The Indianapolis journal., 1901-04-03
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.

J. Pierpont Morgan, Of New York. the
steel trust promoter will sail for Europe
to-day.
The coal operators at Canton. O.. granted
temporary increase 10 four hundred
miners. averting strike set for yesterday.
The increase is to be effective until a cor
ference can be held.
1t is authoritatively stated that the de-
mand made by the furnace workers in
Sharon and SharpSville Pa. for increa sed
pay will be granted by the opera tors. The
increase will affect about 600 men.
The deadlock between the miners and
operators of the Springfield, H.. subdis-
trict continues. The miners insist on an
increase of from $40 to S2.25 per day for
drivers. Operators declare they will not
pay the scale.
The Sharon steel hoop plant. at South
Sharon, Pa, has just been completed and
will go into operation this week. giving en-
ployment TO several hundred men. Orders
are booked to keep the plant in steady op-
Grafton for six months.
John Cudahy. president of the Pacific
Fisheries Company, said yesterday that.ths
report that il was TO be sold 10 a syndicate
vas absolutely-that the report 'is the
work of a promoter. who is, no doubt, try
ing to get up some scheme"
One OF the largest redwood deals ever
transacted in California has been made by
Isaac Minor, sr., of Humboldt county, he
being the purchaser of some $4,000 acres OF
virgin redwoods of the best quality. The
At Danville Va. the board of directors
of the Riverside cotton mills yesterday re-
fused the demands of their operatives for a
ten-hour day. The operatives tonight
formally declared a strike. This throws l.
500 operatives out of employment
The six hundred men employed at the
Oneida colliery of Coke Bros. & Co, near
HaZleton, Pa. have been locked out The
company wants the miners to report earlier
for work, but the men refuse TO do so. No
move has been made for settlement.
The Cologne Volks Zeitung. calling atten-
tion to the establishment of a line OF
steamers between Chicago. Hamburg and
Liverpool says: we may expect Ameri-
can competition TO become still sharper,
particularly in grain and meat, and we
may also expect damage for German ship
ping.
Application has been made to the New
York Stock Exchange to list preferred and
common shares of the United States Steel
Corporation $3.50. 10000 of each. The appli-
cation may be acted on at a special meet
ing of the governing committee. the next
regular meeting does not take place until
a week from to-day.
At a meeting of the stockholders of the
American Beet Sugar Company, held at
Jersey City yesterday, the old board OF
directors was reelected. The annual re-
port showed that the amount of sugar
produced was SO, ,3l5. $50 pounds and the net
profits $55,6i3.47. The preferred stock drew
dividends amounting to S240O0.
The street railway employees of the Buff
falo Lockport, Niagara Falls and Lancas-
ter lines asked the Buffalo Railway Com
pany for a l015-hour day. Is cents an hour
for motormen and conductors and certain
notifications of the company's discipline.
The company has announced an increase or
about 20 cents per day in wages.
Among the passengers sailing from Liver
pool for New York to-day by the White
Star line steamer Majestic will be A. Keen,
chairman of the Dowlais Iron, Steel and
Coal Company limited and Windsor Rich
hor of l. "
study the American steel trust and its
probable effect upon British trade.
In round numbers, s26O00.O0O for improve
ment of the canals, making barge canal
for 450-ton barges, instead of &o-ton
barge canal. as recommended by the Gov
ernor. is the plan that will be submitted
by by bill TO the people OF New YORK state.
The proposed canal follows the lines OF the
old canal and is TO be nine feet deep.
A new scale of wages for employees of the
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Companys ele-
waited system went into effect yes terday.
Men who have been in the service more
than three years will receive an increase OF
Is per cent. or $2.5S day. Those who have
worked three years Will receive 10 per cent.
and employees for two years an increase or
per cent.
vast amount of building is i'm progress
at East Liverpool. o., and IL is likely to be
brought TO complete standstill. All the
painters and decorators and hod carriers
struck on Monday, and a strike OF carpen-
tiers and joiners is not improbable. With
strike of warehouse women at the potteries
labor circles bid fair to be disturbed for
some time.
The Cleveland & Chagrin Falls Electric
Railway Company yesterday closed con-
tracts for private right OF way between
Warren and Garrettsville, and IL is pro-
posed TO build line between these towns
and have II in operation 10y Oct i. The
building of this stretch Of road Will make a
continuous electric route from Cleveland
to Pittsburg
The striking marine engineers from De-
troit and other points who went TO Cleve-
land TO confer with the Minnesota Steam
ship Company have returned 10 their
homes. the men having refused TO treet
recognized. The Minnesota Steamship Com
pany is now a part OF the United States
Steel Corporation. which controls 102 snips
on the great lakes.
The striking journeymen painters OF
Cincinnati are reporting remarkable sue
cess in their fight against the contractors
who refuse TO sign the new scale OF 81 50
per day. They have succeeded in getting
twenty-five firms. employing many men, 10
come TO an agreement. SO that over two
hundred painters were again at work yes
terday. over four hundred men are still
out, but a settlement Is expected at-an
early date.
The disanection existing among the
Lanarkshire (Scotland) miners and en-
gineers, 10000 Of whom are idle owing TO
a strike FOR an eight-hour day, Is having
an adverse effect on the steel and iron
works I'm Scotland. Some OF the ironmas-
ters have taken steps to damp down their
furnaces. While the steelmakers will stop
their mills. The railroads. enabled by the
slackness of work. are sending engineers
and shunters to some OF the mines. Some
OF the smaller collieries have granted the
eight-hour day demanded by the strikers.
Presiding yesterday at a meeting OF the
Barrow Haem2tite Steel Company. the
Duke of Devonshire, lord president OF the
British Council. took a pessimistic view of
lon ffr,ra
He said the total orders for rails given 10
British makers in 1890 had not reached 80
per cent. OF the orders given during the pre-
ceding four years. Competition did not ac-
count for the whole decrease. Either less
rails were required or buyers were waiting
In expectation OF lower prices