Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-06-15
TIE LABOR WORLD.

/ T.sE average age of iron puddlers Is thirty
two.
THE hat making in lustry is in anguish
ing condition.
THE railroads of tho United States give
employment to 1893, coo men.
THE Boston hat manufacturers decided to
reduce wages twenty per cent.
RESUMPTION Corporations at the Johnstown
penn. iron and steel works will give en-
ployment to 5000 men.
Rev. HEeBEnT n. CAssoN, of Lynn, Mass.
has founded what he calls a 'Iabor Church"
to advocate the abolition of the wage sys-
tenn.
LABOR organizations attach great impor-
tance to the victory won by the American
Railroad Union over the Great Northern
Railroad Company.
IT is said that there are moro musical
unions in the American Federation of Labor
than under the jurisdiction Of the National
League of Musicians.
ABOUT 100 Philadelphia boss bakers have
agreed not to patrOnze any -four merchants
dealing with the large bread factories of that
city, where bread is made at cut rates.
EIGuTY-NINE trades unions of st. Louis re-
quest the American Federation Of Labor and
the knights of Labor to bury the hatchet
and join hands in the political and economic
struggle.
AT Castle Ellen, England, last month, $50
miners were fined S1.25 each for absenting
themselves from the mines without giving
notice. They left to attend the funeral Of
workman who died from INJURIES received
the previous day.
THE newly elected oescers of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers are: Assist
ant Grand Chief Engineer. A. d. Youngson,
Mea1vilIe, Penn, (re-elected) First Grand
Engineer, T. S. InSraham Second Grand
Engineer, C. H. Salmons. Grand Chief
Arthur holds over.
TIE average number of working days in
various countries, according to the London
Engineer, is as follows In Russia, 267 in
England, 278 :; in Spain, 800 /; in AUSTRIA 295
in italy, 299 in Bavaria and Belgium, 800
in SaXony and France, 302; in Denmark,
Norway and Switzerland 303; in Prussia.
3O5 in Holland aud North America, 30S ; and
in Hungary, 312.
THE London Times says that Lord Rose
berry offered to John Burns. NJ. P, the labor
leader, a position in the Government when
Mr.. Gladstone resigned and again when Mr.
Mundella resigned. Mr.. Burns declined on
both occasions, giving as his reason that he
was best able to serve the interests OF work
ingmCn on the outside.
SIX THOUSAND quarrymen are employed in
the marble Quarries at Carrara, in Italy.
There are more than 400 of these quarries
which are situated in the sides of the noun
tans. above and back of the town. Dyna-
mite is used in operating the quarries, from
which 100 900 tons of marble are exported
annually, much of which comes to America.
A CONVENTION of central organizations or
railroad employees of the United States was
held recently in the Lenox LYceum, New
York City. 1t lasted three days. Five hun
dred delegates and the chiefs of the follow
ing orders attended: Brotherhood of Loco
motive Engineers, P. NJ. Arthur, Chief;
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, F. P.
Sargent, Chief; Brotherhood of Trainmen,
s. E. Wilkinson, Chief; Order of Railroad
Railroad Photographers, E. G.. Ramsey, Chief;
Switchmen's Mutual Aid Society, John R.
Wilson, Chief.