Omaha daily bee., 1898-06-05
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.

Germany makes aluminium type.
Germany imports American desks.
The south contains 4s2 cotton mills.
Reading, Pa. has sixteen hosiery mills.
Russia buys our manufactured copper.
Berlin has American-made electric cars.
Russia boasts 1900, 900 factory operatives.
In Illinois during the last year lis coal
mines we're abandoned and seventy-nine
mines opened.
At New Orleans, La, the Alden Knitting
company Is running day and night with two
sets OF employees.
II is said that the battle OF Manila has
caused an increase OF from so TO 100 per
cent in the price OF hemp.
Among contracts recently placed by the
government we're several. amounting TO
$50. 900 hessian bags, to be used for fortihcs-
ton purposes.
The Brotherhood Of Locomotive Firemen
will again submit to popular vote the
proposition to affiliate with the American
Federation OF Labor.
Coal costs s1.45 in the engine room Of the
southern cotton mill and s3.S5 in the Lowell
mill, while freight to China is 81 a bale
cheaper from Georgia.
A writer in the Arena declares that $780,
600 men now do the work. with the aid OF
machinery, which needed l6,OOO,OOO persons
to do a few years ago.
When IL is considered that there are nearly
ESQ, GOO, 600 people in India, and the principal
clothing is cotton. the possibilities for eX-
tension of American trade are obvious.
1t is stated that the government will not
have to pay over s1.41 for its twenty-five
ounce blue kerseys, and that 1t gets some
as low as $l.3Tk on the bids put in May s..
A s15O, 1000 addition is to be built by the
Potterdale cotton mills, CoYington, Ga. 1t
will contain 5000 spindles and employ 5OV
additional operatives; water power will be
used.
In printing paper alone Japan imported
over. 5000, 600 pounds last year, while OF
other descriptions OF paper it imported 10 the
value Of 500, 600 yen, equal to 100000 in
gold.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers,
in convention at st. Louis last week, by a
vote Of POS for to 290 against decided not to
join the other railroad brotherhoods in form
ing a federation OF railway organizations.
w. S. Carter, editor Of the Locomotive
Firemen's Magazine, Peoria, Ill, is recruit
ing q company to be composed exclusively
of union men. who will tender their services
to the government in the war with spain
under President McKinley's second call for
volunteers.
Mahlon NJ. Garland. for a number of years
president of the Amalgamated Association
of Iron and Steel Workers and fourth vice
president of the American Federation OF
! Labor, has resigned these offices and
accepted tue pusltioh VI NOiiSNNOi ~
port of Pittsburg under President McKinley's
administration
1t is estimated that the manufacturers OF
agricultural implements in this country use
a total of !, 44S, 293, $50 feet of lumber yearly,
of which white pine, principally low grade
stock for packing purposes, furnishes 20 per
cent; ash 10, oak Q. yellow pine II, cotton
wood s. poplar s, hickory Z, maple I, elm 4
and Eastwood l.
The following national labor unions will
hold conventions during the month OF June:
Pattern Makers, at St Louis, June Q;
Brotherhood Of Boiler Makers and Iron
Ship Builders, New Orleans; United Brother
hood of Leather Workers on Horse Goods,
Atchison, Kan; Federated Wire Trades of
America. Findlay, o., all June 10; lnterna-
tional Printing Pressmen's union, Cleveland,
o., June 20.
In the Hawaiian senate Minister Cooper
introduced a bill providing for the intro
duction of not more than 5000 Chinese la
borers. One of the features of the bill is
the provision that each Immigrant shall
give a bond that he will return to China
at the expiration of his contract. The pur-
pose is to give the executive control ovel
the immigrants.
The amount of cotton produced in China
has been roughly estimated at about 666,
600, 000 pounds per year. Very little is i'm
ported. A few bales of American cotton
to a finer grade OF yarn than the native
product. Mills operating about 42O, O0C
spindles are working in Shanghai and vi
cinity; of these 81, 900 have been running
eight to ten years; the remainder have beer
started since the Japanese war. At Shang,
hat the average pay is 10.6 to 1873 cents pc
day.