The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-18
Labor Notes.

New York printers want their International
Union to take steps to equalize the hours of la
Dor in all cities, in order to. as possible,
get down to a nine hour day.
The boot and shoe retailers have formed a ma
tional association, and the next annual conven-
ton will be held in Philadelphia in July.
Branches extend from Boston to Deadwood
The sixty men employed in Knapp Stout e.
Co.'S saw-mlll at St Louis. who struck several
days ago for ten hours work per day instead of
eleven, returned to their places yesterday on the
old basis
Manufacturers combinations increasing,
and steps are being taken to introduce organiza
ton among the iron and steel-makers. One-third
of the 3 300 il-machines west of the noun tains
are running with feeder-nailers.
w. d. Wood & Co., iron manufacturers, at
McKeesport. Pa, have advanced the wages of
their laborers Is cents day. and all other en-
ployes 10 per cent. The increase which affects
about three hundred men, was unsolicited
The expansion of furnace and mill capacity is
some what remarkable at this time. Cheap
steel threatens TO revolutioniZe the iron trade.
A number of schemes nearly perfected for
the building of new works in various localities.
The seven weeks lock out at the Bigelow car
pet-mills at Clinton. Mass, the largest in the
country, ended yesterday, over LOCO hands re-
turning to work at the company's terms The
men who melted the trouble will not be re-em-
ployed.
Cincinnati planning mill and bench hands, at
u meeting held yesterday, resolved to strike for
eight hours work and ten hours pay, in view of
the fact that the proprietors have refused TO
keep their promise of eight hours pay for eight
hours work.
In a recently published report in New York it
is shown that there are %. 785 buildings in which
mendcants have been tenants. In one
block, containing ifty-one dwellings, 157 men
dicant families exist Over SO per cent of the
beggars of foreign birth.
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succeeded in employing full force of new men
to take the places of those who struck for eight
hours, on Saturday, and gas famine has been
averted The company is supplying promptly
all the demands of their patrons.
The great Connellsville coke field which sup
plies manufacturers with nearly all the coke
used, is fifty miles long and two and a half miles
wide. The coal is from eight to fourteen feet
thick, yielding 5000 tons of coke to the acre.
There az, 900 unmined, and 1882
ovens.
The typographical union of Washington or
dered an increase of from 20 to 80 cents per
1000 ems from the daily papers of Washington.
The matter was laid before a board of arbitra-
ton, which decided that the demand was not
warranted. The printers will abide by the de-
cison.
There are at present employed in the hosiery
mills of Philadelphia about l6 900 persons, in
crease of nearly 4 600 in three years Nearly all
machinery is busy on orders The carpet-mak-
ers are, for the most part, busy. and steady
increase in capacity is going month by
month.
Two hundred barb-wire workers employed by
the Southern Wire Company, of St. Louis
struck yesterday for eight hours work and eight
hours pay. The president of the company has
warned them that unless they return to work to-
day they will be discharged and new men be en-
gagged to take their places.
Browns Tenth-sireet rolling mills at Pitts
burg, resumed operations yesterday. the men
VINO struck two weeks ago for 10 per cent ad
| vance in wages returning to work at the old
| rates. The men employed in the lap-wed de-
| partment, who struck for 10 per cent increase,
| also returned to work at the old wages
The manufacture of machinery for making
| silk is growing III Importance. Nearly all the
silk manufacturers have given orders for new
| machinery this spring and four or five mills are
| to be erected The American sk-makers are
greatly encouraged. One mill is to be erected at
West Bethlehem. to employ $50 hands.
| The strikers inundated the men who have
been working at the Michigan car shops at
Detroit, and only few went to work yesterday
morning of those who desired to do so. One
hundred and fifty were threatened with boycott
| and stayed out Most of the $50 striking painters
have resumed work, only sixty five being now
| idle