Omaha daily bee., 1899-05-28
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.

Cramps shipyards at Philadelphia now
employ 5000 men.
| American exports of manufactured goods
now average s1,OOO,O0O a day.
The daily shipments of oil from the In
diana field amount to 36111 barrels, and the
runs from the wells. 1884 barrels.
Preparations for the erection of the $15,-
! 100000 steel plant which is to be located at
Stony Point. near Buffalo, N. Y, are in
active progress.
The recent advance in wages, equivalent
to about 20 per cent, enables the street car
men of Pittsburg, Pa, to now earn $3.50 a
day Of twelve hours.
During the month of April the American
Federation of Labor issued thirty three
charters aside from the charters issued by
it's affiliated national unions.
The printers in the government printing
office at Washington will receive an increase
in wages of 10 cents per hour, the increase
to begin with the next fiscal year.
During the first week of May over 1000
new members were added to the Tobacco
Workers National union. One union
tobacco firm in Brooklyn, N. Y, used 2,O00,-
600 blue labels in the month of April.
The largest tin plate factory in the world.
the Shenango mill at New Castle, Pa, is to
be operated in its entirety by electricity as
soon as the necessary machinery can be in
stalled. The motors will be used in all parts
of the plant.
]. r. Sovereign, ex-grand master workman
of the knights of Labor, now publishing
labor paper in Idaho, was refused a seat
as delegate from "workingmens S union
of Gem Idaho, at the session of the West
ern Federation of Labor at Salt Lake City.
Contracts have been awarded to Penn
sylvana firm for the construction of six steel
bridges on the line of the Transsiberlan
railway-making in all eighteen bridges
which this company has undertaken for the
same project.
At Schweinfurt, Bavaria, is one of the
largest of the worlds manufactures FOL
there belonging to one firm, turn out an
nually 100000 gross of these little steel
balls, and employ 500 men, working for
day of ten hours duration.
The magnitude of the Carnegie Steel COM
pany's operations may be understood from
the statement that in 1898 the company
made II per cent of the pgiron produced
in the United States, SO per cent of the
product of Pennsylvania and 66 per cent OF
the product of Allegheny county They
manufactured % per cent of the Bessemer
steel production Of the United States and AZ
per cent of the like product of Pennsyl-
vania.
The annual meetings of the various cotton
mills in the vicinity of Greenvirle, S. c.,
are about over and they show unprecedented
profits. For instance, the American Spin
ming company, capital S125,O0O, shows ret
profit of $4,000; the Piedmont mills, over
1925, ,OOO the Huguenot mills, $4,000, and
others in like proportion. Now while these
profits seem large the profit for the current
year will be much larger. The Poe mill,
which made 900 for twelve months last
year, is now making $4,000 per month net
An increase in wages for 1900 men was
the result of the annual prescription scale
conference between the American Flint
Glass Workers association and the Assocla-
tion of Flint and Lime Glass Manufacturers
at Pittsburg. OF this number 1900 skilled
workmen will receive an increase of 10 per
cent and 5000 unskiled hands an advance
in proportion. The advance will restore 10
the men the wages they received in 1892 and
1893