The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-11-13
THE LABOR WORLD.

OUT of 1860 convicts in the Eastern Penn
Sylvania Penitentiary only nineteen are said
20 be mechanics.
THERE is a project for the formation of a
National organization of the Picture Frame
Workers Unions of the United States.
The shepherds at Anteguesa, Spain, re-
Gently went on strike for an advance from
seventy to 120 reals per month. They won.
The unions of Massachusetts, will request
the next Legislature to enact a law which
will prevent the counterfeiting of union
labels.
In January next the International Tailors'
Clun of New York city will have two classes
for the instruction Of its members in ladies'
tailoring.
OWING to the protests of the unions of In
diana the directors of the South Indiana Peni.
tentiary have decided to stop shoemaking in
the institution.
The 713 convicts employed in the Riverside
PENN Penitentiary are making mats and
brooms, which, the warden says, are eI.
ported to Australia.
THE Columbus Ohio Trades Assembly
will make special efforts to defeat candidates
for the Legislature who refuse to sign their
eight-hour pledges.
CIeARMAKERs' UNION No. 100. Of Philadel
| phia, has made contract with Gumpert
Bros, who have granted their 200 employees a
slight advance of wages.
A NEW development of the labor question
| is the suit begun by two miners at Green's
burg, Penn, against boss who called them
! ''Mollie Maguires" and Anarchists"
IT is reported that $50 new locals of tho
K. Of L., with $40 members, have been
formed within two months, and that Sc To-
| IL. lao o,,i1 rainctQtpl
AN organization of clerks has been
formed in Manchester, England, with a
membership beginning with 800. 1t includes
only those who are engaged in bookkeeping.
AN appeal has been issued for the forma-
ton of National Union of Tile Layers. 1t
IS proposed to call National Convention Of
the trade if this appeal meets the approval
nf the local unions.
Several ladies in Everlay, village in
Yorkshire England, have started co-opera-
tive shirt factory. Stock is being bought
rapidly by worEingwomen in other trades,
and the affair has been success from the
start
THE Western Window Glass Workers
Union has won its strike at Pittsburgh for a
i've per cent. advance in wages, and business
las been resumed. The plate glass workers
If Pittsburg have also been successful in theu
,trike.
FAVORABLE accounts of the prospects of
the K OF l.. in Great Britain ar" given by
Master Workman Archibald, of the New
York Paper Hangers Assembly, who has
spent two months in Europe as promoter
of the interests of the order.
THE paving stone cutters have national
union, with fifty-six branches and li00 mem
bers in nineteen States. Maine has ten
branches. About one thousand members are
located in that State, and they cut about one
hundred Thousand stones daily.
THE new Brotherhood of United Labor has
already adopted a seal bearing square anc
triangle and the words Liberty, Equality
Fraternity-Equal and Exact Justice to AL
Special Privileges to None" 1t already
claims a membership OF 2OOOO.
A sKILLFUL cork cutter cen produce from
1900 to 1000 corks day, his only tools being
two sharp, broad bladed knives Machine
have been introduced which can turn ou
about 1000 corks an hour, but they are use
less for the cutting of the finer qualities.
THE Shoe and Leather Reporter says tina
in the days of shoe manufacturing 10y hant
one person produced on the average q pai
and a half day. At that rate it would re
ouire the labor Of 3s3,33 333 3}33 persons to furnish
the $50, 900, 900 pairs of shoes worn yearly hy
the people. With the modern nlacE@ef,
l40, 600 make the shoes.
JOHN BURNS, the leader of the Londol
dock laborers, says that the recent strike wa
but a preliminary skirmish, and tnat tn
struggle of British workingnen will be con
timed. He has announced that the next thini
to be undertaken is the establishment OF 1
general Federation of Labor, with hranche
in all parts of Great Britain.