Omaha daily bee., 1888-05-29
LABOR NOTES.


A 800 ton smelter has Just been ordered by
a Butte Mont frm.
The capacity of the Laramie (Wy. T.) glass
works will be doubted.
A st. Louis company has made 100000
pairs OF shoes sino5 January l.
The Detroit unions are pushing an investi-
CATION OF child labor in that town.
A st. LOUIS firm has turned over 6,505 car
riages and buggies since last May,
Br%icklaycrs' laborers get s2.75 a day in
Brooklyn, and s2-5Oin New York city.
About 1900 scandinavian families have
settled in Canada during the last two years.
The boss bakers of Toronto, Can, have
signed last years scale of wages and regula-
tions.
A Contocook CMe.) man has invented a
machine that makes twenty paper boxes a
minute.
New Haven, Conn, s%tonecutters struck to
have an obnoxious man discharged, and they
succeeded.
The car-wheel plant at Birmingham, near
Kansas City MO-, has q capacity Of l25 car
wheels a day.
The yarn expectation from Bombay, India,
to China and Japan amounts to 10000, 900
pounds per year.
Coal dealers are being driven out Of bust
ness already by the introduction of natural
gas in indianapolis.
The Mechanical Engineers, who met at
Nashville some days ago, will meet at Scran-
ton, Pa, in October.
There are 100 miles of electric railroads in
operation in the United States, and $50 more
have been contracted for. The greatest area
Of miles is in Pennsylvania.
Fifteen members of the st. Paul Self-Pro-
tecting Tailors' association have struck
against a reduction of 20 per cent. The firm
is sending its work over to Minneapolis.
San Antonio (Tex.) is claimed to be the
largest wool market in the southwest, the
greatest horse market in the country, and
the greatest pecan market in the world.
Our consul at Malaga, Spain, ordered a
stove from America, which at first was not
looked on with favor by the natives, but now
they like it, and there is a great cry for
stoves.
A 500-loom cotton-mill for the manufacture
of the finer qualities of %ginghams, seersuck-
ers, etc, will be established at Columbus,
Ga. This will be the first mill of the kind in
the south.
Indiana is one of the largest -four produc-
ing states. 1t has about one thousand mills,
which employ 1000 men, the wages Of whom
the Indianapolis Journal has estimated at
about 81, 500, 900 a year.
One Of the Baku Russia) oil wells re-
Gently produced about $50 0 900 gallons in
115 days. The greater portion was lost, be-
cause there was no apparatus to control the
output, which flowed away into the river.
A Calling gun company has been formed at
London with a capital of S4,O0O,OOO. The
company has an agreement with the Ameri-
can people which gives it exclusive control
Of all markets outside of the western hem
isphere.
The capacities Of the Bishopton knitting
mill at Waterford, N. Y; Fries wooden fac
tory, at Salem, N. c.; the Fonda (N.Y.)
wooden mill; the Columbus (Ga.) knitting
mill, and the Roxbury carpet mills, at Saxon
vile, Mass, have been increased.
The free miners in the Pratt mines, near
birmingham, Ala, have struck for 55 cents
a ton. TIL last scale paid was so cents a ton
in winter and As cents in summer. The COM
pany employs about $500 persons. About
500 convicts are at work around the mines.
Notwithstanding the severe laws against
strikes in Germany there are a number in
progress. The silk weaverS of Bochult have
struck work, and in consequence Of the
movement the Bochult mills have been
closed. A general strike has been declared
for an increase in wages among the dec or
ators and upholsters Of Hamburg and AL
tona. At Dortmund the bricklayers have
agreed to demand a minimum wage of 40
pfennings per hour Q0c), and as the employ
ers are unwilling to grant this a general
strike is imminent.