Omaha daily bee., 1903-01-29
LABOR AND INDUSTRY.

The Northeastern railway NJ England has
ordered from New York two autocars VIII
Napier petroleum engines.
The tidinEc of the Incorporation Of q
German electrical company with a capital
Of Sll0,O 600 reads much like an American
industrial dispatch. Germany is watkins ui-
II is a country I'm which the people are be
ginning to be trusted.
The Union Printers National Home.
founded at Colorado Springs ele.e en- years
ago. Is to have a $4,000 library building.
This is principally the result of a donation
II the book collection of the late Amos j.
Cummings, the New York congressman.
Eighty-ive cotton spinning companies in
Lancashire report a net loss on this years
business. The mills In Fall River paid
average dividends this year of So per cent.
against 5.5S per cent last year. an increase
81 the amount of dividends Of 500, 305. The
dividends this year were the largest In ten
years. except in 1898, 1895 and 1900, In each
per cent.
The weaving of stone into material for
clothing, the making of flexible and lasting
granite trousers. black marble coats and
fancy onyx waistcoats may be "A possibility
OF the future. the weavers say. Already
c~urtGius are made Of asbestos and clo-h
manufactured from chalk. while a certain
spinner has. an armchair covered with Q
he wove toilsomely out Of rock-red shell.
a clergyman testifying recently in Lon
don before the alien immigration commits
sion gave some idea Of the way foreigners
live in that city. He told of people who
rented rooms for the DAY. and Of other
people who rented the same rooms for the
night. He said that at one of his church
teas 200 English children were asked
where they lived, and II was found that all
excepting seven lived in oue-roomed homes,
and all but twelve lived In single furnished
rooms, so that they were practically home
less. He had a recent census taken I'm ono
or two courts. In one there were ten
houses, hfty-one rooms, nearly all eight
feet by nine, and 254 people. The number
nine. He had seen four men and six women
sleeping in one room. Those are the work
ing people of London. 1t is a class of Inn
migrants that should be kept out of the
United States. They are increasing rapidly
in London, hence the investigation being
made to devise means to keep them out.
The quarterly bulletin issued by the New
continuation of remarkable business ac-
tivity, as shown by the employment of
labor. The proportion of trade unionists
who did not work during the third quarter
Ct this year was only lS per cent, the small
est proportional amount of idleness thus far
Earnings have averaged higher in most
trades this year than IN any other year.
The general average for all male members
of labor unions in the quarter was Sl97, as
compared with 1884 I'm the corresponding
period last year. The spread of unionism
this year to the smaller cities and into the
~unorganiZed trades of the larger cities has
been remarkable. The increase in the ag-
gregate membership of New York unions
has reached the unprecedented figures OF
SO LOCO, or about 20 per cent, and of this gain,
all except about 5000 was made since April
!. With the exception of New York City.
Schenectady made the largest gain in mem.
Industrial city now outranks Albany, Troy
and Utica.