Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-10-20
THE LABOR WORLD.

Ir takes 300. 900 men to work TIA" worlds
cOal mines.
IN Naples, Italy. competitors ar" paid NJ
little ~ :l.2j a week.
SEvERAL Pittsburg mills hat wcra iil" all
summer have started up.
Ten THOUSAND people are employed n telo-
phone operators in this country.
IT IS etinateb that since tuly 800.
900 employees have lost their situations.
IL Chicago, according TO nn exact count,
1861 wng' worker ar" out Oi employment
NEARLY Z, 900 900 wngrworkrrs mrs out 81
employment IN England since Ia" c"nI rtrik'
began.
A LARgE number Of idle miners from ~"
Michigan Upper Peninsula districts are I"ay-
ing for the mines in Alaska.
A LAW ia England provides that NJ
person under eighteen years shall b" 'I-
ployed about shop for longer than seventy
four hours, including meal times, In any ono
week.
The Chinese in California have a chance 20
| go to warmer climate. They are offered
! S25 a head In British Guiana 10 hoo sugar
| cane and dig gold. The colony only wants
| 5000 Of them.
The north Of England miners live, on an
| average, three years longer than Englishm"n
| taken rs whole They live eight years
| longer than the Cornish and nine years longer
| than the South Wales miners.
BRASS grinders working by the picc" nr"
able TO earn about $40 week. but th"ir
/ average life time is not quite thirty-hTr y"nr-.
Most Of them die from hcmorrhage Of The
/ lungs caused by particles Ofthc brass inhnI"l
/ by the men while at work.
/ ALL the collieries Of the Philadelphia Az
/ Reading Coal and Iron Company at Hh"nnn-
doah Penn. have resumed operations Iui'r
/ orders 10 work six days each week for two
ffI It. at - y
/ five per cent. above th" =2.JO basis.
STATISTICS show that the entire agricultur"
| OF the world furnishes employment 10 2-p "HO.-
! 900 men and represents an invested capital ~
| s22t 900. .OO0. 900. The annual product IL
/ worth over =2O, ,OOO, 900, 900. II Is estimated
that the civilized Nations pay annually i"r
! food =I3, 700. 900 OoO
| A PARIS shop girl ordinarily begins at
/ salary Of from IS 10 - IA month. Besides
/ she invariably has commission on her
sales. varying from one half 20 one per cent,
/ according to her success. Many r""eiE" -
! high as $50 a month In salary and max"
much more in commissions.
/ The Government Of Portugal has ar-
/ propriated sufficient funds TO c-tabhsI
! labor exchanges, under the control "i
/ organized labor. ia the larger cities and m
dustrial centres Of that country. These "H-
changes are under tho supervision ot ih7
Department for Commerce aud Industries.
LABOR bureauS which were cNpectel 10
solve the problem Of the unemployed IN
London have proved dishcarien.ng failure.
At one office some 800 applicants in search
Of work of any kini re2is'erel, and only
three employers applet for help; 80 that
after three months WORK me bureau fOuni
employment for only two men.
The shut-down OF the Youngstown (Ohio)
rolling-mtIls since July /. the longest prriot
of fdleness in the history Of the iron business
in the Mahonng Valley. u causing much
distress. Fully 10. 900 men are Idle, and III"
breadwinners having had no income Tor
three months. are with their families, su-
fersng for the actual neepssarics Of life.
SUPERIOR and Duluth produced l,OlO.S45
barrels OF flour in September. The prOilc-
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