The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-08-02
WORK AND WORKERS.

At San Francisco union cooks and walters
get S3o per month and board.
They say the worlds 400, ,OOO. 900 people
could stand In ton mil square.
The California law fixing the limit of
lana ownership is constitutional.
The Coal Kun Company at Streator, Ill.,,
| Ia signed its willingness to arbi rate the
aiiiiculty with its miners, and tho miners
have approved the proposition, and pending
aset'leinent, VIII return to work. This COM
paDy only employs 2O0 men, but as theissucs
involved are mainly the same with other
mines, the settlement for one will be practi-
caiiy the settlement for all.
The executive committee OF the striking
block coal miners at Brazil, Ind, has de-
termined to submit the question Of difference
with the operators to a secret ballot Of tho
miners, to be taken at he various mines.
Numerous complaints Of intimidation
were made on the vote taken some time ago.
IL Is believed u second ballot will end the
strike.
According to the best commercial and
manufacturing advlces business has begun
10 Improve throughout the Northern States.
The same Improvement Is evident In many
OF the Southern States. The reason given IL
that many buyers and manufacturers ars
aapprehensve OF general advancing ten
dency in all kinds Of crude and finished ma
teria. Tho question which most business
men would like to see pointedly answered Is
what are the probabilities for an advancef'
10 oegin with. the financial situation is
sound. No one Is holding money for specu
iative purposes Tne rates Of interest are
lower on call loans than they have been since
the opening of the season. Small borrowers
are OF course, obliged to pay the outside
cant. This cheapness and ease OF borrowing
applies only to large financial centres
throughout the east. In rural localities
drought the interior money Is scarce Col
iections throughout the country are said to
be good.
The new enterprises projected during tho
past week are: Tho Merced (Cal) woolen
mills are to bs enlarged; r. C. Schmert 9
VIII aud twenty potts to the production Of
his Bellevernon (Pa.) glass house; Tacoma,
W. i. has a cracker factory; Mr.. Harding,
OF Philadelphia. will start a woolen mill e.
employ from $50 to 300, at PendIeton. Ore. :.
for $1,000 bonus; Admission, Ala, hard.
ware. George Geer; Barton. Ala, saw mill /;
Batesville, Ark. Batesville Charcoal and
Chemical Company; Tampa, Fla, planning
Fulton KY, planning; Greensburg, KY,
Hour, W.R. Myers: Louisville, KY. worstei,
w. Richardson; Madisonville, Tenn, furni-
ture,. Joseph Wolf; Hughes Springs, Tex.
iron foundry and piow factory, KeasIey e.
Ticker; Richmond, Va; shoe, L.. Levy:
StauntOn, Va, shoe, c. l.. Weller; Charles,
ton, w. Va, woolen mills and machine
shops, Frank Woo Imam, tho Detroit Stove
Works will enlarge; the Indian Orchard,
Mass, Chapman valve works will be en-,
larged, and l.. j. McArdle. OF Albany, N.
T., will erect rolling mill to employ over
500 hands. At Augusta, Co., tho improve
Inonts are ths extention of the State House,
to cost Sl5J,OO0; the enlargement of the
insane asylum, sIOO, O,0c0; S3O,OO0 for,a public
library; SlC0,UO0 for a new cotton factory.
$4,000 for completing new post Office, aud
$75. 900 for two new buildings at the Ma
tioual Soldiers Homc. New York paint
manufacturers talk OF running white lead
plant to oppose the trust. IL Is stated
that the Reading Company has had to or
der some 5000 new cars to accommodate its
freight business demands