The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-10-30
THE LABOR WORLD.

The boss BARRIERS Of Philadelphia have
formed another association
THE Newsboys' Union of San Francisco
claims membership of $50.
NoN-UNIoN carpenters in Rome, Ga, work
eleven hours day for $1.25.
The plate-glass works throughout the
country are all in active operation.
In making bread boxes three men can do
the work Of thirteen men by the old meth
ods
In the manufacture Of boots and shoes the
work Of 500 operatives is now being done by
100.
CLEvELAND's journeymen BARRIERS will ap-
peal to the Ohio Legislature for Sunday
closing law.
A STRIKE which lasted seven months at
the rolling mills Of Lancaster. Penn, has
been settled by a compromise.
ACCORDING to it's Secretary, the Brother
hood Of Painters and Decorators has now
1000 members and 136 local unions.
DISTRICT ASSEMBLY 80, of Massachusetts,,
will form Central Council Of Boston's city
laborers who are Knights of Labor.
THE wages Of the Boston and Maine
freight handlers at Boston, Mass, have been
advanced from s1.65 to LIS per day.
The Iron Car Company, Of New York city,
has closed contract with the Minnesota Car
Company, Of Duluth, to build 1900 cars.
THE national organization new most active
in promoting the eight-hour movement is the
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join
erS.
ALL the painters unions in New York
city have combined against the German
American Painters Union, which was re-
Gently organized
THERE were GOO delegates from almost as
many cities at the annual convention held
in Kansas City by the National Association
of Fire Engineers.
THE Hospital Fund assessment upon the
14OOO employees Of the Union Pacific Rail
road is to be advanced from twenty-five to
forty cents per month.
WITHIN the past few months there has
been &. general advance for the iron workers
in the Schuylkin valley Of Pennsylvania,
and about 6000 Of them are affected 1T.
IT is claimed by the three carpenters
unions in Boston, Mass, that they have en-
rolled 100 new members in month, and that
they have $50 more members than they ever
had before.
Two THOUSAND women workers OF the
East End Of London held meeting at which
they resolved to organize for the purpose OF
improving their condition. The Bishop OF
Bedford presided.
To permit the men employed in the great
Carnegie PENN works at Braddocks to at
tend the funeral Of their late Superintendent,
Captain Jones, involved an expense for the
company Of $4,000.
Two THOUSAND tramway and omnibus
employees of London formed union to OBJ
tain shorter hours and the redress OF num-
ber of grievances A manifesto appealing
for aid was issued. Lord koseDerry pre-
sided.
ABOUT 1O3 delegates from Mississippi Val
lev States met at Superior, Wis, two weeks
ago to urge on the general government 10
build ship canals twenty feet deep through
the shadows and rivers connecting the great
lakes.
AN organization Of clerks is talked OF In
London, where there are thousands of clerks,
from neople who can read, write and cipher
I'D to experienced bookkeepers, out OF work.
The future Of clerks in London and other
large cities in England is very discouragsng.
TIE cooperative bakery recently estab-
lished by the bakers Of Brooklyn, N. y, Is
being helped along by the Brooklyn labor
organizations, who have taken liberal blocks
of stock in the new venture. All the organ
izations in New York city have been re-
quested to buy stock.
A CURIOUS strike occurred at Rochester,
N. Y. The osterologists and taxldermlsts
in Wards Natural Science establishment,
where Jumbo's skeleton was prepared
stcpped work and, as result, many rare
birds and animals being prepared for cauec
tions in different parts of the country, were
left partly mounted.