The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-03-13
THE LABOR WORLD.
,UIrDERs favor trade schools.

BUILDERS favor trade schools
THE Federation of Bookkeepers has 1000
members
FRANCE owes much of her wealth to her
Industrial schools
GREAT numbers Of discharged canal labor
ers are leaving Pancma.
THE single strength glass blower averages
$120 for ITO hours work.
THE pay of telegraph operators varies
from $40 to s101 month. .
New YORK silk workers have lately re
ceived ten per cent advance In wages.
PHILADELPHIA boasts that just now she
makes the best stained glass in the world.
TIE Tennessee Legislature has just passed
law requiring all barber shops to close on
Sunday.
MASTER WORKMAN PowDERLY, of the X.
system of voting .-'t
The army service corps In England is 70
form a class for the instruction OF sAlths,
wheelers and saddlers. ....
THERE are in New York city a number OF
italian bricklayers and good many stone-
masons of that nationality.
EIGHTEEN out of ffty-eight National Trade
Unions of the United States have their neao'
,, quarters in New York city.
SOME of the railway companies in England
are forming their employees into railway
battalions for home defense.
THE Bricklayers and Masons' International
Union has lTb unions; 5000, 900 have been
expended for strikes and $780, ,0OJ in benefits.
a NATIONAL PATTERN-MAKEBs' LEAGUE
has been organized in Philadelphia WIN
nine lodges, whose combined membership Is
1000.
BUILDERS Of this country handle seven
hundred and fifty million dollars year, ac-
cording to statements made at their conVen'
tion.'
In a short time an oysterman's national
union will be formed, which will take in
eleven existing unions, with membership
of 500.
THE Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineer,
was instituted in August II, 1858, and at the
present time has S02 subdivisions and over
%, 900 members
THE New Jersey silk weavers have had
their wages repeatedly reduced within the
la It few years. They used to get SlG week;
they now get 50.
TENNESSEE iron-makers plume themselves
not little over the fact that no boiler maoe
of their famous charcoal cold BLAST mas ever
been known to explode
IHE EQOuOlo-SLTeHSCI RlttSS-pio"SL ~ - 80
pot furnace makes an average or sl.io an
hour. He works seven hours day, running
his daily stipend up to Sl2.25.
In the New York State Senate bill has
been introduced by Senator Cantor liking
the wages of day laborers for the State at -
day or twenty five cents an hour"
GERMAN mechanics are largely educated IN
trade schools, and the London guilds are now
e.pending their accumulated wealth IN the
establishment of similar schools throughout
England.
WHAT is known as the Paving Cutters
National Union was organized On June ],
1887, at Baltimore, Nd, with eleven locals
and 500 members. At present there are
thirty.six branches, with lSOOmembers
Or the national labor organizations in the
United States, tho Brotherhood of Carpen--
ters and Jo:ners has the most number OF
local unions, having 4S4. At the foot OF the
list is the International Boatmens Union,
with two subordinate bodies.
BRUNSWICK, Ga, is to have the largest
cotton press in the Southern States. 1t
WEIGHTS go tons, stands on base twelve by
twenty four feet, connecting with four links
thirty-eigh. feet long. each weighing nine
tons. 1t required six months time to build it,