The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-09-11
THE LABOR WORLD.

=. BR1cKLAYERs in London are prospering.
TIE Paris Carpenters Union is 600 years
old.
A KNITTING mill is to be built at Madison,
Fla.
THE friedrich makers in the West are very
busy.
NEW YORK painters get $3.50 for nine
hours.
Boston councils appropriated $1,000 for La
Dor Day.
CALIFORNIA bricklayers work nine hours
and get $3.50. ...
THE canal payroll of New York State con-
tains 1000 names
HARVEST hands in Oregon demanded 50
day and board, and got it.
THE Cambria Iron Company, of Johnstown,
Penn, has $500 men at work.
LABoRERs are arriving in large numbers to
work on the Nicaragua Canal.
p The national convention Of brewery en-
ployes is to be held in Cincinnati.
THERE is great depression in the clothing
making trade among the workers.
THERE are 1900 cooperative unions in Eng
land, containing 992, ,42S members.
FLOODS have interfered with manufacture
ing operations all over the country.
FARM hands in France earn little over
dollar week and manage to save out of it.
CUBAN planters are struggling for good
field hands. The wages demanded are very
high.
MORE than 1000 Connellsville Penn.) coke
ovens are now being worked under the new
scale.
THERE are indications that the centraliZa-
ton of American labor organizations Will DO
effected.
The 10000 waSherwomen Of Paris have
formed union. They will demand seventy
five cents day.
The demand for sailors is brisk just now,
able seamen getting $50 and ordinary sea-
men SIS month.
ETHIRTY THOUSAND persons mostly foreign
ers are employed in manufacturing tobacco
in New York city.
! TEN years ago indianapolis bricklayers
made twenty two cents per hour; to-day they
make forty-fve cents.
The Labor Conference which was to have
been held at Berne, Switzerland, has been
postponed until next spring.
THE mining troubles in Illinois and Indiana
are far from being settled. Great distress
continues among the operatives.
/ NEARLY every strike Of recent occurrence
| the virtual victory Of the strikers.
CHICAGO skilled hardwood finishers make
| from So .25 to So per day. Painters get from
twenty to thirty-hve cents per hour.
THE workmen in some parts of the country
are combining and employing physicians to
| attend them at so much per 100 or 1000
families.
: THE tailors ot Salvador, South America,
have signed petition requesting the Govern
ment to prohibit the importation OF ready
made clothing.
THE Chicago City Council has authorized
| the Commissioner of Health to employ five
female sanitary police to inspect factories
nnd tenements.
IT is estimated that there are in London
| BID, 900 persons wholly dependent on casual
labor, and nearly 1000, 900 who never go in
side Of church.
| The National League of Musicians is
about to adopt an insurance system, under
| which the heirs Of each deceased member
shall be entitled to $500.
THOMAS DELwoRTH, colored American
who was once slave in the Southern States,
is now President Of the Builders Laborers
of st. Catharines, Canada.
| In a good many tailoring shops in New
| York and Boston, persons work from four
teen to eighteen hours day. A good many
earn only from 81 to s. per week.
| GEORGIA and South Carolina have between
them 1913 cotton mills, 1873, 72S spindles, 81, 1855
looms. This Is by 13O, 900 more spindles and
5000 more looms than the entire South con-
| tanned in 1880.
| Ar Glenarm, on the coast of County
! antrim, Ireland, there are whiting mills
which give employment to nearly half the
population. Whiting is unslacked Lime
| nnrnnn5 dovn md cfeansad The wages of
J the men average from $3.50 to Aper week.