The Indianapolis journal., 1889-06-16
Labor Notes.

The carpenters' picnic has been postponed un-
I'll June 80.
The hod-carriers viii have picnic at Blue
river Park to-day.
Organizers Farnham and Bodenmiller will
establish Federal Labor Union on the South
Side IN a few days
Work has been resumed at the West Virginia
china-works. at Wheeling. with lots OF orders and
excellent prospects for the future.
After continuous run OF fourteen months, the
National furnace at De Pere. Wis, has blown out.
During the last two weeks OF Its run the furnace
produced 939 tons OF pig-iron.
The new buildings Of the National forge and
iron-works, last Chicago, are about completed,
and the new machinery Is now being put in
place. The officers of the company expect to get
the works in operation about the first OF August.
Recent statistics show the following facts
regarding the granite monument industry at
Barre, VT. Number Of quarTymen and stone
paid in 1855, $i,5l5,9OO; value of plant,
$436, 6,OO0
Ii has been decided to hold the Fourth of July
labor picnic at Hammond's grove. The grove Is
beautifully located, and tie Lake Erie & Western
railroad has agreed TO run trains TO and from the
grounds every half-hour during the day. A line
Of hacks will also be in service.
Experiments are being tried in Pittsburg with
O process of burning powdered coal to determine
whether 1t Is more economical than natural gas.
The charge for natural gas is 81 per ton of iron
heated while the new process, II Is claimed will
not cost 80 cents per ton OF iron.
Twenty-Five laborers the Newport, r. l.,
streetraflway struck for 50 day, an increase
of % cents. Tie work was partly suspended,
places OF the strikers aud the strike will not in
terfere with the progress OF the work.
Theemployes of the G. III. Gilbert rtManufacturing
Company s mills, at Gilbertville, Mass started
an insurance society some time ago. the member
ship fee being = cents a week. There are now
500 members, fifteen being on the sick list. and
drawing $3.50 a week. The Gilbert Company
pays $50 month into the fund
Chief Engineer Lynch. of Massachusetts,, is
making his annual tour OF the mills OF that State,
and he finds them, as far as he has gone, in ex-
ances for lighting fire. Many OF the mills have
increased their facilities by putting i'll hydrants,
stand-pipes, sprinkers and hose.
During the next three months Milford, Mass,
viii be the objective point for many men looking
for employment. With the 200 men TO be added
To the Pink Granite Company's force in July and
Tucker factory about the same time. opportun-
itles OF obtaining empyment In town will be
offered reliable men.
mill has been established at Ottawa which
makes paper pulp out of sawdust. The paper
made wholly from sawdust is said TO form an ad-
nlirable sheathing that Is fit for building after
being tarred and dried. A better quality of paper
Is made by using one-fourth waste paper. The
mill has a capacity for converting about II, 600
tons or sawdust into pulp annually.
A number Of wellknown iron capitalists are
expected to lay before the Association of Busi-
ness Men OF Ashland, Wis, project to establish
a rolling-mill plant at that place. IL was esti-
mated some time ago that for plant worth 81
100000 the city of Ashland would be expected
10 devote site worth not less $4,000 and
100000 in city bonds running twenty years,
with interest.
The sanders OF the Brookfeld shoe-shop are on
a strike and, they all experienced men
and comprise the entire force which did their
kind of work, the shop is in fair way of be-
coming crippled. The bosses have put force of
two men on each machine where one was before,
but they cannot do the work, and it is piling up
before them at a great rate. 1t Is popularity
OF this strike that each man went out on his own
responsibility. and no one inducedi or attempted
To Induce the others 10 CO. lt was simply a
spontaneous cessation OF work, and not an Or
gained strike.
Despite n rather stormy meetin &, during which
large minority of the Beverly Or. ID strikers
were disinclined to abide by the judgment of ar
bitrator Wilde in using the power granted him
by the executive board TO decide the strike. the
weavers and spinners, thirty-six in number. went
10 the mill Wednesday morning prepared In re-
sume work. They were not allowed TO go 70
work. as the superintendent said repairs were
being made 10 the looms and the mill was not
ready 10 run. There was much Indignation and
hasty mass-meeting, but finally all hands ap-
piled for work, and their names were taken,
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