The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-12-11
THE LABOR WORLD.

THE Order of the Knights of Labor is just
twenty years old.
THE lace trade of France gives employ
ment to nearly zoo, 600 persons. .!
GEORGIA mill hands have been urging the
Legislature to pass bill making ten hours
days work.
SIR EDWARD GUINNESS, the big brewer,
has given a million dollars for the erection of
dwellings for the laboring poor Of London.
SHIPBUILDING is 50 active on the Clyde,
Scotland, that in many Of the yards work is
carried on at night by means Of electric
lights.
MRssRs. KRUPP of Essen, are about to
establish an immense iron foundry and steel
works in the neishborhood Of Luxembourg,
Germany.
THE prosperity of the cotton mills Of Fall
River, Mass, during the entire year is with
out parallel in the history of Fall River man
ufacturing.
THE american Manufacturer of Pitts
burg states that ninety per cent. of the forge
companies of the country have formed
combination for mutual protection.
AT the session of the Knights of Labor in
Atlanta the words ''of America were
dropped from the name of the organization,
making it simply the Knights Of Labor.
Few people are aware that there is
trades union or industrial organization Of
colored men that dates back to 1856, five
years before the war, but such is the fact.
JOHN MCBRIDE, President of the Miners
Progressive Union has called a convention
of the miners of Northern Illinois, Indiana,
Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia for
Indianapolis.
has been made to the Treasury
Department that the alien labor contractlaw
is being violated at Detroit Mich, by Cana
dian laborers, who cross the line every day
to perform labor in the United States and
return to their homes at night.
The Knights Of Labor as body are not
disposed to interfere in the eight-hour ques-
tion. They discussed it at their meeting in
Atlanta, and came to the conclusion that the
best policy would be to allow the local assem-
bies to deal with it as they saw best.
A MASS meeting of the striking block coal
miners Of the central part Of Clay County,
Ind, was held at Churchill mines, near Cen
tire Point. Itwas unanimously agreed to re-
sumo work at the operators order since forty
per cent. Of the strikers were at work at the
reduction.
AT meeting of the Washington Typo
graphical Union, resolution was adopted
repeating the eight-hour rule that has hereto
fore prevailed. The printers in the job and
newspaper offices opposed the resolution
unanimously, but it was carried by the men
from the Government Printing Office.
The producuon OF bessemer steer ugUus LII
the United States during 1886 was 2,269, 100
gross tons. Of rails the output was COM
puted at !, ,562, 40 gross tons. The produc-
ton of Bessemer steel ingots in 1886 was esq.,
go tons more than that of 1885, while the
production Of rails had increased by Coz, 939
TONS
A VEIN of coal said to contain several mill
ion tons has been discovered in Lawrence &
Browns colliery at Mahanoy Place, Penn.
The vein was struck by some men engaged in
making drift from an abandoned shaft to
another colliery. The find will 60 on record
as one of the greatest accidental discoveries
in the history of coal mining.
1T is hoped that the discovery which has
been made in Trenton, N. j., in relation to
the heating of pottery kilns may result ad-
vantageously to an industry which has al-
ready made marked progress in this country.
By superheating the air before it enters the
kiln 1t is claimed that perfect combustion
may be obtained. The new method econo-
mizes coal, and largely reduces the time re-
ouired for firing 4 Kiln.