The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1875-07-10
LABOR ITEMS.

The lumber trade in continues Ontario
dull
KEY WEST, Fla, sends l56, 900 cigars to
New York every week.
An effort isbeing made to establish co
operative store IN New Orleans.
The Cohoes knit goods manufacturers
are preparing to resume operations.
Salaries of workingmen at St Joseph,
Mo, have been reduced % per cent. re-
Gently.
Brazil, Ind, has under contract public
and private improvements to cost not less
than S125, 900.
About 80 employees in the Rockford,
Rock Island and st. Louis railroad shops,
at Beardstown, ILL.,, have been discharged
Adams Tobacco factory has not b.en in
operation Stree the end of March, and
there il no Immediate prospect Of its re-
Stunning work.
The Grand Trunk car construction shops
are closed and will continue 50 until the
10Th of July, throwing several hundred
men out Of employment.
MONTREAL, June q. - The Canadian
Rubber Company, employing 400 females
and 200 males will only run half time after
to-day, owing to the dulness Of trade.
The Stone and Pipe manufacturing COM
pany Of South Bend, Ind, has also filed
articles, with A. Corbett at the head of
the directory. The capital stock is &c.
900.
The Varity wood-works company Of
Brownsville, Ind, has filed articles of as
ISOLATION with the State secretary. The
capital stock is $4,000 Charles Douthet
heading the directory.
A project has been started in London to
raise s., 900, 900 to run mining tunnel
through the Colorado gold belt, common
cling near Black Hawk, and thence nine
miles to the middle park.
Times are quite lively in Oregon, sew
eral sailing vessels and steamboats, being
in course Of construction at different ship
yards, and the coal-mines and lumber mills
are all in active operation.
The New England boot and shoe trade
is getting on better footing. The ship
ments from Boston since the beginning Of
the year exceed those of last year by more
than AZ 900 cases, or nearly 10 per cent.
The iron on the Chicago, Saginaw and
Canada railroad is being laid at the rate Of
q mile day. Seven miles have already
been laid west of St. Louis, Mich. Ar
rangements have been completed to iron
the second division of twenty miles as
soon as the first is completed. ...
The Wsmsutta Mills corporation, New
Bedford, Is to build this season sixteen
tenement houses the same size as those in
Wamsutta village, two and half stories
high, and to accommodate four families
each. They will be located on Purchase,
Howard, Logan and Ray streets.
Under an arrangement with creditors
the Grant Locomotive works, Paterson.
N. j., will resume operations next Tues
day, employing 200 or 800 men for two or
three months to complete ten of the Rms
sian locomotives, and to undertake there
after any new work that may offer The
work will still be under the management
Of d. b. Grant
The Philadelphia and Reading Railroad
SNIP YARD which 1t 10 proposed to build ON
the Delaware above the company 3 coal de-
pct, at Philadelphia, involves the follow
ing features
large shiPbuilding establishment for
the construction Of iron steam celtiers for
the coal trade of the company.
T. AgrsAt storage yard for the iron trade
Of Philadelphia, available for loans upon
warehouse receipts.
At meeting of the Executive of the
U. s. Cotton and Wooden Operatives AS
socistion held on the 9th ult., it was de-
'eided to commence q New England Ten
Hour League and hold its first meeting on
Friday evening, July I'd, 1875, in Temple
of Honor Hall, Main street, Warren, X.
/. The meeting was addressed by Messrs.
Geo. Gunton, J. Smith, and . lady from
Lawrence. @ ~