The Labor enquirer., 1883-01-13
LABOR ITEMS.

Vanderbilt's road made $15,341,O ,O55.S4
last year. s..
Trade and labor unions of Missouri
are about to form state organization.
The Emmett guards of St. Louis will
hold grand reception January, 10 at
West st. Louis Turner hall.
Scotland awake Scotland, under the
eloquent influence of Michael Davitt, is
alive with the tNo Rent" cry.
It is reported that the mayor of East
Liverpool, Ohio, has hinted at suppress
sing meetings of the Knights of Labor.
Secretary Folger has recommended an
appropriation Of $4,000 to erect a monu-
ment at the grave Of Thomas Jefferson.
The charitable institutions and socie-
ties of New York received $40, 86,8l0.91
and expended $9Ni5,065.62 during the
fiscal year.
Joseph Wheeler has been elected to
congress from the eighth (Alabama)
district to fill the unexpifed term of the
late William M. Lowe.
Irish county organizations will hold an
important meeting at Clarend on hall,
East Thirteenth street, New York, Sun
day evenig, January, 7.
A. C. Chapln, member of assembly
from Brooklyn, has been elected speaker
of the New York legislature. He is a
Democrat and a lawyer, and railroad
director.
The Central, Union Brass works, st.
Louis, are still adding new machinery
and making improvements. Within the
last FIVE months this concern has in
creased it's working force 100 per cent.
Fulton cotton mill No. 5, of Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, operated by George
Cadler, has suspended operations owing
to duIlness in trade. About 200 opera
tives being thus thrown out of employ
ment.
The Sheffield Velocipede and Car
company of Three Rivers, Michigan, is
building a two-story brick addition, forty
by sixty feet, to increase. the capacity Of
the works, and will increase the working
force.
Rents absorb the largest portion of
the products Of labor. The city of ST..
Louis has population of $4,000 inhabi-
tants, but the houses in which the peo-
pie reside are all owned by less than
5000 persons.
Kaufman & Co., who operate furnaces
at Topton and Kutztown, Pennsylvania,
January l, announced a reduction of 10
cents per day in the wages of all their
employees. The men at the Topton
furnace struck.
baltimore, Piggott & Co., have opened
machinery house at~115 North Second
street, St. Louis, Missouri. The company
will handle full line of wood and iron
working machinery, and will employ
additional hands. a.,
Warner, Massachusetts, has voted to
exempt manufacturers from taxation for
five years. The town refused to exempt
from taxation the shoe factory buildings
in which the business of manufacturing
gloves will be carried on.
G. R. Lombard & Co., of Augusta
Georgia, have recently enlarged their
foundry and machine shop and added a
boiler shop to their plant. They are
building complete sawmill outfits, and
advertise for good hands.
The holllowware glass furnaces of Bo-
dine, Thomas & Cow, of Williamstown.
New Jersey, from which the fire was
drawn short time since on account of
lack of demand for glass, is to be put
into operation again in few days. /.
Charles B. and A. E. Dudley have
opened new carpet weaving establish
ment at 1885 Main Street. Harrison's
Boiler works at Germantown junction,
Pennsylvania, are SO busy filling orders
that they are working day and night.
The daily earnings in the cotton facto-
riesNof this country are nearly double
what they were in 1910. The total num-