The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-07-28
JOURNAL SUNDAY 28

and kindred industries a fair amount of
business IS doing, and the paper and pulp
mills are running steadily.
Encouraging progress is being made in
England In cobalt plating by new pro-
over nickel as plating metal. as soon as
there IS sufficient demand TO reduce the
price.
Great Britain's 1900 cooperative unions
have 992, 42S members. In 1888 81 072, 035
profit was made on sales of SIS. 675. 225.
One hundred s and twenty five thousand and
ton and S3s.5OO to charity.
President Gompers. of the Federation of
Labor, has sent to the Secretary of War a
formal protest against permitting govern
meDt bands to compete with other musical
bodies, and gives an example of this kind
of competition In San Francisco.
As American matchmaking exhibited at
the Centennial Exposition Ill this country
amazed the Swiss and compelled them to
adopt American machinery, despite their
pauper labor, SO the American exhibit of
jewelry, tableware, silverware, ETC., at
Paris: is gaining market in the "paupers'"
own field.
In Harlem packing-hOuse, in which the
system of profit-sharing has been adopted,
the employees have just received their semi
annual dividend, which was 10 per cent. of
the profits. The proprietor of the estab-
ment Is strong advocate of this system,
and has learned by experience thatit is adj
vantageOus all around.
A company of experienced window-glass
operators and business men of Bellaire, o.,
says the Glass Budget, have concluded ar
rangemeDts with a committee of Lancaster,
o., citizens, by which the Bellaire men
will remove to Lancaster and there build
a window-glass factory. They get $4,000
of a cash bonus, five acres of ground free,
and perpetual free natural-gas fuel. The
company is said to be made up of good
men.
All the unions in the city have voted to
take part in the demonstration of Labor
that will be in line at that time. The gen.
eral committee meets to-day, and it will
recommend Hammond Park, better known
as SchOfeld's Mills, as the location for hold
ing the picnic. Nicholas. Kirz, of the Ger.
man Carpenters Union. is the chairman of
this committee. The speakers for the Occa-
sion will also be chosen to-day.
For few years this country has made
more steel than Great Britain: last year
that country made more than America aid,
and probably will do SO this year. 1t is
first place beyond this year, The coming
struggle is for the first place in the make of
pig-iron. AS late as 1871 we were making
but 20.4 per cent. of the joint make Of the
two countries. Since that time England
has added about million and quarter
tons to its make. We have added four and
three-quarter millions to ours
Cardinal Gibbons, of Baltimore, has writ
ten a magazine article on the labor ques-
ton, in which he says: Paramount among
the rights of the laboring classes is their
privilege to organize or to form themselves
into societies for mutual protection and
benefit. 1t is in accordance with natural
right that those who have one common in
terest should unite together for it's promo
ton. In our days there is universal ten
dency toward organizat ION in every depart
ment of trade and business. In union there
is strength in the physical, moral and social
wOrld.n