The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1890-01-01
THE LABOR WORLD.

VERMONT monument marble is being
shipped to Australia.
GOVERNOR LADD, of Rhode Island, was
printers devil years ago.
HUNDT IDS Of carpenters will be employed
in rebuilding Lynn, Mass.
THE Labor press generally indorse the
Brotherhood of Ball Players.
THE plumbers and tinsmiths of New Haven,
Conn.,, have adopted the nine hour rule
LABOR COMMISSIONER LAME, of Minnesota,
favors compulsory education III that State.
IT is not permitted in Switzerland to COM
pei employees to work at night in factories or
mills.
SEVERAL New York unions use the
Australian system of voting when selecting
officers.
THE Knights Of Labor have raised their
Der canita tax from twenty-four cents Il year
to forty cents.
W11s:iN six years the Brotherhood OF Car
penters mas paid out $219, $50 in death, disa-
.bility and sick benefits.
OUT of the SOC strikes that occurred IN
England and Scotland last year 26J were sue
cessful. The rest were failures.
C1GARMAKERs UNION No. IA. of New York
city, has raised money for the Union cigar
makers who suffered by the Lynn fire.
PRESIDENT GoMpERs, of the American
Federation of Labor. says that personally ne
is not in favor of restricting immigration.
HEREAFTER San Francisco masons willnot
handle any granite or other kind of building
stone that may have been quarTled or cut ny
convicts.
THE iron founders union Of Great Britain
is eighty wears old. 1t has 10, 0J0 members
and owns 100000. The workmen average
$500 to $40 "a week.
WHEN the new Central Labor Union is or
ganized the Trades Sections will be re-estab-
lished. At one time the Central Labor Union
had ten different sections.
The unions of Victoria Australia, will
soon erect 5000 statue to commemorate the
adoption of the eight hour system, which has
been IN vogue there over twenty years.
BUILDING trades unions in Indianapolis
are thinking over an arrangement which will
prevent one trade from striking unless kim
dred trades whi i:h might be affected have
first given their consent.
THERE is tendency all arour1 to prevent
me discussion of politics at traces or labor
union meetings. Old time unionistSSay that
political discussions do incalculaDle EARN to
he unions which permit them,
THERE are 196 women operators in the
.:reat operating room If the Western Union
II New York city. In this room :; husband
and wife are working side by side. They are
perfectly matched i'll skill but the man gets
SIS more month than the woman.
THE unions of Indianapolis intend to open
a bureau in that city in which men in search
of work may register and employers may Sc,
cure worSnen. IT will re open day and
night. The ST. Louis unions propose to open
q bureau also.
AT mass meeting of the London unions
of the boot trade resolution was passed pro-
viding that ''in no manufactory s!lal! there be
employed more than one boy to five men.
and they shall be equally distributed over
each branch Of the trade"
The Boston and Lynn fires have thrown
about II 900 men and women out of work.
A vast majority are shoeworkers. The fires
will give work to thousands of laborers and
building trades men, who are needed to re-
build the burned districts in those cities. :