The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-08-18

at the beginning of the next fire is 1872.
The largest number in operation at any
one time last year was LII
Car building is becoming an important
industry in Stockton, Cal Orders are re-
celved from all parts of the PACING coast
The Amalgamated Society of Carpenters
and Jolners of New York has asked the
other carpenters organizations TO join ii in
forming q united trade committee.
The Stone-cutters' Union is rapidly in
creasing In membership. Only the Itten-
bach and Smith yards now remain out.
and every union mar is In employment.
For five hundred years previous to the
Elizabethan and Cromwellian wars hand
spinning had reached a perfection in Ire
land not surpassed in any other country.
In France the firemen are enlisted and
trained like soldiers. They patrol the city
and tattend public gatherings to guard
against fire. Parts of the city have stations
with fire apparatus for public use.
1t is reported by New York Topographic
cal Union. No. z (German-Americanl. which
has 30S members, that there are this year
an unusual number of applicants for help
from the out-of-work benefit fund.
From England it is reported that the
short-time movement in the Manchester
cottOn-mills has failed, and that a strike
among the Durham miners has been pre-
vented by a 10 per cent. advance In wages.
In the prisons of New York there are
about 400 men. and work must be fur
nished for $500 of them under the new Fas-
sett prison-labor law. In Sing Sing. at this
time, there are go men at work cutting
stone, % on the State shoe-works. 80 in the
quarry, 4S on stoves. LIZ on sorting rags. SO
in the laundry and 81 on the new shoe
works On the piece-price plan. In all there
are GA men at work, and 474 IN the cells,
idle.
There is now a prospect of an ~amalgama-
ton of the Central Labor Federation with
the Central Labor Union of New York,
and of the settlement of the roubles that
brought about the split between them. In
the celebration of Labor day the two bod
les will unite both in the parade and the
picnic. The preparations that are being
made by the labor organizations give assur-
ance that there will be a remarkable dis
play of unionism on that day.
At Decatur, Ala, skilled mechanics are
in great demand. Ivens g. Son Machine
Company, the Louisville and Nashville
Company and the United States Rolling
stock Company all van more skilled men.
The Louisville and Nashville Company has
sent an agent North to secure a lot of
hands. The Iron Furnace and Charcoal
Chemical Company will be pnt in opera
ton the LIST of September. These two works
will add several hundred to the population.
The recent speech of Lord Randolph
Churchill on land and labor is exciting at
tention in England. He advocated the
not only for women and children, but for
all workers. He advocated a change in the
land laws. ~depriving the landowner of the
power of bequest. He advocated the pur-
chase of large tracts of land by municipal
tiles, upon whichmodeldwellings for work
ingmen should be built and rented at a low
rate.
An easy victory has been won in New
York and Brooklyn by Defense Assembly
of United Cornice and Sky-light Makers.
The members demanded So per day, with
nine hours on five Of the weeks days and
eight on Saturday. In Brooklyn the de-
mand was granted at once, but in New York
there were $50 strikers, nearly all of whom
have gone back to work within the past
few days on their own terms. 1t is a trade
year round, and the statistician of Defense
Assembly says that, at union rates, the
weekly average of wages for the year will
be S12.32