The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-01-16
THE LABOR WORLD.

A UNION Of porters Is being organized In
-;rooklyn.
TIE Singer Sewing Machine Works at
Eitzabethport, n. j., have suspended work
!or month. the longest period since 1878.
PRESIDENT DE ARMrT has declared at Pitts
Surg that there would be bloodshed and an
archy II the miners wage difficulty was not
settled.
P1TTsBURa railroad coal operators declare
they will not recede from their determine.
tion to pay only flfty-8ve cents ton for
mining.
THE American Federation OF Labor, In ses-
sion at Denver, alter struggle for two days,
finally rejected the Soclalistic plank Of the
platform.
A HANDSOME building has been erected at
Dunkirk, France. for the use OF British sea-
men. 10000 Of whom are discharged there
every year.
The International Furniture Workers
Union has issued charters to a varnishers'
union In Baltimore and to the mattress
makers in Boston. r.t. -.
The Scotch miners have gone to work at
the same wages after strike of seventeen
weeks, during which their loss Of pay foots
up $1,000, 900. .-t.
LORD SALISBURY has written denying the
report that he had said trade unionists were
brigands with whom no honest man would
have anything to do.
THERE is rejoicing at Gloucester, N. J..
over the announcement that the cotton mills
:here, which have been closed for several
months, will shortly resume.
RURAL labor in some regions is so cheap In
winter that a farmer with small crop Of
grain can have 1t failed out cheaper than he
can have 1t thrashed by steam.
THE most independent class of people In
Oregon and Washington are the cooks and
servant girls, who charge New York prices
md can pick their own places because good
servants are so few.
P1rTsBURa steel manufacturer Is author
ity for the statement that the Japanese
Government has placed a contract with the
Carbon Steel Company, of Pittsburg, for
light armor plate for torpedo boats.
AT its recent conference in London the
Women's Trade Union Association decided
to establish on. non-political and non-sec-
tartan lines central council to undertake
systematic inquiry into the conditions OF
women's work and wages In the United
Kingdom. s
THE wage scale for 1895 for the Carnegie
Steel Company's works at Homestead, Penn,
makes a reduction 80 that the wages will av-
eraSe ABOUT SZ.2U day. Inc average days
wages before the strike of 1892 was $2.43;
for 1893, S2.44; and for 1894, s2.24 The
men say they will have to stand the reduc-
ton. The company claims to have reduced
rents and cost Of fuel to compensate them.
A FRENCH railway station master has Just
officially complained that his duties "exceed
the limits OF human force" He Is sixty-two
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.
JOHN 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"
he says, "are getting wages just above the
starvation point and some are menaced by
another reduction for which no one has e1-
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 pay.