Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-19
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.

| The United States contain 5000 pattern
| makers.
| A large @ paper and pulp mill is to be built
at the Flume in the White mountains.
| Factory work occupies one woman out of
every tWenty-seven in the German empire
one hundred and fifty-five bakeshops in
New York city have adopted the ten-hour
work day and union rules of the bakers
The German Printers union of Greater
New York has established a school for
bers.
The Berkshire CMass) glassworks, whose
window glass has been made almost unln-
terruptediy since 1853 is now running as a
cooperative plant
There has been great difficulty in London
in hnding drivers for electric vehicles and
one company has dismissed its employees
and closed up its plant on this account.
The Carnegie Steel company Q;mited) is
preparing, to Introduce labor-saving machin-
cry at the blast furnaces of the Edgar
Thomson Steel works that will feed the ore
ton filters will be displaced.
Cigar manufacturers have formed a trust
whose yearly output is figured at 1900
GEO cigars, Speaking of this trust the Cigar
makers Journal says: Everyone of the
firms in the combine Is nonun!on and nearly
all employ cheap labor and machines
The first cotton mill to be built in Kansas
week. Women will be chiefly employed
brought from Massachusetts. 1t IS expected
that the mill Will drive the farmers round
about from wheat and corn to the growing
of cotton.
A summary of the work of the Illinois
tober 2l shows total of l6,OS3 applications
for work filed and 9,3lS positions filled. OF
Sns All Snt 9T Wort ed its 9%
men who applied for work failed to find
employment.
The supreme court of Georgia has refused
who was convicted in Hall City court at
Gainesville for violating the law in that he
serve a term of Six months in e'ieh the chain in
gang or pay fine of $65. Waters is a Sew
enth Day Adventist.
Automobiles are speeding their way to
the front as the coming means of trans
portation. A machine has been invented in
Iowa, weighing only seventy-ive pounds,
miles an hour. Motor carriages are being
constructed to take the place of mules in
towing boats on the Erie canal.
Locomotive engineers are agtating a
measure instructing the executive board of
the order to investigate the cost and sub
NIT some plan or method whereby the
Brotherhood may ba enabled to erect fine
modern office building in a prominent city,
centrally located, in the United States and
to report to the next convention.
Mare Island navy yard has strike on
hand, the first labor trouble in the Navy
department at government plant in years.
Recently the wages of the workmen were
reduced so cents per day without any rea-
son being given for the, cut, hence the strike.
Wages in private establishments employing
shipwrights are higher than those in the
governments yard, and skilled men are in
demand even there,
a bill has been introduced in the Georgia
legislature providing that children under
10 years cannot work In factories and those
between the ages of 10 and IA only when
the superintendent of the mill makes affi-
davit that they have attended school for at
least, twelve weeks for, the year they, are
fought vigorously by the cotton manufac-
turers of the state.
The shingle men of Washington, repre-
senting 1877 mills, have decided upon sixty
day shutdown of the mills in the state dur
ing midwinter. A resolution was adopted
that any member of the association who
found any wholesaler selling at cut rates
should report the matter to the executive
committee and that the secretary of the as
sociation should lhereupon notify the trade
not 10 sell the offending wholesaler.
An enterprising stat!stician has compiled
a map of the country showing where the
various centers-as of population, iliteracy,
manufacturing industry, agricultural output
and the IEe--are located The center of
population is now in Indiana, of agricultural
output In Iowa, Of manufactures in north
western Pennsylvania and II will not be "A
startling thing in these days of political in
trigue to find from this map that the center
OF crime Is in the center of Ohio.