The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1886-08-19
LABOR AND LABORERS.
News and Notes of Interest to Both
the Employers and the.
Employed.
WOrkingmen Drifting Into Politics
The Industrial World and the
Labor Market.

There is very strong drift among the
workingmen toward political action. This
feeling is stronger in the Western States
than in the East. Experience, however,
shows that they would prefer to throw ten
votes to the politicians they denounce than
one vote TO one of their own number. In
Texas politics is the absorbing question
among workingmen. In several cities OF
Kansas political tickets have been put up
by wage-workers.
District Assembly No. 65, Knights of La
Dor, at Albany, became SO large that n di-
vision was necessary. The colored wait
ers of Chicago have organized an assembly.
There are % local assemblies in Cincinnati,
and the order is expanding. Local Assem-
bly, No. 7103 is doing good missionary
work in Colorado. There are 5000 mem
bers in good standing In District Assembly
No. of Pittsburgh. The Bricklayers In
ternational Union has lot local assemblies
and 10000 members. The Singer Sewing
Machine Company of New York is en-
deavoring TO make terms with Its striking
statesmen. The National Bakers Union
has forty branches and membership of
$4,000. The printers of New York will
turn out 5 ZOO men for the coming parade.
The Empire Foundry Company OF Troy
has advanced piece work ten per cent;
day work, nifty cents; pattern-tile twenty
five cents; and the men in the iron mill
have struck for forty cents day advance.
Trouble is again threatened in the Hook
ing Valley coal mines. Strikes are also
threatened in Indiana and Illinois mines.
Wages have been reduced to a starvation
basis in the Iowa Mines
The Southern Manufacturers Associa-
ton has organized an association on The
1ata r,.In nj, ,.,,11 e. -
600. Thirty carloads of textile machinery
recently arrived at Gibson, Miss. A new
clothing factory is going up at Henderson,
Ky. Southern textile manufacturers are
putting in huge Corliss engines, electric
lights, new looms and special machinery.
One firm at Newberne, n. c., has purchased
1900 spindes and 800 looms at Biddeford,
Me-, to be up and running by Nov. /.
Southern textile competition has driven
New York dry goods dealers to get special
freight rates. Southern manufacturers are
preparing to increase the competition by
doubling their capacity in order to reduce
the cost per yard, and to that end are con-
tracing for machinery in the North.
A sheeting- mill in Waterville, Me-, made
"a 900 profit on /, 900 hands in one wear, or
$40 per hand, equal to so cents per week.
Several Maine mills are obliged to run day
and night.
The Massachusetts paper makers report
business brisk. One maker at North
Adamsihas just put in four new 500 pound
heaters. The total production of paper
and pulp of all kinds in the United
States last year was S,3S0,S pounds,
against 1867, $50 pounds in 1884, 6,949, 500
pounds in 1888, and 5,3l5, 400 pounds in
1882.
Last years wood pulp production was
100000 pounds; wood-pulp board, 90, 900
pounds; straw board, SS1 $50 pounds; ma
Mia, 953, $50 pounds; collar paper, 4,50O
pounds; chemical fiber, 549, 600 pounds;
book and news paper, 2,l32,900 pounds.
Massachusetts took the lead In book and
news, making 1895, 200 pounds; New York
was second, with 3l9, $50 pounds; Penn
sylvania third, with 100000 pounds. Penn
sylvania's total product of paper and ma
terial was 727 400 pounds, or about per
cent. of the total output. New York's out
put was ,694 $50 pounds. Only two States
do not make paper-Dakota and Louisiana.
Missouri made 9,0O0pounds of straw wrap
ping.
The for;y-two Brockton, Mass, shoe
manufacturers have refused TO discharge
non union lasters, and stand by one of
their number who was ordered to do so.
The largest shoe factory in England re-
Gently burned down; throwing out 1920
hands.