The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1888-06-29
WORLD OF WORK AND WORKERS
WHAT IS NEW IN THE FIELD
OF LABOR.

Irish Wooden Mills in Successful
Operation New Works OF
Various Kinds.
A syndicate of fourteen wooden mills in
Ireland has agents in this country selling
the product. The agent says they are
competing successfully with the goods of
England, Australia and Scotland. The
mills are operated by water power, and
they employ $500 persons, nearly all
girls, who receive So a week. The agent
complains of the large duty that must be
paid on the goods before they can enter
the states. One Rochester firm ordered
IS, 900 worth of the Irish goods, and said:
"We cannot make such cloth in this coun-
try. We cannot give it the color or finish
| of the Irish twecds. There is something
lacking in American water to give it the
right dye. The only water that approaches
that of the old country is in the Schuyl-
kill. But while | say this we use a great
deal of home manufactured cloth"
A California firm made u contract with
a party for lumber ut Sl1 per 1000 feet,
provided the defendant would not sell in
four counties 10 any one else. The plain
tiff sued for $40. 900 damages for breach
of contract, and the lower and supreme
court have denied the prayer OF the
ground that a trust is illegal and against
public policy.
A law has beenpassed at Toronto, Can.
which compels the closing Of -, s,oros at
p. m, except H.. ..uuro. heot and shoe
hat and ~, and dry Goods stores inc,ud.
E-e millinery, gents furnishings, Ready
made clothing and sonts' furnishing
gooda,
The Government of Finland recently
! sent a man to learn the art of Persian
carpet making. which th.se who know
how to merufaGluIc the article guard
rsry strenuous'y. He caught on and a
factory has been established at Finland
5 There are ten shoe-peg mills in the
a United Safes. They employ 900 persons.
{ A New Hampshire firm makes 40, 0OO
b!SuCsS PEI Nta1. Sla usCl W SEM
e Va a great deal, but our factories now ex-
port large quantities to Europe.
Il Among the new mills are these: Al
Winsted, Conn, rubber; Pawlett, VT,
fertilizer; Nashua, N. H., shoe, Dyes
: burg, Mich, stave; Colcbrook, N. H..
: bobbin; Columbia Falls, Me-, pressed
y brick and terra Gotta.
Buy your winter coal now. The Goa
Trade Journal says; Those who ar,
n wise will make their purchases early thi
,r year, SO as not TO be caught mapping a
II they have been the past year or two"
An English syndicate will develop Goa
and iron lands near Seattle, w. r. TIL,
d company has a capital of 81, 900. 900 ant
will employ 1000 men in its works, in
L. Guiding Il big iron mill,
An Atlanta (Ga.) shoemaker has jus
" made u shoe which has IA inches of sole
q a width 81 inches and is 81 inches deep
re Three thousand square inches of leathe
were used in both shoes.
The Nottingham mine, at Plymouth
Pa, has again broken the greatest recor,
4 for hosting coal cars. The mine is 4G
~ feet deep and the average daily hoist 70
:, a month was 1857 cars.
es An oil well struck at Findlay, o., las
week produced 500 barrels in three hours
a greater output than has ever bcfor
been realized from one well in the sam,
time.
as Hardware manufacturers held a meet
70 inc of fnsvalapI 81 fayr- dave, o~> D..
ee sentatives were in attendance from man,
is cities. including Philadelphia.
The biggest self-adiusting leather-linl
belt is IS feet long. 30 inches wide an,
+ weighs 7S0 pounds. 1t has LOG, IT'S links
D. h belt is in use at Lawrence, Mass.
g The girls in a New York cigarette fac
- tory went out to have q discharged gil
~ reinstated and to put u stop to the obnos
ious boss doings, ard they won.
e. The 500 employees of the Darlington
England, steel works have struck agains
fixing a sliding scale of wages on a basl
of e3 los. The men want CD los.
re Three hundred Knights of Lapor an
ry their ladies, of Titin and Fostoria, O.
re were recently banqueted by their broth
sy ers CT Findlay, o.
A new street railway is to be built a
&c Wilmington, Del. The fare will be
cents, 1 cent less than the charge of tn
other company.
Eighty non-union cempositors of CHI
cago, al work on a directory at al cent
per eco, have struck rather than worI
Tor 81 cents per 1000.
A Franklin, Mass, man has sold hi
patent on 8 new knitting machine 70
Sc, 900. 1t knits a whole stocking wit
but one seam.
Some Detroit bricklayers have struc1
against wor"ing ten hours at ten hours
pay. They want nine hours at nine hou
wages.
The silk weavers in a College Point, L
L., mill II struck because some of thei
brother unionists were blacklistcd ar
still out.
The Bricklayers' union of Columbus
O., has reorganized with sixiy-thre
members, and it expects eighty more in
short time.
Twenty five thousand acres of Goa
land in DeKalb, Etowah and Marshal
counties, Alabama, will soon be dc
veloped.
The Wilmington. N. c., cotton mil
employs 14O persons, and has q week.,
output of 10000 yards of gingham.
Iowa coal miners are working for S
cents per ton from April t. October, an,
30 cents per ton for the rest of the wear
The Bricklaycrs' union, No. II, of Nc,
York, has defeated a resolution to ADM
Italians to membership.
. Eighty cigarmakers of a New YorI
factory have struck against a roductioI