Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-11-01
THE LABOR WORLD.

The Pittsburg, Penn, maltsters have asked
for shorter hours.
Two assemblies of the K of L. have been
formed in ireland.
ST. LOUIS musicians average about $40
year, or S14 IS week.
THERE are nearly 50, 900 carpet workers of
both sexes in Philadelphia
SIXTEEN HUNDRED men are working at the
chester, Penn, shlpyards.
THERE will soon be national organization
OF the tile layers of the United States.
The pantalOon makers of Boston, Mass
have started a union with seventy members.
AN advance of fifty cents a day has been
given to the plasterers at Connellsville,
Penn.
THE workingmen in Chicago have sub
scribed to $500, 900 worth of the Worlds Fair
stock.
THE Chinese tailors in Hong Kong are
hghtlng against the Introduction of sewing
machines.
THE eight-hour system is satisfactorily
working in the British colony of Victoria,
Australia
The recent dock strike in London has, &C
cOrding to John Burns, the leader, been the
means of raising wages in at least 200 trades
there.
THE second annual convention of the Jour
neymen BARRIERS international Union of
cember 3D.
AT the request of the tailoresses of Boston
the labor organizations of that city will
adopt label which is to be placed on union
made clothing.
In the newly drafted Constitution for the
State of Wyoming it is provided that ''eight
hours shall constitute days work in all
mines and on all State and municipal
works.
THE new locomotive works of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad at Altoona, Penn. are to have
a capacity of 500 engines a year, and are SO
constructed that their manufacture can be
Increased up to 1900.
FIFTY miners were lately killed by an ex-
plOsiOn IN the irOnstone pit of the Maurice
Wood Colliery, Scotland. Subscriptions are
being raised all over the country for their
widows and families.
COOPERATIVE stores are gaining ground in
England and workingmen seem Everywhere
anxious to buy stock in them. Cooperative
hat stores are 1ourishing in all the large
cities and have proved a great success.
IN order to replace the field laborers who
have emigrated to Mexico and South America
a company has been formed in Havana,
Cuba, to make contracts with a number of
wOrkmen in Spain to bring them to Cuba
with their families.
WoRKINGMEN in Paris are agitating for the
eight-hOur movement. A letter to that effect
has been sent to the headquarters of the
American Federation of Labor in New York
city. The movement is the outcome of the
visit Of American workingmen in Paris.
A NEW YORK unionist, who is in Buenos
Ayres, Argentine Republic, writes to New
York saying that it is not hard to get work
there. He says, however, that it would be
foolisl. for any mechanic to go there expect
ing to get easy job or to become rich.
Carpenters get from 50 to So So bricklayers,
from 81 to So, and bakers from $1.75 to 1926.
THERE have been just two interesting ex-
amples of moral action by labor organiza-
tions. The New York Hod-hoisting Engi-
neers' Union expelled member who offered
his boss So of his weekly wages ''jusT to have
a steady job" and the Salesmen's Early Clos
ing Association, of Newark, N. j., expelled
member for dishonesty toward his employer.
THE United Typotheta, at its third annual
convention held in st. Louis, opposed the
eight-hour movement, which the Confed-
Grated Assembly of Trades Unions has
declared will go into effect in May, 1890.
Each local Typothetee was advised to take
such action as in its opinion may be necessa-
~ to meet the issue if it should be seriously
presented.