The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-01
Labor and Industrial Notes.

Philadelphia Record.
St Paul, Nsb, Knights, have elected coun-
Gilman. school director and police judge, aud
the Willow Spring Mo. Knights have elected
the Mayor and an alderman.
Kansas City mo. Carpenters want nine
hour day and 30 cents an hour. The union has
over 700 men. Last year wages were 20 aud %
cents an hour for tenhour day.
The mue-drivsrs in the Limetown Bend
mines are to receive 81 25 a day while the 10
cent basis shall be In operation. and $2.1l when
the 74-cent scale shall have beguu
Eight hundred and thirty-fve mine cars were
hoisted in day recently in the Central mine at
Hyde Park. Scranton, which is 400 feet deep.
This record has perhaps never been beaten.
The Operative Plastersrs Union, Of New
York city. has made the initiation fee $50 for
pastersrs who come from England and other
places and who return at the end Of the season.
Glass that contains phosphorus and oorsx
The admirers of this new glass claim that it 10
of inner quality than any glass hitherto pro-
ducec.
Last years new street railway mileage in the
United States was about 200 miles, and this
years will reach /. 100 miles. The Street Railway
Journal has estimated the cost OF this years
building at 80. 735, 900.
laid 10 South America under the direction Of
the government. and 700 miles more arc pro-
jected The rails are bought in England, and
cost about s25 ton delivered.
Stone-cuttsrs 10 Omaha. Neb.; Topeka. Kan;
Denver Col; LATHE Rock. Ark. st. Paul and
(Mo store-cutters. who were paid So 80 last
year, have struck for 81 day.
The capacity of the salt vein discovered in
Kansas will soon be over 5000 barrels dav.
The salt 10 claimed to be the best in the country.
The vein Is 300 feet thick. One Hutchinson
company has begun with a production Of 600
barrels day.
The movement toward dairying in Dakota 10
said to be phenomenal Reports Of the orRani
cation of crsameries. and here and there a
cheese factory, come from all quarters. Mime
sofa, also, is rapidly becoming great and pros
perous dairy State
Tho Florida Times. Union says: The strikes
and struggles and conflicts and lockouts tina,
mark the disorgsuization of society in the North
and West are arnos, unheard of in the South,
and the reason is that labor here 10 satisfied. on
the whole. with its condition."
The trouble between the brick.lsysrs and
masons OF Hamilton, Can. fas been settled by
an aereement to work at 333 cents an hour, with
anon-un0n or union boss, 10 te the choice Of th,
employer The carpenters get e. % day
Hod-carriers ara TO receive 1St cents an hour fol
Q seventy pound load.
A New York dealer says that &c. 000 900 pound.
| OF rubber come 10 this country every year from
Borneo. Africa. and Para. South America Th'
SAP from which the rubber 10 made is obtaines
by boring hole In the tree. A process which
lasts from one TO four months is gone through
| with before the rubber marketable.
The Minneapolis Mimi sewing girls VIII
struek we're receivine3a. s and Scents for shirts
| 0 and 8 cents for jeans trousers; Is esnsa 70
shrss-stsch jeans trousers; cashmere troussrs.
cents engineers jackets. 8 censs: California over
alis. cents; bin overalls. cents. and To-