Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-04

| man sharpens 500 a DAY on the emery belt.
A big factory wherein table ware will be
manufactured is 10 Be put up at Pen Station,
near the GrapevilleJPa) gas fields, About
two hundred mon and boys are to be en-
1 ployed. III
The Eureka Steel Casting company, of
| Chester, Pa, has made experiments favor
able TO the adoption Of new process for
making castings which does not require an
healing.
| II has been estimated that only 1900 men
are at present employed around the mines in
the Shamoldn (Pa) district. Heretofore
| 5000 have usually been at work at this time
of year.
Kelly & Jones, manufacturers of plumb
| ing fittings, willIremove their plant at Jersey
| City to Greensburg, Pa, whore they will
invest 100000 and employ 300 men. The
site was given them.
| tits the intention of the federal trades Of
4 New York to have all worldngmen observe
| November IL as day to be devoted TO show
| ing respect to the memories of the executed
4 Chicago labor agitators
The Henry Clay furnace, situated near
| Columbia, Pa, is again in operation after
some months idleness. The Shawnee fur
naces at Columbia have shut down, evidently
because of large surplus of stock.
| Arbitration Commissioner +. +. Donovan
| of New York has settled the lockout of
bricklayers and hodcarriers at Newburg.
The bricklayers get S3.G5 a day and the hod-
carriers S2.12l4 tor nine hours day.
| The Denver Labor Enquirer says that Gen
eral Secretary Litchman will be a candidate
for G. w. +. at indianapolis, and that if he is
| elected General Master Workman Powderly
| will resign shortly after the g. A. in his
favor.
Assistant State Labor Statistician Cougar,
| of Kansas, in an address to Carpenters and
| Joners' union, No. 15S, Topeka disapproved
| of manual training schools because they will
| overflow the various occupations and reduce
| wages.
Engineers of Nashville Tenn, are making
1 preparations for the convention of the Amer
ican Society of Mechanical Engineers in that
city from May q to 10. The society has a
membership of 800, located all over the
| country.
An authority says that So, 900 pianos were
manufactured last year in the United States.
| The average life of this instrument is twenty
| years. Only few factories make the piano
| entirely, there being about nineteen trades
in the composition.
The Pittsburg Steel Casting works,
| wherein the big 1S-ton government gun
was cast, has just finished big gear. wheel
for the Toronto Water works. The wheel
measuaes nine feet in diameter outside, and
weighs nearly eight tons.
The Knights of Labor Of indianapolis are
making preparations for the coming general
assembly. The conservatives give it out that
! they will make strenuous efforts to have their
| champion, Edward Gould, of district 106,
placed on the executive board.
Samuel r. Lowry, colored, has established
a colony of negroes in'Jefferson county, Ala,
where the silk worm is cultivated with great
success. From 10Qto 400 pounds of silk,
worth S. pound, can be raised on one acre
A company will be formed to manufacture
the silk. IS
Several of the national and international
trades unions in this country are consider
ing the advisability of sending delegates to
the International Trades Union congress to
be held in London ip the fall. 1t is probable
that there will be q large American delega.
tion.
| A national convention of bookbin9ers will
be held in Philadelphia next month for the
purpose of correcting abuses which now
exist in the trade. One Of the principal
topics to be discussed IN the convention will
be the establishment of set of apprentice,
ship rules.
A lumber stacking machine. which takes
the place of fifteen men, is in successful use
The lumber is carried on chains from the
trimmer and dropped on the cars in better
shape than the men formerly did the work
But one man is now necessary to manipulate
the machine.
A successful experiment has been made at
the Etna iron works, Pittsburg, by which
the lap welding of tubes is done in one heat
| ing instead Of two. Less metal is required
In fact, the new way saves great deal OF
labor and the cost is from 25 to 40 per cont
cheaper. An employe is the inventor.
An English silk mill at Macclesfield EN-.
ploys LA hands to do less than half the work
that is accomplished by eighty hands in an
American mill. The American operatives
earn an average Of s. week and their labor
Is twice as cheap, measured by its results, as
that of the English operatives, who earn
S5.25.
| The barb-wire industry is in a fair way OF
| being oyerdone. According to the Iron Age
| there are 1Ofty-IOur munu1actuferS In tnls
country who own 2,191 machines. 1t is est
mated that in 200 working days, running
single turns, they will mako 100000 tons OF
barb WIRE while the consumption ranges
from hundred and thirty to hundred and
fifty tons year.
The biennial convention of the Brother
hood of Carpenters will soon be held at De
trot. 1t will be the largest trade convention
ever held in America, the membership now
being over $4,000 Among some of the more
important business to be disposed of will be
the perfection of benefit system. 4 new
and better law is urged to cover trade
troubles and strikes.
From good sources it is learned that the
general vote of the United Order of Carpen
ters of New York and vicinity is overwhelm-
ingly in favor of amalgamation with the
Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners. The
vote stands Is lodges for and against
amalgamation. A eommttee of seven has
been selected by thes1Thited Order to meet a
like committee fromthe brotherhood to ar
| ranUa final details of amalpamatinn Thf