The Labor enquirer., 1883-03-31


Vile, Pennsylvania, doomed to disap-s
pointment in the matter Of the, rolling
mill starting up. A correspondent says;
The lessees discharged the wOrkmenwho
were getting the mill in running order,
and for the present at least it will remain
idle.
The Cobb Iron works, at Aurora, Indl-
ana, are about to be started again, the
mud from the late food having been
washed out None of their machinery
was damaged.
The puddle department Of the Laugh
lin mill, at Martins Ferry, Ohio, is run
ming, but the nail factory is idle
With the exception of the bar mill, all
portions of the rolling mill Of Andrews
Bros. & Co., at HazeIton, Ohio, are run
ming full time.
The repairs at the Troy, New York,
steel works will require full six weeks
The mill will remain idle in the mean
time.
The Bessemer works at Homestead,
Pennsylvania, are running fulI-handed
and making full time. u
The Star Iron works, of Camden, New
Jersey, are running full time.
The Albany Iron works, at Troy, New
York, are running again.
The new plate mill at the Etna mill
/ Etnaville, Ohio, has started up.
The rolling mill at Stony Creek, Penn
syIvania, has started up and is now in
. full operation,
The nail works at Sunbury, Pennsyl-
vania, are rapidly approaching compile
ton.
The Norton Iron works, at Ashland,
Kentucky, are pushed with orders
! All of the mills are running steadily
and making full time at Ironton, Ohio,
1t is stated that 800 employees Of the
Indianapolis Rolling Mill company have
. agreed to stand a reduction in wages, if
the managers will resume operations.
The Cumberland Md. Steel works are
again in operation.
Eastern capitalists propose to erect a
nail mill in the town Of Winchester,
Kentucky, in the course of the next six
months.
Teeth extracted without pain 60 to
him; DR.. Drury, dentist, Opera House
block.
BUILDERS.
We are informed that the Philadelphia
BrckIayers' union, although only little
over two years in existence, has d mem
bership Of over 500 and heavy treas
ury. The union contemplates the cree
ton of q large hall.-Builder
Bricklayers received as high as SO per
day last fall in San Francisco, California,
but it would not do for large number
Of that craft to pack up and 60 there
thinking to get such wages. 1t was on
account of scarcity, before the rainy sea-
son set in, and by the present time they
have doubtless fallen back to the Old
figure, which is about 81, and none too
much work at that Prospects good.
The building during the past year in
Chicago was never exceeded except in
the year succeeding the great fire. Even
then the amount of building was only
twice as great. Building permits to the
number Of $500 have been issued; the
frontage of new structures, IineaI meas
ure, is fourteen miles, and the cost of
buildings erected on permits, $l7500.-
U0O.-Journeyma Builder
The bricklayers Of Chicago have de-
manded 81 a day on and after the first of
May.
The building trade in New York City
and other large centres confines un-
steady, and the probability is that there
will not be very much activity till the
middle of April, if by that time the
weather is sufficiently favorable for out
side operations.
The pIaatering trade in Newt y ork is
picking up. Wages continue at 81 per
day since the strike Of some months ago.
1t is said that 100 brick houses are to
be built at Roanoke, West Virginia, this
spring