The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-02-28
Labor and Industrial Notes.

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Labor and Industrial Notes.
Philadelphia Record.
Rice s. Griffin, sash and blind manufacturers
of Worcester, Mass, have divided 81, 476 among
1887.
The Millers' Union of New York city will make
an effort to organize all the miers, mill wri ghts
and stone-dressers of the State into one organi-
cation.
The New England cotton industry did a
larger business in 1887 than in any year since
1888. Orders ahead bespeak as good season
for 1888.
Plasterers at Montreal CAN. receive twenty
five cents an hour, and thirty five cents an hour
for overtime. Lathers get from ST. % to 81. % q
thousand.
Because Of lack of interest in the organiza-
ton by trades-unions the Hamilton, Can. Cen
trail Labor Union, after three years existence,
has de cided to disband.
Ten colored employees of the Solar iron-works
at Pttsburg. have gone ont because the firm
paid them but 81 80 a ton for pudding while
the regular wages paid are So 30.
company that will reclaim 200. 900 of
swamp in southern Florida by digging three
canals is projected. In this way it is expected
to make the finest rice fields in the world
Cutters silk-uill. at Bethlehem, Pa, now
keeps one hundred employees busy. and will soon
have alterations made that will necessitate the
employment of over three hundred persons.
There are 9. 134 journeymen carpenters and
2.42O apprentices in Scotland. The Society of
Associated Carpenters has been in existence
twenty-six years, and reports me m bership of
1877.
The CITY engineer OF MINNEAPOLIS. Minn last
week made a report to Councils on the cost of
contract and day labor. in 1887, in that city. in
which he showed that the former was cheaper
by $40, 900.
In Augusta Ga. the other dav. a tree was cut
in the forest at o'clock 10 the morning. and by
night it had been turned into printed papers,
and the people were reading in them the news
OF the day.
The Trainers Union. of BROOKLYN N Y, has
asked the assistance of the brick-layers and ma
in resisting the recent coalition of the car
penters and bosses to deprive the trainers of do
ing all inside carpenter work
Pittsburg members of tho Brotherhood of Lo-
connective Brakemen expect to induce the Broth
erhood to hold reunion there about May l.
There are 250 lodges in the Brotherhood, which
covers the United States and Canada.
At Toronto last week the Board of Aldermen,
at the urgent request of the Mayor, ordered
work to be begun on the construction of the
King-street subway. in order that unemployed
starving laborers might be given work.
The brick masons and plasterers Of Kansas
City, Mo-. will probably go out with the stone
masons if the latter association shall not be
given an eight-hour day the coming season. The
former will then demand nine hour day. Il
In Montreal dry goodsrstores girls of 12 are
employed as messengers. being unpaid for the
first year. and % TO 80 cents week for the
second and 81 for the third Milliners are paid
Switchmen in the Western Steel Company's
yards, at Carondelet. near st. Louis, have gone
out because the firm reduced wages from
So to ST. so per day. Other men took their places.
Switchmen on railroads out there get 81 sc a
day.
The soil in Chicago is so compressibie that in
making foundation for the Edison company's
new building the ground was first covered with
sand to depth Of six inches, then a covering of
tarred paper was laid, and then two feet six
inches of concrete
The Caronde1et steel-works near st. Louis,
after three months idleness. started up
Monday. at Is per cent reduction all around.
with 1000 men,, 1000 on during the day. and
1000 on the night shift The mills have ca
pacity of $50 tons of steel daily.
Clark's machine-shop, at Pittsfeld. Mass. re-
Gently purchased one of the largest lathes in
New England. It weighs d. 900 pounds has
face plate with swing of seven and a half feet.
a bed thirty-two feet long. and the distance be-
tween the centers is twenty-five feet.
"a company has been formed at Pittsburg
with capital of 100000. TO manufacture brick
from blast furnace cinders. The industry is
successful in ENGLAND. and the projectors count
turning out 80. 900 bricks day and be-
lieve that they will be sold for So per 200.
An international trades-unon congress-, pro-
posed by the trades of Great Britain and
Ireland, will be held at London in September.
at which delegates from all over the world will
be present and take action on a general move
ment for an eght-hour day among other bust
ness.
The Stats-house at Austin, Tex, which is
about being completed, is of the finest red
granite buildings in the world. 1t was built
by syndicate headed by Senator Farwell for
5000. 600 acres of land in the Panhandle" COW
ering nine counties as large as the State of Con-
necticut.
The contracting stone and brick -masons of
Minneapolis have organized and notified bu lid
ers that hereafter they will take tract
from carpenters who have been given blank con-
tracts. by which they have charge of the whole
operation. The organization wants con ractS to
be let separately.