Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1890-05-23
THE LABOR WORLD.


| LABOR troubles in France are subsldlng.
| ENGLISH iron masters are making money.
WATEEPowER is cheap ami plentiful N
/ Idaho.
! The eirht-hour movement is very power
| full in England.
ENGLAND still unierbiis all the Continents
| IN locOROtlyes.
| A ONE HUNDRED ton blast furnace Is 20 Do
! built at Lawrencs7IlIe, Ky.
The Knights OF Labor have imhibet the
| eight-hour working day spirit.
THE Prussian labor bill fixes the maximum
Of woman's work az eleven hours.
EMPLOYERS throughout Germany are
forming union against strikes
BERLIN employers have resolved 10 abolish
Sunday work in their establishments.
IT is estimated that throughout Europe a
million workmen celebrated Labor Day"
FEARS are expressed in England of an
early revival of the recent monster coal
strike.
Four blast furnaces, with a capacity Of
l45 tons cash are TO be erected at Johnston
City, Tenn.
The relative efficiency Of French and
English railroad workmen is found 10 be as
five to three.
THE krupDs, of Germany, have bought an
entire village, and intend to turn 1t into one
vast workshop.
THE Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany has 1000 mea engaged IN making loco
motives near Baltimore.
IN Victoria, British Columbia, no mason
or StOnecutter will work on building where
Chinese help Is employed.
IN Hamburg, Germany, nine thousand
workmen were dismissed in a single day for
taking part in the lst of May professions.
MANY labor CARNATIONS of Pennsylvania
are agitating for State Labor Federation
Of all trades unions and K. of L. assemblies.
RICH company will erect a ship-building
plant at New Bedford, Mass, for the con-
struction of iron and steel sailing steam
ships.
GOOD many Welsh miners are being
driven back to Wales by the competition Of
Hungarian labor in American mining
regions.
IN Italy field labor is paid sixty-five cents
day, and mechanics from sixty-tive cents
to $1.25. Lieutenants in the army get about
81 day.
THE labor men have achieved an almost
complete triumph in New York city so far
their demands for eight hours day are
concerned.
A PORK-PACKING house, seven stories high,
and to cost $500, coo, is to be erected at Sioux
Falls, North Dakota; its capacity be 300
hogs per day.
THE wage-workers throughout the United
States, as we'll as Great Britain and Europe,
are at this time attracting more attention
than ever before in the worlds history.
THE sewing women are now the poorest
paid of any female workers. Next to them
are placed the dry goods, notions and grocery
workers, fully ten thousand strong, averag-
ing IS weekly.
A NEW industry has sprung up out in
Kansas-that of collecting old tinware
which is used at the Argentine smelter for
1uxing. An industrious man can gather up
ton of it in day, which brings about So.
In the slate mines at Cochem, on the
MOselle in Germany, men and lads carry up
all the blocks of slate on their backs, coming
up with their hands upon the ground, bent
almost double under the weight of the block.
ABOUT 36 300, 900 of women are engaged
in British India in some description of CLASH
ied work-roughly, little less than one
third of the entire female population, which
includes, of course an enormous proportion
Of infants and young girls.
THE servants and mistreSses of Vienna,
Austria, have to manage their affairs under
the superintendent of the police. The lat
ter keeps a servants book, in which each
girls dismissals and re-engagements are re-
corded, together with copies OF character
given by each employer.