The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-09-28
Labor Notes.
Philadelphia Recoi

The labor outlook shutting eyes to these excep-
tions. is good Not single craft can be mentioned
house, shop and mill builders at home crowded
with work. which will not abate until tho weather for
bids and even then the builders say, they VII steal
from winter every day and hour they TO dig and
build. Then, again. the shopmen in the thousands of
small shops and factories scattered all the city
from Gray's Ferry to Bridesburg, busy they
know how to be. The mutations of new business
have reacted to the little tenmenin-ashop class of
employers and they feeling better than they have
In the heavier industries the same conditions exist
The manufacturers of all kinds of dry goods have all
the work In hand and promised them that they will
be able to do this fall and winter The CheStnustreet
and Market-street jobbers never buster. They
cannot get goods fast enough This reflects upon the
mills. and they are running ten hours day from
Gloucester to Manayunk with very few exceptions.
full tilt and cannot keep the jobbers from growing
over their telephones.
The same word comes from the locomotive builders
in and out of this State. The Baldwins are pulling
two engines day join the grand army of iron
horses putting night and day for only the coal they
eat and the wafer they drink, never striking
even kicking All the locomotive works full of or
ders, and railroad managers several lines, both
East and West, figuring up how few engines
they get along with during the next twelve
mouths
The car.builders tell the same story The Pull
mans have four months work promised and some of
the Western builders have quit promising Cars are
several roads and traffic requirements are
increasing. The Pennsylvania Company are building
iron.ore cars to haul forty tons.
At Chelsea Mass, funds have been raised for four
factories, which will be 46x10O feet. The money
raised by selling So shares
Two Pittsburg manufacturing firms have bought
land which to 200 800 houses which their
workmen will be encouraged to purchase on easy pay
ments
The threatened strike of the Pttsburg statesmen has
been avered by the propretors of tho gents furnish
ing goods stores agreeing to close at o'clock in the
evening.
One Cincinnati firm of carriage makers have induced
h.,uH na1 %nn,w han dc IL
Labor and If they succeed in inducing all to quit
other firms will endeavor to do the same
At of the mills at lewiston Me-, where this
owner recently granted ten hours as days work, all
the hands quit work yeste, day. because their demand
for the discharge OF an overseer was refused.
Silkmaking machinery is crowdng the Italian silk
manufacturers to the wall. They have power looms
and poor facilities fer dyeing. printing and finishing
hence the Italian Silk Association has petitioned for
free trade power looms and other uecessary@ma.
chinery.
A syndicate of Philadephians and New Workers. has
purchased three hundred of land in New Utrecht
L. l.. which it will cut up into 5000 city lots and
erect them cottages for welltodo workinemen and
small business men who can afford to live that far out
of New York.
There are 555 855 persons in Great Britain ont
side of those having agricultural holdings who have
from one-fourth of to thousand acres. Of
these 1856 736 have from one to five acres and 148,
SO5 from five to twenty acres. Only 663 have over
one thousand acres.
The Philadelphia window-gass manufacturers set
tied the wage question at q conference with com.
m:ttee Of employees Yesterday, anil Gres will at once
be started The agreement affects all the factories in
that State cast of the Alleghenies and in New York
New Jersey and Maryland
About forty union book and job printers EMPLOYED
in Kansas City struck yesterday. demanding revised
scale of wages. The Kansas City Bank Note Company
was LETT without working force but is rapidly filling
vacancies. One firm p II. Tisrnan conceded the de,
mand temporarily. Others are not greatly affected.
The New Jersey silk industry is growing rapidly.
| Plans completed for silk min at Paterson
and for several extensions. number of companies
have decided to increase their capital stock In
eral European silk ceners the demand is chiefly for
low grades which manufacturers do not to- make.