Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-06-21
THE LABOR WORLD.
SHEET iron mills are quite busy.

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THE cost Of power is being reduced.
A TRADE school is to be started at Cleve-
land.
tinues.
TINPLATE is to be made in Chicago on
large scale.
GERMANY expects a 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 1000 men on the pay rolls
of the Manhattan Elevated Railway of New
York.
AT Pittston, Penn. nearly 5000 miners
have resumed work after an idleness of over
seven months.
Two HUNDRED AND FIFTY THOUSAND
miners in England have demanded ten per
cent. increase in wages.
JOURNEYMEN shoemakers 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 a prosperous union, and have now
established a sick-benent fund.
LABORING men earn So a day in Alaska,
without board Mechanics get S.. There is
plenty of work ahead for all summer
A DILL-OwNER in Preston, Penn, has fitted
up baths i'll his mill and cOmpels every work
man to take bath at least once a week.
THERE are "a, 600 worknlen employed in the
great coal industry of the Lackawanna7 Lu-
zerne, and Schuylkin Valleys, Pennsylvania.
MRS. LEoNoRA NJ. BARRY, general in
vestigatOr Of WOmens work for the Z. 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 she
world is at SteyOr, in upper Austria, where
the Mannlicher repeating rifle is being turned
cut as rapidly as possible.
COAL-HEAvERs in Cleveland, Ohio, re.
ceived Is cents a ton in 1887. IA cents last
year, and have just compromised a strike by
accepting IL cents for the present year.
LEGHORN hats are made not at LeghOrn
but at PratO, some eleven miles from there.
About $50 600 persons are employed either in
raising the straw or i'll preparing and plait-
ing it.
THE contractors for municipal work in
Chicago are liable to a fine of $50 for every
violation of the eight-hour ordinance that
was adopted last January by the City
Council.
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iOurnevman blacksmith who invented a pc
culiar nail and sold the patent to his en-
plOyer for 500. 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-TwENT1ETH of the steel manufactured
in the United States was produced in the
Cambria Works, destroyed by the flood at
Johnstown, Penn. They had capacity fol
about an eighth part of the Bessemer steel
rail production alone.
IT is very likely that the United States
will be represented at the Paris Exposition
bv number of American mechanics at
work at various trades. London has raised
q fund to defray the expenses of $50 work
men, representing almost 100 industries.
THE people on the coast of Donegal, Ire
land are in more abject poverty than they
were ever known to be in before. The only
recognized employment is 'sprigging," a
kind of laborious embroidery which women
and girls work at. By steady work a wo-
man can make seventy five cents week at it.
A NEW 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 felled trees
and sell them at fifteen cents per hundred
pounds to a factory which strips the fibres
bare by chemical process. This fibre is
utilized in various ways, the finest being used
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