The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-10-22
THE LABOR WORLD.

! LABOR troubles are reported In AuStrana
j M1sSEApoLrs city laborers' wages were in
creased to S1.75.
THE miners unions in Great Britain have
doubled in year.
THE ship-building industry of the Ameri
can lakes is active.
A CINCINNATI Ohio street car conductor
has fallen heir to $50, 600.
THE Workingmen's Suffrage Congress wa,
held recently, in Brussels, Belgium.
BRITISH employers are forming mu
tual insurance association against strikers.
NEW YORK slate and metal roofers hav,
agreed to work eight hours for $3.50 for
year.
FURS1TURE-woREasin in New York city
shop refuse to do without beer in working
hours.
THE glass-bead makers Of Austria-Hun
gary get five cents per 1000 dozen. Aquict
workman can make 5000 per day.
ANUMBER of tobacco workers. including
all the cigarette makers II one factory, haTt
gone on a strike, in Havana, Cuba.
THE miners federation in Great Britain
which is said to have 150,0O0 members, is
about to demand an advance of five PEI
cent.
IT is said that forty unions in the New
York building trades have $4,000 members
In the same city hod-cari1ers are PAID tWen
ty-two cents an hour.
THE miners unions in Great Britain have
doubled in year. One is $50, 900 ahead ir
the same time. Advances Of forty per cent
in wages have been won.
THE Connensville PENN coke region ha.
not had O year Of such freedom from labol
ef, ~ NhQr0nfar
many years as the present one has been.
A New YORK paper states that ninety pei
cent of the telegraph operators OF the West
ern Union and Postal Telegraph companie,
have recently organized to secure increase Of
salaries.
:. THE total number Of persons employed in
mines in Hungary is 35, 533 Of which 29, s3(
are adult males, nearly 5D0 are boys of be
tween twelve and sixteen and the few hun
-dreds remaining are women.
THE great lace manufacturing concern oi
We5ven & Moseley, of Nottingham, England
Is to be removed to Scranton, Penn, wheri
six acres Of land have been given for loca,
Gon. The plant will be as extensive as thai
at Nottingham, which employs 5000 persons,
The Minister Of the Exterior Of France i,
collecting statistics in regard to tho [ondt
tons Of labor from all countries for the pur
pose Of making suggestions how to obviat,
pernicious competition OF the industries Of
the different nations of the world.
Mrs. MARY CLEARY DUNcREUx Is mo-,
only president Of the New York screw manu-
factory, but q practical working mechanic,
who inspects all the output Of her establish
ment and who can turn out irst-class cabinet
screws, gun screws, watch screws and machine
screws.
WHEN the New York Central Railroad
needed men, during the recent strike, in suca
large numbers that they could not select
them one by one By actual trial, they insti
tuted an examination which is precisely sirh.
tlar to the method Of labor egistration under
the Massachusetts civil service commission.
THE demand for laborers on railroad worl
IN the Northwest so far exceeds the available
supply that contractors on the various hnei
uow building have been compelled to send
East.'or help. 1t is estimated that not LEST
than 1000 men are employed in construction
work alone in Oregon at present, and many
hundreds more could be employed were they
Mere.