Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-02-15
THE LABOR WORLD.

land.
THE Bakers Unions in Connections nave
State federation
THE sailors strike at Liverpool Is assuming
serious proportions
NEW HAVEN, Conn, tnlhAs "a
her retired policemen.
THE Cement Laborers' Union HIS III
its death benefit to $lOO All
TIE native Samoan does not WORK. AL
labor in that country Is lmpor1eu
OVER 20. 600, 0C0 pairs of suspenders were
made in the United States last year.
Two HUNDRED Bohemian women cigar
makers have left New York LOT San
cisco. -
JACOB TOME, of Baltimore, has oonateo
So 500 600 for a boys and girls training
school
A COMPANY is being formed in Melbourne,
Australia, for the Importation OF oolnes'io
servants.
THE lockout OF the two thousand miners
at Spring Valley, H., has been enoeo oy
compromise.
PROJECT now on foot is a movement 70
furnish protection to the operatives In sew
ing factories.
The striking seamen at Liverpool are
using violence to prevent men snlpp'ns o
vessels in port
MRS. AMELIE RIvEs CHAMBER, the author
ess has given 500 for the best essay on 'n0
subject of child labor.
CoHoEs, N. Y, the chief seat OF the knit
goods industry, reports that sixty-hVe per
cent of its mills are idle.
SEVEN MILLION feet of spool wood was
lately shipped from Bangor, Me-, TO nrh
of Scotch thread makers.
THERE is a war of races between the
Hungarian and Italian miners at the coal
pits near Carbondale, Penn.
" THE colored washerwomen of Albany, ga,
have warned away several Cinnamon WHO
sought to compete with them
FIFTY-FIvE cents a day is the average
earnings of the American working people,
counting in women and children.
THERE are six Knights Of Labor and Trade
Unionists among the Representatives ana
Senators in the State OF Indiana
THE cooperative stove foundry OF Somer.
set. Mass, has resolved upon a reduction or
ten per cent in the wages paid this year.
NUMEROUS Pennsylvania and Ohio manu-
facturers have been forced back TO the use
of coal, as the natural gas is running low
THE Duchess de Galliera has founded an
institution in Paris for paying the rent or
respectable working people in momentary
distress.
THE Diamond Match Company of Con
nectcut has, signed a contract to locate its
immense straw-board and paper WORKS III
Wabash, Ind.
KN1rTERs in Donegal, Ireland, are paid
three to four cents per pair for long SOCKS
that the most nimble fingers cannot hnlsh In
less than day.
BosToN'S labor unions want the Leglsla-
ture to abolish the system of fines in textile
mills there as we'll as to make eight hours
a days work for employees Of the State and
the city.
A BILL has been introduced in the Penn
svlvania House requiring employers or
foreign born unnaturalized laborers to pay
tax for every person SO employed OF twenty
five cents day.
THE number of men engaged in American
fisheries is lOl, 6S4. These, with shoremen de-
pendent on the fisheries, 20, ZAP, and seamen,
steamboatmen, canalmen, pilots, and water
men, 100, Y92, make a total OF 49,, 320.
THE hair spinners lately held convention
in Baltimore and formed National Union
and elected officers. There are only about
200 hair spnners in the United States, most
of whom are in Boston and Hyde Park,
Mass.
A YOUNG working girl of Auburn, Mass,
recently wrote to her mother, saying: II
am doing stockings and get fourteen cents
Dozen 1t takes me two good days to do one
dozen, but am going to try to do more next
week."
Two New York organizations the
Workingwomen's Society OF Sewing Machine
Operators and the Ladies' Employment
Society-have combined their forces for the
accom- lshment of a number Of objects
whereby the lot of the working girl may be
made easier.