Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-06-26
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.


THE electric wire-men and engineers of
Pittsburgh are to form union.
THE Brooklyn Labor Lyceum is undergo
lug reorganization. Lyceums win be estab-
hshed in Boston and in Pittsburgh.
THE Richmond locomotive works, OF
Richmond, have been awarded the contract
to construct the engines for the warship
Texas.
IT Is reported that two largo Western iron
plants will be removed to points on the Bal
timore &, Ohio between Pittsburgh and Nc
Keesport.
In New York and Philadelphia many
trades unions are adopting resolutions to
expel or suspend ali members who fail to
make prompt payment of dues.
An eight-hour league has been organized
in st. Paul All people in sympathy with
the movement for shorter hours are eligible
for membership whether they belong to
labor societies or not.
THE Jackson Steel and Nail Company, OF
jackson, O., has entered into negotiations
with company of capitalists in 1ndianap
oils, Ind. The Indianapolis people will put
in machinery for drawing wire, and will run
q large number of machines.
BUFF ALo brick-layers are now getting Sc
for nine hours work. Their fellow-crafts-
men receive 81 for nine hours in Pittsburgh
and 35 cents an hour in New Orleans. These
wages do not contrast very well with those
paid in this city, where brick-layers receive
50 so to 81 for eight hours work
BAKERS in New York have secured re-
duction of hours of labor to eleven hours on
five days of the week and thirteen on Sat
urday; in Newark, n. j., and Brooklyn to ten
hours day. The demand was made under
the auspices of the executive board of the
Journeymen Bakers National Union.
THE Keystone (Pa) Bridge Company re-
port bridge building as unusually brisk this
year. They have orders for 10000 tons OF
work in hand, which will keep the plant
busy until next fall Altogether the works
will turn out II, 900 tons of structural iron
this year, which is {, 900 tons more than ever
before in the same time.
THE labor situation throughout the manu-.
featuring districts of Penns ylvania is very
unsatisfactory. Every thing points to 9
contest in the near future between EN-.
ployers and employed Not only the mining
and manufacturing interests are suffering
The building trades in Pittsburgh and other
cities are In a poor condition and strikes are
common.
THERE is good deal of trouble among
certain unions throughout the country be
cause of the foreign members who have
failed to take out naturalization papers
One union has just resolved to impose o
fine upon unnaturaliEed members, aud
another has adopted resolution to admit
only American citizens and those who hold
their first papers.
The superintendent of Louisville EN-.
ployment agency urges boys who desire n
take up trades to learn cooking. He has
found that there Is a great scarcity of good
male cooks not only in Louisville but also in
every city in the United States. They com.
mand and receive high wages, and many
employers are forced to put up with the in.
dolence, insolence and drunkenness of male
cooks because they find it impossible to get
good, efficient sober cnes to fill theiI
places. In these days, when so many
avenues are full to overhowing with labor
and tradesmen, the superintendent thinks
it would be well for thousands of young
lads and men to learn cooking, s'for they
can always get prompt and remuneratiye
employment at that trade'