Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-02-01
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! ness WOTi0.
The Reynolds MANUFACTURING Conl
,any, of Davisville, and North King
iton, Rhode Island, have increased the
,ay of their weavers and sp!nncrs
about 10 per cent.
The Mapleville Woolen Mills, AZ
Mapleville, Rhode Island, nave started
Up. The plant has been idle for near
y two years.
Samuel Gompers, President OF thc
American Federation of Labor. ac.
,ompanied by the representatives or
abor interests. have been in confer
ence with the President, to urge upon
him the desire that he should advo
cate certain legislation in which they
are interested.
| Six hundred operatives of the Amer
ican Hide and Leather Company tan
heries, at Lowell Mass, have struck,
and the plant was closed. The men
are holding out for general advance.
A cut of 21a per cent. in the price of
window glass has been ordered by the
trust. 1t comes close upon the former
cut of SO 1-3 per cen.
| The Governor of Massachusetts and
his Council have agreed upon propo-
Bition for the sale of the states stock
in the Fitchburg Railroad at par, TAX.
ing in exchange 3 per cent. bonds OF
the Boston and Maine system.
The Nashville Street Railway, the
Citizens Rapid Transit Company. the
| Nashville and Suburban Company and
the Nashville Railway have consoli'
dated under the name of the Nashville
Railway, with $6,5OO,000 capital.
The strikes that have prevailed
among the coal miners of the Wyom-
ing Valley for the past ten days have
come to an end. In the Lackawanna
region the question Of strike involv-
! ing 10000 men rests with the action
of the Executive Board of the United
| Mine Workers.
Twelve hundred union cigar makers
have been locked out in Boston as the
result of demand upon the manu-.
facturers for an increase in the rate
| of certain kinds Of hand work. The
manufacturers, who have contract
with the International Cigar Makers
Union to pay a certain scale of prices
have decided to hold the men to it.
Two hundred blacksmiths' helpers
| OF the Brooks Locomotive Works, at
Dunkirk, New York, are on strike.
They received minimum wages or
$1.40 a day, and demanded $1.65, with
| extra time.
Practically every foundry in Cleve-
and is affected by strike of the union
core makers. They demand an increase
| Oh wages OF 10 per cent. for ten hours
The Carnegie Steel Company is re-
ported to be confronted with an Old
option on a vast amount of steel,
given when prices of structural steel
were low, for the construction OF the
| great tunnel in New York, which was
| taken by John B. Mcdonald for $780,
| 100000. 1t is asserted that A. r. Pea
cock, First VicePresident of the COM
pany and General Sales Agent, gave
Mr.. Mcdonald the option on the steel
nearly year ago, when prices were
33 per cent. lower than now, and neg
lected to limit the option.
Now that the Federation of Rail.
way Employees has been dissolved, 1t
is said that the officers of the Order
Of Railway Conductors and of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
are working on plan to bring these
organizations together in protective
and defensive alliance, to deal with
the railway companies of the country
on wage and other questions.
| General Manager Brown, of the
Pullman Company, denies the report
that the Palace Car organization has
| decided to reduce the salaries of its
conductors and porters.
Mine operators have refused to meet
| United Mine Workers at Scranton,
Pa. and strike, involving 10000
men, is imminent.
| A settlement of the dispute between
the Buffalo Express and the Buffalo
| Typographical Union, which has last.
ed over two years, has been reached.
The Treasury Department has held
4 all. II.Af IL ooh