Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1888 — TRADE AND LABOR. [ARTICLE]

TRADE AND LABOR.

Philadelphia Record. Albany (N. Y.) etc ns cutters have •track for a nine-hoar day and 39 cents an hour instead of tern-hour day 36 cents an hour. It is claimed that the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners has raised wages in 179 cities to the extent of $4,000,000 a year. \ The Wire Nail Association at a meetingin Pittsburg last week, it is clained, decided to increase the price of nails 10 cents per keg. The Austin (Tex.) Penitentiary Board has refused the request of the Palo Pinto Coal Mining Company for convicts to work its mines. A factory in which coffee-pots, tincups, pans, etc., are made is in operation at Atlanta, Ga. A complete coffee-pot is made in five minutes. Over 100 hod-carriers at Montclair, N. J., struck for an advance to 25 cents an hour or $2.26 a day. Several bosses gave the increase. Carpenters and plasterers of Wheeling, W. Va.. have struck for a nine-hour day at the old wages. A few boss carpenters have granted the demand. New Haven (Conn.), strikers have been fined $7 each for calling a man a “icab.” The jndge decided that the offense in calling “scab” was a thieat. Tea and grocery cUrks from a’l over the country are to meet in Pittsburg in Jnly to take action, among other thing 3, on applying for a K. of L. charter. Nearly forty master painters of New York City have agreed to the demand of their men for a nine hour day, at $3.50 per day, aud an eight hour Saturday. The Btrike at E. Y. Connett’s hat factory, Newark, N. J., for $1.75 a dozen for finishing, has been settled. The men have agreed to work for $1.67 per dozen until May 1. The failure cf the Eagle Oil Refinery, at Lima, 0., strengthens the opinion of Oil City, Pa., operators that the Ohio oil cannot be profitably manufactured into an illuminant. Hundreds of negroes are arrivtng in California from ihe Southern States. They are paid sls per month. It is claimed that they will work for lets than the Chinese. The convicts in the San Quentin (Cal.) prison work in a jute mill, the bag output of which is sold to farmers in all parts of Ih9 State. The price per bag is not to exceed 8 cents. The 1,000 miners employed at Irwin, Pa., have returned to work at the com pany’s effer of 60 cents a ton for mining, 20 cents an hoar for drivers and 15 cents an hoar for laborers. Omaha (Neb.) Btone cutters want an eight hour day” and 50 cents an hour. The brick yard molders and setters have struck, the former for $3 per 6,000 and the setters for $3.25 per 18,000. Pennsylvania’s hemlock belt covers fifty miles square in Potter, McKean, Elk, Forrest and Cameron counties. An acre in this field contains about 15,000 f9et of lumber and ten cords of bark. There are about 2.500 hatters idle at Danbury, Conn., and it is believed that the number who will shortly be out on account of dullness in trade in that oity and around will reach several thousand. The New York Sun rave: “The strikes that have taken place in this country Bince the beginning of the year 1887 have numbered abont 1,000, and of the 400,000 men engaged in them from 25,000 to 50,000 men are still out.” The Central Labor Union of Boston, Mass., having admitted the Bartenders’ Union delegates, is condemned by the K. cf L. Assembly of Painters and Decorators on the ground that they are agents of a trade “detrimental to organized labor, as well as to society in general.” .•

j The builders and master painters of Troy, N. Y., have agreed to a nine-hour day to begin on May 1. Brotherhood painters have struck for seven and onefourth cents advance and a day exfending fiom 7:30 a, m. to 4:30 p. m., with one hour for dinner. They havefceen receiving thirty cents an hoar, and have been working from 8 a. m. to 12 and from 1 to 5 p. m. Labor Commissioner Peek, of New York, in his fifth annual report, delivered last week, said: “Strikes have helped to raise wages, to shorten honre, to improve the condition, not only of the particular workmen who have risen np in protest, bnt alio of the masses.” He eetimatee the loss cf wages to have been $2,018,225, and that 9217,669 was paid oat of jrelikf funds. The loss to the emplpyeis lie estimates to have been $1,124,214. To offset these losses he rays the wage-earners gained advancas which gave them $944,632 more during the year than before where the strikes were successful, and they lost $142,500 where they failed.