Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-04-14
THE LABOR WORLD.

The Cincinnati police are organizing a
union.
PIN making employs 10000 in Redditcn,
England.
ORGANIZED labor in Japan wants shorter
work-day.
WISCONSIN railroad men want a lega,
eight-hour day.
LABOR UNIONS in Ohio demand the pas
sage Of pure food bill.
ANT1-P1NKERToN laws are now in force in
Nebraska and Wyoming.
JOHN CLERK recently received $3.50 for
an arm lost in Lowell (Mass.l factory.
THERE is man in Hartford, Conn, who
has worked at forty-sx different trades.
The Rubber Workers Union Of the Amer.
lean Federation of Labor has been dissolved.
GOVERNOR RUSSELL has vetoed the bill
giving Boston tiremen one day off In seven.
The strikes organized by labor unions in
1890 and 1891 cost the wage-earners about
$9O000JO
LADY SOMERSET has opened a working
mems hotel at Milwell Docks, London,
which is already too small for its patrons.
The United Mine Workers of North Amer
lea propose TO make a general demand for
an advance in the price Of mining on May 1.
THE building Of the great Siberian Rail-
way is proving great blessing to the thou
was begun last June.
The LEGISLATURE of the State of Washing
ton recently passed an anti-Pinkerton law,
whicu was vetoed by the Governor but suo
sequentiy passed over his veto.
A FARM HANDS UNION has been organ zet
by local Union No. II, of the United Broth
erhood of Carpenters, at Balalre, Ohio, tne
first farm hands union in America.
TESLA, the electrician whose researches
,1.1k1
employed for a year or more In the W 9ot-
ingnouse works IN Pltts6urg, Penn.
STREET-CAR conductors IN Berlin, Ger
many have to WORK long for very Jlrtla
money They are on duty eighteen hours a
day, and their daily pay is 6215 cents.
LoNDoNs unemployed, among whom are
said TO be many who would not work il obey
ceuld, continue to give the police a good
deal Of trouble especially on sundays.
FROM 1876 to date statistics show that
American workingmen have engaged in r.,
$50 different fights for higher wages AMI less
hours, or against re- uctions OF pay and i'll
crease Of working time.
\ PTTTsBURG manufacturing firm which
has been Sharing profits with its employs
comedies in circular letter to the latter
that cooperation sucn as profit-sharing is
likely to produce is productive of general
goou.
The Supreme Court of the United States
recently rendered decision through Justlce
Blatchford in the case Of George A. Petit
bone and other striking Coeur dAlene
miners in Idaho against tae United States
in favor of the miners, and directed that
the indictment against them be Quashed.
These cases grew out Of the riots at the
Wardner mines.
The Surplus Labor Committee of Sgd
ney, Australia. is holding weekly meetings
to examine into the cause of the existence Of
l1ar( r NIL orb
Public discussions and examinations are
being held. The committee will be given
three months to finisa its work. and it is ex-
pected that the final report will be both
startling and Instructive
AT mi might, few nights since, at San
Francisco, Cal, a most peculiar phenomenon
was visible In the heavens, a little south Of
west. 1t appeared like very large star shoot.
Ing red and blue sparks. 1t was not very far
above the horizon. and was moving rapidly
from south to north.