The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-05-07
TRADE, LABOR. INDUSTRY.
Meetings of Organized Workingmen
-Notes of New Enterprises

The union plasterers of Cleveland struck
yesterday for $3.50. instead of So a day,
and also weekly pay day. Several con-
tractors have already granted the demands.
The Cigar Leaf Tobacco Board of Trade
or the United States began its third annual
convention yesterday in New York. The
matter of a specific duty on tobacco from
Cuba and other countries and the Asricul-
tural Departments examination of tobacco
and tobacco soils will be discussed.
4 strike among the machinists employed
at the pressed-steel car works, in Mckee
Rocks. Pa. was officially declared yester-
Gay. The dispute was caused by the dis
charge of six machinists. who, it is alleged.
lost their positions through their affilia-
tons with a union that is being organized
among them.
A submarine telegraph cable for the Com
mercial Cable Company between Watervilie,
Ireland. and Weston. Super Mare where thu
cable will directly be connected with Lon
don, has been completed. The completion
OF this work marks the end of a long
struggle of the British government to &C
complish it.
When the two hundred employees of the
NJ. 5. Benedict Company, of East Syracuse,
y. Y, makers of silver metal goods.
turned to work yesterday they found the
factory doors locked. The men believe that
the action is due TO the prospective forma-
ton OF a union. The company claims TO
have shut down for repairs.
The San Francisco Post says that Leigh
Hunt, the millionaire mine owner, has
formed a syndicate of American and Eu-
rOpean capitalists TO operate concessions
vested in Hunt by the Korean government
and commonly known as the American
concession The Post says the company is
organized with a capital of $15.O00,0Oo
The fifth biennial convention of the
Brotherhood OF Railway Trainmen con-
Vened in Milwaukee yesterday and will
transact business for the next two weeks.
The principal business TO come before the
gathering pertains to changes in the con-
stitutiOn and matters affecting the insur-
ance branch of the order. The sessions are
secret.
Two hundred and fifty union carpenters
refused TO go to work at Louisville yester
Gay on buildings where nOnunion men are
employed. They reiterated demands made
last week for absolute observance of union
rules regarding the employment of labor
BY contractors and in several instances nom
union men were discharged by the con-
tractors.
The annual convention of the Tin-plate
Workers international Association of
America was called 10 order AZ Cleveland
yesterday with about forty delegates pres
emit The first session was devoted TO the
reading of reports of international officers
after which the work OF preparing the new
wage scale was taken up. The present scale
expires July 10
The international Union of Textile Work.
ers met in annual convention at Holyoxe.
Mass yesterday. Sixty delegates there.
representing the textile centers of the
North and of North Carolina. South Caro-
lima. Kentucky. Alabama and other South
eTn States. Several or the delega les from
the South are women. The afternoon ses-
sion was principally devoted to routine
business.
About six hundred miners at East Pales-
tine. o.. struck. yesterday, to enforce their
demand for payment for dead work"
About four hundred miners in the Pan
handle district. West Virginia, attached 10
the Ohio organization. were also ordered
out the operators having insisted upon a
ten-hOur day. Three hundred men also are
on strike at Carbonate and a like number
at Carbon Hill, resisting d reduction in
wages.
At a special meeting Of the National Tube
Company. held in Jersey City yesterday.
resolution was unanimously adopted re-
cEcing the number OF directors from TWEEN
ty-three 10 nine. TIE following members
ct the board Will remain: +. r Hearne.
T.. G. Converse William Nelson Cromwell
William J. Curtis. Charles Steele. William
T.. Schiller. William II. Latshaw. j. j.. Cui-
bertson and A. 5 Matheson. The execu-
tive offices of the company will be moved
u Pittsburg at once.
President John Mitchell, OF the United
Mine Workers. and several other heads Of
labor organizations which belong 10 the
National Civic Federation. have arrived IN
New York 10 attend meeting or a special
committee of the federation 10 be held to-
day. The National Civic Federation IS
composed OF 200 labor leaders and heads OF
business firms, and Is organized for the
purpose CT promoting the principle OF arbi-
trafiOn as opposed 20 strikes in the set
Element OF labor disputes.
\ combination of the Independent sewer
pipe companies in opposition TO the sewer
pipe trust is assured. The combine" will
lnclude the plants Of Robinson Brothers
IL Akron. Canal Dover and Midvale; the
the Summit sewer-pipe factory. in Akron:
the Granite Clay Company. Mogadore: the
Camp factories ia Akron. Cuyahoga Falls.
GrcentoWn. and several small plants
in the Ohio valley. IL is said Henri
Il. Camp. of this city. will be the pres.-
dent OF the new company.
The Detroit United Railway Company has
purchased the Detroit * Northwestern sub
urban trolley line. which runs between De-
troit and Plymouth a distance of about
thirty miles. The price is said TO be $500, O00
The owners Will not receive cash. but an
issue of Az per cent bonds In exchange for
their stock. Ii is said to be the purpose
OF the Detroit Railway Company 10 ulti-
mately purchase all the suburban roads
running into Detroit and reorganize as the
Detroit United & Suburban Railways.