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

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BRocKToN, Mass, has eight shoe factories.
OVER 1900 New York car strikers are idle.
| WINDOW glass men have plenty of busi-
| ness.
The number of the unemployed in London
The Pacific Coast Seamsn's Union has
| 5000 members.
All 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 in England.
=, A BILL to prevent blacklisting is before
the Indiana Legislature.
| In some of the deepest mines the workman
wear no clothes it is so hot.
The iron and steel makers are generally on
iuIl tiine but prices are down.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, has the greatest
furniture factory in the world.
FIVE THOUSAND men are smployed nv
finkerton's Detective Agency.
The Connecticut Legislature he's 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
IN Ecuador it is understood that the en-
pioyer shall board the cooks family.
SOME Western rolling mills are WORKING
three sets OF hands eight hours each.
MORE than 6O00 New York cigar makers
are women, girls and small children.
The American Federation of Labor has in
dorsed all Trades Union labels issued.
THE union scale of the New York carnen-
ters Is $3.50 per day; in Brooklyn, s.. 25
BY q new system steel car wheels can he
turned out in five minutes at Norristown,
Penn.
MANY Southern women are engaged in ths
effort to establish industrial schools in the
South.
A LOUISVILLE. Ry.) firm has invented a
process for making the finest edge tools at
half the present cost.
KANSAS CITY has . young woman COM
positor who sometimes acts as "bossn in tho
absence of the foreman
a, iRELAND's sixty spinning mills employ
6l, 749 persons on S4S. $50 spindles, and nav
s6,25OOOO in wages yearly.
The United German Trades of New York
VIII send their own delegates to the interna-
tlonal labor congress at Paris
THE engineers of New Jersey are united IN
their desire for the adoption OF q licensing
law by the State Legislature.
TWENTY-FIVE HUNDRED men, women and
chiidren are employed in the Goyernment
printing Office at Washington.
THERE are 1890 cigar factories in Nav
York city. OF these the great majority e1,'.
ploy from one to fifty hands each.
ONLY six out of 1T flint glass honscs &,
the United States are idle and only seyentv-
nine men out OF 1920 are out Of the union.
1T is proposed to tram every seafar;p,,
man in England capable of BEARING. arms
with a view toward an efficient naval re.
serve 10
The Jewish workmen of New York citv in
various trades are organized and have a
federation known as the United Hebrew
Trades
The largest steal axle-works i'm the conn.
Try, located at Wilkesbarre, Penn, em-
pioying 1000 hands, has shut down for want
of orders. '
SEVERAL hundred stove founders have
been thrown out of work in ALBANY. NJ. "
because stoves can be made cheaper in tba
West and sent East ''o
THERE Is another steel revolution which
makes steel ft for wire, screws and bolts- In
seven 10 ten minutes at a cent a pound. NO
pudding, no annealing. - .
-. AT the Erie round house at Elmira. N "
tne places OF men who received 81 20 per day
have been filled by boys, who get.sfxty cents
per day, the rate in other shops. 4 5ztF
THERE are more than thiffy tbousand
miners out OF work in the Pennsylyania an.
thracite coal regions, and many families are
reported on the verge OF starvation.