The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-09-01

unions. If a sufficient numder or one trade
not. 1t is believed. also. that by a meeting
of the State Federation an opportunity
will be offered to the representatives OF the
several trades and ~callings in different sec
the free expression of opinion and thought
relative to the existing state of the work.
ingmen and women of the country.
Labor Notes.
Toronto pick and shovel men are organ
lied.
New Haven plumbers get SO Is cents per
hour.
The best diamond-cutters make $50 per
week.
A Canton (O.) watch firm employs three
thousand hands.
carpenters union in the northeastern
part of the city is being urged.
Pressmen's Union. of this city, will give
q private picnic on Sunday, Sept. {.
The National Association of Stationary
Engineers has 1S5 branches. with 10000
members.
The total number of strikes in this coun-
try during August was twenty, and the to-
tai number of strikers, 1878.
In the event of bad weather tomorrow,
the labor picnic at Hammond's Grove will
be postponed until next Sunday.
The Labor Signal printed two thousand
CAIId COplCS NOStClOdy AOA Il
at Hammcnd's Grove tomorrow.
The German Singing Society, thirty
strong. will render a number OF their best
songs at the labor picnic at Hammonds
Grove.
During the past few months there have
been numerous strikes of the carpenters of
England and Scotland Trade has been
good there lately.
In the southern section of Missouri saw
mills are going up in every direction, and
the years output of lumber viii far exceed
that of any previous year.
The National League Of Musicians is
about to adopt an insurance system, un-
Der shall be entitled to $500.
President Gompers. of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor. reports that there are
eight-hour leagues in all the big cities and
towns in the United States.
All members of Molders' Union No. II.
of this city, are employed, and a number of
union men from other places have been
sent for. to help out the rush.
Carpenters Union, No. 446, of this city,
is wide awake. Eight new members were
taken in last week and several applications
are pending. The union is in a fourishing
condition.
The indianapolis Drum and Bugle Corps
will bein the trades-union procession. and
to further enhance the music of the demon
stration, Albert Gall has provided for an
additional band.
The largest piece of machinery exhibited
at Paris is an English lathe, weighing $50
tons. and long enough to swing a piece
seventy feet long between centers and ten
feet III diameter.
An army of a thousand Piute bucks.
squaw and papooses will be employed In
California hop-felds this year. Captain
Sam is in charge of the hop-pickers. They
receive cent a pound for picking.
The New York Steam Filters Union has
a vigorous system of dealing with candi-
dates for membership. They are examined
by a special committee as to their knowl-
edge, theoretical and practical, of the
trade.
All deputy marshals for the Labor parade
are requested to report at 115l2 East Wash
ington street this morning, at 10 O'clock.
All shops or factories desiring to turn out
in q body should report by committee at
same place and time.
In ten years the worlds production of pig
iron has increased from IA, III. 902 tons in
1878 TO 23, 194, 473 tons I'm 1883. or a growth of
"a per cent. During the same period the
worlds production of steel increased from
3,021 .093 tons to 9,679, $40 tons, or 220 per cent.
The Extra Bookinders' Union, of New
York, is striving to secure a reduction OF
the hours of labor. a reform in the appren-
tice system, and the abolition OF contract
labor in the trade. 1t is for the purpose of
gaining these ends that the open union has
been formed.
The Arlington Mills Manufacturing Com
pany, of Wilmington. Del. has given notice
to its 500 employees of a general reduction
in wages ranging from 3 TO 10 per cent, to
manufactures ginghams, and attributes
general depression in the trade as the cause
of the reduction.
A peculiar industry has sprung up near
Albany since 1888, that of supplying
crushed stone for asphalt and m~acadamized
rnnAc Thu frnt,, xrhfah rha gfnnn nc
taken is operated night and day. One
thousand tons of rock. q day are crushed.
and $50 cars are used in transporting the
fragments of rock to ali parts Of the coun-
try.
Bismarck's new law for workingmen.
which has met the approval Of the German
Federal Council, makes especial provision
for he suppression OF strikes. "A strike is
defined as a conspiracy, and severe punish
ment is provided for those who may take
part in it. The promoters OF strikes are
declared to be public enemies, who may be
either imprisoned or exiled.
Under the head of Further Victories
Won the last number of the Carpenter
gives a list of the places in which the nine
hour system has recently been established
for that trade. This system now prevails
among the carpenters in a large number of
cities throughout the country, as far west
| as Washington Territory and as far east as
Connecticut.
The London papers give accounts of the
| cooperative exhibition that was opened at
| the Crystal Palace on the 18th of August.
| There were two hundred trades represented
at it by sixteen hundred establishments.
soUe of which are very extensive and pos
| sess large capital. The exhibition was very
| fine. There has been q great growth of
manufacturing and trading cooperative
establishments in Great Britain within the
past few years.
Within a short time there has been some
important labor legislation il Belgium,
Holland and Germany. In Belgium there
is now a law for the establishment of coun-
ellis Of industry. or arbitration boards. in
which trade disputes may be settled. In
| Holland a new law for the regulation of
the labor of women and children in facto-
RES has been adopted. In Germany the
law enacted by the Reichstag for pension
ing aged and infirm workmen provides for