Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-09-06
THE LABOR WORLD,


BRICKLAYERs in London are prospecting.
THE Paris Carpenters Union is COO years
old.
A KNITTING mill is to be ouilt at Madison.
Fla.
THE friedrich makers in the West are very
busy.
NEW YORK painters get s. 50 for nine
hours.
Boston councils appropriated $1,000 for La
Dor Day.
CALIFORNIA bricklayers work nine hours
and get s.. 50.
THE canal payroll of New York State CON
tainS 100 names.
HARVEST hands in Oregon demanded 81
day and board, and got 1t.
THE Cambria Iron Company, of Johnstown,
Penn, has $500 men at work.
LABoRERs are arriving in large numbers 10
work on the Nicaragua Canal.
+ The national convention of brewery en-
ployes is to be held in Cincinnati
THERE is a great depression in the clothing
making trade among the workers.
THERE are 1900 cooperative unions in Eng
land, containing 992, 42S members.
FLOODS have interfered with manufactur-
ing operations all over the country.
FARM hands in France earn n little over a
dollar a week and manage to save out of ii.
CUBAN planters are struggling for good
field hands The wages demanded are very
high.
MORE than 10, 900 Connellsville PENN coke
ovens are now being worked under the new
scale.
THERE are indications that the centraliza-
ton of American labor organizations will be
effected.
THE 10000 washerwomen of Paris have
formed a union. They will demand seventy
five cents a day.
THE demand for sailors is brisk just now,
able seamen getting $40 and ordinary sea
men $15 month.
=, THIRTY THOUSAND persons, mostly foreign
ers, are employed in manufacturing tobacco
in New York city.
Ten years ago Indianapolis bricklayers
made twenty-five cents per hour; to-day they
make forty-fve cents
THE Labor Conference which was to have
been held at Berne, Switzerland, has been
postponed until next spring.
THE mining troubles in Illinois and Indiana
are far from being settled. Great distress
continues among the operatives
! NEARLY every strike of recent occurrence
has been of short duration and has ended III
the virtual victory of the strikers.
CHICAGO skilled hardwood inishers make
from 81 25 to So per day. Painters get from
twenty to thirty-tive cents per hour.
1HE WOrKmen III some pdIJS Oh Cue country
are combining and employing physicians to
attend them at SO much per 100 or 1000
families.
THE tailors of Salvador, South America,
have signed a petition requesting the Govern
ment to prohibit the importation of ready
made clothing.
The Chicago City Council has authorized
the Commissioner of Health to employ five
female sanitary police to inspect factories
and tenements.
IT is estimated that there are in London
B14 600 persons wholly dependent on casual
labor, and nearly 1000, 900 who never go in
side of church.
THE National League of Musicians is
about to adopt an insurance system, under
which the heirs of each deceased member
shall be entitled to $500
THOMAS DELwORTH, a colored American
who once slave in the Southern States
is now President of the Builders Laborers'
of st. CatharineS, Canada.
In good many tailoring shops in New
York and Boston, persons work from four
teen to eighteen hours a day. A good many
earn only from 50 to So per week.
GEORGIA and South Carolina have between
them 1876 cotton mills, $40, 72S spindles 81, 365
looms. This is by 40, 600 more spindles and
5000 more looms than the entire South con-
tanned in 1880.
AT Glenarm, on the coast of County
Antrim, Ireland, there are whiting mills
which give employment to nearly half the
population. Whiting is unslacked lime
ground down and cleansed. The wages OF
the men average from $3.50 to 81 per week.