The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1875-06-12
LABOR ITEMS.

Terre Haute j. a. have Granger store.
Coal has been found in lake county, In
diana
A Rolling mill IL to be erected in Leven
worth, Kansas.
Hunnewell (ky.) furnace is blowing,
making eighteen tons per day.
Black shoes may be bronzed by strong
solution Of anilIn red iii alcohol.
Boston capitalists are arranging to estab-
a fle factory in Cleveland, Ohio.
A Jug factory il Ia be established at Ow-
atonna ot furnish facilities for shipping the
mineral water.
There is no water in the Brantford, Ont,
level, and mills along the canal are N con
sequence idle
New York May y There is danger Of
tine strike IN the great lron-works at this
place being resumed.
Four thousand i've hundred kegs Of naiiS
per week are being turned ont at thu Bel
mont mill lronton, q.
The majority Of Plttsburghs 200 pud-
| ding furnaces are again aglow. On the - "
\ % per ton basis. when bar iron is rs cents
per ID.
| A company for the manufacture III tacks
U has been organized at Rockford, with a
capital Of SO, 900. Operations will begin
this week.
Louisville Ny, is rejoicing over the for
nation Of a company which Is 70 establish
a cotton factory IN that city. The capital
stock is SlOO, 900.
The JolietQil.) mills turned out more
steel ia one week during the month If May
than was ever before produced III the same
time by any company in the world.
Detroit has 422 manufacturers with a
capital Of $l3 25O, 900, whose products last
year aggregated so, 49,, 375, aud which
employed ZIG hands. whose wages
amounted 70 81, 538, 700.
Men Of capital and enterprise are quietly
making preparations to start IN Louisville
cotton mil with about $50 looms. II
will doubtless % into operation during the
next twelve months.
The Vulcan iron works, South st Louis.
has recently received twelve carloads ui
old railroad iron, equal to one hundred and
twenty tons. to be worked over into new
rails. This iron came from Texas
The Grange operative store at Peoria,
has proved 80 great a success during five
| weeks that 1t has been in operation that the
directors have voted to increase the cash
capital from $, 900 to SO, 900 One day
sales exceeded 500.
The shop employees OF the Chicago Bur
! lington and Quincy railroad IN Burning
ton were placed on full time to day, suffer
: ING 10 per cent. reduction IN their wages
per hour. some carpt nters are dissatisfied,
: and threaten a strike.
T The mil operatives III convention al FL
! River, Mass. On saturday adopted resoln-
I tons, demanding a ten-honr Law through
cut New England, aud the adjustment NJ
. the truck system, of paying operatives
with orders on stores instead Of all cash
All the machinery for the cotton mill Al
Evansville, Ind. has nov arrived from tht
, East IL has taken seventy-hve cars "a
! transfer all the contrivances used IN spin
ming cotton. The immense factory will be-
in operation by the middle of the present
month.
Pottsville, Pa, June IA number al
1 miners went to work to-day at reduced
Z wages, at Mahouoy City and fremont
E Several furnaces that have long been idle
} viii resume work soon. Business prospects
} generally are Frightening. and decided
{ improvement Ia the coal and iron trad,
| viii probably soon develop Itself