The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1895-02-06
THE LABOR WORLD.

ONE-TH1RD OF the females OF France over
fourteen years of age are arm laborers.
THE PIttsburg miners convention ad-
journed without ordering general strike.
The clothing industry In London gives
employment to 6,945 men and 141.s23 wo-
men.
In il reported that the officers OF the rail-
road labor organizations can get no passes
this year.
BERLIN harbors 1924 taiIors. 563o shoe
makers. 1860 carpenters, 1888 bakers and
2200 butchers. ....
THREE HUNDRED OF the striking cloak
makers In New York City have been provided
employment cleaning the streets.
THE general Office OF the international
Furniture Workers Union Is about to be
moved from Brooklyn TO Baltimore.
SAMUEL GoMpERs has given it out that he
will again he a candidate for President OF
the American Federation OF Labor next year.
:, OWING to. structural alterations the rail-
way works Mt Crewe. England. have been
temporarily closed down and 1000 men are
idle.
A GENERAL strike occurred in Haverhill,
the great Massachusetts shoe making centre.
The strike is for the restoration OF union
wages.
DURING the last four years the numher OF
Southern mills has increased from $50 to
400. and the capital invested from $6l ,00O,-
600 to S97, 100000.
RETAIL merchsnts OF the south and SOUTH
western parts OF Chicago have formed m
association to reduce night service In their
places OF business.
WoRKMEN In the Homestead (Penn.) steel
works Of the Carnegie Company have voted
10 reoreanize their lodges in the Amalga-
mated Association.
JOHN BURNS, the English labor leader,
paid visit to the Government Printing
Office in Washinyton. aud after an tnspec-
ton declared 1t the best industrial and So
cal institution he had seen in the United
States.
KATE SHAFFERY. OF Harrison, N. j., was
awarded $1,000 against the Clark Thread
Works for the loss cftwo finger tips, caught
in the machinery OF tho mills last March.
She sued the company for $4,000.
The Marrimac Cotton Mills. Of Lowell,
Mass, have decided to build plant In the
South. Two more large cotton manufacture
ing corporations in New England have de-
cided to build plants In the South.
ABOUT 200 "boners" employed in the
packing house OF Armour. Swift Morris d
Libby, at the Union Stock Yards, Chicago.
struck rather than accept n cut In wages
amounting to about 80 per week.
BIZ the hreaking OF the billet shears in she
bloom mill OF the E1gnr Thomson Steel
Works, Brnddock. Penn, 1000 mon were
thrown idle until the break could be re-
paired. The shears cut bllets Sx8 In size,
and Is n very costly piece OF machinery
A CORRESPONDENT Mt Asheville, N. G..
states that George Vanderbilt has paid the
workmen around and about there $4,000
month ever since his house has been In
course OF construction. Men have come
from all parts OF the State to get employ
ment on the estate.
TIE unemployed of Cincinnati, the better
GLASS, are taking steps to 90 to Tennessee or
Georgia. They believe that they and their
children can thrive there. Several meetings
have been held and committees appointed.
The railroads will make special rates, and
even advance money. 1t Is believed that
within the next four months 200 families
will leave Cincinnati and settle along the
Qneen and Crescent and Louisville and
Nashville railroads in Southern Kentucky
and Northern Tennessee.