The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1900-07-06

tIuud haplus, en-, mas thlfty-nNe
furniture factories.
About SiO0O0O,OOO is invested in the
candy business in the United States.
There are $50 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 ana windows made at Tacoma
20 TO England. Africa and all parts of
America
American manufacturers are com
peting vigorously with foreigners just
now for the trade Of Argentina.
The Gucrn Spinning Company OF
Woonsocket H. L.. will commence run
ulng It's plant night and day
Tacoma flour mills are taxed to their
utmost capacity 10 furnish the markets
Of Africa, China and Japan.
The Atlanta Journal Of Labor states
that colored labor has proved a failure
ina 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
vnnced the wages of about 10000 day
laborers 10 per cent ia all their ten
plants.
American cotton has very keen
competitor Ia the Russian market in
Asatic 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 avef-
nge of l0.OOO,OOO pounds of cheese.
nearly all of it made by Swiss methods
and Swiss people. who initiate the
home product fairly well.
Through the factory inspection de-
parment OF New York several employ
rrs of child labor have been fined hcavl-
ly for swearing falsely as to the ages
of children they hired.
II is estimated that there is from
$i2OOO,O0G to Sl5.OOO.OO0 invested in
the manufacture of jewelry in the New
England States.
The planters in Hawaii realize lhat
the contract system is at an end and
are now trying the experiment OF
profit sharing with the labore;s
Referring to the trade which the Unl-
ted States already has with Formosa,
the American consul there says it eX-
ceeds that of any other country except
China.
The age at which children begin to
work is II years in England, If years
in Switzerland. IL years in Germany
and t. years Ia France Holland. Rus
sia 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
All Injunction except upon showing
VI specific acts of criminal nature.
In Havana cigar factories men make
from 81 a day up in Spanish gold They
work by the piece, aud an average
days labor varies from eight to ten
hours \ good workman rarely fails
10 earn So day, aud the best can earn
So. The men are allowed to smoke all
the cigars they want They lose their
own time in making them, but the leaf
is furnished 10y the factory
Labor circles of the Northwest are
much agitated over reports. which are
received with general credence, that
hundreds of Japanese contract laborers
re 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-
ucally all pass Inspection. the require
ments OF which are sound body and
$50 Ina cash. II is said that hundreds OF
these men are finding employment gu
various railroad lines.
The Legislature of New York has
PASSED two laws which VIII 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
500 amy tenement or dwelling house. aud
THAT ihe factory Inspector shall have
supervising power over AN places
where clothing is manufactured. The
other act limits the working hours Of
women aud minors
women's Rights al Six.
Dolly. who Us six. was sent 90 "a board
ing school just before Christmas. When