Omaha daily bee., 1898-02-04
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.


| Brooklyn has twelve women backsmiths
Germany has 75O irst-class machine fac
| tories.
Tho Crawford Woolen mills of Martins
burg, w. Va, are running three nights &
week until o'clock
In 1860 the value of the manufactured prod
uct OF St Louis, Mo-, was S27 900 900. Last
year it was $500 900, 900.
Tho molders employed by Jones G Laugh,
lin, PlttSurg, have been granted an advance
| o. 10 per cent in wages.
Eighty-eight per cent of the union men ,ot
| Minnesota are said to be employed Gcl in.
| crease OF As per cent over one year ago
| At Hannibal, Mo, a company has been
| formed to commence business with 125 EN-.
ployes in the manufacture of shirts, over
alls, etc.
An increase of per cent in wages of en-
ployes of the Buffalo Furnace company
Buffalo, N. Y, will go into effect January l.
| 1898.
The employees of the two blast furnaces
of the Bellaire Steel company, Belaire. c.
| have been granted an increase OF 10 per
cent in wages.
The miners of the Norris group. Lake
superior, have been notified that a genera
advance In their wages will soon be made
but to what extent is not known.
The Peoria Steel and Iron Works have
100000. to operate the rolling mill at Peoria,
ILL.,, which has so long been idle
Within the first ten months of 1897 Ala
bama produced 4,173.600 tons of coal, 955.-
6S4 tons of coke, 6S2,O11 tons of pig iron.
l,676,2I5 tons of iron ore and 25G, ,2S6 tons of
limestone.
Tho foreign trade of the ports of San
Francisco, Cal, in 1897 was the largest en-
record for any calendar year, the exports
amounting in value to $4,000, 900 and the
imports to $50 O0O, 900.
An idea of the great increase in the manu-
facture Of cotton goods in the south can be
had from the fact that i'm North Carolina
alone the mills consume so, 900 more bales
Of cotton annually than are produced in the
state.
The Atchison. Topeka & Santa Fe railroad
has completed in its own shops at Topeka
24O box cars with cast steel trucks These
weigh $50 pounds less than the old pattern,
and cost considerably less, though they test
to 10000 pounds.
The Massilon (Oho) Bridge company has
received an order for the construction of
cantilever bridge 562 feet long and eighteen
feet wide, which is to be built by the New
York Dredging company at Honda, on the
Magdalena river, in Colombia, South Amer
lea.
The Carnegie Steel company, limited, con-
templates another large addition to its Home
universal plate mill. which will exceed in
capacity any mill Of this class ever designed
The Carnegie company, with this addition
will have the largest capacity for the pro-
duction of universal p'ates in the world
In Massachusetts, the labor on a pair of
shoes costs 30 cents but the average weekly
wages of those who work in that states
shoe factories Is SIS. The average weekly
wages in German shoe factories is $3.50, but
the labor cost for shoes OF similar grade
is So cents. The labor saving machine DC
counts for the difference both of cost and
wages, With the machine the man earns
four times as much as without it.
One Of the few establishments In the
United States that have system OF profit
sharing is the -four milling firm OF Ballard
& ballard OF Louisville, KY, which has Just
divided $780, 900 amCng its employees as their
portion OF the profits of 1897. The mill,
which is cne OF the largest in the south,
has been conducted on this basis for num-
Der of years, and is well satisfied with the
results. 1t could be wished that more at
tempts were made by manufacturing col-
Germs to follow the profit-sharing principle