Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1888 — TRADE AND LABOR. [ARTICLE]

TRADE AND LABOR.

Philadelphia Record. A London firm has agents in Pennsylvania and Maryland buying up walnut lumber for furniture and decorative purposes. A Boeton paper says that a company with a capital of $200,000 has been formed at New Bedford for the manufacture of cotton yarns. A. L. Bohrer, of the Houston Comp my says that the shafts of ocean may be welded by the new process of mending by electricity. Kentucky’s sale of lumber last year was about 125,000,000 feet, “wo/th over $1,500,000. A Lu mbe:-dealers’ ExchangS is projected at Louisville. , BhrapsviHe (Pa.) furnace employes* have been notified of a reduction cf 15 cents a diyon turnmen and 10 cents on laborers’ wajes, to begin on May 1. The Olcott iron foundry, of Albany, N Y , which has a capacity of thirty thousand tons a year and has bean idle, has been bought by New York parti e?. The Qotton Manufacturers’ Association of Canada met at Montreal recently and reported an improved trade, partly because of large expor s to China. The Michigan Stove Company, of Detroit, has acceded to the request of the molders, whoasked that the price for each castinghe marked on the pattern. Minneapdtis (Minn.) stone-masons riave a nine ; hour day. The carpentars will shortly apply for nine hours at the old rate of pay, and they will probably win. At Pittsburg, Pa., pavers received $4 a day on granite block and $3.75 for cob-ble-stone work. Rammers are paid $4.25 a day for granits bloak and $4 for ecbblegtUM " ~ Newark (N. J.) workingmen have denounced the hots brewers of New York whose men are on a strike. 'New York crafts have also decided to fine members who drink pool beer. A company with a capital of $5,000,000 hes been formed at New Yorx to engage in the refining of sugar bv electricity, which Henry Friend claims can be done at 75 cents per ton. The Operative Plasterers Union, of New York city, has made initiation fee SSO for plasterers who come from England and other places tmd who return at the end of the season. A Pittsburg firm will establish at Findlay, 0., a factory for milking seamless steel pipes, where the use of natural gas at the plant will operate to cause a saving of $350,000 a year on fuel. President Ktiley, of Case Sshool, Cleveland, O , says: “The finest specimens of architecture in all ages have been religious in their character and have largely taken the form of temples. A Butchers’ and Meat-cutters’ Union has been formed at Buffalo, N. Y.Tne boiler makers have organized a branch of the International Boiler-makers’ and Iron Ship-builders’ Association. The American Manufacturer shows that 250 blast furnaces in the United States, with a weekly output of 116,347 tons, were in operation on April 1, tmd 300, with a capacity of 85,297, were shut down. Every year hundreds ot stone-cutters come from Scotland to this country, join the union and go back to Scotland and live in luxury on what they have earned here. To put a stop to this the stonecutters’ unions of Pittsburg and New York have raised fee from $lO to SSO. Some coke operators have consolidated and formed a company with a capital of $1,200,000, which will control 1,550 evens, the second largest in the Connellsvil'e region. Frisk & Co., own 2,765 ovens, the Schoonmaker Company own 1,007, and the Connellsville Coke are 12,468 ovens in the Coneuaville district.