Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-01-31
THE LABOR WORLD,

OHIO machinery makers are busy on orders
for heavy machinery to be shipped to the far
West.
A MILL is to be built at Fall River, Mass,
to manufacture its own yarn to spin cotton
thread.
THE grip temporarily silenced the music
of two hundred looms in the Whittendon
Mills, at Taunton, Mass.
A TANNER of Havana has discovered an
electrical process by which he is able to tan
p. hides of the largest sizes in sixty hours.
UNDER the energetic supervision of several
wealthy English women the work of organic
ing the unskilled female labor of London is
making some progress.
THE latest report of the Journeymen
TailOrs' Union of America shows 1875 unions
with about TO- 900 members scattered all over
he United States and Canada.
ANOTHER 1000 foot shaft is to be sunk near
louisville, Penn, into very rich vein of an
thracite coal: 1t will give employment to
1000 men. The anthracite coal trade is dull
at present
A COMPANY Of manufacturers having a
capital of SIS O00 900, will establish a town
to be called ''I.eatherton, " fifteen miles north
OF Philadelphia, for the manufacture of all
kinds of leather.
HERE KRUPP, the maker of big guns, has
founded tund of 1926, 900 for the benefit of
those of his workmen who wish to borrow
money at low rates for the purpose of build
Ing homes for themselves.
AN English syndicate has purchased the
axle works at Wilkesbarre, Penn, employing
lOOO hands. Another foreign syndicate is
now negotiating for the purchase of all the
Touring mills in st. Louis.
ORGANIZED wage workers who now work
ten hours day are preparing to renew their
demand for shorter hours of labor. This de-
mand viii be made May /. They may en-
deavor to force their demand by striking.
THE rubber works. Of Franklin, Mass,
shut down. ostensibly for few days to make
necessary repairs, but it is generally believed
that they will be closed until business re-
wives There is a large stock of goods on
hand
WORK at the Henry Clay shaft, the largest
mine Of the Reading Coal and Iron Company
Penn, employing 1900 men, has been sus-
pended indefinitely. No reason is assigned
for the stOppage other than the absolute stag
nation of the coal trade.
THE painters employed by the New York
Department of Public Works receive So so a
day, the PAYERS 81, the blacksmiths $3.50, the
bricklayers 81, the drivers So. so, the stone
cutters $50 the watchmen So, the carpenters
81, and the day laborers 81.
THERE are in France ST associations of
employers, S91 OF workingmen and 597 OF
farmers. The wOrkingmen'S associations,
which were fOrmerl Y political organizations,
have become for the most part purely mutual
benefit societies of late years
THE cooperative bakeries created by the
Belgian Labor party are evidences of the
power of organization. At Client the work
men have built, at a cost of $40, 900, the most
perfect bakery of Belgium, where 43, 900 two
pound loaves are turned out every week.
THERE is & considerable amount of sup
pressed agitation among the trade guilds in
Moscow and other Russian industrial CEN
tres; but the arbitrary powers exercised by
the police, and the means possessed by large
employers of labor are likely to prevent open
strikes
A PENNSYLVANIA railroad man says young
men are selected as engineers of the locomO-
tives on fast trains because old men do not
have the nerve to stand the strain OF the ter
rible speed of these trains, and even the nerv-
lest young man gets afraid of them after
while Then they get to letting up little Id
speed, the trains run behind time, the en-
gineers are given other runs and ne" men
are put on in their places
A MONUMENT to Leopold Arends, the in
ventor of the system of shorthand known by
his name, has just been unveiled in Berlin.
The ceremony was attended by representa-
tives Of 1.-The national stenography" from all