The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-06
THE LABOR WORLD.
New York PAYERS get 50 a day.


THE seamen's strike is spreading.
TIE Rome labor riots are becoming serious
The year has opened with surprisingly few
strikes.
THERE are over 1900 baker shops in New
York city.
AMERICAN cast steel for tools is advertised
in London.
New JERSEYS Child Labor law is operat-
ing satisfactorily.
LESS than 5000 mon are left at work on
the Panama Canal.
BALr1MoRE's forty trades-unions have
membership of $4,000
VERMONT factories turn out some 600, 600
, snow shovels per year.
THERE is q general strike among the dock
hands of Mamo, Swelen-
LAST January only saw is, ,0o6 men go on
strike in seventy-one strikes.
WILMINGTON (Del.) morocco factories need
the hides of 81, ,00O goats daily.
A MOVEMENT is on foot for the formation
of a new National Labor party.
THE freight handlers Of Boston have re-
| solved to ask for an increase OF pay.
The average weekly earnings of working
! women are larger in Western cities
THE Washington ordnance foundry when
| finished will he the largest of its kind IN the
| world.
A FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLAR paper mill is
to be built soon in Satillo, State of Coahuila,
Mexico.
| The Calumet and Hecla Mining Company,
Of Michigan, pay out each year over S5oo,o ouo
| IN dividends.
| IN the large cities of Europe poor people
sweep tho crossings, picking up few pennies
| for their work.
TIE united silk workers of New Jersey
are about TO form State federation In
the interest OF their trade.
| GENERAL MASTER WORKMAN PowDERLY
| has been spending some time among the
miners near Reading, Penn.
THE great drawback to progress in the
! construction Of the United States cruiser
Texas is IN want of skilled labor.
LOWELL Mass policemen have society
| that pays 81 per week, twenty six weeks Ill
| the year, for sickness and 500 at death.
SYDNEY (Australia) workingwomen have
| opened big hotel for themselves, where
toard and lodg .ngs are furnished cheaply.
ENGLISH swordmakers recently refused to
WORK for ten cents per hour, the scale that
Germans accept The former want fifteen
cents.
THE standard wages for New York car
drivers or conductors is 81 per day, and the
law says thy shall not work more than ten
! hours.
THERE are twenty eight industrial schools
in this country which are attended largely
by women. 10 some Of these institutions
women only are admitted.
1T is claimed that Chicago street car con-
ductor has stolen thousands Of dollars by
knowing how to turn back The register. he
also sold the secret TO other men for $25.
II the city of Philadelphia are lT2 carpet
establishments, with 1870 looms and II, SuO
workuIen. Their aggregate output in 1855
was 72,UJO,000 yards of carpet vaiued at Si5,
00u,UlU.
AFTER three months of idleness the 3U0J
striking miners on the Monongahela and
Nohoghany in Pennsylvania have agreed to
resume work at the old rate Of three cents
per bushel.
The Window Glass Workers Union of
| Pittsburg is the richest labor organization in
the United States and holds reserve fund
of $500, 00u, with which it has been decided to
establish bank.
SINCE the stoppage of emigration to this
country from China there has been doubling
of the wages of Chinese cisarmakers, tailors,
gardeners, laundrymen and other workers on
the Pacific coast.
CARPENTERS in Los Angeles. Cal, receive
S. - to s: a day; Wilmington lDel.l car
penters set $40 week; Louisville, KY, $25O
a day: Nashville, Tenn, S2!.2j day; lndi-
annapolis, Ind, s.. % day.