Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1893-02-03
THE LABOR WORLD.

FINLAND has women builders.
IN Washington Uncle Sam employs 1894
coiored people.
The strike on the Clyde in Scotland has
made crews scarce.
SINCE 1890 the Government has issued an
annual report of strikes.
THE iron trade still shows a waiting dis
position for new year developments.
The Carnegie Mills, at Homestead, Penn,
are running full in every department.
The Wabash Railroad has given its opera
tives its choice between unionism or their
jobs.
Boston worklnen agitate against the re-
newing of charters to street railway COM
panles.
OF the 5, 1854, 465 industrial laborers in Ger
many only about $50, OCO are members of
trades unions.
IT is estimated that the total funls of
trades unions in Great Britain amount to
s25 per capita.
KANSAS railroad employees will ask the
Legislature to pass a number of measures
calculated to benefit them.
THE Pennsylvania Supreme Court has en-
Joined the striking job printers at Pittsburs
from interfering with worknen who have
replaced them.
The 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.
PITTsBUHG production of pig-iron is still
less than the demand, although the twenty
four furnaces in operation are turning out
about 5000 tons day.
THE locat,Federation of Labor, at WASH
ington, d. c., en- bracing twenty eight Or
CARNATIONS, has adopted resolutions asking
Congress to restrict emigration for five
years.
SINCE 1887 the Cigar-Makers' Interna-
tional Union has increased the wages of its
members an average of twenty per cent.
and lowered their hours OF work also about
twenty per cent.
The laborers of South Lincolnshire, Eng
land, state that their hours Of labor are from
6 to 8. Their wages during the summer of
ls st year were sixty-two cents, but have
now dropped to fifty-six cents.
THE jury in the case Of the thirteen Du-
quesne PENN strikers charged with riot
returned a sealed verdict. Ten OF the de-
PENDANTS were convicted Of riot, two Of will
full assault and unlawful assembly, and one
was acquitted.
CHRISTOPHER BENSON, an old man of
eightY-six years, in the Philadelphia Aims
house, is said to be the oldest locomotive
engineer in this country He ran the old
engine John Bulp' on the Albany ami
Schenectady road fifty-nine years ago.
COLONEL CARROLL D. WRIGHT, who has
been reappointed Commissioner of Labor
for four years more by President Harrison,
will probaly resign, it is said, when MIR.
Cleveland comes III, but it is regarded
doubtful whether his resignation will be &C
cepted.
A BILL was introduced in the New York
State Senate providing that in New York
City the wages of day laborers employed by
the city shall not be less than 81 day, and
of other employeS not less than TWENTY-FIVE
cents per hour, preference to be given cit
zeus of the State on such work.
REPRESENTATIVES of all the American
women who earn their livelihood by work
upon white goods Shirts, collars cuffs and
women's underwear), recently held a con-
vention in New York City. There are at
least Il, 600 women of this class in Phila-
delphia, New York, Brooklyn, Boston,
Lowell. Troy, Chicago, Cleveland and st.
Louis.