The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-07-31
LABOR AND INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

Philadelphia Record
A Pittsburg firm has this year shipped boilers
60 Japan, Australia, India, France, Denmark,
Holland ard Scotland
At Dallas, Tex. in 1874. drinks were sold for
10 cents . hoist, whisky was "a. so per gallon and
tobacco cost 30 cents per plug.
Work on the glass-works at Sheffield. Pa, has
begun. Knights have been discharged at this
place for belonging to the order.
A hammer for a pile-driver, made at Jackson
vile some days ago, was the largest ever cast in
Florida. 1t weighed 2, $50 pounds.
Chattanooga (Tenn.) street-car drivers struck
against working sixteen hours q day and having
to clean their cars Their places were filled in
three hours.
st. Paul City Councils have repealed the sec
ton OF the strest-railway charter making the
fare 3 cents. A workingmenis meeting de-
nounced this action
C~igar-makers in a New York factory have
struck against q % per cent reduction. They
claim that their wages run from IS TO $40 per
week under the old scale.
Coopers at Winona, Mimi, have struck against
a cut from 6 cents per barrel, with shaved hoops,
TO 5 cents. Minneapolis firms made the reduc-
ton on June l. The Winona firm says that bar
rels sell for 2 cents less than formerly.
At the shoe-dealers' convention, in Rochester,
last week, q uniform measurement was adopted,
and it was decided to mark shoes with letters
instead Of figures. Samuels, of Hartford. Conn,
WAS cleCteQ pEeSluouL Ol Luo dSSOCldLlOu.
A San Francisco woman sued her sons en-
ployer for his wsgea The court decided that as
the boy has not been living with her for some
years, and as she was not in destitute circum-
stances, she had no claim on the wages he
earned.
In 1741, at New York, some journeyman ball
era were indicted for conspiracy in refusing to
work until higher wages had been granted them.
In 1906 eight boot and shoemakers were fined So
for being guilty OF q combination to raise wages.
Boycotting was a part OF their plan OF campaign.
Three hundred looms of a Montreal, Can. cot.
ton-mill are idle because the operatives have
gone on their vacations on their own accord.
They take q couple of weeks off every year and
the firm cannot help things. A big cotton-mill
at Montreal has begun the manufacture OF
sateen and other goods, the first Canadian mill
10 manufacture this kind of textile.
NJ. J. Modes, Of Strestor. ILL.,, the patentee of
the tank glass-furnace, has established a glass
factory at Colorado Springs, and will probably
erect a house at Salt Lake, Utah, because of the
cityis natural advantages. The soda ash used
In the Streator manufactory he gets from Eng.
land. Salt Lake contains the eoda-ash, the
lime, the silica, salt and everything, but the ex-
cessive railroad rates are q disadvantage.
The mechanics in the railroad shops of Sacra-
mento, CAL, intend to build a statue to the late
master mechanic Stevens, Of that city. The
Wheeling Register says: Great as we have
been in battle, in diplomacy, In erecting aud
administering a system Of government. We have
been greater in what may be called the indus
trial genius OF our people" This move il
thought to be the first memorial OF American
labor.
John Finerty's Chicago Citizen SAYS: LA
boring men, girls willing to work 40 domestics
and people having trades or professions are
about the only class of persons that should im.
migrate to America; and even these might have
considerable difficulty in finding employment
The Citizen would strongly advise the rising
generation In Ireland to stay at homo if by any
means they can make a living in their native
land. Coming to America even with . good ed,
~ucation, but without O trade or profession, is
. about as risky a step as any young Irishmau OF
woman could take"