Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-07-18
THE LABOR WORLD.
THE nai.-makerS ar, busy.

The nai.-Inakers ar, busy.
| Tue pipe line builders a-e very bcsv
| RAILROAD building - tils South il e,-
/ tremely active.
| The glasStlowers have the best organiza-
ton in the L nited States
II the iron trade there are several i, IL
cations of heavier demand.
THE rush in house building has led :, n,
extraordinary demand for paper hanginEs
THERE are about $500 people engaged i,
the manufacture OF candy IN New YORK
city.
TIE manufacturers Of American cutlarv
are charging their capacity on account OF
heavy business.
THERE is growing demand among ,he
working classes OF Liverpool, England fo,.
books OF technology.
\ SNUFF factory is to be built in Durham
\. G, which, 1t is claimed, will turn out
1000 pounds of snuff per day.
THE bituminous coal fields along the Ale
ghany Mountains are turning out so 900 tons
coal per day for Eastern markets.
THE Norfolk and Western Railroad Com,
pany has 5000 men at work constructing lql
miles of road through West Virginia
|. DURING the past five months forty-six new
branches have been organized by the
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners
THE rail-makers expect to have rush OF
orders, and have dropped prices in Pennsyl-
vania mills from S34 10 $50. % TO $3l per
ton.
RAILROAD brake equipment works
twelve miles east of Pittsburg has capacity
to turn out freight brakes TO equip 500 freight
cars per day.
TRACT of $50 acres OF land has been So
cured near Pittsburg, Penn, on which To
erect lmrense works to manufacture Pull
man cleo Sric cars.
JAMES CASEY, respondent because he could
get nc work, and had no money, committed
suicide in New York city by throwing him
self under a heavily-laden truck
THE capacity of the Pennsylvania anthra-
cite coal region is about / 200, 900 tons OF
coal per week; but for some time past less
than one-half that amount has been mined
THE German Emperor's servants in the
Imperial Palace at Berlin and Potsiam ara
SO wretchedly paid that they have petitioned
the Grand Marshal of the Court for a con-
siderable increase in their wages.
In France there were upward of 20 600 au-
plicants for 300 vacancies in the public SER
vice in the Department Of the Seine. More
than 1000 persons applied for the places of
three office boys at the Hotel de Vile.
THE first labor strike in this country OF
which there is a record took place in 1903 in
New York. whore number of sailors struck
for an increase in wages. 1t was settled by
arresting the ringleader and locking him in
Jail.
A STEEL company in Illinois, employing
1000 men, has decided upon the novel plSn of
placing premium on the constancy of the
employees service. 1t offers to men who stay
one year one per cent. of their wages in adj
dition, two years two per cent, and so on
up to five years, when five per cent. will be
added TO their pay.
GRAND SECRETARY f. V. DEBS, OF the
Locomotive Fremen, estimates the numerical
strength of the different railroad organza-
tions as follows: Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers, 10000; Brotherhood of Loco
motive Firemen, $4,000; Brotherhood of
Railroad Trainsmen, 5000; Switchmen's
Mutual Aid Association, 5000; Brotherhood
of Railroad Conductors, 2OO0 The last four
bodies are federated, and number AZ, C~J
in ali.