The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-08
LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

Philadelphia Record.
The-total cut of lumber at Minneapolis this
year is fifty million feet less than last year. which
is the smallest cut since 1861. The lumber sup
plies have declined at that point in the ratio Of
twenty six to seventeen.
Fifteen thousand miners in the bituminous
coal fields have asked for an increase of wages
within week. Organization is pretty thorough
throughout the West, but for all that the strikes
seem to be made without much regard to it.
The Catholic Knights in Canada propose to
appeal directly to Rome if the pending decision
goes against them. In that event delegation
of two or three of the abest Knights will prob
ably go to Rome and present the case in what
ever way the rules Of the church will permit
The annual loss in hides for manufacturing
purposes, caused by branding of cattle, is put at
$4,000 900, and, to preveht this, branding on
the head instead of on the ribs is advocated.
The tanners have long opposed this barbarous
custom, but the cattle raisers pay very little at
tenton to it.
The manufacturers of machinery of every kind
are oversold for from one to four months.
Some orders have been refused lately in this
State and more business is coming to hand in
other States than can be promptly attended to.
Engines of all capacity wanted. from the
two-horse- power gas engine up to the seven
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Corliss engine.
Henry George has issued his circulars for a
newspaper to start in January. 1t will be called
the Standard, and will seek to reach national
circulation at jump. Mr.. George will advo-
cate his land reform schemes, and make strong
paper editorially if not in news. This will give
us two labor papers deserving of the name. but
New York will monopolize both of them.
The manufacturing interests in the South pro-
TESS to see great deal of improvement near at
hand in manufacturing The existing and i'm
pending railroad construction is creating an act
i've demand for all kinds of building and railway
material, and the building of houses and shops is
helping along the general activity. The lumber
men talking about a new hand-saw mill
which beats everything else in its line.
Electricians are greatly pleased over the sue
cess of the electrical railway in Minneapolis
The train and load weighs ninety tons, and
speed of seven miles an hour is made, which is
all that is allowed. In short time the system
is to be extended to other Western cities. The
experiments being made in Europe are highly
successful Practical electricians predict that
they will soon overcome every obstacle IN the
way.
Among some of the most successful technical
institutions in this country the Industrial
College, at Worcester, Mass. the Stevens Insti-
tute. at Hoboken, N. j.; Green's School of Sci
ence, at Princeton, N. j.; the Pardee School. at
Easton. Pa; the Miller Industrial School, at
Batesville Ark. the Case School of Applied
Sciences. at Cleveland o.; the Rose Polytechnic
Institute, at Terre Haute, Ind. besides q half
dozen smaller schools in New York city. These
schools have capital ranging from 800, 900 to
81, 250, 900.
The Southern negro farm hands are standing
up like white men to their labor organizations,
and the work of organization is progressing won
derfully well among them The planters. while
not approaching trades unionsm, have observed
and remarked with much satisfaction, that the
spirit of organization is leading to greater in
dustry and thrift on the part of the negroes In
years past all the negroes worked for bacon
and hominv, but now the association of white
leaders has not only brought the blacks together
in union, but it has led them to greater effort,
and they doing more work, and, in many
cases, beginning TO save money.
A good many papers wisely recommending
that the present favorable opportunity be util-
lied by employers and workingmen for perma-
rently establishing friendly relations for the
future regulation of wages. Both workmen and
employers are happy and contented, and each
side now recognizes the necessity of pursuing a
course that will avoid strikes lockouts. 1t has
been shown that while arbitration possesses
many advantages. it is, after all, defective, be-
cause on one side it deprves employers of as full
a share of profits as they desire. and, on the
other hand, the principle which labor seeks to
assert and establish is entirely ignored. Labor
is looking in the direction of self-employment
but does not know how to accomplish it.