Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1891-10-09
THE LABOR WORLD,
Con fishermen talk OF a union.

Con fishermen talk OF a union.
CHICAGO las over 500 letter-carrier.
The girl spinners have united 1T Lowell
TOLEDO Ohio working girls have organ
lied
PASSENGER engineers work six hours a
day.
GREAT BRITAIN has 5000 women trade
unionisfs
LONDON buttonho'e makers get thirty-tvs
cents day.
The Labor party polls 6, 900 votes in New
South Wales
SHIRTS are made for ten csnts each in San
A 800 600 ootton-miIl is to be run q,
Riverside Ala
OVER 1000 men are at work on the Chicago
Worlds Fair Park.
CoLoRED cotton pickers' strike in the
South was failure
OVER $50 colored miners deserted Iowa
for Indian Territory.
WOMEN in California caunerles get from
81. Is to 81. 30 per week.
THE wages of shopgirls in London begin
at from $35 to $40 year.
LoG-CUTTERS on the West Branch OF the
Susquehanna are organizing.
CHIcKAMAGUA tGa.l Coal aud Iron Com
pany will build 300 coke ovens
THE woodworkers are spreading their or
ganization to big Western cities.
a MOUNT CARMEL PENN mine uses an
OK instead Of a mule TO draw cars.
A GLASS factory at Baltimore, NJ d., has
been closed by strike of 80 BOYS.
THE Standard Oh Companys cooperags
shops at East st. Louis, Ill, employ 40
men.
GIRLS are now largely employed as de-
signers in the textile industry of New Eng
land.
IN Japan every workman wears his en-
ployers name, business and address printed
on MS 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 wOrkmen met
at Berne Switzerland.
THE third annual convention of the Inter-
national Brotherhood of Railroad Conduc-
tors met at Louisville, Ky.
FIVE THOUSAND girls employed at a lace
factory in Venica, under the patronage of the
Queen of Italy, receive seven cents a day
each
In New York State 116 labor organiza-
lions, comprising 81, 1871 members employed
in different occupations, have reduced their
hours Of labor IN 1890.
In Texas the colored cotton pickers have
formed an organization, rule of which says
they shall not pick cotton under 81 per hun
dred pounds and board.
THE United Wood Carvers decided not to
cooperate with the Amer lean Workingmen's
Defense League in concentrating the exc
cution of the Chicago Anarchists.
THE Order of Railway Telegraphers and
Brotherhood of photographers in Chicago have
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 trades
unions in the United States is the Dentists
Protective Association. After due warning
the doors were closed when the membership
had reached about 5000. Every man paid in
$40, making $50, 900 at the start.
UNITED STATES MINISTER CoNGER, at Rio
de Janeiro, advises all those who entertain
the idea of emigrating to Brazil to change
their minds. He says that for unskilled la
Dor there is no prospect in that country but
disappointment and suffering For people
who do not speak Portugu there is abso-
luteIy no prospect of employment, and very
little for those who do.