The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-27
THE LABOR WORLD.

THE New England Lasters' Protective Un-
ion has 10, 600 members.
AN assembly of the Knights of Labor has
been formed in Oklahoma.
THE Brotherhood of Railway Brakemen is
now the Brotherhood Of Railway Trainmen
THE Journeymen Tailors' Union of Amer
ica has now local organizations in 104 Of our
cities.
SEVERAL German unions in New York
city have clases where English is taught to
members who cannot speak the language.
ALL the machinists of the United States
are to form national union for the mutual
protection of its members against the en-
ployers.
The formation of great federations like
that projected for the railroads Will soon be
undertaken by several trades that are not
yet organized.
The Supreme Court of Montana decides
that mechanics wages must be paid before
any other debts are liquidated out OF an In
solvant debtors assets.
EIGHTEEN planters in Hayes and Caldwell
Counties, Texas, are accused OF importing
Mexicans into the United States to pick cot
ton on their plantations.
THAT great labor organization, the Patrons
of Husbandry, is growing rapidly In Mlchl-
gan, and nearly 100, 900 of the farmers OF the
State have Joined it this year.
The sailors and firemen of the port OF New
York have organized trade union. IL VIII
work in harmony with similar organizations
| in England, Ireland and Scotland.
EIGHT-HoUR meetings are being held in the
principal cities in England, where 1t Is be-
lieved there will be a general eight-hour
system soon. At present nine hours IS the
rule.
ON July 5, 1859, the Iron MouiderS' Union
of America was organized, having but few
local unions. There are now 250 locals and
IS. 600 members, of whom fully 20, are IN
benefit.
THE window-slass manufacturers OF Find
lev. Ohio, have advanced the prices OF WIN
,lS,v class fifteen per cent, to conform with
rhe recent advance made by the Pittsburgh
houses
THERE are altogether ~, 740, 900 spindles in
oueration in the various manufacturing uoWnS
OF England. The total number of mechanical
looms in Europe is estimated at l,CO3,0V OF
! which 6O0 600 are in England.
THERE have now been three conferences
between representatives of the knights OF
Labor and the Federation of Labor. TIE
questions that were under debate at tnetn
viii be brought before the National Conven-
tions of both bodies.
RESOLUTION has been passed by tho Con
yention of the National Association OF SIX
Workers at Yonkers, n. Y. that all the
members should unite in the endeavor 10
bring about an equalization of wages IN the
trade all over the country.
In some of the villages in the North of Ire
land are still to be found ''thatchers." They
thatch country houses with straw, but their
services are not often needed. Most OF them I
are old men. Their average earnings all tne
wear round are $3.50 to So a week.
TIE New Jersey State Factory Inspector
eovs he will see to it that, after next session
! of the Legislature, any factory owner send
! ing ignorant or unskilled persons to worh
| about machinery known to be dangerous
| Shall be held accountable for all INJURY OF
damage done.
! SENATOR STANFORD, of California. has
finished with Cinnamon i'll his lma vine
yard The Superintendent says thaI "hies
labor is much more profitable man t.illese
.ver ~ far hicnol wages He declines Il
, i1ay low wages, rs, he says, tne otHei , S'e''
| is much the most productive
IN Nevada electricity runs the very deeI
mines and has increased production twenty
I five uer cent The men who work at 3lW
! feet deep live only few years. .notwl0hStand
| ing the fact they work only about two hour
,,er day. They get more pay than eight
hour men. They work fifteen minutes an'
rest forty-hve.
An address was recently delivered in
Brooklyn church by the Earl of Meath Q? o.
the condition of the English toilers He salt
TINT, through the operations Of benevolen
societies, there had been erected Tor In
working people of London u new class
houses, which give good ACCOMMODATIONS {:
! q rent not exceeding $3.50 per week, whlle Il
| Dublin all excellent dwelling can be procue'
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