The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1893-02-01
THE LABOR WORLD.

FINLAND has women builders,
In Washington Uncle Sam employs 2aA
colored people.
The strike on the Clyde In Scotland has
made crews scarce.
SINCE 1880 the Government has issued an
annual report Of strikes.
THE iron trsde stu shows waiting dis
position for new year Developments.
THE Carnegie Mills, at Homestead, Penn,
are running full in every department..
THE Wabash Railroad has given It's opera.
aves Its choice between unionism or their
jobs.
BosroN workmen agitate against the re-
neuing OF charters to street railway COM
panies. $
Or the {, ae4, ,4s5 industrial laborers in Ger
many only about 250. .0o0 are members Of
trades unions.
IT is estimated that the total funds Of
trades unions In Great Britain amount to
&25 per capita.
KANSAS railroad employees will ask the
Legislature to pass number OF measures
calculated to benefit them. /; al 4
THE Pennsylvania Supreme Court has en-
Joined the striking job printers at Pittsburg
from interfering with workmen who have
replaced them.
TIE Pennsylvania road has began the
initiative in what is said to be a general
move on the part Of all railroads to get rid
Of union employees.
P1rTsBURa production OF pig-iron is still
less than the demand, although the twenty.
four furnaces In operation ara turning out
about 5000 tons day. q Z.
TIE local Federation Of Lsbor, at Wash.
lngton, D. c., embracing twenty-eight orr
ganizations, has adopted resolutions asking
Congress to restrict emigration for five
years. e i, =
SINCE 1887 the Cigar. Makers Interna.
tioual Union has increased chs wages OF its.
members an average OF twenty per cent.
and lowered their hours OF work also about
twenty per cent. ~ & 54
THE lsborsrs Of South Lincolnshire, Eng.
land, state that their hours OF labor are from
8to 8. Their wages during the summer OF
last year were sixty.two cents, bat have
now dropped to fifty-s;x cents. q
The jury in the case OF the thirteen Du-
auesne (Penn.) strikers CHARGED with riot
fendants were convicted OF riot, two Of VIII
ful assault aud unlawful assembly, and ons
was acquitted. iss,
Snhk64OEdhh ohhoO1. oLk OpA L4nkA ~
eighty.ax years, In the Philadelphia Aims
house, is said to be the oldest locomotive
engineer in this country. he ran the old
engine "Jdhn Bulr' on the Albany and
Schenectady. road ifty-nine years ago.
COLONEL CARROLL D.. .WRIeHE who has
been reappointed Commissioners Of Labor
for four years more by President Harrison,
win probaly resign, It is sail. when Mr..
Cleveland comes in. but 1t Is regarded
doubtful whether his resignation will be &C
cepted. 4.
A BILL was introduced in the New York
State Senate providing that In New York
City the wages Of day laborsrs employed by
the city shall not be less than ~ o day. and
OF other employees not less than twenty -fyo,
cents per hour, preferences TO- be given cit
zeas Of the State on such WORK. l3!ig
REPRESENTATIVES OF all the American
women who earn their livelihood BY work,
upon white goods tshirtat collars cuffs and
women,s underwear, recently heid q con-
yention in New York City. There are,a
least 1900 women OF this class IN Phila-
deIphia, New York, Brooklyn, Boston,
Lowell. Troy, Chicago, Cleveland and 81.
Louis, 81 IS ~ "a BIZ