The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-08-05
LABOR AND LABORERS.
Only a Small Percentage of Work
men observation-disclosures Re-
port Increased Activity.
Matters OF Interest to Employers
and Employed-Mis
Industrial Notes.

States than since the uay'' OF the pOOms
saws the Philadelphia Record. More men
are employed in the iron and steel mills,
coal mines, lumber camps, and in machine
shops and factories than ever before. Mold
ers, machinists, tool makers, hardware
shopmen, and the members of the building
trades have full and regular employment.
The average rate of wages is higher. but
the prices Of products show very little, if
any. change. Common labor averages %
per cent. more than year ago.
The jersey garment is taking Europe by
storm. The industry sprang up in Berlin
less than five years ago, and already the
business there foots up S5,0OO,0OO per
wear. Several manufacturers there keep
special cutters on American orders. Eng
land is also heavy jersey buyer. Cutters,
designers, and examiners are advertised for
in all German textile centers.
Mining coal with machinery promises 70
become quite general, company has
been organized, with capital of 10000,
TO operate in $500 acres of Ohio coal lands
with machines. Ohio miners are assessed
two cents per ton TO help those on strike.
The st. Louis coal syndicate, with its
5000, 900 capital, aims at monopoly Of
mining in the Belleville district.
A good many British and some CONT
mental manufacturers are considering the
ACCESSIBILITY of removing to America. The
trade depression abroad has led 10 this
anxiety. One of the largest machinery
manufacturers in Glasgow has decided to
come.
Manufacturing interests are slowly con-
gregating about Birmingham, Alabama. as
Pittsburgh is drawing manufacturers from
remote points to her natural gas supply.
Power compress companies will locate at
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large machine shops.
Builders will be interested in the state
me mt that one dwelling house burns down
every hour, worth 81 1886; barns and sta
bles, fifty week; country stores, three per
day; hotels ten a week; lumber yard
every other day; theaters, five per month.
Small manufacturers who allow shavings,
chips and the Ike TO be used under their
boilers should know that the result-irreg-
ularity of heat, causing irregular expansion
and contracion-is prolific cause of ex-
plosions.
1t is still possible to devise something
new in wood making machinery. No other
machinery has been tinkered at by SO many
and with so much success. The wood
working machinery makers are quite busy,
but they complain of desperate competition.
Northern Michigan is taking much trade in
wood manufacture from Maine.
The fact that silk can be manufactured
in Mexico at one-half of what it costs in
Paris Is attracting attention and will prob
ably lead to investments in silk making.
In spite of low dividends at Fall River,
Providence, Lawrence. and several other
New England manufacturing centers, more
factories are under contract and more are
projected than for two years. Very heavy
machinery is being put In, as though an
tcipating future engagements.
The Baltimore and Ohio Rolling Mills at
Cumberland are to be enlarged, and large
round house is going up at Port Deposit.
A new Bsssemer steel plant is to be erected
at Richmond, and an immense elevator at
Norfolk. Three blast furnaces are to be
built in Virginia. Twenty thousand feet of
ten-inch cast-iron pipe are to be laid at
Asheville, y. c.
With all the saw-mills, planning mills
wood working factories, water and gas
works, churches, and schools that are 60
ing up in the South, there ought to be a
good opening for both common and skilled
labor. 1t is estimated that there are up
ward of 100 short lines of railroad project
ed in seven or eight Southern States with
capital from 100000 to 1000, 900. Are
cent traveller in the South says: "Towns
have sprung up from nothingness, and are
rapidly becoming cities"
The potters of Trenton, n. j.. have
formed National District of the Knights
of Labor.
There is trouble threatened at Timber
line, Mont. The coal company ordered the
Knights to leave the gulch, and upon their
refusal closed their stores. Supplies Will
be obtained from other quarters.
A female assembly is TO be formed in
Houston, Texas. The State Assembly has
just been in session at San Antonio. The
assembly of Whiteright, Texas, is of small
proportions, but there is good representa-
ton of the Farmers Alliance. There are
60, 600 Knights in Illinois.
There are 10000 men waiting to join the
new District Assembly in BROOKLYN. The
child-lab law is to be enforced through
out New York State. The heaters and
helpers in the rail mill at Troy have re-
sumed. The brickmoldefs' strike has also
been ended, the concession which the work
men demanded being made. The Brick
layers Union in New York City has grown
from 112 members last January to l 200 at
present. The mailers, counters, and stamp
ers in newspaper offices in that city formed
a union on Monday night. One large shoe
firm has accepted the terms of the journey
men shoemakers of the Knights of Labor,
and it is thought others will follow. They
Will MOIh -bNO II week, ana nave
been granted the Saturday half-holday.
The bricklayers in Brooklyn do not act in
harmony with the other trades. and have
been asked to resign their seats in the Cen
tral Labor Union.
The building trades of Cincinnati had a
parade and picnic. There were 5000 men
in line. There is good supply of work.
men in the shoe manufacturing business.
Business is reported quiet with painters,
carpenters, timers, molders, and cigar
makers.
There are 10000 employees in Chicago
working on the eight-hour system, includ-
ing the building trades, cigarmakers, and
clerks.
There is strike of 100 men in foundry
in New Haven because of the employment
of an Objectionable workman. Six hun
dred cloakmakers in New York are on
strike for increased wages. The Brick
layers Union has joined the International
Union.
An assembly of machine furniture work
ers has been organized in Indianapolis. A
delegation from District No. log will be-
sent to the Richmond convention in 0cto.
Der.
Our textile manufacturers, says Phila-
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