Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-05-25
THE LABOR WORLD.
bas14o ,ewelry factories.

LONDON has 40 jewelry factories.
WASHINGTON CrTY has II, 600 union men.
JAPANESE nurses get fifty cents month.
BROOKLYN has Swedish machinists' union.
JAPANESE labor Is flooding San Francisco,
Cal.
ST.. LOUIS tailors will run cooperative
shop.
UNCLE SAM has II, 600 employees in Wash
ington.
FRANCES Parliament has sIxty-one labor
members.
STREET sweepers In Philadelphia struck
for 81. so per day.
FEDERATION National organizers get Gao a
week and expenses.
BROTHERHOOD trainmen have distributed
81, 400, 900 In benefits.
WAGES of marble cutters and polishers will
remain unchanged the coming season.
RA1LRoADERs IN Montana get 81 day and
many of them pay 80 week for board
CoLoRED men are taking the places Of
many of the striking miners in Alabama.
STONE used in New York State municipal
operations must be dressed and carved In the
State.
A COAL famine was threatened in Illinois
and adjacent States as result OF the miners
strike.
Insurance Association has distributed S3,-
900, 600 in benefits.
FRANK SARGENT. Chief of the Brotherhood
Of Locomotive Firemen, is candidate for
Congress in Terre Haute, Ind
Miss FLORENCE KELLY, inspector of Illinois
factories, reports having found in Ave months
6576 boys and girls under sixteen at work.
ABOUT / 200, 900 Of people in the United
States depend for living upon the cigar in
duet OAE Of
labor organizations.
WELSH miners have had their wages ad-
vanced twenty per cent. since June last and
they are now getting ten per cent. more than
they were twelve months ago.
A BRITISH firm HIS started the establish
ment of q matchmaking concern in Japan
for the manufacture by Japanese workmen
Of watches for Western markets.
In Australia women are generally en-
ployed as railway station agents. In many
of the small stations woman is in sole con-
troll, being ticket seller, telegraph operator
and baggage mistress. They receive about
fifty cents day.
BEFORE the enactment of patent laws
workmen were put on oath never to reveal
the process Of the manufacture on work on
which they were engaged. Visitors were ex-
Guided and false operations blinded the ar
tisans themselves.
THE Burlington Railroad offered to give
employment to every member Of the Lincoln
(Neb. contingent of the Coxey army at 81. 40
q day Thirteen of them accepted the offer,
but the rest said they did not fancy that sort
Of thing, and preferred to march to Wash
ington.
THE Royal Labor Commission Of England
has issued majority report against an
eight-hour day, condemning the sweating
system, recommending arbitration, ETC., but
suggesting no positive reform. A minority
report advocates the eight-hour day, and
claims that workingmen and capitalists alike
are to be considered servants of the COM
munity. They also recommend an increase
in the minimum of wages.
CHIEF ARTHUR, of the Brotherhood of Lo-
connective Engineers, is a very plain, unas-
Stunning man ofsixty-three For many years
he handled throttle, and he is now almost
constantly engaged in settling disputes that
arise in railroad circles. The chief Is we'll
built man of five feet six, with face bronzed
by the weather, and with short-cropped
white beard and no mustache. His talk is
quick and blunt and to the point.