The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1891-02-25
THE LABOR WORLD.

UPHoLsTERERs report that business Ia very
dull s
CoHoEs, N. Y, has thirty-four knitting
mills. s
NASHVILLE {Tenn.) bakers have abollshe6s
night work.
TROY, N. Y, has an eighty-thrse;year-olf
railroad engineer.
Two adjoining cities seldom pay exactly
the same wages.
TIE Hebrew trades unions of New York
City are fighting prison labor.
The efforts of the Earl of Aberdeen TO
settle the Scotch railway strike failed.
VALPARAISO workmen have joined the insE
surgents in Chill; business Is paralyzed.
THE Confederation Of Industrial Organize
tions finished its work at Washington and
adjourned.
ABOUT 10000 unemployed men are now IN
Chicago, ILL.,, and some apprehension Is left
over the situation.
The strike of the train dispatcters and COM
ductors on the Chicago and Lake Erie Rail-
road was settled amicably. @.
TIE labor organizations Of Portugal will
participate in the international demonstga-
ton for eight hours on May l. ~
IT was decided in New York court that
ship-owners were liable to sailors for injuries
received at the hands of superior officers. "a.
In England the gradual reduction OF the
hours Of daily toll has been accompanied by
the decrease of intoxic8tion and a general
betterment Of the moral condition Of wage-
workers. ~
TaE pay OF hotel bell boy s varies with the
experience of the boy and the character Of
the house. 1t is nominal, as the boy Is uni-
formed, lodged and boarded and Of course 10
tipped by the guests. ~
The carpenters and joiners are working
eight hours in thirty-four cities Of this coun-
try at present; in 240 cities the nine-hour
work day prevails, while in sixteen cities the Z
hours are from fifty y-three to flfty-nine per
week. sS
The Brotherhood Of Locomotive FIemen
has gained 1928 members during the last SIX
1880 at present. while the National Brother.
hood Of Railway Office Employees has 100 098S
members.
The Swiss workmen's congress has passed
a resolution affirming the necessity OF max 2
ing ten hours work the limit Of q regular s
working day. The congress also resolved
that Swiss workmen should observe May II +
rs Labor day" holiday.
THE London carpenters are at present agt-s
tating for forty-seven hours per week, at :
twenty cents an hour, overtime to be paid
double. travelling expenses on jobs over four
miles from the bosses shop no subletting nor
piecework, suitable places to take meals. -
IN Austria women ara employed to carry :
the mortar and brick to the builders. They
work from seven in the morning till SIX .at
night, with one hour at noon, and receive
twenty cents day. Most Of these female
hod-carriers are unmarried and homeless.
THE international Workingmen's Union,
when revived, will have for It's object the z
preventing Of emigrants from working for
less wages than the men to whose countries
they emigrate. Bureaus Of information and {
agitation are to be established iu all the prIn-
cip.ll a, y parts Of EurcSS;;: n
LABOR CoMMissiUNER LEE MERrwErdER.
of Missouri, has suggested the formation Of
an association for the protection Of laboring Z
men against dishonest employers, installmenS Z
houses and similar impostions; and the labor
organizations Of the State are taking steps
to carry out the suggestion.
THE number of work people engaged In
American manufactures in 1850 was 2, $780, :.
900, aud they averaged less than 81 day. =
In'the same year 8, ,000, 600 farmers and farm
hands received for their labor the average Of .
$3.50 Taken collectively, the great mass Of
American producers received each about
sighty-fve cents per day. ~