The Labor enquirer., 1882-12-30
LABOR ITEMS.

for the blacksmith shop, and the new
brick sand house has been completed.
They have inst completed the building
of new bolt cutting machine. Good
hands are in demand. I
The American Manufacturing company
is new enterprise started in st. Paul,
Minnesota. They have built new shop
and put in $4,000 worth of new ma
chinery. Their speciality will be patented
articles in iron, steel and wood, also
pattern making, mechanical engineering
and draughting. The members of the
concern are all practical mechanics.
Onehundred workmen were discharged
from the Rogers Locomotive works in
one. day recently, not because the work
was slack, but because. improved ma
chinery and appliances in the shop had
rendered it unnecessary to employ as
many men. to accomplish the same
results as formerly.
The Southren Steel works is the name
of new company now forming at Chat
tanooga, Tennessee. The company
intend, when organized, to erect works
at Chattanooga to manufacture fine tool
steel, and employ large number of
competent hands.
The wages in the grindery at the
Delaware Iron works, New Castle, have
been cut down from $12 to 81 per week.
The piece workers in the cutting shop
and bending mill have also had their
pay reduced.
The Appleton Carriage and Sleigh
works is the name of a new concern
lately started in Appleton, Wisconsin,
and it expects to begin work about Jan
uary 1st. Forty hands will be employed.
The Pittsburg Tool company are about
to start machine shop in that city of
the nature of the small tool manufac-
tories of New England. They propose
manufacturing reamers, twist drills, taps,
dies, set and cap screws and kindred
articles. Skilled workers will be
needed.
The new works of the Baltimore Car
Wheel company, now in process Of erec-
ton at Baltimore, Maryland, will cover
nearly ten acres of ground, and the
establishment will have a capacity Of
400 car wheels per day. Many extra
hands will be engaged.
At Brilliant, West Virginia, an iron
foundry is about to be started with a
capital of 100000. 1t will have one of
the best shafts in the country, with 26
acres of surface and 500 acres of coal
lands.
In pursuance Of a resol ution adopted
at recent meeting December, 19, of the
striking wire-workers of Johnstown, the
men marched in body to the mill, and
turned over their tools to their late en-
ployers. This done, they passed out
again to the street. each one giving his
name to the clerk. Everything passed
off in an orderly manner.
A secret meeting of the malleable iron
manufacturers of the United States was
held at Pittsburg, December 19. The
object was to adopt measures whereby
prices can be improved. The report of
the tariff commission was also discussed
and found to give general satisfaction as
far as it concerned their product, chiefly
pipe joints.
Some very important Improvements
will shortly be made at the Pennsylvania
railroad shops at Sunbury, Pennsylvania.
The machine shop will be enlarged, a
new car shop erected, and the depart
ments lighted by electric lights. There
is so much work on hand now that the
large force of men are required to work
until 9 o'clock every night.
0. Colborns, Of Chicago, Illinois, is
building twelve chain mortising machines
for the American Chain Mortising Ma
chine company. He is placing in his
works a new shaping machine, and has
just completed two twelve by eighteen
inch engines. He is running his estab-
lishment day and night, and gives good
wages and steady employment to the
right men.
The Diamond Emery Wheel company
Providence, Rhode Island, have 100
hands at work, and report orders satisfac-