Evening journal., 1900-04-04
OF INTEREST TO LABOR.


Municipal work in Boston must now
be done by union labor
Thirty-eight hundred bicycle drum
mers and agents have been compelled
20 walk the plank" since the trust
was formed.
Columbus (Ohio) retail clerks win
prosecute firms who keep open on
Sunday
The Minneapolis Labor League has
be represented.
st. Louis. No. has a negro Tobacco
Workers Union composed principally
of warehouse employees.
The railway organizations OF France
now number nearly 100000 members.
The 41,3lS tenements In New York
city, according 70 recent compilation
contain 1,4SG. .413 residents.
The population of the Kansas and
! Missouri zinc fields increased over 5o.-
| 600 last year.
Antwerp has s,0S1 diamond-cutting
establishments, over one half Of which
are now idle as a result OF the South
African war.
A movement is on foot TO pension
the old employees Of the c. b. and c.
Railway on a plan similar to that re-
Gently introduced on the Pennsylvania
system.
About 5000 lahorers are now em-
ployed at present on the Panama Can
al.
The Pullman Car Company viii dis
continue the manufacture OF street
cars, and the plant used FOR that pur-
pose viii be converted into repair
shops.
The number Of union labels used By
the independent factories in the past
six months shows an increase OF 25.-
100000.
New Albany Qnd.) union men have
formed a Trades and Labor Council
All trades are represented.
Muncie Qnd) journeymen plasterers
have formed a cooperative company
as q last resort 20 Offset the ruinous
competition Of the contractors
The coremakers in nearly an the
. Cleveland foundrles are still out The
strike Is for 10 per cent. advance IN
wages.
The labor organizations OF Sharon,
Wheatland, sharpsville and other
points in the Chenango Valley have
consolidated under the name Of the
> United Labor League.
New York City and immediate vicin-
ity now he's AZ local engineers associa-
tions, the most OF which are affiliated
with the various national organiza-
tions.
{ a dozen automobile manufacturing
; companies have been Incorporated in
the past month The lowest capitaliza-
tion Of any Of these companies Is $50. q
600. and one is for S50OO,oOo; another
for $4,000 O00
? The largest locomotive I'm the world
was built last year by the Brooks Lo-
connective Works. at Dunkirk, n. y. II
t Is a twelve-wheeled engine. and with
3 its tender weighs 365. 900 pounds
AS an indication OF the enormous de-
+ velopment Of the lumber and kindred
r. Industries now going on in the South
ern states It may be mentioned that nc
o less than 60 new mills and manufac.
x turing establishments are now IN
course Of construction in that section
& The Chicago Pattern Makers unior
i demand a nine-hour workday. Tn,
men also demand recognition OF theli
d union 10 prevent work being done IN
ie job shops.
The largest girders ever constructe,
> in one piece were shipped last weel
or by a Pittsburg manufacturing firm
AtN art ANI Allt AtANtfNANf NlNQMtI
r New York City, and each weigh owe
" 62 tons. They are Of the box type, 13
l. feet long. 10 feet G inches deep AM
feet wide -Four platform cars wer
ot necessary for the transportation o
Is each girder.
The official returns OF the Troasur,
Bureau of Statistics, just issued, Civ
10 the total value OF manufactured ex
ID ports of the United States during 1s9
ie as $3.50, 7S7 500. The figures show al
enormous increase over the two pre-
" ceding years. In 1898 the amount wa
10 S307, 7,924994. and in 1897 S279. $50. 720
IT A Chicago electric car company ha
plant in Belgium furnished through
"a out with American machinery an
80 conducted throughout along America
IN lines. The company has just sent owe
10 Belgium 75 skilled operatives VIII
r win spend a year at the works teach
50 ing Belgian workmen the uses Of tn
IL machinery and the manner Of con
structing electric equipment by Amer
lean methods.