Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-10-25
THE LABOR WORLD.

IHE boss BARRIERS OF Philadelphia have
formed another association.
THE Newsboys' Union of San Francisco
claims membership OF $50
NON-UN MON carpenters in Rome Ga, work
eleven bourS a day for $1.25
The plate-glass works throughout the
country are all in active operation
In making bread boxes three men can do
the work of thirteen men by the old meth
DDS.
In the manufacture of boots and shoes the
work of 500 operatives is now being done by
100.
CLEvELAND's journeymen BARRIERS will ap-
peal to the Ohio Legislature for Sunday
closing law
A STRIKE which lasted seven months at
the rolling mills of Lancaster, Penn, has
been settled by compromise.
ACCORDING to its Secretary, the Brother
hood of Painters and Decorators has now
1000 members and 1876 local unions.
DISTRICT ASSEMBLY 80, of Massachusetts,,
will form a Central Council of Boston's city
laborers who are Knights of Labor.
THE wages of the Boston and Maine
freight handlers at Boston, Mass, have been
advanced from 81. 65 to 81. 70 per day.
THE Iron Car Company, of New York city,
has closed contract with the Minnesota Car
Company, of Duluth to build 1900 cars.
THE national organization new most active
in promoting the eight-hour movement is the
United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join
erS.
ALL the painters unions in New York
city have combined against the German
American Painters Union, which was re-
Gently organized.
THERE were 600 delegates from almost as
many cities at the annual convention held
in Kansas City by the National Association
of Fire Engineers.
THE Hospital Fund assessment upon the
IA 600 employees of the Union Pacific Rail-
road is to be advanced from twenty-five to
forty cents per month.
WITHIN the past few months there has
been a general advance for the iron workers
in the Schuylkill valley of Pennsylvania,
and about 5000 Of them are affected by it.
IT is claimed by the three carpenters
unions in Boston, Mass that they have
rolled 100 new members in a month, and that
they have $50 more members than they ever
bad before.
Two THOUSAND women workers of the
East End Of London held a meeting at which
they resolved TO organize for the purpose of
improving their condition. The Bishop of
Bedford presided
To permit the men employed in the great
Carnegie PENN works at Braddocks to at
tend the funeral of their late Superintendent,
Captain Jones, involved an expense for the
company OF $50, 900.
Two THOUSAND tramway and omnibus
employees of London formed a union to OBJ
tain shorter hours and the redress of a num-
Der of grievances. A manifesto appealing
for aid issued. Lord Roseberry pre-
sided.
ABOUT 1O3 delegates from Mississippi Val
ley States met at Superior, Wis, two weeks
ago to urge on the general Government to
build ship canals twenty feet deep through
The shadows and rivers connecting the great
lakes.
AN organization of clerks is talked of in
london where there are thousands of clerks,
rom people who can read, write and cipher
I'D to experienced bookkeepers, out of work.
ne future of clerks in London and other
large cities in England is very discouraging.
The cooperative bakery recently estab-
lished by the bakers OF Brooklyn, n. Y, is
being helped along by the Brooklyn labor
organizations, who have taken liberal blocks
of stock in the new venture All the organ
izatiOns in New York city have been
quested to buy stock.
A CURIOUS strike occurred at Rochester,
n. Y. The OsterOlOgists and taxidermsts
in Wards Natural Science establishment,
where JumbO's skeleton was prepared,
stopped work and, as a result, many rare
birds and animals being prepared for collec-
tions IN different parts of the country, were
left partly mounted.