Evening journal., 1900-03-28
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
to walk the plank" since the trust
was formed.
Columbus (Ohio) retail clerks will
prosecute firms who keep open on
Sunday.
The Minneapolis Labor League has
been reorganized, and all trades VIII
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 41,31S tenements in New York
city, according to a recent compilation
contain 1,4S6,413 residents.
The population of the Kansas and
Missouri zinc fields increased over 5O,-
600 last year.
Antwerp has 3,Os1 Misunderstanding
| 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 O.
Railway on a plan similar to that re-
Gently introduced on the Pennsylvania
system.
About 5000 Iaborers are now en-
ployed at present on the Panama Can
al.
The Pullman Car Company will dis
continue the manufacture of street
cars, and the plant used for that pur-
pose will 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,-
OOO. 900.
New Albany Ind) union men have
formed a Trades and Labor Council.
All trades are represented.
Muncie Qnd) journeymen plasterers
have formed a cooperative company
as a last resort to offset the ruinous
competition of the contractors.
The coremakers in nearly all the
| Cleveland foundries are still out. The
strike is for a 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 has 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-
/ ion aF - -. d
600, and one is for S5,0O0,OO0; another
for S6.OOO.OOO
The largest locomotive in the world
was built last year by the Brooks Lo-
comotive Works, at Dunlirk, n. Y. II
is a twelve-wheeled engine. and with
its tender weighs 1856. 900 pounds.
AS an indication Of the enormous de-
velopment of the lumber and kindred
! industries now going on in the South
ern states it may be mentioned that nc
less than 60 new mills and manufac-
turing establishments are now in
course Of construction in that section
! The Chicago Pattern Makers Unior
| demand a nine-hour workday. The
men also demand recognition of theil
union to prevent work being done In
job shops.
The largest girders ever constructed
in one piece were shipped last weet
by a Pittsburg manufacturing firm
They are for the Riverside viaduct
New York City, and each weigh ovei
SO tons. They are. of the box type 13l
feet long, 10 feet inches deep ant
3 feet wide. Four platform cars were
necessary for the transportation o.
each girder.
The official returns of the Treasury
Bureau Of Statistics, just issued. give
the total value OF manufactured ex
ports of the United States during 1S9!
as $3.50, 1914 $50. The figures show al
enormous increase over the two pre-
ceding years. In 1898 the amount wa'
1907, ,924,994, and in 1897 s279. 9.652,72O.
A Chicago electric car company ha'
a plant in Belgium furnished through
out with American machinery anC
conducted throughout along American
lines. The company has just sent ovei
to Belgium IS skilled operatives wh'
will spend a year at the works teach
ing Belgian workmen the uses Of thI
machinery and the manner of con
structing electric equipment by Amer
lean methods.