Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1900-05-24
IN LABoR'S REALM.

considering amalgamation.
During the past year the member.
ship of the Georgia trades unions have
been more than doubled.
Little Rock (Ark.) trades union men
have organized Central Trades
Council in which all crafts are repre-
sented.
perfect network of underground
tunnels is proposed for Paris, France,
which will rival in cost and extent the
famous sewer system of that city.
There are about 1880 persons on the
pay-rolls of the city Of Boston out of
an estimated population of $4,000.
The Atlanta (Ga.) City Council has
passed an ordinance requiring the use
hereafter of the Printers Union label
on all municipal printing.
The great works of the Cambria
Steel Company at Johnstown, Penn,
are to be enlarged on gigantic scale.
The cost of the proposed improve
ments has been estimated at 81, SOC, 900.
The new scale of the locomotive en-
gineers on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad, as recently adjusted, gives
the men "a per day Of IL hours The
settlement Is very satisfactory to the
engineers. although many wanted the
time limit made 10 hours.
Thomas A. Edison, jr., Is said to
have succeeded in inventing a miners
lamp that is absolutely safe. 1t has
been subjected to severe tests which
have proved satisfactory.
Nearly 1900 car loads of coke are
now sent out weekly from the Con-
nellsville (Penn.) field and when the
new klondike field in the same region
is put In operation, the output will be
increased nearly 20 per cent
A Pittsburg foundry has just COM
pleted for the Lukens Iron and Steel
Company, Coatesville. Penn, the first
three-high universal plate mill ever
constructed. 1t is 2S-inch mill.
The Amalgamated Wood Workers
Union, at it's recent convention at
Grand Rapids, Mich, decided not to
admit gilders, upholsterers or varnish-
ers into membership.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
gineers are considering Denver, Colo,
as the location for the proposed Home
to be built for disabled and superan-
nuated members.
The largest trades union in Minneso-
ia is that Of the Minneapolis carpen-
ters. with a membership OF nearly
1000.
A Cleveland manufacturing concern
has introduced in its factory the sys-
TEN of awarding, semi-annually, priz-
es for valuable suggestions made by
the employees. Prizes will be awarded
as follows: First prize. $50; second, $40;
third and fourth, $40 each; fifth and
sixth, SIS each.
A New York paper has complied n
series of interesting statistics illustra-
ting the progress and growth of the
trust movement in the United States.
The statistics, which are claimed to
have been compiled very conservative
ly, show that since 1860 the aggregate
capitalization of industrial combines
and consultations actually incorpora-
ted exceeded the enormous sum of S4-
900 900, 900.
Recently compiled statistics of the
glass industries Of the United States
show that Indiana has made wonder
full gains in output. and has surpassed
pennsylvania in the window glass pro-
duction, and now stands the latter's
equal as the greatest glass producing
center in the entire world. The figures
show that there are now 1O4 glass
plants Of all kinds in the State of In
diana. The working force Of these es-
adjustments Is stated to be about
5000 men.
The most gigantic alliance of labor
organizations of any city in the Union
has recently been formed in Philadel-
phia 1t is known as the Allied Council
OF Building Trades and includes SO To-
cal unions. The United German Trades
Association was represented at the
meeting at which the council was
formed. In order that the German and
English unions may work together.
The council comprises all branches of
the building trades excepting bricklay
ers and slate roofers.
The Mayor and City Council of Ma
con, Ga, have entered into an agree
ment with the local Typographical
Union that hereafter all city printing
shall bear the union label.
Milwaukee coremakers have agreed
with employers upon a scale of 25
cents per hour and time and a half for
overtime. Foremen coremakers are not
to be members of the union
Five plants of the National Enamel
ing Company (the bath tub trusD, II
Is stated. will be permanently closed
and their capacity transferred to the
four others in the combine. The estab-
lishments to be abandoned are those
located at Sheboygan. Mich; Chicago,
Rome. N. Y, and Elwood and Aliauip-
pa, Penn.