Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-10-23
WEBSTER DEPOT-10TK & wEBsTEl
LABOR AND INDUSTRY


The Cramps have orders enough on hand
now TO keep the 5000 men employed in
their shipyards busy for the next fifteen
One of the Oldest of English trade unions
the Steam Engine Makers society-has
just celebrated its eightieth anniversary.
In Belgium the number OF work people
employed in the mines in the province OF
were employed below ground and $40
President O'Connell of the international
Association of Machinists reports that since
the last convention $50 new lodges have
been organized and sixty-hve additional
lodges received through the amalgamatiOn
of the Allied Metal Mechanics Interna-
tional
raroo SrO Company FOR s~ esetfe
locomotives for use on the New York Cen
trail terminal foreshadows the time when
electricity shall have supplanted steam IN
moving trains, and the smoke nuisance VIII
be cindery, smutty memory of the UNI
Compaints constantly arise in regard to
the low pay of clerical labor In England
particularly in the case Of women. The
clerk who is expert In English, French and
German--she had spent year In study IN
Paris-who works eleven hours day Tor
1915 a week.
day September Is, had the biggest semi
monthly payroll in the history of the
Pittsburg district when 2,0OO,V0 was pald
its workmen Ih 6oo usual Two weeks cca IR}o55
double and sometimes triple time had been
made by the workmen.
Employment in New York state Is more
general now even than in the great times
of 1902, which were the most prosperous,
until now, of the whole boom period. This
is what a canvass of the situation by the
state bureau OF labor indicates. What Is
true of New York state Is true OF the whole
country. Industry Is in wonderfully pros
A manufscturing firm in Atlanta lately
advertised for a Telephone girl proposing
10 nav "a a week and the next day had 112
appncations I'm reply. Two days later II
s al eaesi6g iSr lgh Clean article in paper
boxes, offering 81 weekly for the same daily
hours Of work, and did not have a single
the girls for such want of sense
The great increase in the immigration OF
foreigners to the United States has resulted
in a movement TO have the question come
up before the annual convention OF the
american Federation Of Labor, which will
be held in Pittsburg, Pa, in November
The national organization has taken action
on the question In former years, put the
plans being considered at present contem-
plate a determined EFFORT TO have desirable
legislation enacted during the coming term
There are. according TO an official estl.
mate, in the whole of Germany 10000 bras.
and zinc workers and IN Berlin In , aI2Rs
| ing in these trades, Of whom l4,OOO are IN
| trades unions. The hours OF work are
| youths between II and 16 years Of age,
! forty -eight hours There Is a general ap-
premiership system anS women on nave Syo Ihe
| There is also a womens trade union with
1 $500 members.
] That the Pennsylvania railroad manage
! ment regards the business outlook as most
! favorable is evidenced in the company $
| order for steel rails for next years de-
| livery. II amounts TO l19O0 tons at
| cost OF some 100000, or s, 10000 over the
| order OF 1904 for delivery this current year
| Three hundred thousand tons ot rails Or
| dered for this year will probably not DC
| delivered till next year ana a milton ana
| a half tons OF rails TO be delivered next
| wear are believed TO have been alreaoy
| ordered In 1893 the rail-msking record
! approached 5000 900 tons, and there Is a
/ good prospect now that those figures VIII
! be exceeded in 1906.
/ A novel Industry that Is among the very
few that Is in operation in this country Is
/ fourishing in Brooklyn. Not Ions ago one
/ IN the officers OF foundry company con-
| ceiyed the idea that the millions OF tin
| cans thrown on the dumps could be con-
I Verted into something useful. The thing
| was discussed, experiments were made, and
in short while the foundry was used
/ solely for smelling old tin and other metal
| scrap found on the public dumps. The
! plans were enlarged In time, and the trans
formation OF old tin cans into window
sash and dumb waiter weights and such
articles has become an Industry OF unusual
profit There Is always a demand for the
product and as the cost OF manufacture
! Is astonishingly small. the returns are
| enormous. Italians are employed 20 do
nothing else than collect the old TIN cans.