The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-05-01
THE LABOR WORLD.

HE iron trade Is very inactive.
A SILK mill is to be erected at Lynchburg,
Va.
A sHoE factory is to built at Raleigh,
NC.
SEVERAL silk mills are to be built in Penn
sylvania.
THE three labor strikes in Buffalo, N. Y,
are still on.
The hosiery manufacturers are crowded
with work.
HUNGARY, in fear Of q labor shortage, has
forbidden emigration.
In Spartansburg County, s. c., there are
eight cotton mills in operation.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala, expects soon to have
800, 900 boot and shoe factory.
In Great Britain there are 2O3 tin-plat.
mills, employing 100, 600 hands.
A GENERAL strike of the street-railway EN-,
ployes IN Minneapolis is threatened.
KRUPP, Of Germany, is putting up big
mill to turn out more war material.
THE carmen of Vienna are organizing with
O view to striking for higher wages.
ORGANIZED labor is making preparation
for the eighth hour strike next year.
The Welsh tin plate makers have aban.
doned their attempt to form trust.
New ENGLAND shoenakers continue tc
leave large cities for country places.
KNOXVILLE and Nashville, Tenn, are loom.
ing up as great manufacturing centers.
THE raper-making industry throughout
the United States is profitable. There are
100 mills.
THE biggest printing plant in the world is
that presided over by the United States
Public Printer.
Poor cotton. poor weather, high speed
make the threads break often and make the
weavers life bore
IT is probable that Pennsylvania will ap-
propriate $500, 900 to introduce manual train.
= Ing in public schools.
A GERMAN manufacturer now visiting
America says America leads the world in the
line of shoe machinery.
: An expert weaver can care for eight looms;
he works in an aisle with four looms before
him and four behind him.
New YORK State is maintaining 5000 idle
convicts, many of whom are upon the verge
of insanity from lack Of work.
WORK has been resumed in sixteen collier
les at WilkeSbarre that had been idle for
some time, setting to work 6OO0 people.
No Massachusetts railroad will hire
man unless he signs contract not to begin
suit for damages in case he is injured.
TIE strike of the female feather-workers of
New York city failed only after a struggle
almost without parallel in the history of
strikes.
THERE is said to be one woman in the fin
ishing department of the watch factory at
Waltham, Mass, able to do mems work for
mems pay.
PrTTSBURG'S glass workers are all opposed
to prohibition, as the bottle trade is one Of
the biggest and most lucrative branches Of
their industry.
KANSAS has been obliged to break prison
labor contract for the rather novel reason
that she has not enough available room iD
the penitentiary to fill it.
JAMES G. PATTERSON, the insurance mill
ionaire, Of Hartford, Conn, was originally q
marble cutter, and is said to know more
about marble cutting than any other man
alive.
THE New York watch-case makers propose
to rebel against task work, which, they say,
.compels them to do six days work in 1ve
The matchmaking industry seems to be grow
ing all over the United States.
A NEW coal cutting machine is operated BY
electricity and makes $50 blows minute
and has been practically tested i'll the coal
mines of Illinois. The coal operators have
seen it used and say that it is good thing.
FIFTY or sixty years ago the total number
of persons employed by the Manchester
iEnqlandD Postoffice was twenty or thirty all
told. Now there are 1000, which being added
Ito the number employed in the outer districts
trnake a total Of nearly 25OO-one-hfth part OF
whom are women.