The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-07-31
THE LABOR WORLD.
We have 5000 furniture mills.
CHICAGO has 40. 600 idle people.
STRIKES in Germany are subsidine

WE nave 0UUU lurQlCure HILLS.
CHICAGO has 40, 600 idle people.
STRIKES in Germany are subsiding.
THE bolt and nut makers have trust.
THE bottom has dropped out of the Maino
saW-mill strike.
The Clyde (Scotland) shipbuilders have
given notice of lockout.
ENGLISH BARRIERS earn less than half the
wages that American BARRIERS do.
THE wages Of hod-carriers in the country
towns of England are So per week.
DRESSMAKERS say the most unjust en-
ployerS are those among their own sex.
THE coal miners of Illinois are on strike
because they cannot live on SIT per month.
RUSSIA has 4sS cotton-weaving establish
ments, which give employment to so, 500
people.
RUSSIA has declined to take part in the
international Labor Congress at Berne,
Switzerland.
) BIRMINGHAM England b-icklayers de-
,mand an increase, their first complaint in
twenty years.
TIE small machine shops between Penn
syKania and the Mississippi River are
crowded with work.
THE workers in the Hematite Iron Works,
Barrow-in-Furness, England, earn from 81
to- 50 week and work eleven hours day.
The dressmakers in Merritt, Mo-, have Or
ganiZed themselves into society for the
regulation of wages and protection against
the avarice of unscrupulouS employers
THE movement to unite the various
branches of railway employees progressed so
far at Chicago as to combine the firemen,
brakemen and switchmen into one fedora
ton.
ACCORDING to the latest report the Ma
tional Building Laborers' Union has now
thirty-seven branches, with membership OF
nearly S000 Tfe national secretary of the
union says that it is growing rapidly.
1T is reported from England that the 20, 000
South Staffordshire miners who recently
threatened to strike have accepted the offered
advance of twenty-five per cent. in wages,
with the promise of an equal advance in the
autumn.
The recent eight-hour demonstration Of
the American Federation Of Labor i'll Chicago
was great success. About 1000 men took
part in the parade. Samuel Gompers Of
New York, and Mayor Cregier made
speeches.
The greatest strikers in the world are the
ship-builders of Harland & WolfFs yard,
Queens Island, Belfast, Ireland They are
almost constantly either on strike, recover
ing from the effects of strike or projecting
q new strike.
In Larenton, Ill, there is woman carpenter
who has shop Of her own and does light
carpentry, but employs men to do the heavy
work Her own work is said to be remark
able for its neatness, and she is very rapid
workwoman.
THERE are twenty cotton factories now ii
operation i'll Japan, with So, $50 spindles and
employing about 5000 workingmen. Theil
wages are about S. per week, which is ter
times the amount craftsmen Of any kind re-
ceived in Japan ten years ago.
THERE is great feeling in London at pre-
sent against the employment of any more
female type-settsrs. The employers say thai
one or two women in an Office can take the
attention of the men away so much that they
cannot set as ''clean' work as they would
otherwise do.
THE men who were engaged in repairing
the damage done by the food along the
Pennsylvania Railroad line, in the Cone
maugi Valley, will, it is stated, be pait
double wages for every hour they worked
Each man will also be given an a6dltion2
'gratuity Of S..
THE strikes in Germany are waning
starvation forcing the strikers to yield. Il
Berlin 1000 masons have resumed work. Iht
PAINTERS have appointed committee to mee1
the masters. The police are Obliged TO pro
tect workman coming from the country
against the attacks Of strikers. The bettel
class of men continue to emigrate.