Omaha daily bee., 1898-11-06
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.

Honolulu bricl,layers get s. dav.
In Sweden miners earn 5000 wear.
South Africa has American windmills.
Germany has 707 miles of electric road.
France announces leather railway wheels.
Maine is again to enter the list Of copper
mining states.
Japan factories employ no children under
10 years of age.
The new cotton yarn mill at Henrietta
N. c., will start work soon with 25,oOO SPIN
dies.
1t is expected that new knitting mill at
Weldon ~ c., will be completed about the
| first of January next.
| Last year the United States exported sew
| ing machines to the value of $2,50O,OOO, and
| typewriters worth S1,50O,OOO.
The Hard Stone Cutters union Of Louis.
ville KY has seeded from the knights OF
| Labor and Joined the federation.
During a recent week no less than 7,352,OOO
| bushels of American wheat and b,4S5,OOo
| bushels of corn were shipped to Europe.
| The French River woolen mills at Me,
| chanicsville. Conn. are running daV anu
| night to complete government contract
| In Great Britain it is common for cor
| porations that produce electricity tor COM
| nercial purposes to rent out electric motors
| nv the month to small consumers of current.
It is reported that the cloth manufacturers
! of Roubaix France have begun the use OF
4 new weaving machine of great capacity.
| making a woven effect on one side and
| knitted on the other.
| The American Federation Of Musicians Is
| holding a referendum vote on the PROPOSE
| ton to withdraw from the AmerlcJn Fedora
tion Of Labor. Some musicians claim TO be
| artists, not workingmen.
There has been astonishing increase IN
he imports of American flour into japan
In 1892 the total import Of -four was Low
| L,,t t., tln httci mo-
TO a total of 32OOOOO0 pounds.
There are $50 900 typewriters in use in the
United States. The business, says the New
York Sun, is the growth Of twenty years and
m instance, along with telephones and the
trolley, of American enterprise.
The Tobacco Worker saws a new cigarette
making machine in England is raising the
| ieuce. In Liverpool 1900 girls will be thrown
out of work and many more in other cities.
The machine rolls from $50 to 500 cigarettes
| 1 minute. r' E.s.,. r.
1t is said that the new glucose plant at
| Waukegan. ILL.,. will be In operation bv No
'ember l. The machinery installed is Of the
'ery latest type and the plant will have a
capacity Of $1,000 bushels of corn per day.
About $50 people will be employed.
Women were put on the street cars at
Madison. Ind. as conductors a short time
'go at $5 per week in place of men at $40
Der week. The people of Madison boycotted
he street cars and as a consequence men
ire now running the cars there again.
Perry Heath, acting postmaster general,
himself formerly union printer, has ordered
that all printing hereafter given out by the
Postoffce department shall go to employees
If union labor, and that in purchasing sup
)lies preference shall be given to goods OF
American manufacture
The state OF Bahia. Brazil. is said to be
he solo seat of the carbon industry The
arbOns have been found for years but there
las been no market until the commence
| nent of the present decade. when. on ac-
count Of their hardness. they were sought by
makers of so-called diamond drills.
Trade journals in England are constantly
sounding warnings against American in
roads into the British iron trade. Here is
A statistical summary quoted from an Eng
ltsh paper: Ten years ago the exports OF
iron and steel from the United Etates were
SIT 763,O34. and the imports $4S,992.757. The
exports are now S70.367. .527. while the i'm
ports have shrunk to $l2.615.913"
Wire nails have only been in common use
Tor sixteen years yet in that time they have
conquered the foreign we'll as the
domestic market. and the output for 1897,
as appears by treasury statistics just printed,
reached the enormous total OF nearly 900,-
100000 pounds. While the trade has steadily
expanded, the prices have as steadily de-
clined.
Among the industries of Manila are rope
factories, some operated by handpower and
ONE by oxen; also a Swiss umbela fac
tory Swiss felt and straw hat factory A
s, 6,000-cotton spindle cotton mill is being
built with 1000 English capital Cotton
yarns are a principal import OF the Philip
pines they have heretofore come mostly
from Barcelona.
Labor-saying machinery keeps coming. A
slot machine for restaurants TO displace
walters has been invented. London paper
speaks OF new typesetting machine that
makes an operator unnecessary; all that ii
requires is a small boy to feed it rolls OF
, brown paper. convict In the Szegdire pen
itentiary, Hungary, has invented a machine
with which it is claimed $50 people can be
shaved in one hour.
A millionaire manufacturer in Plttsburg is
planning to furnish his hundreds of workmen
with a good midday dinner every day. for
/, which they shall be charged the trifing sum
of . cents. 1T will be good, wholesome
meal, and or course, the promoter OF the
, plan will lose money on It," says a friend OF
his. "At the same time he will gain largely
In other ways Well-fed laborers always
, work better than those who are pinched for
, food and to accustom men to good eating
makes OF them better citizens"
! 1t is we'll within the memory of men still
young and interested in such matters when
3 experts declared that Iron and Pilot Knob
mountains In the Ozark range of Missouri
> was declared TO be hills OF iron that would
average over 60 per cent OF easily mined ore
10 the ton hunuIeus OF tnousdnds OF uol-
lars were invested in mining companies that
exploited the territory and the stockholders
made many thousands OF dollars for short
! time. Now st. Louis papers advertise those
: "hils OF solid iron" as for sale for farming
or stock-raisng purposes. The iron and the
} miners have both gone.
The first paper mill in Montana will soor
be erected at Manhattan. in that state. The
T material to be used in the manufacture IL
: the white barley straw grown In the Gallatir
valley, thus utilizing a product Of the state
Q which heretofore has gone TO waste. The
( plant will be the only one OF its kind In the
United States, as al the present time there
3 are no paper mills In this country convert
: ing straw into pulp and paper. In Russia
= there are a few mills Of this Sort whil'
Z Germany has more than 100 mills which
) manufacture pulp and paper from the Ger
man barley straw. The Germans export L
a this country annually upward Of 5000 tom