The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-11-12
THE LABOR WORLD.

L. New York city there are 50, 0OJ tailors.
IT is calculated that there are $50, ,OOO tall
ors in the United States.
MORE than 5000 stone masons in Berlin,
Germany, are without work or money.
FIRST grade cooks at st. Paul, Mimi, get
800 month; second, SIS; and third, sou.
WoRK1yGMEN are strangely apathetic to
the great questions of finance in this country.
NEW YORK CITY fresco painters are fined
S. for misrepresenting their hours or wages.
THE long strike of bootmakers at Leicester,
England, has ended in victory for the men.
THOUSANDS of Japanese will soon be
colonizad in Mexico. They are wanted as
laborers.
IT has been decided to hold an international
labor congress in Brussels, Belgium, in Au-
gust, 1891.
THE Ohio law compelling payment Of
wages every two weeks has been declared
constitutional.
ITALIAN stone masons at New York city
will form $50, 900 cooperative company.
Shares, s25 each.
Two New York city walking delegates
were discharged for taking money from con-
tractors for ordering strikes.
THE marble cutters from sixteen cities met
and formed national organization.
THE Grand Division OF Railroad Conduct
ors has paid off an indebtedness OF Sll, ,6OO In
q wear and hiss large balance in its treas
ury.
THE United Brotherhood Of Carpenters
and Joiners has now 729 loecal unions, 55,8O7
members in benefit, and 79, COO enrolled men,
bers.
NEWPORT and Monmouth England boiler
makers struck to settle the point whether
they or the engineers shall do the angle IRON
work.
FOUR HUNDRED Boston (Mass.) walters,
white and colored, have organized a branch
Of the National Culinary Alliance whose
headquarters is in Chicago.
NEARLY every mining camp in Colorado
is just now experiencing scarcity OF LABOR.
Hundreds OF men in addition to those now
empoyed will be wanted during the winter.
The average wages paid are s. day.
The strike of the cigar-makers in Bing.
hamton, n Y, in about fifteen weeks, cost
$50 900 spent in contributions to the strikers,
| and about quarter Of a million dollars In
wages Of strikers lost by not working.
BYa section of the new election law every
employer in New York State is compelled
to give to his employees two hours in which
to Vote, and no deduction from his wages is
to be made on account of such absence.
A YOUNG locomotive engineer on the
Southern Pacific Railroad is the son OF
millionaire Of Terre Haute. Ind. The sor
voluntarily chose his present life on accoun,
of quarrel with his father. The family /:
trying to induce him to return.
LADY dixie, wife of Sir Charles Dixie. i:
taking active interest in labor organization
! in England, and has recently addressed
crowded meetings Of women. She urged
them to form unions, but warned them
against deserting the cause as soon as then
wrongs had been righted.
The hours of field labor in the Sounh have
always been ''from sun to SUM-" White
farmers who do their own work-aud the
freedmen also-adhere to the ancient usage
The same rule holds good in other out-of-
door employments, such as railroad con-
sTuction and numbering.
ACCORDING to the official statistics Of Italy
over S., 900 millers and millwrights have beer
thrown out Of employment during the las
ten years in that Kingdom BY improved ma
chinery: and when IN all mills in Italy suct
machinery has been introduced the tota
number Of unemployed in the flour milling
| industry will reach 20 OO0.