The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-05-30
TIE LABOR WORLD

LONDON has 1sc jewelry fact1les.
WASHINGTON CITY has Il, 900 union men.
JAPANESE nurses get fifty cents month
BRooKLyN has aSwedish machinists' union
JAPANESE labor is flooding San Francisco,
Gal.
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 S1.50 per day.
FEDERATION National organizers get $50 a
week and expenses.
BROTHERHOOD trafnmen have distributed
80, ,40O, 900 in benefits.
WAGES Of marble cutters and pohshers win
remain unchanged the coming season.
RArLRoApERs In Montana get 81 day and
many of them pay $40 week for board.
CoLoREp men ore taking the places OF
many OF the striking miners In Alabama
5 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.
TIE Locomotive Engineers Mutual Life
Insurance Association has distributed S3,-
000. 900 In benefits.
FRANK SARGENT, Chief ofth Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen, Is candidate Tor
Congress in Terre Haute, Ind.
MISS FLORENCE KELLY, inspector Of Illinois
factories, reports having found in five months
G576 boys and girls under sixteen at work.
ABOUT 100000 of people in the United
States depend for living upon the cigar in
dustry. Not over $4,000 are members 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 has started the establish
ment of a matchmaking concern In Japan
for the manufacture by japanese workmen
OF watches for Western markets.
rS Australia women are generally en-
p!oyed 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.
BEFoEE the enactment OF patent laws
WOCkUeu were put Ou Ottlu uoNoi W iOfco'
the process Of the manufacture on work on
which they were engaged. Visitors were eS-
cluded and false operations blinded the ar
tisans themselves.
THE Burlington Railroad offered to give
employment to every member Of the Lincoln
(Ne5. contingent OF the Coxey armyat 81. 40
a 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.
TIE Royal Labor Commission OF England
has issued a majority report against an
eight-hour day, condemning the sweating
system, recommending arbitration, etc., but
suggesting no positive reform. A minority
report advocates the eigbt-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-
comotive Engineers, is very plain, unas-
suming man ofslxty-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 well
built man OF five feet SIX, with face bronze6
hy the weather, and with short-croppec
white beard and no mustaohe. His talk Il
quick and blunt and to the point.