Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-12-07
THE LABOR WORLD.

THE pig iron trade is reported duller than
ever before.
CLEVELAND COhto) bakers run an employ
mPRt bureau.
THE labor trouble seems to be at an en1
at New Orleans.
THE Garment Workers Trade council rep
resents 40. O00 people In the clothing indus
try In New York.
CINCINNATI cloakmakers struck against
cuts in wages that have aggregated sixty per
cent. within year.
THE Turkish laboring day is from sunrise
70 an hour before sunset, with an hour for
prayers and dinner
PENNSYLVANIA coal miners and operators
have about agreed to n plan whereby the
truck store will be abolished.
THE receipts OF the Furniture Workers
International Union during the last fiscal
year amounted to S17,219.19.
THE Railway CONDUCTOR Insurance asso
citation has disbursel 100000 among
widows and orphans Of members.
II Germany all employers ara obliged TO
insure their EMPLOYEES. even when the en-
p]ovment is temporary and unpaid.
ENGINEER RooT. the hero of the Wisconsin
forest fires. began his railroad career as a
brakeman on the New York Central.
UNEAsINFss prevails in the tin plate in
dustry of Wales. Several large employers
have notified their hands OF a reduction In
wages.
The LOnion and Northwestern Railway
has discharged a number OF plate layers on
the AngIesly branch because they speak
only Welsh.
AT New Orleans Grand Master Workman
James E. Sovereign, Grand Master Foreman
NJ. j. Bishop AMI OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES J. W.
Hayes were reelected by the General As
SemblY of the Knights of Labor
IT is said that the pay of locomotive en-
Sineers is sometimes so much above that of
minor administrative officers technically
their superiors that the amount is not per-
mite TO appear upon the pay roll.
THE shoemakers of Madrid, Spain, have
formed a union and hired hall, In which
two balls are held every week. Admission IS
ten cents. and every purchaser of twenty
tickets is entitIedto new pair of shoes.
BENJAMIN F. HUNTER, a New York colore
man. will build several mills in Virginia and
the Carolinas, in which only coore1 labor
will be employed. All the Gotten mills of the
South are now operated exclusively by white
help.
THE Government fSpain hiss last estab
Eshed national bureau for labor statistics,
which has beer demanded by the labor unions
OF that country for number of year. The
bureau will he mo ielleI after the labor
bureau in Washingt On.
Mas. MARY L. GEFFs, we'll known in labor
councils, has male study OF the labor situ-
alton at Cincinnati, under a commission
from the Ohio State Labor Commissioner,
and finds there are 81, 900 men and womru
employed there under the ''swPater" system.
She 6enouncPs the tyranny and injustice as
shocking, and charges that people are
starving.
RAILWAY employees in England are at times
compelled TO work very long hours. sig
nal man worked twenty-five and half con-
secutive hours on one occasion. and there
are frequent instances when shutters AMI
porters have been on duty sixteen and sew
enteen hours. with only brief intervals of
rest. The most fragrant case recently re-
ported to the Board of Trade was that OF an
engine cleaner who was employed for thirty
four consecutive hours.