The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-05-15
THE LABOR WORLD.

81. LOUIS carpenters are on strike.
PHILADELPHIA has 1850 power looms
TILE eight-hour movement is growing.
+ ST. LOUIS butchers have just organized
TEXAS industries are booming up rapidly.
In West Virginia 1000 coke ovens are to be
tbuilt.
An electric road has started at Nashville,
Nenn.
| MANY New York walters have organized
unions.
PANAMA's unemployed workmen are dying
lof starvation.
THE National Textile Union is being re-
rorganized.
ALL the machinists of New York will soon
Ibe in one union.
AVENETIAN manufacturer is making thou
sands of glass bonnets.
WoRK1NGMEN's building and loan associa-
tions are multiplying.
TIE rail mills have very little work and
railroad building is backward.
THE Jewish worbmen of New York are all
igetting into unions of their OWL.
THE Brotherhood of Carpenters is trying
to bring all of the building trades together.
The tanners think this year is going to be a
good one and they are buying hides rapidly.
LARGE numbers Of stone-cutters come to
this country every spring and go home every
fall.
THE New York cigarmakers, 10000 strong,
threaten to strike against a reduction Of
wages.
CoTToN manufacture is progressing fairly,
with a consumption little larger than In
any previous year.
ALL the thread manufacturers in the
United States have combined, and wages
have been reduced fifteen per cent.
THERE are 130 organizers in the American
Federation Of Labor, and several of the gen
eral organizers are to be kept on the road.
THE workers in the breweries are afraid
that the powerful English syndicates will re-
duce their wages after they get possession.
In the proposed Williamson industrial
school, the college system with central Or
ganization building will probably be adopted
A MACHINE has just been made to sow
welts Of a shoe to the upper, which will never
rip. Shoe manufacturers are taking well to
it.
A CALL has been issued for convention OF
BARRIERS to be held in Pttsburg on the first
Tuesday in September, to form national
union.
The Eagle and Phoenix at Columbus, Ga,
employs 5000 hands, and is pronounced by an
English expert to be the best managed cotton
mill in the world.
PRESIDENT HARRISON advises full and
free discussion Of the eiSht-hour question, as
he believes ''that an eight-hour law would
give employment to many now idle"
THE Sultan Of Turkey has reinstated the
cooks he recently discharged because they
wanted their wages. He has paid them one
per cent. on account, and agreed to spare
their lives.
The Lowell Carpet Company, Lowell,
Mass, has commenced using some patented
cards for carding cows hair, to be used as a
filing for carpets, it being twisted by Pc
culiar process, sufficiently for filing and in
this way colored and used.
PRIZES have been offered by the Georgia
Southern & Florida Railroad Company of
from s25 to S1O0 to conductors engineers, fire.
men, baggagemen, trncl1nen, ilagmen and
agents who distinguish themselves most for
their honesty, industry and neatness.
HOUSE PAINTERS in Belfast, Ireland re-
ceive from 81 to IS per week, carpenters
from s5 to St. PAYERS, who generally work
by the job, make from 81 to IS a week and
uasons from IS - S. Six to twelve cents
rsnhour is usually paid for overtime.