The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-10-14
THE LABOR WORLD.
COP fishermen talk of union.

CHICAGO has over 500 letter carriers.
THE girl spinners have united at Lowell.
TOLEDO (Ohio, working girls have organ.
lied.
PASSENGER engineers work six hours .
day.
GREAT BRITAIN has 5000 women trade
unionists.
LONDON buttonhole makers get thirty-6ve
cents day.
The Labor party polls 5000 votes in New
South Wales.
SHIRTS are made for ten cents each in San
Francisco, Cal.
A $4,000 cotton-mill is to be run at
Riverside, Ala.
OVER 2O9O men are at WORK on the Chicago
Worlds Fair Park.
CoLoRED cott otton.picSers strike in ths
South was u failure.
OVER $50 colored miners deserted Iowa
for Indian Territory.
WOMEN in California cannerles get from
81. to s1.90 per week.
THE wages of shopGirls in Lon Ion begin
at from $35 to 40 year.
LoG-cUTTERS on toe West Branch Of the
Susquehanna are organizing
CH1cKAMAeUA tGa.) Coal and Iron Com
pany will build a09 coke ovens.
The woodworkers are spreading their or
ganization to big Western cities.
A MOUNT CARMEL PENN mine uses an
OK instead Of q mule to draw cars.
A GLASS factory at Baltimore NJ d., has
bsen closed by strike Of 80 boys
THE Stqndarl Oh Company's cooperage
shops at East ST. Louis, Ill., employ $50
men.
GIRLS are now largely employed as de-
signers in the textile industry OF New Eng
land.
IN Japan every workman wears his en-
ployer's name, business snd address printed
on mis- back.
ENGLISH railway managers claim that in.
creased wages to employees have decreased
the dividends.
THE sailmakers OF Liverpool are agitating
against the use OF sewing machines in the
stitching Of sails
THE International Congress, called to dis
cuss the causes Of accidents to workrnen, met
at Berne, Switzerland.
THE third annual convention of ths Inter-
! national Brotherhood of Railroad Conduc-
tors met at Louisville, Ky.
FIVE THOUSAND girls employed at lace
factory in Venic., under the patronage of the
| Queen Of Italy, receive seven centS a day
each.
In New York State 1l6 labor organiza.
tions, comprising 81, 1911 members employed
in different occupations, have reduced their
hours of labor in 1897.
In Texas the co!ored cotton pickers have
| formed an organization, rule OF which says
they shall not picK cotton under 81 per hum
ored pounds and board.
The United Wood Carvers decided not to
cooperate with the Amer lean " r.iingmen's
| Defense League in commanoratiug the exc.
cution OF the Chicago Anarchists.
The Order OF Railway Telegraphers an !
Brotherhood OF Te!egraphers in Chicago havt
BEEN amalgamated. This action was taken
| in accordance with the dec ision OF the Ma
tional convention of the first named body.
ONE of the strongest professional tradea
unions in tia United States is the Dentists
Protective Association. After due warning
the doors were closed when the membership
had reached about 900. Every man paid IN
$40, making $50, 900 at the start.
UNITED STATES MINISTER CoSGEH, at Ric
de Janeiro, advises all those who entertalp
the idea Of emigrating to Brazil to change
! their minds. He says that for unsSllied Ia.
Dor there is no prospect in that country ou,
disappointment and suffering. For people
who DO not speak Portuguese there is aoso-
lutsly no prospect OF employment, and very
little for those who do