The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-06-26
THE LABOR WORLD.
EET iron mills are quite busy.

SHEET iron mills are quite busy.
THE cost of power is being reduced.
A TRADE school is to be started at Cleve-
land.
COTTON mill building in the South con-
hnues.
T1NPLATE is to be made in Chicago on a
large scale.
GERMANY expects general strike of
miners in August.
THE greatest activity prevails in railroad
construction in Mexico.
THE strikes in Bohemia are spreading, up
ward of 1900 men being out
THE German Government has prohibited
all meetings OF the strikers.
SIX new blast furnaces are nearing COM
pletion in Northern Alabama.
In Berlin there is an average of one ap-
prentice to every fifteen workers.
SHIPBUILDERS have not room or plant
enough to take all business offered.
WORK in the eight-hour movement is car
ried on vigorously in Eastern cities.
BETWEEN four and five thousand houses
have been started this year in Philadelphia.
THERE are over 5000 men on the pay rolls
Of the Manhattan Elevated Railway of New
York.
AT Pittston, Penn. nearly 5000 miners
have resumed work after an idlensss OF over
seven months.
Two HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND
miners in England have demanded ten per
cent. increase in wages.
JoURNEYMEN shoernakers in England COM
plain of hard times They cannot earn more
than S. week at the best.
The Brooklyn Bridge employees are or
ganized in prosperous union and have now
established a sick-beneft fund.
LABoR1NG men earn So day i'll Alaska,
without board. Mechanics get S.. There is
plenty of work ahead for all summer.
A MILL-owNER in Preston, Penn, has fitted
up baths in his mill and compelS every work
man to take bath at least once week.
THERE are As, 900 workmen employed in the
great coal industry of the Lackawanna, Lu-
zerne, and Schuylkill Valleys, Pennsylvania.
MRS. LEoNoRA NJ. BARRY, general in
yestigator of women'S work for the K. of
L., has been lecturing in the South and
West.
FoUNDRIEs, sawmills, wagon shops, and
machine and boiler shops and the Like are
multiplying throughout the interior and west
of the Mississippi.
The largest small arms factory in the
world is at Steyor, in upper Austria, where
the Mannlicher repeating rifle is being turned
out as rapidly as possible.
CoAL-HEAvERs in Cleveland, Ohio, re-
ceived Is cents ton in 1887, IA cents last
year, and have just compromised strike by
accepting Is cents for the present year.
LEGHoRN hats are made not at Leghorn,
but at Prato, some eleven miles from there.
About $50, 900 persons are employed either in
o-i1, r,1o
ingit.
The contractors for municipal work in
Chicago are liable to fine of $50 for every
violation OF the eight-hour ordinance that
was adopted last January by the City
Council.
AT Collinsville. Yorkshire town, lives a
iourneyman blacksmith who invented a pc
culiar nail and sold the patent to his en-
ployer for $780, His employer now realizes
$4,000 year from it.
The car repair shops of Pennsylvania are
| introducing the piece work system into the
iron work. The workers approve Of this, as
they say it enables them to earn more money
than under the old system.
ONE-TwENTIETH of the steel manufactured
/ in the United States was produced in the
Cambria Works. destroyed by the flood al
Johnstown, Penn. They had capacity for
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rail production alone.
1T is very likely that the United States
will be represented at the Paris Exposition
by a number of American mechanics at
work at various trades. London has raised
fund to defray the expenses OF 2o0 work
men, representing almost 100 Industries.
THE people on the coast of Donegal, Ire
| land, are in more abject poverty than they
we're ever known to be in before. The only
recognized employment is 'sprigsing," q
kind of laborious embroidery which women
man can make seventy-fve cents week at it.
ANEW industry has sprung UP in the pine
forests of Georgia which gives employment
to a large number of women and children.
They gather pine leaves from feied trees
and sell them at fifteen cents per hundred
pounds to factory which strips the ibres
bare by chemical process This fibre Is
utilized in various ways the finest being used
by physicians as surgeons packing.