The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-06-13
Labor and Indu.trial Notes. 2

Philadelphia Record
The sale OF agricultural implements has been
unusually large this year.
A New York cigar manufacturer will remove
his plant to Tampa, Fla.
Three Georgia counties will ship az many as
1000. 600 melons this year.
A South Keens IN. 81. firm has orders from
France for sewing machines
The Knights vii! not support the strike in the
Pratt mines, near Birmingham.
There is a thriving colony Of negroes at Nieo-'
demus. Graham county, Kansas
The twenty-eieht Iasters of Roch ester IN. "
hop struck last week for Saturday half-holi-
day
The bootbIacks of Lincoln. Neb., have formed
q union and raised the price Of . shine TO 10
Nearly $500 girls and women are employed
around the Omaha mines. many of them at
night
Many Arkansas farmers who have heretofore
cultivated only cotton have begun to plant
fruits.
The Middletown fDel.) Transcript says the
baskets.
The St Louis grocers gave $500 in prizes to
the vctors In the athletic sports at their picnic
last week.
Seventy five machinists at Rochester, N. Y,
struck last week because the windows were
nailed down.
The export Of tea from Annoy. Chins, to the
United States during the last season was 18..
297.6l7 pounds.
The value Of the mineral production of Can
ada during 1887 was g, 429,7l2 moro than that
Of the previous year. sS
The largest -four mill in the world will be
established at Duluth, Mimi. The capacity will
be 5000 barrels . day.
A Yonkers IN. " firm will give its employees
. Saturday hals-hoday from July to Aug. 25.
with full days pay.
The e.ss-works at Gate City. Ala: where
about ssventy-fve men will be employed. are to
be in operation in September.
St Louis Knights have established cooper
alive mattress mill. Coopers' Union, No. ], Of
New York. will start cooperative shop.
We used to get orr shipping ropes from
France, but now We manufacture them our
selves. and get small quantity from Canada
The Merchants League. of San Francisco, has
the necessary 100 charter members, and has
rented six rooms for the use of the association.
The National Steam-ftters' Upion has been
formed II has members in Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois. Wisconsin and
Minnesota.
The cast Of the stern-post Of 'Cruiser s. be-
ing built at San Francisco. required 30. 600
pounds Of molten steel. 1t will weigh about
q, 600 pounds.
hours and more wages They have been work
from sixty-two to seventy hours a week for
from lie. Sd. to 4s Sd. per day.
Belgium exported 10. l24 tons Of steel rails 10
January. February and March-3.000 tons less
than the quantity sent to other countries during
the same period Of last year.
The miners at the Blue Creek fAla) beds
have accepted the offer of the companv-40 cents
ton for coal when the iron sells for $l3, and As
cents when the product 10 worth SIS
The Knights intend to start cooperative
colony on several hundred acres Of ground near
Genwood Springs, Col. Canning-factories and
other establishments will be operated
The capacity of the Findlay iO.) natural gas
wells squirting already il SO. 900 feet. and
it is claimed that IL all the beds were developed
sufficient oil could be obtained TO supply the
world.
The Krifhts in the Albany breweries have
been taken back on verbal agreement which
in force heretofore. Only one brewery is yet
non union ~
Thirty cobbestone PAYERS employed by the
city Of Brooklyn atruck last week for a dav
instead Of 50 So The men have been working
eight hours day. 10 New York city the PAYERS
get g % for ten-hour day.
They have been making 3s-ton guns at Ports
mouth, England. and are talking Of introducing
the Alton variety. NeAay IS. 900 people i've at
Portsmouth on wages earned ia doing some kind
Of work on EuglAnd's big gums.
Chinese fruit dealers are buying up the cherry
aad other other fruit crops in many localities
xoou: NspA They boy thu fruit on the tree,
aud pick, pack and ship to San Francisco The
Call says they shrewdl buyers and hard
workers, and make the business pay.
The Chicago Times says the Knights have lost
thousands Of membe in that city since the kick
in last October. About 90. 900 have joined . 60
cisty formed by the kickers. TIE shoemakers
talk Of forming trades district The painters
have dropped out. and nearly all the carpenters
have also left the oresnizstion. ey
A. A. Carlton, Of the executive board OF the
K Of L., Gays: THE reason for nv saying the
Knights are in = bsttsr condition now than ever
10 because they are beginning 20 think intelli-
gently. They begin 10 see that the prnpsr re-
s0lt cannot BE- attained By strikes Anekboycots.
Educate and seitass. and the public VII sss that