The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1902-12-04
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About 1000 diamond workers in
Amsterdam, Holland. are oct of work
In wages alone 100000. 900 IL nm.
nually expended by The United STATES
steel corporation, better known az the
steel trust
Mexican labor is SO scarce rs 10 ne.
eessitate sending for negroes from Ia.
maica. The latter are guaranteed EN-.
ployment for year
The laws OF Kansas provide that the
labor unions of the State shall organ.
lie State society and select the In.
Dor Commissioner, thus giving the nm.
ions the privilege OF saying who shall
represent them In SO important posi-.
tion.
Georgia fruit growers are claiming
that the peach crop of their State
yields more money TO the producers
than does the cotton crop The area
devoted to fruit is now large aud these
assertions are liksg to, cause IT to be
Increased.
There Is one metal whose production
is always shor. of the demand. This il
platinum. Nearly all of IL comes from
Russia and the annual world produc.
ton is about 10000 ounces. South
America produces about 10000 ounces
and the United States. from mines In
Shasta County, California. about ] 400
ounces. 1t is worth S21 an ounce.
Forty Invalid employees Of the Wa.
bash railroad We're recently sent from
the company's hospital at Peru Ind.
TO san Francisco, accompanied by
three trained nurses II Is said To be
the purpose OF the road, IN case these EN-.
ployes are benefited by the trip to Cali
fornia, 10 send invalid employees TO the
coast every year in the future. The
railroad company pays all expenses OF
the trip.
Hoods Song of the Shirt might
well be revived for the benefit Of 1854
children under 10 years of age. who
according TO the last census returns
are employed in making such articles
OF wear for men IN the United States
More than 1900 OF these are employed
In factories. There are LAS employ.
ed In making womens skirts and siml.
lar garments Nearly 5000 are IN the
stocking factories. and over 1000 In
the miscellaneous employments con,
nected with the production of ready.
made attire
United States Consul Miller AT New
ehwang China. writing Of opportunl.
ties to sell American agricultural ma.
chinery to the natives. tells this story:
For an Immediate market it Is neces.
sary 10 overcome the natural conserya.
tism OF the Chinese. About twenty
years ago an Englshman brought two
plows here. He tried to sell them ana
could not; he endeayored To give them
away but no one would take them:
then he made an effort 10 get some one
10 experiment with them. but he could
not even get man TO hitch team tn
one
In England during The wear 1900
there were Gis strikes. fss. 53S strikers
;. l52SGi days work lost In ronse.
queuce In France the figures we're
't9 strikers. 22.714 strikers. 3.TGn.57T
days work ost. In italy there were
80 strikes. 1915 strikers. e3l. 800
days work lost. or more than 1000. 600
days work lost In The three countries
IN single year Ia England 30 per
cent OF The strikes were successful. -
were unsuccessful; Ia France - per
cent successful. - per cent were un.
successful; in Italy - per cent were
successful. 20 per cent unsuccessful.
The strikes not here accounted for
were compromised Ia one way of an.
other