Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1886-12-14
INDUSTRIAL TOPICS.
--latest from the Busy Werld of Labor
The knights-Trades umOnisfs
Industrial Conditions and
Prospects World in

Column.
Manufactures are generally pleased al
the encouraging prospects for higher
range of prices in all kinds of manufac'
tured products. They feel that the future
IS bright and that their capacity will be
kept busy for year to come. In some
sections of the country mills and facto.
ries are sold from six to twelve months
ahead already In many others the pros
pecls are SO favorable that manufacturers
are not preferi1ng TO book orders at the
present time.
This encouraging condition of things
is having revivlng effect upon agrical,
tural, cotton growing, petroleum inter
csts and all of the great interests of the
country Labor will be in demand in
every industry. and it is probable that
during the present winter employers and
employees will enter iuto satisfactory
arrangements by which strikes will
either be averted or promptly and salts
factorily settled when they do occur.
The industrial reports from all sections
of the country this week are very en-
couraging. The mills are oversold.
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placed for winter and spring. Several
hundred freight cars and half hundred
locomotives have been ordered within a
few DAYS, The wool markets are strong,
The tobacco markets are active. The
dry goods manufacturers are all busy
The real estate operators and spectators
are doing good business and in any and
every direction We look We find much to
encourage. The highest authorities in
our Industries say that our manufacturing
capacity VIII be increased more during
the year 1887 than it was during the past
two wears, that prices will be higher, de =,
mand more regular aud markets will
increase faster than they ever have be-
fore
In New York the furniture workers
have secured advances of wages, and are
crowded with work nine hours day
The carpenters are trying to stop out-of-
town competition of wood butchers. The
brass workers have several strikes in New
York. The workmen in the shirt and
collar industries will hold convention
next Sunday to take action agains: con
vict labor, and to drive out those we'll
to do people who merely work for the
sake of little pocket change The
clothing cutters are endeav0ring to secure
labor CO operation to break up one or
two leading clothing houses, which have
branches in several other cities The
clothing cutters national convention
comes off in Ciscinnsti on Tuesday.
Among some of the most successful
technical Institutions in this codntry are
the Industrial College at Worcester, Mass
the Stevens Institute at Hoboken, \. J
Green's Scnooi of Science at Princeton.
n. j; the Pardee School at E4ston Pa :;
the Miller Industrial School at Buesvils,
ARK : the Case School of Applied Sci
ences at Cleveland, Ohio; the Rose Poly
teChnic Institute at Terra Haute, loo !:
besides half dozen smaller schools in
New York city. These schools have d
capital ranging from 800 600 to 81 80, :
600
The forthcoming report OF the bureau
of labor statistics will be full Of strike
figures.
The Walters Union has induced the
Central Labor Union to boycott four or
five places of amusement
The retail butchers have asked that
union to assist them 10 closing shops at
! O'Clock
The journeymen plumbers are Gratifed
ut the turn things are Likely to take after
fourteen weeks strike. Only half a
dozen out of 800 broke away.
The st. Louis Sunday Critic is rat
ted. More printers are seeking employ
ment in western cities than are wanted
Printing is dull at Louisville, Cincinnati
and Baltimore. In Cincinnati a fair
amount of work IS being done in the
various industries, but dull sersoa is
expected
Fifteen thousand miners in the bitum>
nous Coal-tieids have asked for an
Increase OF wages within a week. Or
gauization is pretty thorough throughout
the west, but for all that the strikes
seem to be made without much regard TO
it.
L0ngshoremcn's Union No ,, il
Brooklyn. numbering 400, will with
draw from district assembly No As
Distric; Assembly No. 81 will hold ball
at the academy of music at Newark
Dacp-nhar u Tho 1nouIlara GRO ap1.a.
vorioo to form national rnior ,nde,
,bo KNIGHTS Master Workmon Pill,
onro,rno, th.t tho r.sorcI,.. fo- ~
ia,., If milne nirars nd certrsl
l,o,-e,n,nent -h;n +bo Enic,b,s ~ ~,
bss haan accomnl,ohad Tha neyt thing
IN do ia in desrinIina the members inr9
nbadiepca
The Catholic KNIGHTS in Canada r-o.
nose tn anneaJ directly In Rome if the
nendinr decision poes AGAINST ttnm T.
that event a decoration Of two nr thra-
of The ablest Knights will probably on IF
Rome and present the case in whafeva,
way the rules Of the church will hermit
The hoard of trade Of IonisvilIe Nv
is irving to induce manufacturers /,
locate there by showing them that Goa
can be had at from 81. so to 80 per ton
It has reputation IS a ma mufacturips
centre, for clothing, cement and whisk v
The total cut of lumber at Minneap