Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1885-01-06
INDUSTRIAL NOTES

The capital of the Advance threshing ma
chine works, at Battle Creek, is to be in.
creased to 100000.
The Appleton, Wis, toy factory closed
last week to await a revival of trade. Twenty
hands were thrown out of employment
| One hundred weavers in Johnson's mill
| at North Adams, struck Friday against re-
ductlon, and were ordered from their tene-
ments.
| reduction OF 10 per cent. in wages
| caused one hundred weavers in Johnson g
gingham-mill, at North Adams, Mass, to go
| out on a strike.
| Notice of reduction of from 10 to 25 per
cent. in the wages of the steel workers at
| Coshocton, o., has been given. Half of the
workers will strike
The edge-makers in the shoe factories of
Francis w. Freed, of Lynn, Mass, are on a
strike, owing to a refusal to discharge a
'scab, and a cut in prices for trimming.
company of Chicago capitalists have put
up u 100000, and will erect saw-mills and
factories on Huron Bay, few miles north
OF Il Awse, Tor the purpose of working up
hardwood lumber.
lot of strikers fired tunnel on the Bal
timore Il Ohio Railway, near Newark. o..
on the second instant, and 800 feet of the
tunnel was destroyed before the flames
could be extinguished.
The Philadelphia Il Reading Railroad has
ordered sweeping reduction in wages of
the employees of the Jersey Central Division.
The reduction applies to all except conduo
tors, engineers and iremen.
The Pittsburg Bessemer Steel works. AT
Homestead, have posted notice that on
Wednesday next they will reduce the wages
of the employees IN the rail-mill thirty-three
per cent, those IN the converting-mill TWEEN
" per cent. and the laborers ten per cent.
The works employ about one thousand men.
The reduction will not effect the operatives
who belong tothe Amalgamated Association.
The total number of building permits is-
sued IN Philadelphia during 1884 was 6.aq4.
an increase of 49 over the number issued IN
1888. The dwellings erected number 42aS.
while the houses built Ia 1855 were 57I less.
One hundred and sixty-one stores and ware
houses, nfty-fivs factories, twenty churches
and chapels. eighteen railroad and FREIGHT
stations and FIVE school-houses we're among
the buildings erected.
The Illinois Watch Factory. of Sprinot;ald
has Issued a notification TO its employees that
Il will in future run but eight hours per day
until further notice. This factory closed /
two months during the summer. and has /
since been employing bat little over six hun /
dred hands, which IL only about 20 per cent. I
of the fuil number employed when the fac 4
tory - IN prosperous condition. About f
six months ago twelve hundred hands wera
IN constant employment here. bnf since that i
time such difficulty has been constantly en-
countered in disposing Of the surplus stock 4
Of watches that great uneasiness now pre-
vaiis among the remaining employees and .
the FEAR = general that the factory viii soon
be obliged 10 close sltogether for an indein
ite period
correspondent ef the Cincinnati Eagpsr
- writing from Ironton Ohio. <ass. 'FAsa a
member Of a community that Is The centre
of mining and iFou-prodacing region.
feel called upon IN remonstrste against The
Iteration and reiterafion 81 this egV ~ ssharsl
'imes' that comes from All parta ~ the
,ountry where iron interests are rrnrninpnf
IN iron region i probably the most siali,,sts
Il Al financial barowetecs4 The most hke.x
- indicate any eu~taatians ~ The naanfr
the condition - s7sfrs herp
ronid indicate anxthsue Int s9ofsnr weather
n finances, ~ we have never ~ shs reurse
= oar life as coFnuunifY knuva better or
'aslef times than the present. fhsr n,ill<
md furnaces are ali n fall blast. sst4 nsa4
hants sre Ssin9 thriving bassness. ana
vsses ~ high and ~efk - plenty as ~ ans
sms during she lssl sTs ge~rs