Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1887 — TRADE AND LABOR NOTES. [ARTICLE]

TRADE AND LABOR NOTES.

| Philadelphia Record. There are 120,000 persons employed in the coal mines of France. Cattle receipts are excessive and prices are the lowest for ten years. During June 300 new Knights of Labor assemblies were organized. Some New York tailors propose a cooperative tailoring establishment. Ten steel steamers are to be built to carry ore from the Lake Superior region. A car-building company has been organized to build cars at South Baltimore. The 15,000 barnessmakera of tha United States have formed a national union. Work in the South is abundant in shops, but common labor is'notso quickly absorbed. The central Pennsylvania miners will hold a convention at Huntingdon, Pa , on July 27. The increase of heavy machinery is bringing into use cranes of enormous lifting capacity. Indiana gas is freer from sulphur than is Ohio or Pennsylvania gas, which is greatly in its favor. The basis of the new Knights of Labor membership is one delegate for every 3,000 membership. A certain class of Willimantic Linen Company employes have had their wages increased 20 per cent. The value of real and personal estate increased in New York during the past year $86,672,377. New England shoemakers are anticipating reductions in wages on account of the failure of the strikes. The iron and steel-workers of England will meet at Sheffield in August to form a national trades-union. Prominent engineers are recommending the use of heavier steel rails, and have had 100 pounds to the yard tried. The Morrison crowd in the Knights are sending out circulars telling “Why the general officers should be deposed A yacht to be propelled by electricity, the first ever attempted, is being built to run between Newark and New York. There is a great demand for agricultural implements, tools, foundry castings and wagon material in the Southern States. There is a general movement among textile manufacturers to increase or improve capacity. Trade prospects are favorable. The Delamaters at New York have all the men they need, and the old hands are prowling around elsewhere after employment. Thirty-six thousand acres of mineral land have been purchased near Kansas City, Mo., where iron and steel works will be built. The cost of milling flour has been reduced at Minneapolis from $6 35 in 1878 to $4.89 in 1885, and at the present time the cost it still lower. There is a lack of intelligent laborers and managers at Southern iron-making plants. Up to July 15, there were 9,563 strikers out, and up to July 22,14,308. Locomotive shop workmen have had their wages reduced from time to time for three or four years past, but an improving tendency is now apparent. A huge pumping engine has just been ordered by Welsh .mine-owners from a New York house, because none others can be had which are safe from bursting. The Mexican government has arranged with a corporation to expend $200,000 within five years for the surveying of all mines in four States in Northern Mexico. In a few months coke-making plants will be scattered all along the Allegheny mountains in Pennsylvania. A $1,000,000 company has just been organized in Cambria county. The architects continue to report activity m building operations. The quiet condition of the labor market is encouraging a good many large enterprises that have been withheld. Contracts will be let for material to build 2,500 tube iron freight cars that will have a capacity of 60,000 pounds. Among the requirements are 5,000,000 feet of oak and Georgia pine. A company making rolling stock in Ohio, and employing 1,500 men, has decided to remove to Alabama to be near lumber, cheap coal and their customers, and as far from strikes as possible. The carriage and wagon makers have been remarkably busy during the past six months, and all large works are sold up for three or four months. The price of good work has not declined. Building is progressing with unabated vigor throughout the larger Western cities. Lumber yards, foundries, small machine and tool shops are springing, up, started in many cases by Eastern men. - Builders report an unusually large number of hotels building and to be built this year. Church and school house work is also abundant. The character of work is improving. The greatest activity is in the Northwest. Conservatism will be the labor watchword for the next twelve months. Informal meetings of labor leaders have taken place within a few days at which future politics were discussed jn a general way and a comparing of notes indulged in. Wajges have been stationary in nearly all crafts. Machinery makers will demand an advance in September. This branch includes boiler, engine and tool makers. Shops are crowded with work, and large purchases of machinery are being made,