The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-12-12
THE LABOR WORLD.
,,,, ,ron trade Is reported duller than

TIE pig iron trade is reported duller than
ever before.
CLEVELAND (ohio) bakers run an employ
ment bureau. t.s- -
TIE labor trouble seemst to be at an end
at New Orleans. et
THE Garment Workers Trade council rep
resents 4O,0n0 people In the clothing lnous-
try In New York.
CINCINNATI cloakmakers struck against
cuts in wages that have aggregated sixty per
cent. within a year.
THE Turkish laborinS day is from sunrise
TO an hour before sunset, with an nour Iors
prayers and dinner.
PENNSYLVANIA coal miners and operators
have about agreed to q plan whereby tne
truck store will be abolished
THE receipts OF the Furniture Workers
International Union during the iast nscai
year amounted to S17, 7,2f9.19.
THE Railway Conductors Insurance asso-
citation has disbursed $1,000,O00 among
widows and orphans OF members.
In Germany all employers are obliged to
insure their employees, even Wnen tne em-
ployment is temporary and unpaid.
ENGINEER Roor, the hero Of the Wisconsin
forest fres. began his railroad career as
brakeman on the New York Central.
TTsy.srsEss prevails in the tin plate in
dnstrv az Wales. Several large employers
have notified their hands OF reduction In
wages.
Tnr London and Northwestern Railway
has discharged a number OF plate layers on
the AngIesy branch because they speak
only Welsh.
Ar New Orleans Grand Master Workman
James E. Sovereign, Grand Master Foreman
M. J. Bishop and Secretary-Treasurer J. W.
4ayes were reelected by the General As
sembly of the Knights OF Labor.
IT is said that the pay of locomotive en-.
gineers Is sometimes so much above tnat OF
minor administrative officers technically
their superors that the amount Is not per-
mitted TO appear upon the pay roll.
TIE shoemakers of Madrid, Spain, have
formed union and hired hall, In which
two balls are held every week. Admission Is
ten cents, and every purchaser OF twenty
tickets is entitled to new pair OF shoes.
BENJAMIN F. HUNTER, New York colored
man. will build several mills In Virginia ana
.be Caroljnas, In which only colored labor
will be employed. All the cotton mills OF the
South are now operated exclusively by white
1elp.
THE Government ofSpain has at last estab.
lshed national bureau for labor statistics,
Which has been demanded by thelabor unions
Of that country for a number OF years. Inc
bureau will be modelled after the labor
bureau in Washington.
Mas. MARY L. GEFFs. we'll known in labor
councils. has made study OF the labor Stu
alton at Cincinnati, under commission
from the Ohio State Labor Commissioner,
md finds there are So, 900 men and women
employed there under the "sweater" system.
She denounces the tyranny and injustice as
shocking, and charges that people are
starving.
RAILWAY employees in England are at times
,omnelled TO work very long hours. Sig
nal man worked twenty-five and hall CON
,ecutiye hours on one occasion. and thNe
are frequent instances when shunters ana
oorters have been on duty sixteen and sew
snteen hours, with only brief intervals OF
rest. The most fragrant case recently re-
ported to the Board OF Trade was that OF an
sngine cleaner who was employed for thirty
tour consecutive hours.