The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-12-04
Trade, Industry and Labor

The, Brookville Pa,l glass factory has
shut down, throwing 200 men out of work.
The National Shawmut Bank of Boston
has increased the amount of its importa-
| tion of gold from sl,OOO.0Oo to s1.5OO,0oO
A transfer of New York Stock Ex-
change n, memberShp was arranged yes st sro
| over the last previous transfer.
Shipments of grain from Duluth, Mimi,
| this week fully up to expectations.
About 10000 bushels of fax will go down
| the lake this week from Duluth, and nearly
as much wheat
Creditors have applied for the appoint
ment OF a receiver for the United Sheet
and Tin-plate Company at Marietta, o.
Twelve attachment suits have been filed
| against the plant in the last three days.
The Balanced Gable Crane Company, cap
| ital s1000,00O, to manufacture and deal in
at Trenton, N. j., yesterday. Incorporators:
| Joshua Y. Lazarus. Herbert p. Gillette
and Seabury c. Mastick, all of Jersey City.
| In Chicago only six men are affected by
| the general strike order of Bridge and
| Structural Iron Workers against the
| George A. Fuller Construction Company.
| The six men were employed on the Nc
Neill building, ten-story structure being
erected.
The lockout in the Quebec boot and shoe
| factories, involving 5000 men, was settled
yesterday, the operatives accepting the
terms OF the manufacturers, who want
| one year at wage schedule to be mutual
| ly agreed on.
I Twenty-Five hundred men were let off
yesterday when they reported for work at
| the plant of the National Steel Company
| at Bellaire, o. The works were closed
down for an indefinite period on orders
from Pittsburg. No explanation was given
| for the order
Six hundred men were laid off yesterday
! for an indefinite period by the Browne &
Sharp Company, manufacturers of machin-
| cry. at Providence. The hours of the ma
| chinists remaining In the shops were re-
| duced from sixty to fifty per week. Poor
trade conditions led to the step.
Announcement was made at Boston yes
terday that the National Steel and Wire
Company has increased it's capital stock
| by $l,5OO,OOO preferred to 100000, 800. 600
common to A,0O0.00O, for the purpose of abb
| sorbing the Safety Insulating Wire and
Cable Company of Bayonne. N. j.
Hosting engineers in coal mines in the
| Illinois district will receive $40 month
more pay hereafter This. in substance,
was decided yesterday by the arbitration
Chicago on the demands of the engineers.
| who asked for an increase of 49,
The firm of d. p. Cruickshank & Co., i'm
porters and commission merchants of New
York, filed a petition in bankruptcy yester-
day showing Liabilities Of $24S, 1896 and assets
OF $l95. 29S. The principal creditors are i'm
New York. Alexander T. Mason was ap-
pointed receiver with a bond of $4,000
Notices have been posted at the several
mines of the Somerset, Continental and
Merchants coal companies in the Meyers
dale. Pa, region notifying the employees of
| 10 per cent. reduction in wages to be-
come effective Dec L. Just what the
miners organization will do in the matter
| is not known.
d. Rockefeller, states that the proxy COM
mittee of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com
pany, which comprises George j. Gould and
John D. Rockefeller, jr, has received con-
eli w frlc ne
| of the company to be voted in favor of
| the new financial plan.
The strike of tanners and curriers' against
the American Hide and Leather Company
| at Chicago has been broken After being
| idle for several weeks the men are now re-
turning to work. The failure of the strike
is attributed by the officials Of the union to
| the unfriendly attitude of the steam power
| council and other unfriendly labor organi-
cations.
At the annual meeting of the stockholders
| of the American Cotton Oil Company yes
| terday the resignation of Edmund Urduhart
| as director was accepted. Mr. Urouhart
| is probably the oldest living man i'm the
cotton-seed business. Francis L. Line, vice
president of the First National Bank. was
chosen in his place. The other retiring di-
rectors were reelected.
| According to Vice President Scaritt. Of
| the George A. Fuller Construction Com
pany, the strike said to have been ordered
on their work throughout the country by
| the executive committee of the Iron Work.
| ers' International Association is without
effect, for the reason of the fact that i'm
| the cities in which the men have been
| called out the company is not having any
| work done.
| A referee appointed by the Supreme Court
I of New York to hear the evidence in a
| long pending case of the city of New York
| against the Manhattan Railway Company
1 has decided in favor OF the former III
/! the referee is sustained by the court. the
| city excbequer will be enriched by more
| than $4,000. The suit. which began three
1 years ago, was for the use of the streets
| and avenues by the elevated railroad struc-
ture on the West Side below Eighty-th third
/ street.
| Plans for checking the inroads being
/ made into their business by newspaper adj
vertising were discussed by the directors
| of the Associated Billposters and Dis
tributors OF the United States and Canada