The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-02-06
THE LABOR WORLD.
TACK machines make 2T5 per minute.

TACK machines make 2T5 per minute.
THE coopers are to form National Trade
Union.
AUSTRIAN cotton operatives get s. 80 to
3d. per week.
PHILADELPHIA's working people are con-
tented and prosperous
New YORK has 5000, 900 order from
South America for locomotives.
THE Lehigh Valley Railroad has ceased
almost entirely the use Of soft coal.
THIRTEEN cotton mills in and around
Augusta, Ga, employ 1900 persons
THE boot and shoe makers produce an
average of five pairs daily per operator.
ABOUT 10000 carbons are burned daily in
the electric lights used in the United States.
THERE are $50 skilled tack workers in
America They make from $50 to $3.50 per
month.
NATIONAL DISTRICT ASSEMBLY 217, Knights
of Labor, which once numbered 10000 iron
workers, has collapsed.
THERE are $4,000 men in the Stationary
Engineers Association. The union was
formed in New York in 1882.
CALIFORNIA fruit growers complain Of the
scarcity Of fie laborerS since the Chinese
restriction bill went into effect.
CARPENTERS in Toronto, Cana "a, get S. so
to S. per day, while bricklayers, 8, plasterers
and stone masons are paid ST per day.
THERE are about 10 QUO lace makers in
Normandy, ,and in all France there are nearly
2OO, OOO women engaged in this industry.
THE Order of Railway Telegraphers is ex-
clusively beneficial, and imposes expulsion
upon any member participating in strike.
AN iron factory in Buffalo. N. Y, which
has been shut down for over twelve years,
r,,,n ctn nrf rxyifI Of t,,,,,
dred men.
States during lSSS which built over two hun
dred locomotives each, and seven which built
over one hundred.
THE Chinese are getting lamp chimneys
from the United States. A Pittsburg firm
recently shipped to China l00J boxes OF
them, or 600O dozen.
PAUL MIsoSNE, a Belgian who recently
died at the age Of ninety, had been in the
service of the coal mining corporation Of
Amerc9ur for seventy-seven years.
PEACE has been secured for the year in the
mills of Fall River, Mass, by the action of
the Spinners Union in accepting the new
schedule drawn up by the mill owners.
HAMILTON & BROWN of St Louis demand
deposit of $50 from every workman as
guarantee that he will not leave without
klVluR G"O WechS IOOiSC. IL hO aco iOo tAeSo
sum they hold back 81 per week.
THE Rev. George Guirey, Baptist clergy
man of Paterson, N. j., recently delivered
sermon in which he advocated the passage of
a general law fixing the minimum of wages
of Woodworking man at So day."
THE marine engineers have concluded at
Baltimore the laborS of their fourteenth an
nual convention. Charleston, S. G., was Sc
lected as the place, and the first Monday in
January, lSy0, as the time for the next annual
convention.
THE Burlington railroad strikers have re-
ceived an official copy Of the agreement by
which the strike was terminated, and were
ordered by the Grievance Committee to re-
port fer work to the Burlington officials be-
fore February !.
THE Workingmen's Society Of New York
city has hit upon plan to aid poor sewing
women and others. 1t will adopt fair
wages latel," which will be furnished to
manufacturers who pay wages enough tc
enable working girls and women to live
happily. The society also proposes to ell
courage buyers to purchase goods bearing
the new label.
The employees of the New York Elevated
Railroads have very strong organization
Every member who is sick or out OF work
now receives STA week until he is able to &C
cept paying position. The plan has struck
the employees of Philadelphia street-railway
companies so favorably that they propose to
sdopt similar one.