Omaha daily bee., 1885-03-19

industries throughout the state.
A Plttsburg firm has Just received su
order for several thousand tons of armor
plates of heavy pattern for Russia. The
firm is preparing for an cary start.
Another manufacturer there has secured
a contract from the British government
TO build thirty boats for the Egyptian
service, to be 100 feet long, thirty feet
wide, 500 tons burden, and to cost SIS
600 each. The work is TO be hurried.
Allen Blsisdell, of st. Louis, has been
asked for plans and specifications for
thirty iron hulls for the same purpose.
Several Pennsyvauia mills are at work
on bridge, plate, sheet and bar iron for
western bridges and general railroad re-
quirements. Work Is being pushed for
ward on western nall mills, steel mills
and other manufacturing establish
ments.
A company has been Incorporated In
New York with q capital of 81, 600, 000
to buy cheap lands in the west and colon
lie them with cheap European labor. IL
the knights of Labor turned their atten-
ton to such a scheme they would make
more material progress and lay broader
and deeper foundations in one year than
they will make under their present plan
of action. They will yet come to it.
What they are doing to-day Yves urged on
them ten years ago by the pioneers In
the intellectual field of labor action.
The Hooking Valley miners last week
receipts we're SO, 800. They are fighting
the ironclad contract with renewed cour.
age.
The South Norwalk hattsrs have re-
celved In cash from hst-makirg friends
during the cast four months 1884,.
600. The recipients of aid now number
GIG men and 175 women and the women
are the bes; men OF the lot, stimulatlr G
the women In paptaloons to continued
resistance.
The New York car drivers are organ.
izing. The German bakers will soon
start a paper. The Cuban cigar makers
pay % cents a week to a '~'reader," who
translates from American papers every
day all matters Of interts + to their trade.
Several Intellectual efforts have been
made to organizs the sewing women OF
New York, who are truly serfs of the
the needle, poor and helpless and %forlorn.
1t is remarkably strange how the most
successful labor tricksters and double.
dealing sgitators manage to hide their de.
ception aud get themselves called homes.
Honest Jim, Honest Bill, Honest Tom,
and 80 on.
The Patterson trades assembly proposes
to build a mschan'cs' institute.
The Columbus 60 printers rejoice be,
cause the boycottsd Times %capitulates.
The new secretary of the Interior de-
partment leans to labor, and it is ex
pected will favor some good democratic
labor men with appointments.
There are 15, 900 organized wage-work
era in California. and an organizer ther.
unbosoms himself In this wise: "Oul
Legislature has done nothing but deliver
the state over to the merciless monopoly
the white fools do the voting, the knave
the counting; residence on the coast de
velops all the %selfshness in human ma
ture."
Tho department of the interior 4
making an exhaustive Investigation int
the apprentice system, Circulars arr
out, full of questions, requesting ex
haustlve answers. The reports to b.
c. compiled will contain, In addition t.
other information, q compilation of tn
apprenticeship laws and decisions under
them, apprenticeship under the com
mon law, and a history of the rise
growth and decay of the system. The.
will also contain full information of tn,
progress made In trade schools, at home
and abroad.
Many years ago a humble day lahore
named Robert Dunsmulr was walk
Ing psnsively in the woods
near the mines ia Victoris, B. G.
where he worked. A storm had swep
away a giant fir from the root of tn
tree. His practicsd eye detscted c,al
He secured all the ad% jacent land. Las
year his mines produced 25l, $40 tons o
coal. worth 81, 008, 344.
One steel manufacturing firm in tb,
west end of Pennsylvania has jus
opsned coffee works adjacent to tn
mills, where hot coffee, rolls, sandwiches
etc, are served up cheap. A pint c
coffee with milk and sugar costs 2 cents
pint Of coffee with ham sandwich, 5 cents
If such humanitarian sentiments foun
expression at many of our manufacture
establishments there would be less liquo
drinking and less physical exhaustio
among laborers.