The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-11-30

that the M1dVale Steel company would
shut down its extensive plant was go
ing the rounds of the financial dis
trict Inquiries developed the infor-
nation that not only had some over
Jealous calamity bowler run short of
material and drawn on his magma
ton for what he lacked in facts. but
that Midvale would be compelled to
increase its force Of thousands Of
workmen in the course of a month
or SO.
Pittsburg, Pa.-Notces at the local
mills of the Spang & Chalfant com
pany announced a reduction in wages
of puddlers to five dollars a ton. The
mill will be temporarily closed. throw
ing 600 men out. The H. C. Frick
company plants at Connellsville laid
off all of its shipping clerks. Many
of the ovens have been banked. The
plant of the Interstate Steel company
at Breckenridge has closed. Two hun
dred and fifty men are affected.
South Bethlehem, Pa.-Oflcials de-
MED the rumor that the Bethlehem
Steel company was about to discharge
several thousand men. The recent
completion of the new Saucon plant
necessitates the discharge of several
hundred laborers, and in some depart
ments there has been a reduction OF
forces for economical reasons, but the
employment bureau is still open and
any good mechanic will be given work.
TENS in the west and middle west,
many of them operating from Chicago,
have made large reductions in the
number of employees IN the mechani-
T cal, construction and maintenance of
way departments during the past few
days. Between $4,000 and $4,000 have
4 been laid Off No great reduction in
the train service so far has been or
dered.
apolis.-Many Of the labor
union publications of the country have
/ editorials in regard to John Mitchell,
I president of the United Mine Work
4 ers of America, in which they speak
highly of the ability of Mr.. Mitchell
and express the hope that he will soon
be able to resume his position as the
head of the miners. The editorials
show the widespread popularity Of the
man.
San Francisco.-Accordin to infor-
nation received from New Castle,
N. s. w, the effect of the great strike
Of coal miners there is felt throughout
Australia. Miners, railroad men and
dock men are out in sympathy with
the strikers, and all vessels bound for
ports of the world which had put into
New Castle to load coal are held up
in the harbor.
London, Eng. An international
agreement forbidding night work in
factories by women has been signed
by England. France, Germany, Aus
tria, Italy, Denmark, Spain, Belgium,
Portugal. Sweden and Switzerland 1t
Will be put in practice in December,
1910.
Boston.-Twenty-f thousand chill
dren between IA and 16 years OF age
in the state of Massachusetts are not
at school, was the statement in the
caption of the charts made from the
report of the commission for the In
| dustrial exhibit in Boston.
Omaha, Neb.-Six hundred thousand
nickels in o bunch were turned loose
in Omaha when the Omaha Street
Railway company disbursed $4,000
worth Of the f1ve-cent pieces in meet
ing the monthly pay roll of the con
Germ.
Norfolk, Va.-By vote of 154 to SO
the American Federation of Labor re
fused to place itself on record as IA
voring the government ownership OF
railways and mines The opponents
took the grounds that government
ownership Of mines and railways
would prevent all strikes, no matter
how peaceably they might be con
ducted, and that with a federal govern
ment opposed to labor. it might prove
a death blow.
Cleveland, O.-The American Ship
, building company laid of 1000 mer
: at the yards in Lorain and the plan
> will be closed. In the local yards 1
: number of men were laid off. In the
yards at Bay City, Mich, 400 mer
} we're laid off and the yards will bt
: closed indefinitely. The money strin
gency is given as the cause of thu
curtailment
: New York.-Genera1 Superintendent
/ Brooks, OF the Western Union Tele
: graph company, said that there had
: been no change in the standard of op
= orators wages paid by the compan!
] and that the report from Mobile, Ala.
P 70 the effect that a reduction of tel
= per cent. was to be made was withou
{ foundation.
l Ottawa, Can.-The experiment Of re
] cruiing skilled labor in England 70
i Canadian factories has now been triet
J Tor seven months, and the committee
! If the Canadian Manufacturers asso
citation, which is responsible for thu
abor bureau IN London, is abundantl'
= satisfied with fha pxnprir1en4 S0 far q