The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-04-28

give places to those who struck The pay will
be 81. 65 for twelve hours work, the company re-
fusing to give $2 for which the strike was inau-
gurated
Steel Workers has gained every advance it has
asked for for years past, and it controls nearly
every mill in the country
The differences between the Cambridge, Mass.
street railroad company and its employees have
been adjusted on terms which practically con-
cede the demands of the men.
The seventy-fve boys employed by the Great
Western Glass Company, of st. Louis, who struck
on Monday, all returned to their places yester-
day morning. and the works resumed operations.
Some suspicious are being circulated against
Grand Chief Arthur of the Locomotive Brother
hood OF Engineers, because he lives in $4,000
house and owns Sis, 900 lot near by, and also
owns enough other houses TO bring him in
enough to live on, which his critics say he never
earned in the cab.
Several of the largest furniture factories in
Milwaukee were closed yesterday in consequence
carvers whose demands for ten hours pay for
eight hours work refused There Is no
immediate likelihood of o settlement of the diff
fculty.
Oliver Bros & Phillips's South Tenth street
mill at Pittsburg was closed down yesterday
morning, because of a strike of about three
hundred workmen who claimed that when the
advance In wages was made recently they were
not included. They want an increase of 10 to Is
per cent
The New York grand Jury yesterday took evil
dence concerning matters connected with the
Thlrd-avenue street-car strike, including that of
the man who tried to wreck the cable car on
Monday night, and with the case of Mrs. Land
graft, the boycotted baker, but no return was
made to the court at the time of adjournment
A movement is on foot to organize the several
thousand boys in New York city, great many
m IA wv yUaU
A great many of them are kept at working shops
for years and are not permitted to learn trades.
The same evil is said to exist in other cities, and
concerted movement will likely result to pro-
tect labor from this fire in the rear.
The remarkable DEVELOPMENT of natural gas
in Western Pennsylvania and in other localities
is forcing upon a good many manufacturers who
have heretofore regarded that development as an
uncertainty the wisdom of taking advantage of
that fuel. The we'll which was struck at Grape
vile and which is blowing off from 7,000, 900 to
1000 600 feet Of gas per day, is new pointer to
the gas hunters.
Within month past So 000, 900 worth OF manu-
featuring establishments have been projected in
and near Chicago-one firearms company, with
capital of $500,000, that will turn out 1900
rifles and shot-guns per week. besides 1000, 900
cartridges Mills, furnaces and large mannfac-
turing establishments are to be located there. A
great deal of enterprise is also let loose in the
Ohio Valley, but the peculiarties there is the
Thirty five more of the employees of the Mis-
souri, Car and Foundry Company, at st. Louis,
who struck last week because the management
OF that company refused to cease supplying re-
pair material to the Missouri Pacific Railroad
Company, returned to work yesterday morning.
About wothirds of the entire number of men
necessary to carry on the full business of the
establishment are now at work. A full re-
sumption of operations is expected by President
Mcmillan by the end of the week.
One of the effects of the combination Of labor
is to induce employers to set forth the condition
of their business in its fullest details. No less
than dozen employers have done this in the
past ten days, in Milwaukee, st. Louis, Chicago
and further East. The other day 400 men en-
ployed in the Mason machine works at Taunton,
Mass, asked for a 10 per cent advance in wages.
which they believed the firm could afford to give
because the working force had been increased
since last winter from 500 to 700 men, The firm
answered the request going into the secrets of
it's business and showing the exactly why
their requests could not be granted. This is
something new. Employers heretofore have
scorned to explain their business to their en-
ployes. The information they receive in this
way will prove to be of an educational charac-
ter and will furnish them with material whereby
In the future they can decide more wisely as to
strikes, advances, etc.