The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1874-12-19
The Iron Moulders
Prom the Iron Moulders Journal.


Trade throughout the country is exceed
ngly dull.
Quincy, of Toronto, keeps a boarding
house In the foundry premises, for mis-
s. independent" moulders, who fear the
falling Of board piles if they ventured out
Of tine sacred precincts of the foundry.
A poor place for non-union men is Xir-
ginia City, Nevada. They send the presi-
dent of the Miners Union to Congress.
About February /, 1875, new foundry
5Ox1OO feet, will be in operation in Bay
City. Michigan.
vicr-President Carroll is working in
Elizabeth, NJ
One-half the machine mouIders in Gin
cinnati are idle.
The moulders of Philadelphia Doth
hranches) can now realize how much the
Union causes them loss Of time. The
Union caused all their troubles in tine past,
what causes their present troubles
Patrick Bolan, for years one If the lead
ing members of No. 20, COvington, Ky,
was lately elected marshall Of that city,
and will enter upon his duties January l,
1875 Covingtou is bad place for ''scahs'
70 wander.
Our members in Reading. Limerick,
Rogers Ford, and Spring City, Penn, Ger
taInlv deserves credit for maintaining then
organizations so well, with such All erup-
tive '-scab" volcano a. Philadelphia with.
in two or three hours ride
The stove-moulders of Pittsburg are al
something else.
The stove foundry in Ironton, Ohio,
was obliged to slack up for q month past
ON account of low water on the Ohio river
Could not ship stoves or receive stock.
A good opening for a stove foundry in
Hanging Rock, Ohio. Foundry. TASKS,
patterns, sand, cuPola, engine, etc, all
complete. To be rented or sold. Where
are the co operatives
THE SITUATION.
This is the season of the year when
foundries begin to curtail production or
close entiIslr. This year, however, there
is very little curtailing to be done in the
machine foundries they have for over one
year been doing literally nothing, and
there is but little opportunity for trades to
get worse. Repairs must be kept up, and
that is about all that has been done for
months.
The agricultural shops are nearly all
running, but the seasons production will
be far smaller than the average for some
years past
HOUSE, workshops are doing nothing.
the building season is about over, ana the
future Is not clear enough for builders to
enter into contracts for next years work.
prediction. We can state facts and let
each Of our readers form his own conclu-
sion. The month has been exceptionally
brisk, nearly every stove-foundry has been
running apparently brisk, and the general
assertion is that stoves are shipped a. fast
as made, no stocks being accumulated. We
have been informed Of several foundries
Gle sing with untitled orders on their books,
with the addition al statement that their
pig iron had run out. Many of the shops
will run up to Christmas on orders, with
fair prospects Of an early start in the new
year. We would not be surprised at an
employer refusing to make stock ON fall
ing pig-iron market, but with furnaces
stopping, and iron selling Gt is 90 claimed)
at or even below the cost Of production,
We are free TO say We can not in any way
account for the refusal 20 buy iron 70 ell
orders, unless it il want Of money.
From Bloomington, ILL.,, we learn that
the present member Of Congress was asked
to support our charter but he took no
notice u the request. He found it conven-
lent, when the vote was taken to reduce
printers wages by the government, to alb
sent himself. At the recent election he
was q candidate for reelection, and he was
elected TO stay at home, without regard to
party. Union men worked against him.
Right.
ma Union mouIder in postmaster in Whis-
tier, Ala.
Work will be resumed on Monday next
in the nail mill of the Rensselaer, Iron