The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-03-22
THE LABOR WORLD,

| NEnnAsnA ptuuiOcis i...>. .l..-,. so.iuLy.
BRocKToN, Mass, has eight shoe factories.
OVER 1900 New York car. strikers are idle.
| WTSDOw glass men have plenty OF busi-
ness
THE number of the unemployed in London
| is enormous.
THE rariiic Coast Scamens Union has
| 5000 members
Ali OF the Chicago papers are now employ.
ing union hands.
The stereotypers of Detroit, Mich, were
organized lately.
THERE are three thousand telegraph oper-
atorS i'll England.
BILL to prevent blacklisting is before
the Indiana Legislature.
II some of the deepest mines the workmen
wear no clothes it is SO hot.
IHE iron and steel makers are generally on
iul time but prices are down.
GRAND RAPIDS. Mich. has the greatest
furniture factory in the world.
FIVE THOUSAND men are employed by
ihkerton'S Detective Agency.
HE Connecticut Legislature has voted to
MAKE Labor Day legal holiday.
A GOOD many Northern machinery and
engine builders are moving South.
CARNEGIE recently beat the world on a
steel ingot. 1t weighed fifteen tons.
lN Ecuador it is understood that the en-
f''' ''''''' oNdi u tllS CoOh y IallliS.
SOME Western rolling mills are workip,
three sets of hands eight hours each
MoRE than 5000 New York cigar makers
are women, girls and small children
IHE American Federation of Labor has in
dorsed all Trades Union labels issued.
THE union scale of the New York carpen-
tors is $3.50 per day; in Brooklyn, $3.3j.
By a new system steel car wheels can be
turned out in five minutes at Norristown,
Penn.
Many Southern women are engaged in ths
effort to establish industrial schools in tho
| South.
| A LOUISVILLE, N[y.) firm has invented n
| process for making the finest edge tools at
! nail the present cost.
| Kansas CIrv has q young woman com
absence of the foreman.
lEELAND'S sixty spinain., mills employ
VI, -" persons on ~, 80 spindleS, and nav
| SO,25l,OOO i'll wages yearly.
THE United German Trades of New York
VIII send their own delegates to the interna
tlona labor congress at Paris
THE ".,;ncerS of New Jersey are unit.j in
their desire for the adoption of a licensing
Ia" by the state Legislature.
TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED men, women and
chiidren are employed in the Government
printing oiiice at WaShington
THERE are lN)O cigar factories in New
forH cltY. pt these the greut ma ority chi
ploy from one to fifty hands each.
ONLY SIX out of - flint glass houses in
the United States are idle and only seventy
nine men ont of 500 are out of the union
lT Is proposed to tram every seafarin,,
man in England capable OF bearing arms
with view toward an efficient naval ro.
serve.
IHE Jewish workmen OF New York CITY i'm
various trades are organized and have n
federation known rs this United Hebrew
Trades.
THE largest stesl axlc-works i'm the conn
try, located at WilkcSbarre, Penn. cni
ployinS lO~ hands, has shut down for want
of orders. ~
SEVERAL hundred stove founders hovc
been thrown out of work in Albany n
because stoves can bs made cheaper in the
West and sent East
THERE L. another steel revolution which
makes steel ht for wire, screws and bolts i'm
seven 10 Ten minutes At "a cent Il pound no
pudding, no annoaimg.
AT she Erie round house at Eimira Y y
the places of men who received 81. 20 per oay
nave been iillei 10y boys, who get sixty cent
per day, the rate IN other shops
THERE are more than thirty Thousand
miners out OF work i'm the Pennsy yania an.
thraclte coal regions, and many families are
reported on The verge OF starvation