The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-06-22

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Grand Rapids. Mich. has thlrty.hve
furniture factories.
About Sl0O.0o0.000 is Invested in TIE
candy business In the United States.
There are 40 employees TO every 100
miles of railroad in the United States.
There are in the world about ninety
establishments devoted TO spinning silk
waste
Doors and windows made at Tacoma
go to England. Africa and all parts of
America.
American manufacturers are com
peting vigorously with foreigners just
now for the trade of Argentina.
The Guerin Spinning Company of
Woonsocket r. l.. will commence run
ming Its plant night and day.
Tacoma -four mills are taxed to their
utmost capacity to furnish the markets
of Africa, China and Japan.
The Atlanta Journal OF Labor states
that colored labor has proved failure
In the cotton mills of the South.
The coal mined In the United States
annually Is worth more than three
times as much as the gold mined here.
The Carnegie Steel Company have adj
yaneed the wages of about 10000 day
laborers 10 per cent. in all their ten
plants.
American cotton has n very keen
competitor In the Russian market in
Asiatlc cotton grown from imported
American seeds.
Kansas City Typographical Union
has levied an assessment of 81 each on
Its members toward the proposed labor
temple TO be erected.
Wisconsin produces annually an aver
age of 100000 pounds of cheese,
nearly all of 1t made by Swiss methods
and Swiss people, who initiate the
home product fairly well.
Through the factory inspection de-
partment Of New York several employ
ers of child labor have been fined heayl-
ly for swearing falsely as TO the ages
of children they hired.
1t Is estimated that there is from
ST., 100000 to $15.000,000 invested in
the manufacture of jewelry in the New
England States.
The planters In Hawaii realize that
the contract system is at an end and
are now trying the experiment OF
profitsharing with the laborers.
Referring to the trade which the Uni
ted States already has with Formosa,
the American consul there says 1t ex-
ceeds that of any otter country except
China.
The age at which children begin to
work is II years in England. IA years
In Switzerland, Is years in Germany
and II years In France, Holland, Rus
sla and Belgium.
A decision has been rendered by the
Supreme Court of California unfolding
the right of labor organizations to boy
colt obnoxious employers and denying
an injunction except upon showing
of specific acts of a criminal nature.
In Havana cigar factories men make
from 81 day up in Spanish gold. They
work by the piece, and an average
DAYS labor varies from eight TO ten
hours. A good workman rarely fails
to earn So a day. and the best can earn
s.. The men are allowed to smoke all
the cigars they want. They lose their
own time in making them, but the leaf
is furnished by the factory.
Labor circles of the Northwest are
much agltated over reports. which are
received with general credence, that
hundreds of japanese contract laborers
are being brought into Puget Sound
cities. Every month from 500 to 1000
Japanese are said to be landed at Ia
coma, Vancouver and Portland. Prac-
tieally all pass inspection, the require
meuts of which are sound body and
$50 in cash. 1t IS said that hundreds of
these men are finding employment on
various railroad lines.
The Legislature OF New York has
passed two laws which will put an end
to the abuses of the sweatshop. One
of these acts declares that the making
of clothing as an industry shall not be
prosecuted in any room or apartment
In any tenement or dwelling house, and
that the factory inspector shall have
supervising power over all places
where clothing Is manufactured. The
other act limits the working hours of
women and minors.