Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-12-06
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nection with the plans for irrigating 2O,-
600 acres of land, which viii require
100000 feet CT lumber,
Morgan county. Colorado has eleven
irrigating canals 30 miles in length al
together, and with a capacity of $780,
100000 cubic feet of water.
Tacoma stevedores, who believe they
made record time, loaded the ship Peru
with 124,S57 bushels of wheat in seven
teen hours, an average of 1874 bushels
an hour.
In England over 100000 workers ex-
perienced a decrease in wages during the
last fiscal year In rs per cent of the
cases wage changes were effected by ar
bitration.
Twelve million six hundred thousand
is the estimate of the number Of the
famous Rocky Ford cantaloupes shipped
from the Rocky Ford district in Colo
RADIO this Season. Seven hundred cars
were sent out, as against J92 carloads
the previous year.
The production Of the Cripple Greek
district, Colorado's famous mining camp
for September, 1904 amounted to So
OiAs VQOs Win a flVoa t0l4AAiSC VI O-fsnaUt-
600 tons. The average value Of the ore
shipped during the Month was $2S per
ton, a gain Of 81 over the August output
Recent advertisements in Denver. and
other Western papers, called for $4,000
skilled men in one hundred different
trades, applicants to agree to work in
open shops. This is understood to be
move on the part of the Citizens Ali
ance of Colorado in its campaign against
unionism and the closed shop.
Hannah Monroe, president Of the
Washwomcn's Union of Richmond, Va.
has issued an address to her sisters of
the tub and washboard throughout the
South She urges washwomen to organ
ize against their " oppressors," the
''heathen Chinee" She SAYS the male
Chinaman, instead Of doing mems work.
are driving the honest and poorly paid
colored women from their natural calling
of laundry work" Hannah Monroe it is
said, was born a slave. She threatens
to become the Carrie Nation Of the wash
women's movement and begin a series
of raids against the offending Cinnamon.
Available figures go to show that in
the twenty years between 1880 and 1900
there were 23,793 strikes, which cost the
country in wages, expense and direct loss
of trade nearly $400.000,000 In the same
time there were a little over 900 lock-
outs, costing nearly $100000.000. These
three items of loss by no means represent
its full extent. II would be a fair com
putation to estimate an equal sum lost
directly and indirectly by the general
public because Of the strikes. They
would exhibit = total Of 81 900 100000
for the twenty years, and would undoubt-
eddy be within, instead Of beyond she
mark.
DR.. Max Nitzsche, writing in the
Preussische Jahrbuuher. says that Euro
pean industry has nothing to fear from
japanese comp stition. 1t takes three
japanese to do the work Of one English
man. In the cotton mills, for instance.
the latter looks after 500 spindles. while
the smartest japanese can only look after
about 300. They are not so clever, either:
are butter fingered" and break four
times as many threads as the English
man, taking FIVE times as long to tie
them up again. In Massachusetts one
girl attends 70 six looms. In Lancashire
to four and in Japan to one This slow
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but also in ordinary earthworks. building
mining and so on. The japanese hates
continuous work, and likes to stop and
chat and sing and sip tea and smoke
as interludes IN his business. Unless be
can DO this and have bis way he win
quit, caring little whether he works o.
not
John F. Buckley Of Brockton. Mass.
who has been the secretary and statisti- /
clan Of the Broekton Shoe Workers
Council. Is the new stafistician Of the
National Boot and Shoe Workers Union. I
The gross earnings Of the railroads 4
have increased S572. 761. AZ since 1880. /
and the net earnings S7SJGG, s23. No /
wonder Bradstreet's finds evidence Of 1
railroad progress" in the existing situa-
ton.
An apparatus called the teIecrypto-
graph, which telegraphs and records In
prin. messages over ordinary telephone
lines, without interfering with the tele-
phony. Is said TO have been invented By
EigDor Melcotti, an Italian electrician.