Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1895-01-04
THE LABOR WORLD.

A UNION OF portcrs is being organized IN
Brooklyn.
The Singer Sewing Machine Works at
E!izabethport, N. j.. havo suspended work
for month. the longest period since 1873.
PRESIDENT DE ARMIT has declared at PITTS
burg that there would be blOo1shcd nnl nm
archy If the miners wage difficulty wns not
settled.
PIrTsnURG railroad coal operators dcclnro
they will not reccde from their determine
tion to pay only Gty-nvc cents ton for
mining.
TIE American Federation Of Labor, IN ses-
sion at Denver, alter "A struggle for two days,
finally rejected the SOclalistc plank Of tho
platform.
HANDSOME building hns been erected at
Dunkirk. France, for the use Of British sea-
men. 10000 Of whom are discharged thcro
every year.
THE International Furniture Workers
Union has issued charters - n ynrni5hcrs'
union in Baltimore anl 70 the mattress
makers in Boston.
THE Scotch miners have gone to work at
the same wages after strike of seventeen
weeks during which their loss Of pay fOots
up :G, 100000.
LORD SALISBURY has written denying tho
report that he had said trade unionists wers
brigands with whom no honest man would
have anything to DO.
THERE is rejoicing at Gloucester, ". J.,
over the announcement that the cotton mills
:hcre. which have been closed for several
months, will shortly resume.
RURAL labor in some regions IA 50 cheap in
winter that 81 farmer with n small crop oi
grain can have II failed cut cheaper than hs
can have II thrushel by steam.
The most independent class OF people In
Oregon and WASHINGTON are the cooks and
a ria yph oh EGrry F.rIp
and chn pick their own places because good
servants are 90 few.
A PITTsRCRG steel manufacturer il autho--
ity for the statement that the japanese
Government has piacei contract with tho
Carton Steel Company, Of P!'rsburg, icr
light armor plate for torpedo boats
AT its recent conference In London tho
Womcn's Trade Union Association decided
TO establish on nOn-political and non-sec-
tartan lines Il central council 10 undertake
q systematic inquiry into the conditions Of
womens work and wages In the United
Kingdom.
THE wage scale for 1895 for the Carnegie
Steel Company's works at Homestead, Penn.
makes a reduction so that the wages will av-
efage about s2.2 a day. The average days
wages before the strike OF 1892 was S2. 43 :;
for 1893. S2.44 and for 1891, s22i. Tho
Ien say they will have 20 stanl the reduc-
tion. The company claims 10 have reduced
rents and cost OF fuel to compensate them.
FnEScH rGslway station master has just
officially complained that his duties "eXceei
the limits Of human force" He 10 sixty-;wo
years Of age, and he has to DO the whole
work OF the station-to deliver tickets. keep
the books and papers, register the baggage,
load and unload IT, and at times he has to
superintend the switching of freight cars,
attend to the signals and keep the lights In
trim.
JoHS MCBRIDE declares that the miners OF
the United States must take what can be OBJ
tanned and wait In patience for an opening
for q successful movement. "Our miners
be says, care getting wages just above tho
starvation point and some are menaced by
another reduction for which no one has ex-
pressed desire" Mcbride suggests that
perhaps the true solution OF the miners'
problem will be found in the extinction of
coal districts like Massillon and enforced
reduction of mining population, thereby in
suring steady work and fair Dav.