The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-01-12
THE. WORKING WORLD.

THE WORKING WORLD.
MINNEAPOLIS coopers want 16 cents per
| barrel.
| WOODEN mill has been started at Sioux
Falls, D. T.
/, A HOSIERY mill has been started at Flor
ence, Ala, by Mr.. Knowles.
READING (Pa.) car drivers got an increase
from Il to $1.10 per day recently.
! freshmen of Minneapolis will erect oanK
and call it TIE "Irish- American Bank"
THE Connecticut Federation OF Labor has
appointed State Legislative COMMITTEE.
THE San Francisco Typographical Union,
| No 81 has indorsed the beer boycott OF 5nat
city. a.-... ~
| Columbia has declared against SUNDAY
! funerals.
vun Aoc of Steel claims St. Louis to be next
| to LYNN. Mass, as shoe manufacturing
| center
GARFIELD COUNTY, Col, is likely to DO tbs
LARGEST producer of coal, before many yeatS,
in that State.
THE Hudson Bay Company, which was IN
corporated 225 years ago, is the oloesS IN
! corporated company.
| In Sonth America. Austria and otner 1oS-
| e;pn countries goods made in England anc
Germany are being sold labeled American
THE Union Malleable Iron Company, MO
line. ILL.,, has started its shops again a{tef
a year:s inactivity. Ihe capacity OF Sn$
| works is $4,000 tons
TT is stated that the Standard Iron ara
Chemical Conn any Of Nashville, Ienh.' W'1
erect charcoal ION furnace aha 'AeaA''9''.
| plant at Little Rock, Ark.
| 'ruE Baltimore american says: Eostoo
| boilers and careless employees are sepdlnE
| more victims out OF the world nnpfepasea
| than would be slain in d battle"
/: MONTREAL. boot and shoe makers wiz re-
quest the Legislature TO sec 10 the en1ofte~
! 1nept OF the law which declares tHe WoFA"
ing-man's right to an hours tune at o'''nes'
Topeka, Kan, has the largest sugar MlA
in this country. Farmers get TWO aoAAssss d
zoe for the cane. THIS seasons proaus't o,a
will be l.OOo. 600 pounds OF sugar and lso,os9
! s,allcus OF sl-up.
ryE machine shops OF the LouasTliis
Southern Railroad Company, 10 os 1nosa@
! from. Louisville TO Harrodshurg, wan DC III
creased in capacity fNerk Will ne CON-
mence,1 at once.
O3E CT the largest shoe contracts mace
! ia chat Of q irln in Bangor, Me, VINO nave
engaged 10 make LOG, 0Gu pairs OF wigwam
a]inners within year, for which they axe
20 receive Si4 500.
CARROLL. .. WRIGHT, Commissioner CT tns
Department of Labor. asserts lhat nc sAss
under sixteen years o. age snouAo Do az.
lowed to work and that the country Wouso
he l,etter off if none under twenty were Al
lowed in factories.
TEE Department OF Labor has Just ssal7
ed IN on Il big lob--tae 1nses1igatioh u sA7
WAGES. hours Of labor and condition OF EN-
ployes OF the 700 railroads of the unASsd
States. The number estimated TO 30 en~
gagged ir this industry is about h;s1i q AssAr
ion
AN ingenious mechanic has inverted 6
new screy-half nail and half screw Two
blows Of the hammer, two turns or Las
screw-driver ants it is in. 1t has holdinh
power OF :;,2 pounds in white pine, gaisA
of forty pounds over the no'oiAs power
Of the present screw.
TIE boot and s1loe makers Of Massacha>
sets make on the average about i've pairs
of shoes a day. In 1875 the average num-
Der of shoes made on each working day was
about two pairs. The increase is said to be
due largely TO the introduction OF machinery
and improved processes.
TEE coal prospect Of Coryen, Col, is dc
scribed by the Coai irudc Journal as "a
grand one. The Midland Coal Company ha@
a force Of men en gagged at this time Ill cor
structing tra1nway and coal 'tpples !"
which will be completed soon, and then VIII
occurrence the heavy coal shipments FOR Tao
winter
SECRETARY MCGUIRE, Of the Carpenters
and Jo,ners, says the knights OF l4anct
are undergoing g severe crisis nc DOUBT
but, in the end, though the membership
will be reduced, the order will be all the
stronger in being purified ano purged, pro
| yided it is returned to it's orlgin lines and
settles down to some definite p.au OF &c
tion.n
STATISTICS collected in Connecticut show
that long hours, slow payments and child
labor go together. That IS, i'll the counties
OF the State where the largest p,oportloa
of the laborers are children the hours ara
longest and the hands arc paid onca "a
month, the "Reminiscences OF Che e,nploI@s
permitting the employers to take this ad-
vantage over them.
The Newport Aluminium and Steel Con-
pany will erect on aluminium openhearth
cast-s1eel plant at the Newport iron auo
steel works, which will have capacity o.
twenty tons per day. The process testei
there dispenscs with the pudding furnace:
entirely, and the cast steel is guaranteed to
stand tensile strength FROM 5000 to go
: 900 pounds per square inch, with focty-fise
per cent. reduction Of area. The plant is to
be ready for operation on or before the 18th
of January, 1880.
ANCIENT FOOTWEAR.
The Twenty-Five KINDS of Shoes egorn