The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-05-08
THE LABOR WORLD.
SHOP labor is busy and well paid.

THERE are about 1000, 600 workers in Eng
land. 80
ELECTRICAL appliances are In great ID
mand. "a
A aREArdeal OF cotton machinery has bed
moving South.
-FOUR or five new glass works are to d
built IN Pittsburg. ... I'd
TIE Chicago carpenters are organizing G
secure better wages.
In New Bedford, Mass, $4,000, 600 are 81
vested In industries.
THE low price Of copper has caused the Ar,
zona mines to shut down.
TIE Woodworking machinery makers prd
pose to form combination.
THREE dollars week are the wages Of
working nlilliHer in London.
A NEW cotton mill is to be built in Bidd9
ford, Me-, with $1,000 spindles. g
In England the eight-hour question Is eye|
more vexed than in this country.
AS an unskilled laborer man will receiv|
double the salary paid woman.
STATISTICS show enormous reductions
the weights Of marine steam engines.
The shoemakers Of the country are bande,
LII u11OhoJ DuO OLhJ 1Si S1Sh DSlS4o PoRSS
In German shoe shop the foreman Is pail
$3.50 and 81 per week; good operators, IS =
Sc.
TEXTILE manufacturers are ordefinI
enormous engines from $50 horse power q
500. '
A GREAT sugar refinery is to be established
in Baltimore, with capital stock of Sl,0Oq
600.
AUSTRALIAN paper makers are orderinj
paper making machinery from Ohio MANI,
facturers.
a oNE-ARMED printer in Connecticut seq
1900 ems an hour and can get along as we5
as anybody. .. ..
A CUT Of cloth consists Of about fortys
yards. Some weavers can weave over a ca
a loom per day.
The agitation for reduced hours Of labor
creating quite stir among working ciasse,
on the continent. S
WATCH movements are enow made socheapi1
by machinery that they cost at wholesale Les
than dollar apiece. *
DEATHS from mining explosions in England
for 1855 were only forty-three. This Is thI
lowest record since 1851. -
UNION trade marks are legalized and prd
tected by the New Jersey law, as a bill to thal
effect has passed the Legislature. -
THERE are tailors in New York city viii
make speciality Of turning coats inside on
and remaking them for customers.
THE statistician Of the National District q
Paper Hangers reports favorable condfaoa
In most cities, but not in New York.
IT is thought that if railway servants
Great Britain worked only eight hours th
railroad companies would have to emploJ
about 300 900 extra hands
RUBBER waterproof goods are now to
manufactured in Guatemala, Central Americ5
from native rubber to be obtained from t
neighborhood of Escuintla- sssE
A BENNINGTON (Vt.) manufacturing corl
Germ claims to have the first and only machin
in the United States for making the lon
French welt in knitted underwear.
The National Assembly of machinery cor
structors, moulders, pattern makers, AM
boiler makers has withdrawn from the K g
l.. and Joined the American Federation q
The cotton industry is developing rapidl
In Italy, and numbers of people are crcwdlny
into the cities. The number of spindles hs
increased in five years from $50, 600 to neaTl
1,200000.
In some shoe shops in Lynn, Mass, 81.
are charged IS for tuition to learn how to SCI
shoes, and at the expiration Of one day 81
discharged for incompetency and new gir{
taken on. =
A NEW shoe has been brought out for iro}
workers. It has an iron frame and the sol
Is filled with asbestos, which makes it a noI
conductor of heat. They are now being mad
In ENGLAND