The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-02-19
THE LABOR WORLD.

1. TIE labor organizations Of Washington
'nre collecting money to build hall.
The next meeting of the General Execu.
tive Board Of the Knights of Labor will be
held in Cincinnati March II.
AN English syndicate is now negotiating
! for the purchase of all the Newark IN. j.
patent leather manufactures.
The Knights of Labor and the Progressive
Union met in joint session at Columbus,
Ohio, todiscuss plan for uniting.
The largest manufacturers of mining ma
chinery in Chicago have been bought out by
an English syndicate for S20OO,oOO.
A LOCAL organization, similar t. the
Knights of Labor, will be formed at Clio
versville, n. Y, but it will be independent of
the Knights.
In the North Dakota House bills prohibit
ing trusts and the employment OF children
under twelve years of age in mines or fac
tories were passed.
The Builders Convention met at st. Paul
MINI. A resolution was passed urging all
local organizations to establish the system OF
payment by the hour"
THE Swiss Bundesrath has decided to con-
woke an international conference in May
next for the purpose of establishing regula-
tions relative to factory labor.
THE shoe factory of Samuel Shaw & Co.,
at Elmwood, Mass, has been closed on ac-
count of trouble with union men, who would
not work with non-unlon men.
THERE are over 120 India rubber manufac-
turers in the United States, employing 15,-
600 hands, and producing annually 2SO,OOO
tons of goods valued at S2GO, 600, 600.
THE Bureau of Labor in New York State
will add to its report for 1890 the average OF
w apaS net N In
by dullness in trade and inclement weather.
A BAR of iron worth IS is worth $40 after
it is made into horse-shoes; made into needles,
it is worth $3.50; made into penknife blades
it is worth S3285; made into balance-springs
Of watches, it is worth $3.50, 900.
THE Industrial Cooperative Society,
formed by Kensington PENN workingmen
fifteen years ago, and which became the most
prosperous enterprise of the kind in this
country, is defunct. Liabilities $685.
THE stevedores along New York harbor are
planning general strike for April 1st, SINH
lar to the recent one in London. They arein
correspondence with similar organizations in
Liverpool, Australia and California, with
view of securing their cooperation.
THERE are thirty-six car-building COM
panies in the United States and in the year
1899 they turned out 10, $40 cars, and at the
suopS VI ram toau cotiPauieS thsi "eie = uouou-
less enough cars built to swell the number
added to the freight equipment of the roads
of this country last year to 100000 cars.
AS result Of the crisis in the diamond
cutting, trade at Antwerp, Holland, is be-
coming more acute every day, it is said that
Il number of workmen intend to establish
themselves ut Paris, and that the Amsterdam
workmen, who are suffering much from the
crisis, look to London as their future homo
THERE are in Florida 10. 600 orange grow
ers. The acreage is loo. 600 aud the capital
invested is from $50, ,000, 600 to SIS, ,000, 900.
Three seasons ago there were produced
1,250,03O boxes; two seasons ago, 100. 600.
and last season about 1850, 900 boxes. It ia
estimated that the crop Of 1890 will be'Gyer
4 mn mn hown,