The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-12-31
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Charleston knitting mills employ ne
groes.
Unions of knitting workers and en-
broiderers of Brooklyn amalgamated-
Child labor in Michigan has been
greatly lessened by the compulsory
education law.
A Los Angeles. Cal, jury recently re-
fused to deliver its verdict until its
fees were paid.
After forcing its employees to work
at the old rate of wages, the glass
trust has advanced prices.
The Leadville Miner, published by
the striking miners of Leadville. Col,
will now appear as daily.
The supreme court of Ohio has de-
clared that the mechanics lien law is
unconstitutional in that state.
Eureka. Cal, has won the suit grow
ing out of the expulsion of Chinese in
1886. The amount involved was 5000.
The London Mail says the Electric
Cab company will within a few weeks
put 250 horseless cabs on the streets
for hire.
European firm lately ordered at
Paducah, KY, 900 feet Of lumber in
$4,000 pieces, half poplar and half oak.
The lumber business has been good
The paper manufacturers have gOt to-
gether and formed a wood pulp trust
Augusta, Ga. has II cotton facto-
ries that run full speed and paid full
wages all through the panic, and paid
per cent dividends.
Six hundred African laborers from
the Congo Free State have been land
ed at Colon, Colombia. They will be
put to work On the Panama canal
A grand revival of the coal and
coke business is now in progress in
southwest Virginia and east Tonnes
see. A dozen new coal mines have
been opened.
Girls who manufacture shirts, col
lars and cuffs in a large Troy, N Y,
concern. won their strike against a
reduction. They stood out solidly
since July.
A printer has entered suit against
Superior, Wis, Typographical Union,
No. 163. for S2,G90 damages on account
of it's failure to act on his application
for membership.
professor in Wisconsin has in
vented a milking machine which will
milk about one quart per minute with
the aid of a man and some power to
work the machine.
One of the biggest cooperage fac
tories in the United States is to be
built at Birmingham, Ala, to make
barrels for vinegar, turpentine and
other liquids requiring superior coop
erage.
Arizona convicts have been leased
for ten years at 20 cents each a day.
their labor to be utilized in construct
ing an irrigating canal that will make
productive 100000 acres of arabic land.
An organized effort is being made
by the business men of WaycrOss, Ga,
for the promotion OF immigration to
IL, OIL 1n<.sr-s I1e. .o1r,c
from the north and west and other
sections of the United States is de-
sired.
Out of 5000 applicants for work at
the New York labor bureau OILY eight
have proved to belong to trades unions.
showing conclusively that the ire
mendouS congestion III the labor mar
ket comes from the unskilled. The
manager doubted the statement that
there are 0000 unemployed in the
city. He argued rightly that If so, ap-
plications to his bureau by employers
would undoubtedly be few. He made
a special plea for the definite train
ing of boys with q view to fitting
them for the struggle Of life. He also
argued a greater use Of brains in farm
ing and a speaker who followed di-
lated on the interesting scientific and
other aspects of country life, which
are TOO often overlooked, and, in con-
sequence, ledQ 10 OlSldSlS anu finally
to migration cityward.
No effort is made for record on
the part of the bureau. 1t is alive to
do all the good it can. record or no
record. The argument was once used
to the manager by visitor who want
ed 300 hands for a day or two: This
viii help your statistics" The argu-
ment was not a success. In its quiet
way, however, it has placed $40 men
and some few girls since October.
None of these have been so disposed
of as TO disarrange the wages of those
in trade unions. This is one direction
in which the manager uses the great
est circumspection and care. for in
his eager heart is growing a hope to
be the means OF developing from the
bureau a great trusted labor exchange.
with functions of arbitration and
ability to serve employers by bringing
them at once in touch with the un-
employed, and the workingmen by
being constantly on the alert for their
interests.