Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-10-26
THE LABOR WORLD.

THE tin plate factories are all shutting
down.
TEN THOUSAND tons of new steel rails have
been ordered by the Baltimore and OHIO.
THE chances of securing employment are
said to be better In Western cities than in the
East.
EIGHT hours will be the official days work
In the shops of the Pennsylvania Railroa1
until March l.
PENNSYLVANIA directors have under con-
sideration plan to make Saturday half
holiday the year round.
EVERY trainman laid of by the Pennsyl>
vania owing to depressed business has been
re-employed on full time.
THE International Typographical Union
held its forty-second annual session at Lou
isvilIe, KY, with 125 delegates present.
WILLIAM HERRICK, a machinist of Indian
apolis, Ind, has fallen heir to a fortune Of
$30O,OO0, left by relative in England.
MILL operatives numbering &c. 900 in New
Bedford, Mass, were advised by their lead
ers to accept a reduction and end the strike.
The employees of the Parkesburg (Penn.)
iron works, 800 In number, have boen noti-
fed of a reduction of ten per cent. in their
wages.
IT has been discovered that by a blunder
on the part of the Legislature of Michigan,
of 1898, the convict contract labor Of that
State has been abolished.
WESTERN Pennsylvania iron men say that
the Mahoning Valley, Ohio, and not Allie
cheney County. is now the chief iron-pro-
ducing community in the country.
WITHIN the past decade the sweater shops
have multiplied in New York City from seven
to ten hundred; :; Chicago has nine hundred,
while Philadelphia and other cities have
their share of them.
GERMANY adopted a system of compulsory
insurance Of worktngmen against accidents
some twenty years ago, and its results have
been such as ito thoroughly vindicate its
practical usefulness.
REPORTS from nine Western States show
that many factories have resumed or in
creased their forces since the new Tariff law
was enacted, and that both wholesale and
retail trade has greatly improved.
The biggest strike that New Bedford,
Mass, ever had is practically ended. The
strike lasted eight weeks, and during that
time much more suffering was endured by
the idle operatives than will be ever known.
A MEETING was recently held in West
phalia, Germany, for the purpose Of organ
izing Christian workmen, both Protestant
and Catholic into trades unions in order to
counterbalance the effect of the socialistic
unions.
WELSH manufacturers are SO anxious for
the return of the British tin-plate workers
who went 10 the Unlteu StateS tnat tney
have offered them free transportation, in ad-
dition to guaranteeing them employment, il
they will return.
THE strike among the shirtmakers of New
York has brought out some appalling facts.
The average wage earnings of the women
employed in the factories is from So to S.
per week. A girl must sew four collars or
tour shirt sleeves to make a cent.
AT a meeting of the Weavers' Union, held
at Fall River, Mass, it was voted to make
another strike allowance to members,
amounting in all to about $4,000. 1t was also
voted to stay out of the mills until present
indications in the market are changed, or
the manufacturers offer a restoration ol
wages. Since July 14tt, 1890, the sum oi
$28, OFT has been paid out by the union on
account of breakdowns and strikes.