St. Paul daily globe., 1885-06-21
OUTSIDE LABOR.
Items From the work of the wild
World.

PlOWS are in demand. One Chicago firm
has an order for 10. 600 beams.
The governor of Illinois has agreed to
sign an amended truck store bill.
A national conventional miners has been
called to meet in Indianapolis on July 9.
The Whitworth (English) Gun works
cover thirty acres. The largest lathe takes
in siXtytwo feet of work.
A large reduction will be made in the
force at the government bureau of printing
and engraving on the 30th.
A bill to establish an advisory state board
of arbitration has passed the lower branch
of the Massachusetts legislature.
Of 292 German iron and steel manufac-
turers $50 are against the proposed German
industrial exhibition in Berlin in 1888.
A process has been perfected in England
| by which it is claimed steel of any desired
| quality can be cast in an ordinary foundry
ladle.
| A grand steel manufacturing plant is to
| be erected at Youngstown, o., but the sys-
tenn to be used has not yet been determined
| upon.
A sixty-pound block of tin ore has just
been received at Pittsburg from the Black
Hills, where large works will soon be erected
to manufacture tin.
An English concern has put up power
full machine for biting through eighteen
inches of armor plate at any part of the
length and at any angle.
The Virginia tobacco manufacturing line
is exceedingly dull, whereas usually at this
season of the year it is generally brisk. All
trades thereabouts are said to be quiet.
Matchmaking does not seem to suffer
much. The Waltham company has it's full
force of $500 men now working full time,
and is turning out two watches minute.
Another steel furnace has been built,
which promises to ''revolutionize" the iron
business. If all these new furnaces work
the iron trade will be badly revolutionized.
The largest labor demonstration ever held
in Baltimore took place last Wednesday
evening. The procession was a mile long,
and there was speaking in Ford'S Opera
house.
Not content with borrowing plans of
American machinery and tools, English
builders of difficult engineering works are
sending for American engineers to tell them
how to work.
This is the season of the year when glass
works close down. The stocks are not
generally large. Several new works are
predicted, but will probably not be built un-
til margins are better.
Prof. Richard T. Ely of the John Hop
kins university is preparing for the press a
work in which he will give much interest
ing data concerning trade organizations,
both in this country and in Europe.
Considering all the talk of dull times, it is
c1IrnTicino tO coo what Qyfonciva irnDrOvn-
ments and repairing are going on in nearly
all the industries. The country evidently
does not intend to be caught as it was caught
in 1880.
The deepest coal mine in the world is the
Rose Bridge colliery, at Wigan, Lanca-
shire, which is sos yards deep, or amost
half mile. There is plenty of coal further
down, but the heat in the solid strata is
9319 degrees F.
Nearly everything in ingrains, tapestries
and velvets are well sold up. The advance
is likely to be maintained oncarpets. The
tries scarce. There is every reason to ex-
pect an active fall trade.
The wool-hat finishers have successful
cooperative factory at Haverhill, Mass,
are conducting two Strikes and are prepar-
The Haverhill factory runs day and night,
and has more orders than can be filed. It
is turning out over 100 dozen hats per day.
During the four months strike of the car
pet hands at Yonkers only seven girls left
the ranks. Two thousand workers are out.
Funds are pouring in. The restriction of
production there helps the trade elsewhere.
The New York shop girls gave a grand con-
10 OF in, or Of f1ai,
sisters.
A railroad bridge 8, 900 feet long is to be
built across the Hawkesburg river, in New
South Wales. The foundations for the
piers will have to be sunk deeper than those
of any bridge ever before built. W. W.
Evans, an American engineer, is to sIperin
tend. American engineers in bridge build
ing unquestionably lead the world.
There are about 275, 600 miles of railroad
in the world, of which 100000 miles are in
America, 800 in Asia, $500 in Africa,
and $500 in Australia Building seems to
have received check in all countries, but
prices have been greatly reduced, and the
necessities and the industries of the people
are opening grand opportunities for future
railroad construction.
The Buffalo Plumbers association has
issued manifesto complaining OF In6
licensing of incompetent men, and de
manding an examining system which will
exclude from the trade all plumbers unable
to practice sanitary plumbing. The assO-
citation says lead plumbing is responsible
for typhoid fever, malaria, diphtheria and
most zyncotic diseases.
A good many employees are desirous of
changing pay days from Saturday to some
other day of the week. The reason given
is that so many men waste most of their
money on Sundays. The good intended
will not be appreciated. In some places
and in some trades there is much room for
this complaint; but as, a rule, labor is COM
petent to take care of itself and its earn
ings.
American mining engineers are accom-
plishing wonders. The Osceola COnsoli-
dated Mining company Of Michigan has an
engine which hoists at the rate of 1900 feet
per minute. The skips weigh $500 pounds.
The usual load is 5000 pounds. Such a
load is hoisted from the sixteenth level to
the surface The skip is discharged and
started back in sixty seconds. In eight hours
100 skips have been hoisted. This is fast
elevator travelling.
A district assembly of the Knights of La
Dor in Richmond, Va, has twelve assem-
blies. The negroes Of the South are taking
to labor organization. Fort Worth, Texas,
will soon have four assemblies. Progress