Omaha daily bee., 1895-10-06
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.
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About 1850 900 square yards Of looking
| glass are manufactured in Europe annually.
George Estlnghouse, patentee of the brake
which bears his name, has made over $780,
100000 from his invention.
The income Of the industrial population Of
Great Britain has grown in fifty years three
times faster than the population itself.
Forty locomotives are to be construed at
the Baldwin works for the Russian govern-
ment.
South Carolina now has three times as many
cotton mills as she had four years ago. The
capital to construct and operate them mostly
comes from the north.
The annual report Of the German American
Topographic, just issued, shows 092 MEM
bers in good standing in twenty local unions.
This is loss of about 100 members during
the last year, ewing principally to the in
PRODUCTION Of typesetting machines
The Amalgamated Association of Iron and
Steel Workers Is rapidly regaining the
strength 1t had before the big Homestead
battle Many new lodges have been formed
during the past few months. Some of them
are In mills where the manufacturers refuse
to recognize the organization
The fremont & Suffolk corporation Of
Lowell Is building a new mill that will give
employment to 400 extra hands. The Mas
sachusetts, the Merrimac, the Lawrence and
other large mills are increasing their plants,
and the Hamilton Manufacturing company is
building 500 900 storehouse.
The Illinois Central Railway company is a
very live corporation. II is looking out for
its own interests, primarily, but incidentally
1t is doing 81 good deal for the public. For
instance, the Industrial commission of the
road last year located thirty-four manufacture
ing establishments along the line, which have
an aggregate capital Of s4OOOOOO
Three hundred men. women and children
have gone hop picking in the Pleasanton.
| Cal, fields, under the auspices OF the La
| Dor bureau and the San Francisco co-op-
erative commonwealth. They will be pro-
vided with free lodging in tents, and meals
, will be supplied at 10 cents each. The pro-
visions have been donated by business
houses, and it is proposed to put the tenets
Of socialism into pratical effect as far as
possible.
The recent examination for candidates for
positions in the government printing Office
resulted, in the case Of pressmen. in the
establishing OF an almost unpreCedentedlY
good record, every applicant securing an
average of 100 per cent. OF those who were
examined as composltors SO per cent passed:
as pressmen, all passed as bookbinders, 67
per cent, and as skilled laborers, 70 per cent.
Telegraphers are alarmngy subject to
consumption, according to the British Medi-
cal Journal Out of 100 deaths among all
adult males In England, 1873 are due to cons
sumption; out OF 100 deaths among the grind
ers in the cutlery trade 1871 are due to III
while the proportion OF the telegraph opera
tors is 46.6 in 100. More than half Of them
die of diseases OF the respiratory organs.
against "a per cent, only, in all other occu-
patlOns.
There are fifty-two national organizations,
and seven local unions affiliated with the
general commission Of Germany. having q
total membership Of 2i5, 500. The furnishing
and woodworking trades. with 81 2l6 mem7
bers, are the best organized; next come tha
metal shlpbuilding trades, with 3s,127 mem-
bers; the building trades, with 33,Ol6; mining
and quarrying, 26.96S; printing and kindred
trades, 2i.392; liquor and luxurles 20, ,G5f;
leather trades. 2O,073; clothing trades, 10, 1902;
seafarlng. dock labor and transportation.
1851. and food producers, 2,3S8.