The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-08-14
TIE LABoR WORLD.

WOOD-CARVERS alo enJOylA& Sooa ,h1AAs1,.
+ TIE strike Of the Berlin bakers has coR
1apsed ~ tssta W
TIE Federation Of Labor hasissued aneigha
hour primer. 80 q &. q. s5Ss 8,
TIE strike fever appears to have spreada4
over the central portion OF Europe. <
THE custom OF providing siok relief funds
Is on the increase with trades unions
A NEW gun factory isto be started In Flori
enee, Mass, to employ about 400 men.
MAYOR HART, Of Florence, Mass has Sp4
propriated $1,000 for sports on Labor Bay. S
THERE are 1720O0 persons engaged. In the
manufacture of cotton goods IN this conntIys
ABOUT two-thirds Of the States NOW have
bureaus for the collection Of industrial stad
tistics. = = ~, e q u 4
THOMAS MArr1soN, London coachmak@a
has writtea treatise on the coaching Of apt
prentices. - go
JAMES G. BLAINE, Jr., sonof the Secretary
Of State Is now fireman on a Maine sCenf
trail locomotive. 80. =
In Russia there are sixty-seven immense
spinning mills, employing an aggregate OF
u.s. 600, 600 spindles.
STRIKES OF one Kind and another are epF
demic in England and Scotland on both
large and a small scale. .
A MOVEMENT is on foot for the formation
Of national organization OF the ale and
porter brewery employees. ".
BRIoKIAYERs in different parts OF England
have lately received an advance In wages o.
one to two cents per hour.
TIE head roller n Pittsburg iron mill
makes fifty dollars per day, and his family
rides behind spanking team. - sE,
A FOREIGN company representing capital
amounting to $4,000 600 Is to establish an
iron and steel plant at San Francisco.
TIE New England Boot and Shoe Lasters
Union, which was organized IN Decemper,
1879, now has membership OF l0,0O0.
Mr.. r. BE1LINGRAM has just retired from
engine-driving on the Great Northern hali:
way England), after forty years service.
THE board Of public works and city couni
Gil Of Cincinnati have adopted the eight-nouI
day for city laborers, with no reduction OF
pay. ;. :
REPORTS from builders In the large uleS
and small towns show that house building
was never more active than it is so far In
1889. .r..
Mr.. PowpERLY, Of the Knights OF Labor
considers eight hours day too long to works
and inclines to Ben Franklin's four-how
limit. ..... ...- z-.- i
NEW HAVEN Comm plumbers now work
eight hours day for three months OF the
year, and nine hours day for the remaining
nine months. ..-' -.s
THE New York State labor appropriation
for this year allows $4,000 for the Board OF
Arbitration, $50, 600 for factory Inspection
and $50, 600 for the Bureau Of Labor StatisI
tics.
In New England the Saturday half holiday
movement is growing rapidly. Almost all OF
the large manufacturing concerns In Massa-.
chusetts and Maine have adopted Its Pract
tice.
In sahl, Germany, and other places where
the manufacture Of military arms is q
specialty, the men take work home, and their
wives and children assist them sixteen or
eighteen hours a. day.
TEE American Federation Of Labor Is
pledged to strive to secure the adoption by
all the States Of laws prohibiting the employ
ment of children under fourteen years OF age
in factories, mines or workshops.
In Stoverstown, village in Yorkshire!
England, there is society Of women BARRIERS
numbering six members, and in rSeavllle5
about five miles from the village, kindred
society of five buxom women BARRIERS. .;
THE italian laborers are largely given to-
the ouaffing of sarsaparilla and other light
non-fntoxicating beverages in the hot season;
of the year. Comparatively few Of them tn-
dulge In beer or other alcoholic liquors whte
at work. qt5-- a.. ~ =