The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1893-10-14
THE LABOR WORLD,

II takes 1,5oo,o 600 mon TO work the worlds
coal mines.
II Naples, Italy, compositors are paid as
little as e1.25 a week.
SEVERAL Pittsburg mills that were idle all
summer have started up.
TEN THOUSAND people are employed as telc-
phone operators in this country.
IT is estimated that since July l sOo,-
600 employees have lost their situations
IL Chicago. according to an exact count.
7e,36i wage workers are out of employment
NEARLY 1000, 600 wageworkers are out of
employment in England since the coal strike
began.
ALARoI number Of idle miners from the
Michigan Upper Peninsula districts are leav-
Ing for the mines in Alaska.
LAW in England provides that no
person under eighteen years shall be ON.
pioyed about shop for longer than seventy
four hours, including meal times, in any one
week.
THE Chinese in California Lave chance to
90 to q warmer climate. They are offered
s25 head in British Guiana 10 hoe 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 Enslishmen
taken as whole. They live eight years
longer than the Cornish and nine years longer
than the South Wales miners.
BRAss grinders working by the piece are
able to earn about $40 week, but their
average life time is not quite thirty-fve wears.
Most Of them die from hemorrhage Of the
lungs. caused by PARTICLES ofthe brass inhaled
by the men while at work.
ALL the collicries OF the Philadelphia and
Reading Coal and Iron Company az Shenan-
doah, Penn, have resumed operations under
orders to work elk days each week for two
months, the miners to be paid az the rate of
ive per cent. above the $3.50 basis
STATISTICS show that the entire agriculture
OF the world furnishes employment to- 2S0, 900, =
600 men and represents an invested capital OF
1924 1000, 600 900. The annual product Is
worth over $40, ,000, 900, 900. II Is estimated
that the civilized Nations pay annually for
food s13, 700. 900, 900.
A PANS shop girl ordinarily begins at
salary OF from IS 10 50 n month. Besides
she invariably has a commission on her
sales, varying from one half 10 one per cent,
according to her success. Many receive as
high as $50 n month In salary and make
much more in commissions.
The Government of Portugal has an
propriated sufficient funds to establish
labor exchanges, under the control OF
organized labor, in the larger cities and in
dustrial centres OF that country. These ex-
changes are under tho supervision OF the
Department for Commerce aud Industries.
LABOR bureaus which were expected to
solve the problem of the UNEMPLOYED In
London have proved a disheartening failure,
At one office some 500 applicants In search
OF work OF any kind registered aud only
three employers applied for help so that
after three months work tho bureau found
employment for only two men.
The shutdown OF the Youngstown (Ohio)
rolling-mills since July |, the longest period
OF idlcness In the history OF the iron business
IN the Mahoniug Valley is causing much
distress. Fully 10000 men are Idle and the
breadwinners, having bad no income for
three months are, with their families, suf-
fering for the actual nee sssarics of liie.