Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-05-24
PIE LABOR WORLD.
THE carpet trade s very brisk now.

THE carpet trade 3 very brisk now.
OHIO has seventy-one glass factories
-FOUR new labor journals have been started
THERE are 81, 600, COO spindles in the world,
TIE bookbin6e-3 have organized e new
union.
THE metal workers viii form a National
union.
CONNECTICUT is singularly free from
strikes.
MINING operations are booming all through
Colorado.
THE strike of miners in Westphalia is
spreading.
SEVERAL. paper mills are to be built in
Wisconsin.
The American Watch Company employs
300 hands.
WHEELING, ". Va, has the worlds larg-
est nail plant.
CHICAGO Gas-hou-c hands work eight hours
and make &. 50
MANY OF the New York surface railroad
strikers arc still idle.
LESS than 500 of Chicagos Is, 600 female
workers are organized
A WIDESPREAD strike is expected among
UOrlmen In Germany.
THE French jewellers are crowding the
market with new goods
NEBRASKA BARRIERS must shave colored men
says the Supreme Court.
THE Pennsylvania Railroad Company has
1863 persons IN its employ.
THE glassworkers will have their usual two
months vacation this summer.
THE coal mining industry of Iowa has
been paralyZed for six months.
THERE have never before been so many
women in search Of employment.
THE New York cigar-makers are in hard
YEARS ago United States Senator Kenna,
OF w est Virginia, was farm laborer.
The Roberts process of steel making
threatens TO revolutionlZe iron making.
MACHINERY is driving out hand labor at
last in the nail working trade in England.
THE Delaware River ship yards have two
men tits year where they had but one last.
THE organized machinists of New York
city have at last been brought into single
body.
GERMAN cotton manufacturers have estab-
lished a national society for mutual pro-
lection.
TIE growth of organization among jour
neymen bakers is going on all over the Uni
Ted States.
THE International Shoemakers' Union is
organizing many local branches in tie State
of New York.
THERE are eighteen breweries in Chicago,
l.OU
OF beer annually.
In England more than quarter of a mil |
lion organized miners have demanded ten per
cent. advance in their wages.
IT is estimated that there ere about 1000
master painters and 10000 journeyrel
painters employed in this country.
THE Typographical Union of Washington
has secured the enforcement OF the eight-hOur
rule In the Government printing Office.
PERHAPS 40 national organization is grow !
ing more rapidly than the Brotherhood of |
Carpenters which has $50 local branches.
THE cable, operators who work in New
Foundland are well paid, and they have |
many privileges, but they lead dreary lives
THERE is news from Pittsburgh of tbs fur
ther importation of glass blowers from Eu-
rope to fill the places Of the men who are out.
The London shop girl when compared as |
to manner with New York shop girl has to |
be more obscauious than her American sister. |
CONGRESSMAN FAE2UHAE, ST Buffalo, N |
7 still retains his connection with the Typo |
graphical Union. OF which he was President |
at one time.
THERE were never so many farm hands |
coming from toe the north of ireland to this |
country as at present Nearly all Of them
have friends or relatives in the West.
In New York city alone 5000 men are piano
forte makers, and the capital IL the business,
which was represented by a cipher in the |
irst decades OF this century, is now repre-
sented throughout the country by S13, 100000. |
THERE ere from 1900 to 20OO children under
fifteen years Oh age employed in single
branch in New York-the nanufac ture OF |
paper colla~s-wnlie of those between fifteen
and twenty years the number reaches about
5000.
NAY = union Jypesetters east OF the MIS-.
SISSlppl all set 1000 ems for or donate the |
price of the same to the CHILDISH rexel fund |
which was established to build home for
aged printers. Messrs. Childs ard Dre-e.
contributed SIC, GOO to the fund.
COMMENTING on the fact that native lcbc-
IS more valuable than chat which we import
from abroad, an Eastern employer says it is
due to the iac5 that 1.-The American laborel
links while he works, while an Italian, Cor
instance, simply works like horse"
THE Centennial arch on lower Fifth avenue,
New York city, is now assured 1t is to be
of marble, and to cost about SfOO, 900. Several
Sl1b ScriDti0OS of abOut $1,000 each have been |