labor Day legal holiday.
A GOOD many Northern machinery and
engine builders are moving South.
CARNEGIE recently beat the world on
steel ingot. 1t weighed fifteen tons.
In Ecuador it is understood that the en-
ployer shall board the cooks family.
SOME Western rolling mills are working
three sets of hands eight hours each.
MORE than 6OOO New York cigar makers
are women, girls and small children.
The American Federation of Labor has in
dor-ol oil Tradnc Union lahn1S iSc1e6
THE union scale of the New York carpen-
ters is S3. 50 per day; in Brooklyn, S3. %.
By a new system steel car wheels can Le
turned out in five minutes at Norristown,
Penn.
MANY Southern women are engaged in the
effort to establish industrial schools in the
South.
A LOUISVILLE, Ky.) firm has invented
half the present cost.
KANSAS CITY has a young woman COM
positor who sometimes acts as "boss" In the
absence of the foreman.
IRELAND's sixty spinning mills employ
81, ,749 persons on S43,59O spindles, and pay
sc, 250, 900 in wages yearly.
The United German Trades Of New York
will send their own delegates to the lnterna-
tional labor congress at Paris.
The engineers of New Jersey are united in
their desire for the adoption Of licensing
law by the State Legislature.
TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED men, women and
children are employed in the Government
printing Office at Washington.
THERE are 1890 cigar factories in New
York city. Of these the great majority en-
ploy from one to fifty hands each.
ONLY six out of III flint glass houses in
the United States are idle and only seventy
nine men out of 1920 are out Of the union.
IT is proposed to train every seafaring
man in England capable Of bearing arms
with O view toward an efficient naval re-
serve.
The Jewish worknen of New York city in
various trades are organized and have
federation known as the United Hebrew
Trades.
The largest steel axlc-works in the coun-
try, located at Wilkesbarrs, Penn, en-
ploying 1000 hands, has shut down for want
Of orders.
SEVERAL hundred stove founders have
been thrown out of work in Albany, N. Y,
because stoves can be made cheaper in the
West and sent East.
THERE is another steel revolution which
makes steel fit for wire, screws and bolts, in
seven to ten minutes at cont a pound, no
pudding, no anneal.ng.
AT the Erie round house at Elmira, N. Y,
the places of men who received Sl.20 per day
have been filled by boys, who get sixty cents
per day, the rate in other Shops.