Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-03-29
THE LABOR WORLD.

THE Knights of Labor are increasing.
PLENTY of new railroad work is projected.
WAGON and carriage makers are doing
WELL
The Carbon and Hillsville PENN strike is
over.
SKILLED Northern labor is in demand in
the South.
PUMP and mining machinery makers have
all they can do.
A GOOD many Southern factories are rum
ming night and day.
WOMEN weavers at Fall River, Mass,
make about So week.
AN industrious aborer in Mexico can COM
mand eighteen cents q day.
EDISON has an absolute monopoly of all
incandescent lighting in England
ONE stove concern at South Pittsburgh,
Tenn, will make 40, 600 stoves this year.
The hardwood finishsrs are struggling
very hard to form national organization
MORE firms are trying the plan of dividing
profits among workmen in addition to wages.
ROLLING mill men will try hollow rolls
stuffed with SILICA, instead of solid cast-iron
ones
held in New York city to organize a Ma
tional Union.
IT takes over 4,OOO,O0O boxes of window
glass for the country, made in 1171 pots. At
present 142 are idle.
SOME branches of the tobacco trade are
almost monopolised by girls For instance,
the making OF cigarettes.
THE Umbrella, Pipe and Cane Makers Ma
tional Union has five local unions and total
membership of 1900 persons.
THERE are nearly 5000 CO, operative socie-
ties in this country with an average member
ship of 200, or l, O00O 900 in all
A woMAN's trade union recently organized
in Glasgow, Scotland, has now membership
of eighty-nine working women.
In Pennsylvania, by all act of Legislature,
soldiers and sailors of the late war ere to be
given the preference employment.
THE largest lathe order ever placed was
placed by the Westinghouse people for PA
tathes, each twenty-one-inch cut.
A BILL to abolish night work by boys I'M
der eighteen years and girls under twenty
one is under consideration in France.
PHILADELPHIA wants five or six manual
training schools to meet the requirements Of
the local industries fer skilled mechanics.
CIGAR making has of late years become SO
Improbable to the working people that the
average weekly wages range only from Sc
to 81.
ONE HUNDRED girls employed in the Eagle
Cotton Mills, of Madison, Ind, are striking
for ten hours instead of eleven and half, as
heretofore.
The Central Labor Union, of New York,
once a powerful labor body, is now divided
up into two hostile camps over the question
Of socialism.
THE Governor of the Province Of West
Prussia, in view of the scarcity of farm
hands, has suggested the introduction of
Chinese labor.
THE New York State labor appropriation
allows $15, 900 to the Board of Arbitration,
$50, 900 for factory inspection and $4,000 for
labor statistics
THE green-glass bottle blowers that left the
K. of L. about two years ago have returned
to that fold, 400 members strong, with a
cash balance of $4,000.
AT present 235 cotton mills are making
cotton goods in the South, and seventeen
more will soon be finished, besides forty are
under erection; total 292.
IN the German city of Frankfort there is
an old bakers shop in which successive gen
erations of dough workers have carried on
their trade since the year 1467.
THE New Jersey Legislature is considering
q bill which forbids, under heavy penalties,
any employer asking an employe whether or
not he belongs to a labor union.
SOME of the working women Of Boston
have organized themselves into a society "for
the protection of their rights and the i'm
provement of their condition socially and
mentally"
THE manufacture of counterfeit American
extensive that a combination has been formed
at Crefsld to check the importation OF
machines of American make.
R. BELLINGHAM the Oldest engine driver
on the Great Northern Railway, and proba-
bly, in England, has had q record few men
can boast of, having been fer forty years in
the service of the Great Nogthsra Company.