Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1888 — TRADE AND LABOR. [ARTICLE]

TRADE AND LABOR.

Philadelphia Record. The Furniture-workers’ Union of San Francisco has adopted a label to be placed on union-made articles. A planing and lath-mill, with a daily capacity of 50,000 feet, is to be removed from Michigan to A rmietead. Miss. Non-union men of Hamilton, Ont, have formed the Independent Workingmen’s Association, with fifty members. The Saloon-keepers’ Progrersive Union of Baltimore has been admitted to membership into the Federation of Labor. A Hadley, Mass., thread company is putting in 6,400 new spindles, which will increase its production 25 per cent . —r— The Coopers’ Union, of New York, is to establish a co-opeative ccoper shop in connection with the co-operative brewery. The Warwick China Company’s factory, at Wheeling, W. Va., will be in operation in a few day?. It will employ over 200 persons. Many ot the master pa'nters of Toronto, Canada, have granted the demand for twenty-two and a half cents an hour and a nine-hour day. Unlicensed ’ plumbers in Brcokljn cannot obtain material, because of a deal between the master plumbers and the dealers in plumbers’ material. The largest wood ale oho)-works in the wcrld are at Calera, Ala. The waekly output is 20,000 bushele of charcoal and 700 gallons of alcohol. A Warrensburg, Mo., company with a capital of SIOO,OOO will mine soal, fireclay, iron and lead, and manufacture fire-clay goods, sewer pipe, drains, tiling, etc. - ' The Detroit Free Press has estimated the number of men- employed at iron mining in the L ke Superior basin at 160,000. Wages were reduced from sto 10 per cent, on Feb. 1, Miners gst $1.65 a day. '