Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1887 — TRADE AND LABOR. [ARTICLE]

TRADE AND LABOR.

Philadelphia Record. Labor in the iron and steel mills is overtaxed. • .The woolen outlook is much better than it was a monthago. , Railroad construction is calling for all the common labor that can be had. A machine has been made which makes either a wire nail or a cut nail. Twenty-five tons of wire is the daily output of a new Chicago wire-mill. Take care of the pence and the absconding cashier will take care of the, pounds. Two thousand men have just been started making narrow-gauge rails at Carondulet, Mo. The Lake Superior ore output this year was thirty tons for ever v twentythree tons last year. The vapor-stove manufacturers will pool their interests in Cleveland, the home of the Standard. The natural gas company has struck Tennesse, and a company has started operations at Oliver, that State. In a comparatively short time all the large industrial establishments East will be lighted by electricity. The largest knife-grinder ever made is in use at Fitchburg, Mass., and weighs between three and tour tons. The shoe manufacturers are pleased with the rctive demand and good prices realised for boots and shoes. The cutlery manufacturers have advanced prices from 16 to 26 per sent, since their combination went into eftect. All the coal miners in and around E vansville are on a strike. Cause: Want higher wages. Probably 10,0QP men are involved. Affair month’s Stove molder’ff’gfrike in St. Louis has been declared off, anu old hands are forced to seek employment elsewhere. The Mennonite colony of silk-grow-ers in Ka sas are encouraged by State contributions and by liberal prices from Eastern consumers. . - The largest steel ingot ever cast in England weighed seventy tong,was sixtytwo inches in diameter, arid was for a gun to be forty feet long. . The Brockton, Mass., Shoe Asse'mbly, which numbered I,TOO members a year ago, is now practically out of existence, so says its chief officer. Sunday factory labor in Germany is enforced by the sharp competition between employers,and an agitation which will a;'rpst it is likely to set in. -An English mechanic with an “Hon. :i before his name has made an engine which makes 10,000 revolutions per minute, and which can be increased to 30,000. All Western machine shops seem to .be crowded, but labor organizations there are warning Eastern mechanics not to imagine that they can Jump into situations easily. A larger„percentage of European labor will remain on this side of the Atlantic this winter than usual, to build bridges, open mines, erect shops and manufactories, and do all manner of ordinary labor. . go far this month 36,226 laborers struck, three-fourths of whom were miners. One thousand Boston cigar makers struck against the employment of apprentices, and 2,500 iron roll turners and others struck at Pittsbtlrg.