Omaha daily bee., 1899-08-20
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.

We make 1900, 900, 900, 900 cigars annually
Chicago has three state employment
Offices.
Our annual cheese output is $50, 0O0, 0O(
pounds.
Americas carpet mills employ 1917
women.
Peoria distilleries use 10000 bushels Of
corn daily.
The Brotherhood of Railroad Carmen will
hold their next convention in st. Louis
Tuesday, September II.
Referendum vote Of the machinists now
being taken indicates that the headquarters
Of the national organization will be moved
from Chicago to Washington, d. G.
The Baldwin Locomotive works, Phila-
delphia, shipped to foreign countries dur
ing the last thirteen months 400 loco
motives. The factory employs $500 men.
Thirty-two shipbuilding firms have
granted the eight-hour day to the boiler
makers and iron shipbuilders on new work,
and the nine-hour day on repairs on old
work.
Three years ago the steel car industry
was in its infancy; two and a half years
ago 1t employed about 1000 hands; today
5000 men and boys are earning their liv-
ing at II,
The referendum vote recently taken by
the Bricklayers' International union on the
proposition to affiliate with the American
Federation of Labor is announced to have
been carried.
Last years production of minerals in the
United States amounted to $709, 600, 900. an
increase Of nearly 10 per cent over 1897,
The gold production was s65. 900, 900 and the
silver yield footed up SIS, 900, 900 ounces.
Minnesota's bureau OF labor statistics has
made a report on the manufacturing estab-
lishments of st. Paul, and gives data Of a.
900 workingmen whose conditions were in
vestigated, but 0 per cent of whom owned
their W homes.
region for the first six months OF 1899 was
greater than for any half year in the history
OF the district by about 500, 900 tons. The
detailed report for last week shows is, 146
active ovens out OF 1886.
New textile enterprises have been pro-
tected in smaller number the last six months
than in. the same period of last year. The
Wool and Cotton Reporters figures are l16
new cotton, wooden and other textile mills
started, against 1856 in the first half OF
1898, and 107 in the last half.
The syndicate which recently secured con
troll OF nearly all the street railroads OF
Washington, D.. c. and suburbs, started in
by reducing the wages of motormen and
conductors from 20 to 16 cents per hour, and
so arranging the running OF cars that the
men cannot earn more than 1914 per week.
The Brooks Locomotive works OF Dunkirk
will turn out within a few days a locomotive
for the Illinois Central railroad, larger than
any other locomotive in the world. 1t will
be eight tons heavier than the locomotives
built by the Brooks works a year ago for
the Great Northern railroad and which are
the largest locomotives in the world. This
giant locomotive will be a twelve wheel
freight with cylinder OF twenty-three-inch
diameter and ~thirty-ineh stroke. II will
have eight drivers OF hfty-seyen inches
diameter. The boiler will have 424 two-inch
fues, fourteen feet and eight and three
eighths inches Tong. The total weight OF
the engine is 21s, 900 pounds, and with
tender $50, 200 pounds. II will have t~ractive
force or draw-bar pull OF so, 900 pounds, or
70 per cent more than either of the monster
locomotives built for the Great Northern.