The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-03-13
LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

Mining all over Ohio is dull.
About 8 900 men are out of work in Chicago.
The Charleston Is CT cotton-mil has AGA
looms in operation.
A Keokuk ia. jury have decided that shaw
ing is not Sunday necessity.
The working day in Paris has been reduced
from eleven hours to ten hours.
The Wilson vein of coal Roaring creek is
said TO be the thckest in the world.
In New York city the building trades have 45
unions. with membership of 90, GOO.
The journeyman painters OF Bordentown, N.
j., have been given an increase OF from $L75 to
81 day.
The San Francisco Girls Association instructs
young women in household duties and furnishes
girls to families
600 of the worlds railway employees are killed or
MANNED every year
The island of.Malta has a lace output worth
$220.OO0 a year Four Thousand five hundred
women and girls are employed
Goid-beating is about the only trade that has
not been affected by machinery. The work is
do ne to-day just as it was three centuries ago.
The rate of wages established by the New
York Hebrew Typographical Union is 81 for 100
linea or / cent a line. There are fifty Hebrew
printers in New York.
A scale of wages has been prepared by the
tin and sheet-iron roofers to govern the trade
for the coming year. They will demand $500
day and nine hour working day.
An appeal has been issued by the Federation
of Metal workers. calling upon all morgan lied
workmen to combine and fight for a reduction
of working hours and increased wages.
A single blast at Fair Haven, VT, recently
moved block of slate weighing 400 tons and
containing 1000 feet of good material It
was go feet long. 40 feet wide and 20 feet thick
Since the organization of the New York mill
wrights they have forced an advance of more
than 81 in the daily wage of each member and
have cut down the length of their working day
by one hour.
The brick manufacturers of Pittsburg have
signed the brick makers scale, which provides
that wages for the coming year shall be at the
same rate as In 1887, except that boys will be
employed TO sand the bricks.
New Orleans LA contains the largest cleo
tric-leht plant In the world The power is fur
nished by two engines, with capacity of ], 200
horsepower. There 1900 arc lamps in use
in that city operated by the plant
Hereafter the painters and paper-hangers OF
Paterson N j., will work nine hours day and
eight on Saturday. These are the drst to make
the change. Other trades have given notice to
the same effect. to be enforced on April and
May
The four furnaces that are in course of cree
tion at Emsley City. Birmir CHAM. Ala,
are to produce 720 tons of pig-iron "a day. Two
thousand men will be employed. This great
establishment will cost nearly 81 0OO 600 for con-
struction
The value of all minerals mined in the United
States during 1856 was S465. 100000 Coal was
the most valuable mineral product IN 1885. but
first during 1886. the output having been worth
more than the value of the gold and silver de-
veloDment combined.
The shoe manufacturers of Weymouth Mass,
have filed the places of their striking hand.
sewers with Italians who are living Temporal
lily in the factories in which they work. ng.
every boarding -house in town having refused
them board. The mill-owners willfbuild to
commodate the Italians.
The Chinese of Chico and Mendocino countless
California, combined and did such cheap work
that they drove every white laundry out of the
business. They now taking hand in the
butcher business and are selling cheap that
white butchers compelled to seek another
occupation in order TO make living
The Workiugmen's independent political
party has been formed at St Paul. MINI. Tho
members propose organizing in all the wards
and will vote for the party In each ward that
will give the greater inducement, and IL no
cessions shall be made by either party the
labor men will nominate candidate of their
own. They want representatives In City Coun-
ellis and the State Legislature
Omaha briek-layers say that they will not
work until their demand for eisht-hour day
at 81 so day shall have been granted. The
brick contractors reply that they will not en-
ploy the men unless they shall agree so work a
nine hour day at "a. so day; and eight hours on
Saturday with eight hours pay. In 1886 .aie
briek-layers worked ten hours for 81 They
struck that spring for a. 80 for ten hour day
and won