The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-31
LABOR AND LABoRERs.
OF Interest to Employers and EmpIoyed-Co-
Operative ScEsemes-Industrial Notes.


OF Interest to Employers and Employed-Co-
Operative Observation-Disclosures Notes.
Philadelphia Record
Organized labor is giving more than usua! at
tention to cooperative schemes. Quite mum
Der started during the past two years are holding
out well Years ago the incentive in entering
them was to get rich fast. Much reliance was
had on the magic of the word Cooperation,
but little attention was given to the joints OF the
business. where lubricants are necessary and
where breaks are liable to occur. Production
was blind. There were no brains to control and
direct and demand. In short, everything was
lax, and failures came Now men see clearer;
yet the germ of failure is within most of the
present efforts. Co-operator5 who start in large
cities make a mistake, although the open coun-
try does not guarantee success There are too
many taxes in the city; too many good clothes to
be worn by twelve dollar a-week mechanics too
much beer and whisky, and rents are too high.
Country rents can be had at one-half; there is
less liquor, fewer good clothes will answer fruit
and vegetables are more abundant and cheaper
ard fresher, and land is cheaper. There are
more incentives to industry in the open country.
That is the place for hatters. cigar-makers. rug
makers, stove-makers or almost any class OF
young mechanics starting out, but 1t will require
a great DEAL of hard haInmering to make them
understand it.
Henry George, after having told the miners
how miserable they are. is now going to lecture
The miners will flock to him. What they would
rather hear about instead of land and tariff re-
form is how to get one dollars worth of gro
ceries for ST.. They seldom get nearer than 90
cents worth.
A New York trade paper editor proposes as
one solution of labor troubles the formation Of a
shop council composed of employers and en-
ployed in one concern. The plan reads nicely.
but il is weak. No employers, or very few at
least are willing to pull their business manage
mo- iuci ant 0lAm0ntS
facts; and, if they did. workingmen would not at
tach proper value to risks and half dozen
factors which experienced employers are obliged
to take into account
There are four cooperative glass factories
one at Elmer, N j., one at Wilmington, Del,
and two in Ohio, at Findlay and Bellare. They
border on the joint stock idea Mr.. Isaac Cline,
the veteran trades-unionist and president of the
Window glass Association, has formulated plan
for future cooperative enterprises based upon
dividing profits according to wages earned Each
co operator will take as much stock as his wages
are likely to amount TO in one year and pay for
the stock each payday by leaving q percentage
back. The plan presupposes financial assistance
on large scale Capital is to have as much as
labor; that is, if g laborer has a dividend of $50
on ST. 900 worth of stock the capitalist is allowed
the same on each thousand. Labor would make
itself safe by fixing wages where profits would
fairly allow. The scheme is TO be published in
pamphlet form.
Paterson manufacturers are largely decreas
ing production at mills and shops Several hun
dred silk operatives are out The iron makers
and locomotive builders are also out. At Louis
Franke's silk mill $50 girls threaten to murder
all those who take their places. and besides
throw them into the river. Another silk manu-
facturer has just announced his intention OF fol-
lowing the others who have immigrated into
Pennsylvania.
The cotton manufacturers of Canada have ad
vanced prices to 10 per cent. A good many
New England wooden factories are running night
and day.
There are /, 900 knights in Portland. Ore. So
cialism is said to be making progress. Consid-
cradle building is going on.
The government Of Virginia. pere mptorily
ordered the return of convicts to prison whom
the Atlantic & Danyille Railroad Company kept
at work loading their vessels for northern ports.
1t was done at the instigation of the Knights.
The largest convention of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers will be held in New York
on the third Wednesday of October The New
York workmen are not united on parade man
agement.
The Changers number 100000 in thirty-two
out of the thirty weight States.
New districts springing up under the X. of
l.. Five local assemble have just been organ
ICED among the farmers of Oregon.
A metal manufacturing firm in Brooklyn dis
charged fifty of its men because they were
Knights.
Chicago brick layers get 81 day for eight
hours
Sept. 6 is the date Of the labor holiday in
Baltimore Md
There were 10000 people at the Knights pic
mic at Lake Calhoun. near Minneapolis, last
week.
District Assembly No 40. in New York. pays
$500 a year for place to meet 1t represents
400 local assemblies, all of which pay rent. 1t is
proposed TO raise fund and build grand hall,
The Farmers Alliance, of Texas, has adopted
a platform in sympathy with the Knights. There
is an assembly in Texas composed exclusively of
Mexcans
Five thousand hosiery operatives at Cohoes
have asked for 10 per cent. advance.
The Boston workmen want George e. McNeil
to run for Mayor. He IS as popular there as
Henry George is in New York.
A State labor convention is 10 be held in Hart
ford, Conn
The Maine knights nominated farmer for
Congress IN the Portland district.
There are 100000 men organized in labor
unions in Chicago.
Ninetyone labor organizations were repre-
sented at German labor convention last week.
Hosiery mills springine up on the Pacific
coast More new building is going on at this
time in New England than at any former period.
Much money is being expended in expensive MA
chinery. Lowell rd-makers are crowded with
orders for Southern mills
The increasing demand for labor will not re-
suit in fresh strikes at this time, except for the
purpose of evening up rates of wa ;es between
workmen in different places for the same kind
of work.
MEN OF NERVE, TAKE NOTICE.