Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-11-08
THE LABOR WORLD.

OUT OF 1860 convicts in the Eastern PENN
SyIVanla Pen1tentiary only nineteen are said
TO be mechanics.
HERE Is project for the formation of a
HaCf0naI organization of the Picture Frame
" orkers Unions of the United States.
LIE shepherds at Anteguesa, Spain, re-
Gently went on strike for an advance from
seventy to 12O reals per month They won,
IHE unions of Massachusetts will reouest
the next Legislature to enact a law which
VIII prevent the counterfeitine of union
labels 0i
IN January next the international Tailors'
Gan OF New York city will have two classes
lot Ihe instruction OF its members in ladies'
tailoring.
Glana the directors of the South Indiana Peni-
tertiary have decided to stop shoemaking in
the institution
HE 713 convicts employed in the Riverside
tfenn.) Pententiary making mats and
brooms, which, the warden saws are ex
ported to Australia
THE Columbus Ohio Trades Assembly
Will make special efforts to defeat candidates
Tor the Legislature who refuse to sign their
elght-hour pledges.
CIGARMAKERs' UNION No 100. of Philade4
Pnla, mas made contract with Gumpert
pros VINO nave granted their 200 employees a
Snght advance of wages.
Is the suit begun by two miners at Greens
burg, Penn, against a boss who called them
''Mollie Maguires" and Anarchists.
1T is reported that $50 locals of the
4. of L., with $40 members, have been
formed within two months and that Sc To-
Gals have been reorganized or reinstated.
AN organization of clerks has been
formed in Manchester, England, with a
membership beginning with 500 1t includes
only those who are engaged in bookkeeping.
AN appeal has been issued for the forma-
ton of a National Union of Tile Layers. 1t
is proposed to call National Convention of
the trade if this appeal meets the approval
Of the local unions.
Several ladies in Everlay, a village in
yorkshire, England, have started a co-opera-
1--WE shirt factory. Stock is being bought
rapidly by wOrkingwOmen in other trades
and the affair has been a success from the
start
TIE Western Window Glass Workers
Union has won It's strike at Pittsburgh for a
five per cent advance in wages and business
has been resumed. The plate glass workers
Of Pittsburg have also been successful in their
strike.
FAVORABLE accounts of the prospects of
the K. of l.. in Great Britain are given by
Master Workman Archibald, of the New
York Paper Hangers Assembly, who has
spent two months in Europe a promoter
of the interests of the order
THE paving stone cutters have national
union, with ffty-six branches and 100 mem
bers in nineteen States. Maine has ten
branches. About one thousand members are
located in that State, and they cut about one
hundred thousand stones daily.
THE new Brotherhood of United Labor has
already adopted a seal bearing square and
triangle and the words Liberty, Equality
Fraternity-Equal and Exact Justice to All
Special Privileges to None" It already
claims a mem berShip of 20, 600.
A sKILLFUL cork cutter can produce from
1900 to 1000 corks day, his only tools being
two sharp, broad bladed knives. Machines
have been introduced which can turn out
about 1000 corks an hour. but they are use
less for the cutting of the finer qualities.
THE Shoe and Leather Reporter says that
in the days of shoe manufacturing by hand
one person produced ON the average a pair
and half day At that rate it would re-
quire the labor of 333, 1873 persons to furnish
the $50, 600, 600 pairs of shoes worn yearly by
the people With the modern machinery
40 600 make the shoes.
JOHN BURNS, the leader of the London
dock laborers, says that the recent strike was
but preliminary skirmish, and that the
struggle of British workingmen will be con-
tinued. He has announced that the next thing
to be undertaken is the establishment of
general Federation of Labor, with branches
in all parts of Great Britain.