The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-08-21
Labor AND INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

Philadelphia Record.
Trained women cooks get $3.50 per yea- at
Quebec and Montreal. In some far Western
cities the craft make 500.
Boston union bricklayers get 1926 per day.
There has been q complaint that in a suburb
only Sl.25 has been paid on q job.
About 1000 cattle will be sent from the
wyoming roundup. Larger prices will be real
lied this year than were last season.
The Hebrew Peddlers' Union. of New York,
has requested Mayor Hewitt not to allow boys
under sixteen to pursue the vocation.
New South Wales railroads are controlled by
the government. Lately q steamboat company
has secured a great deal of the trade.
Dir. Henry K. Willis. of Boston, recently en-
tertained 500 newsboys on his farm. He allowed
them to consume his berry patch, too.
Nearly 435. 600. 900 stamped envelopes, were
made at the agency OF the government at Hart
ford, Conn. during the year preceding June !.
Duluth MINI. brskemen have struck. Their
wages were recently cut from 500 per month to
$50, and less work has been given them lately.
The great number of big steamships that
years ago filled the Mississippi are fast disap-
pearing. The railroads have taken their places.
The Dresden Germany Glasshouse recently
contained an advertisement for three men for q
Pennsylvania glass-works. Twenty dollars per
week wages were offered.
China recently received it's first Importation
OIL Ior6lgu soap. Inc C0Iueso soap - VI athblluo
earth, and the material used for washing the
hands is the pods OF a tree.
New York and Pittsburg capitalists have a
hand In a company of English and Mexican
moneyed men who will erect a SO, 600, 900 rail
mill and furn ace at Sabines, Mexico.
The Miners and Mine Laborers' Union. which
recently held its third annual convention at
Cleveland, has 60, 900 members. They work in
twenty-five States and two Territories.
Rocb.,+a, snoa ro,Jar, ~ Ia ela;mad mata
more wages than the craft in other cities.
Eastern men average better pay than their
Western brothers where week work prevails
A leading Pittsburg chemist says that with
| natural gas and the skill Of our workmen Amer
lean glass is now the finest in the world. excell-
ing the famous product OF Belgium and France.
There are 2. 900 kinds Of thread. The spools
are numbered by this method: When $40 Yards
weigh a pound it's spool is No. /: when twice $40
yards makes a pound it is No. 2 thread. and SO
on up.
We receive IL. 900. 600 cocoAnuts per year from
Central America. In rainy weather the tree
sheds two cocoanuts in three days and one every
two days on fair days. They average about $50
nuts per year.
A San Francisco boiler firm asked FIVE men 10
60 TO a neigh boring city on some OF it's work.
The men were discharged for refusing. and sew
e~nty-fve men struck. The men get 81 Der day;
other firms pay $3.50.
Or0amental orick aud terrA-CottA WORKS VIII
be established at Kancas City becaus6>of the re-
cent discovery of clay there that is claimed 20 be
the best in the world. Heretofore the clay his
been shipped from the East.
The following from the National Printer is
good for all trades: 'sro secure good workmen
in the future there must be generous co-opera.
ton between masters aud men. and earnest
work on both sides. Both classes owe il to
| themselves and 90 tha rising generation to unite
In the effort TO make thorough workmen OF
those who are to follow them in the active con.
dncs of trade"
The strike of the two hundred Kansas City
stone-cutters on March l for an eight-hour day
aud so cents per hour has been declared of.
Only a few OF the men have obtained WORK. Al
Topeka. Kan, one hundred and twenty-five
stone enters struck at the same time. Their
places were filled by Eastern importatious. The
employers union will not employ any union
man. Both cities are paying from % to As cents
per hour now.
The Montreal Star says: "What Canada
wants is the kind Of labor which will make the
waste places Of the northwest and other parts
Of the country productive. A larger area oil
cultivated land. and a fuller development Of oul
mineral resources, will give more employment,
to the inhabitants of these cities and towns
The increase of our population, if We are tc
prosper, must be symmetrical. To effect THU
immigration should be judIciously directed"