The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-05-08
LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL NOTES.
Philadelphia Record.


German furpiture-workers Of New York city
are subscribing money for the strikers In Berlin,
Prussia
One Of the biggest pulp-mills in the world IL
TO Do erected on the Penobscot river at Piscata-
quis Falls, Ne.
The Workingmen's Educational Society Of
Omaha will provide library and reading-rcom
for lts members
The Retail Grocers' Association of Cincinnati
has asked the board Of affairs to abolish all re-
tail public markets.
The painters and paper-hsngsrs Of Toronto
have requested an advance of u cents an hour
and nins-hour day.
The boys in the Industrial School ct Golden.
Col, are cultivatine fifty acres Of ground ad-
joining the institution.
Holyoke, Mass, is ono of the largest paper
mill centers ia the world There are twenty
two firms, with capacity OF over 200 tons
day.
The Chinese government recently received
600 miles of submarine cable for line to be laid
from the islands of Formosa and Tongtu to Foo
Choo
brick-yards struck last week for advance Of
25 cents day. or sl25. Two yards refused the
advance.
The Retail Gro:ers' Association of Cleveland
has raised the iniation fee to 81. and the
monthly dues 20 80 cents. clerks bureau
will be established.
A strike for So so all around was ordered by
the New York Central Union on job which
paid some OF the sixty carpenters $3.50 day
and the rest 1926.
Montreal brick:layers, who have been recsiv-
ing g. g. 80 and 81, want SO. 80 and upward
The stone-cutters want So and 1925 day in
stead Of 81 80 and 81. 20.
The Mutual Relief Association in connection
with the Brick-layers' Union of Baltimore has
membership of 2l2 Last years expenditures
amounted to nearly 81, 900.
A company with o capital of 1000, 900 will
establish plant at Birmingham. Ala, for max
ing steel from phosphorus iron ore. The phos-
phorus ia extracted with the Stag.
One Of the furnaces started at Ensley City,
near Birmingham, Ala. last week is running
200 tons day, the largest capacity of any
furn ace in the South. The other three will soon
be in USE
1t has been claimed that there are thirteen
the land question. Mr.. Tillman. of South
Car olina. is said TO be the most outspoken ad-
herent of the doctrine.
The operators in the coke regions are wedding
out the Huns. Poles and Swedes. One firm that
employs 10000 men will discharge all employees
Who do not speak English, and others will
be employed hereafter.
The thirty six brick manufacturers of Chicago
have notified their men that wages will be re-
duced 10 per cont from last years pay. which
was g. so . day. There about 200 men in
the Brick makers Union
Twsuty-six Italians arrived at Grand Rapids.
Mich, from New York city some days ago and
claimed that they had been sent there to work
on one of the railways. They camped in lot
and were all arrested for vagranoy.
The strike of she Waterbury Conn masons
and bricklayers for So so day, which began on
smoothly. Some of the men have returned to
work individually. and others have left town.
At Minneapolis, Mimi. there are few CO.
operative cooper-works. . cooperative shoe
store. feed store, wagon shop, two grocery
stores, a cigar factory and carpenter and paint
ing shops The stores pay dividend of per
cent
The brick makers of st. Joseph, No., have
struck for an advance OF rs cents to molders and
laborers and Is cents to the boys. The scale
that has prevailed heretofore was 81 80 a day
for molders. 81 a day for laborers, aud So cents
for yard boys.
The Boston Herald is profit sharing institu-
ton. Recently the employees received their
share Of the net profits of 1887. The shares
amounted TO Sis, 900. and each employe was paid
an amount equal to per cent of his wases-or
two weeks pay.
The Order of Railway TeleRraphers of North
America, which was organized on June 8. 1886.
has eighty unions and about Il, 600 members. A
with loo men. The organization hopes to keep
down the number of teleeraphers.
Mr.. Mcguire. representing the locked-out
ek-makers, of Verplanck, N. Y, was In town
last week soliciting aid. The have been
locked out eighteen months because they would
not leave the Knights. The bosses have been
aided by the manufacturers of New York and
New Jersey. who have given cents to the
Verplanck bosses for every 1000 bricks sold
since the strike began.
Among the industries just started and to be
established in Alabama are q stove factory at
An frnn far At n;pO haro
mill at Decatur, ice factory and electric-light
plant at Tuscaloosa. In Arkansas an iron foun-
dry has been established at Camden. In Florida
there are q new shingls-mill and brick-yard at
Bridgeport saw-mill at Hampton, broom factory
- Jacksonville. and cigar factory at Quitman. In
Georgia there q new furniture and coffin-mill
at Gainesville. planning mill at Cedartown, saw
and planning mill at Dowdy, oil-mill and guano
factory at Monroe, packing factory, planning mill
and mattress factory at Rome, ice-mill at
Savannah. guano works at Senoia. and candy
mill at Washington. In Kentucky there are a
stave factory at Fordsville. coffin factory at
Louisville. and four-mill at Sturgis. In
Maryland an envelope factory and clothing
factory at Baltimore, electric plant at Hagers-
town, cigar-works at Jefferson, canning
and can mill at Sharon Station, and canning
works at Wilma A cotton-mill will be estab-
lshed at Holly Springs. Miss. The following
operations are reported from North Carolina:
Asheville candy factory; New Berne. furniture
works; Tarboro, cotton-mill and the Fries cot
ton factory AZ oaiefn VIII aoQ foo spindles, 10
cards and Is plaid looms. These from South
Carolina At Baldock timber lands will be
cleared. the gold mine at Brewer worked. and
an s0-stamp mill erected. At Charleston .
creosoting factory and box factory are new. In
Tennessee there have just been built at Cross
vile saw-mill; Knoxville, cracker-works; and
at McMinnville. a!jean elothing-mill In Texas
these industries projected: Dallas. small oil
works. Galveston, canning-mill; Mckinney, cot
ton compress; Seymour, four-mill. and cotton
compress at Terrell. In Virginia they propose
a cannine-mill at Brugh's Mills. wood-pulp mill
ut Green F orrest, artificial ice-works at Norfolk
canning factory at Lypchburg. wine-mill at
Salem and . canning factory at Staunton.
Scale-works will be put mp at Charleston. w.
Va, and bung factory at Elizabeth, in the
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