The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1908-04-11

was recently decided upon became Ell
fective in mills employing 10000 per-
sons. The reduction is due to the de-
preston of the cotton goods market,
which forced many mills to curtail
production. The city of Fall River.
Lawrence and Berkshire county are
not included in the general reduction,
but may be affected later on. The
curtailment is general throughout
New England. The average curtail-
ment is placed at from 20 to % per
cent. of the production. The cotton
mills Of New England have about 49,
000 900 spindles. In Fall River, pro
duction of print cloths was lessened
by about $4,000 pieces, the largest
amount held from the market this
year. It is probable that most of the
Fall River mills will adopt M. c. D.
Borden's policy and run on half-time.
closing every other week.
Washington.-In the next 60 days
the railroads of the United States will
have to find between 100000 and 300,-
900 men to mend their tracks and
road beds and another large army to
go into their shops and repair their,
cars and their locomotives. The rail-
roads centering in Chicago alone will
require more than 1000 laborers,
who will be employed in remedying
the ravages of the winter months
which, with their frosts and their
SHOWS, have made many miles OF
shaky track and as many more of
softened roadbed The arrangements
of all Chicago roads have decided to
engage in repair and renewal work
this spring and early summer on as
extensive a scale as ever, owing to
the fact that labor will be plentiful,
and possibly cheaper, and also owing
to the fact that there are signs of bust
ness renewal everywhere.
Chicago.-Employes Of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul road, by coop
Grating with the management to OBJ
tain the most rigid economy In opera
ton, have saved the necessity of
reduction in the rate Of pay. During
January 100000 was thus saved, Of
which 5000 was on coal. This is,
perhaps, the one item in which the
greatest economy is possible, as care
less firing of locomotives is one Of the
most productive fields for extravar
gance to be found
Reading, Pa.-At the close of work
j in the Reading Railway company's car
and locomotive shops March 81 500
employees were laid off, This is in
addition to $50 who were indefinitely
suspended last week. The force had
been previously reduced, SO that less
than two-thirds of the men are now at
work. Foremen have been placed in
the ranks and the plants are working
four days OF eight hours each. Sim
liar suspensions took place at Palo
Washington-The Employers asso-
citation has thrown down the gauge OF
battle-the battle for the open shop
and it is said similar organizations
of employers in the large cities,
backed by the Manufacturers associa
ton, will make united and determined
efforts to maintain open-shop condi
tions, and that the contest in the com
ing spring will be general.
Springfield, Ill.-Illinois operators
and miners were unable to reach an
agreement on the differential between
machine and hand mining. The oper
ators want the price for machine min
ing ten cents per ton less than fol
hand mining, the same as 1t is in Indi
ana. The miners want the difference
now existing of seven cents per tor
retained
, Pittsburg, Pa.-From the year 1885,
to the close of 1906, 22,849 men me
death in the coal mines of the United
States. Not since 1897 has the an
nual list numbered less than 1000, anC
each year the number has grown
larger In 1906 the fatalities wer,
/ 2,061, and 1907, when the figures arr
, all in and compiled, will number mor'
, than that.
Paris, France.-Statistics show tina
| In 1906 there occurred in France NJ
| fewer than 300 strikes, in which 438
[ 466 persons were concerned. Thi
} number included 386,435 men, 81 ,33
{ women and 1910 young persons o
! both sexes. Most of these strike
| were successful in securing shorte
hours for the wage earners.
! Springfield, nl-William Scaife, TO
II years employed in the Office of tn
l secretary of the Illinois atate bureau
of labor, has been appointed editor o
: the United Mineworkers' Journal pub
lished at Indianapolis, Ind
: Sedalia, Mo.-A notice was postet
5 at the Missouri, Kansas &, Texas rail
$ way shops announcing that the shops
1 which employ 500 men, would be shu
: down on April 1. No explanation wa
given.
4 New York.-Controller Metz receive,
+ three letters threatening him wit
: death unless work on proposed sub
+ ways is begun at once. The writer
e declared themselves TO be neithe
e black hand operators nor anarchists
r but laborers out of employment VIII
( must either work or starve.