The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-16
THE LABOR WORLD.

TEE use of petroleum as fuel seems to gain
ground slowly.
A STRUGGLE for shorter hours is appre-
hended by English employers
HELENA, Montana seems to be good
place for carpenters out or Work.
THE number of full-grown men out OF
employment in Georgia is incredible
THE first assembly of the Knights Of Labor
was founded in Philadelphia IL 1854
THE Glen Rolling Mill, at Allentown,
Penn, has been idle for over ton years.
NATIVES of Alsace and Lorraine ut Cleve-
land, Ohio, have formed benevolent society.
PUppLERs in q St,ubenville, Ohio, mill
have accepted $3.50 per ton for scrap work
NOTHING bo,ns city like having p enty
of work for the laboring men and mechanics
LESS than one tenth Of the wage workers
of the country are organized in any kind or
association.
THE Boston store trade is said to be NOV
iny toward Alabama, where the raw material
is close at hand
THE Chinese in New York city have de-
mandad hislier wages since the passage of
the Chinese Exclusion bill.
THE paper-making industry ranks four
teenth in this country in the matter Of labor
employed and capital invested.
THE latest statistics from London show q
marked increase in the number Of women
employed in the different trades
A GERMAN patent has been issued for the
nreparation OF wood fibre for spinning.
Strong fabrics are made from the product.
A NEW Lehigh Valley passenger engine,
with a boiler sixty inches in diameter, is be-
ing built at tho South Easton PENN shops.
FIFTY THOUSAND English miners have de-
manded an increase OF wages. They base
their claim on the tact that times arc getting
better.
THE National Amalgamated Association
of Iron and Steel Workers was formed
August /, 1876, with Ill lodges and S155
members.
THE knights OF Labor are expressing op-
position to Mr.. Williamsons plan for estab-
fishing a school in Philadelphia in which boys
may learn trades.
1T is fact that women are more persistent
strikers than men and married women par
ticularly. In the telegrapher's strike in 1883
the women held out to the end.
THE annual report of the National Associa-
tion of Stationary Engineers, which was Or
canized in New York city i'll 1882, shows a
membership of nearly 21,0OO men.
IT is proposed in Kansas to petition the
Legislature to make law providing for the
weekly payment Of wages to employees Of
municipal and private corporations.
THE Secretary of War has awarded the
contract for furnishing s1,500, 900 worth OF
steel forgings for 8. 10 and Pinch high.power
guns to the Bethlehem PENN Iron Com
pany.
THE first yard of cotton cloth ever woven
in Iowa was turned out recently at Des
Moines. The mill has capacity Of 1000
yards day, and will employ from $50 to
200 men.
The great strike of coal miners at New
Castle, Australia, has ended. The strike
lasted three months. Eight thousand men
were idle, and Sl.50U,0 0DU was lost by the
masters and men.
UNDER tho laws now enforced in Germany
workingmen's societies are not permitted to
indulge in political debates. and must indi-
cate their loyalty to the Empire on the ban
ners they carry i'll public.
ONE Of the greatest window-glass factories
in the world is just starting in the Westmore-
land natural gas region in Pennsylvania
Dolly capacity, 5000 boxes. Four hundred
houses for workmen viii soon be completed.
THE Department of Labor at Washington
has undertaken an investigation Of the wages,
hours Of labor and condition of the employees
of the 7U0 railroads OF the United States,
who, it is estimated, number about half o
million.