Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1887 — Labor and Industrial Notes. [ARTICLE]

Labor and Industrial Notes.

The industrial developments in Northern Alabama, if writ-teip, down, would read more like a Jules Verne novel than like Advances of wages have been made in quite a number of small shops and factories throughout the State of New York. The Texas State Farmers' Alliance Cotton Congress has just appropriated $500,000 to build a large cotton factory at Waco. The . richest lead discovery of modern times, so goes the story, has been made in Franklin County, Missouri. The solid vein is ei.ht feet high and Six feet broad; In San Antonio. Texas, there are seven assemblies of Knights. In Winnipeg, Man., there are six. and two or three more are forming. In lhe State ot Maryland there are 154 assemblies in good standing. At Bordentown. N. J., one assembly has named itself the Bouaparte. At Denver, Col., the other day 3,000 persons listened to Mr. Powderly, and on the stage were the Governor of the State, the Mayor of the city, and the Catholic Bishop of the dio-

ceee. At Omaha Mr. Powderly declared) that he would never again hold office as General Master Workman. A great many Knights are aspiring to the position at the head of the order, in anticipation of the vacancy to be made. The Missouri of the Lutheran Church warned its members against joining the Knights. The Knights in Tennessee are taking active steps to form a Labor party, and Richard Trevelick has been engaged to stump the State. Jesse Harper and some other Labor leaders have been working Kansas. In Missouri the Labor party is organized in several large towns. In Michigan a large Labor party vote will bo polled at the next election, if activity in organization means anything. Robert Schilling and a score of active leaders are working Wisconsin. In lowa General Weaver has taken the field. A State conyenton will be held in Ohio on July 4 to nominate State officers. Columbus is the point. The Henry George wing of the Labor party will hold a convention in Cincinnati on the same day. South Carolina has 30 mills, 4,600 looms, and 230,000 spindles. The next convention of the Cigarmakers’ International Union will be held at New York. The labor agitations in Great Britain are assuming larger dimensions, particularly in mining, iron-working, and in the engineering trades. The coal miners in Northumberland have been on strike several months for 12J per cent, advance. The equivalent of $150,000 has been expended in benefits upon the membership. Never before has there been so much agitation among British workmen of all crafts with reference to emigration.