Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-06-28
THE LABOR WORLD.


THE strikes In Bohemia are spreading
BUILDING activity was never greater.
MACHINERY is driving out hand labor.
VALENTINE, Neb., has an Indian bod car
rier.
AN expert electrician commands $500 &
month.
DISTRESS prevails everywhere in the in
dustrial centers
THE troubles among the Vienna employee.
have been settled.
OMAHA carpenters make all their purchase,
at a cooperative store.
THE Western wire and steel nails manu-.
factUrelrs are very busy.
THE volume of p-building work is now
larger than 1T has been for years.
THERE are ten shoe-peg factories in the
United States, employing about 300 hands.
IN New York the stone masonry is mostly
done by Italians; Englishmen and Irishmen
lay the brick
The planters of Martinique, in the French
West Indies, allow their laborers noontime
recess of two hours.
ABOUT 100, 600 900 feet of spruce, 600 men
and 100 horses are credited to the Connecticut
River lumber drive this year.
AN interesting attempt is being made to re-
vlVethe Once-hourishing matchmaking indus
try at Prescott, in Lancashire, England.
Miss IDA VAN ETTEN is about to organize
button workers union in New York city,
as this trade is wholly controlled by women
OVER 500 persons gain living in electrical
employment in San Francisco The pay for
electrical supply work ranges from 50 to IS
day.
AN agreement with the walters has been
made by a members of New York oyster
houses to abolish Sunday work from j June un-
til September.
A STATE organization is proposed by the
Journeymen BARRIERS of Pennsylvania where
by they hope to entirely abolish Sunday work
In their business.
IN all the trades, except plumbing, the
best wOrlzmen, those who command the
steadleSt employment in New York are those
of foreign birth.
CERTAIN descriptions Of labor in the United
States, such as the building of aqueducts and
bridges, formerly done by Irishmen are now
carried out by Italians.
NEW YORK locksmiths and railmakers de-
mand nine hours and eight on SATURDAY.
finlshers $12 per week, helpers 50 and for
sunday and holiday work double pay.
SINCE January 1st there have been re-
ported 296 strikes, involving -, 10 strikers
against 3S9 strikes and Ill POI strikers in
1885, and Ill strikes and 2l2, 81 strikers in
tive months of 1887.
THE stonework of the future will be done
with recently invented pneumatic tool
Tins tool IS light and portable, powerful in
action, and mas continuous onward move
ment, requiring only to be guided by the
hands.
"A RAILROAD publication issued in New
ork says that the failure of the locomotive
engineers to down the 20" roads on their
strike has taken 1000 men out of the order
and that it will be ten years before it will be
as powerful as before.
A STRONG movement is in progress among
the miners of Pittsburg to do away with the
pluck me" stores, or stores on which thew
nave orders instead Of being paid in cash.
They want cash payment, and say they will
not permit any stoppages of wages for store
goods.
THERE are special factories in Paris for
making children watches which employ hum
dreds of hands. Thirty million are annually
produced; In other words, Paris provides
every year tOy-watch for every child be-
tween i've and ten in France, Germany, Rus
sla, Great Britain, Italy and Austria
THIRTY-five housekeepers waiting in one
small intelligence Office in Boston the other
day showed that the domestic service diff
Guilty is still unsettled One lady confessed
that she had spent each day for nearly two
weeks IN the same occupation of '|hunting
TOR girl" and that she was apparently as
far from her object as ever
IN many of the provincial towns in the
north OF ireland there are nailers who make
nails by hand, and having worked all their
lives at such work can do no other The hand
made nails are tougher than the machine
nails, SO that there is always more or less de-
mand for them. The earnings however. are
very meagre. good hand, working twelve
hours day, can only earn about 50 a week