Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1888 — TRADE AND LABOR. [ARTICLE]

TRADE AND LABOR.

Philadelphia Reeord. ,A reduction of 15 per cent, in wages has been made by a Latonia (O.) iron company. The coal beds of South Russia are developed to the extent of 1,600,000 tons per year. More hands are at work in England at present than have been employed in a long time. The Bricklayers’ Union, No. 11, of New York, has defeated a resolution to admit Italians to membership. The Wilmington (N. C.) .cotton-mill employs 140 persons and has" a weekly output of-30,000 yards of gingham. lowa cbaTminers are working for 85 cents per ton from April to October, and 90 cents per ton for the rest of the year. Twenty-five thousand acres of coal land in DeKalb, Etowah and Marshall counties, Alabama, will soon be developed. Some Detroit bricklayers have struck against working ten hours at ten-hour pay. They want nine hours at ninehour wages. • The 800 employes of the Darlingtont England; steel-works have struck agains fixing a sliding scale of wages on a basis of £3 10. The men want £3 15s. _ v The girls in a New York cigarette factory went out to have a discharged girl reinstated and to put a stop to the obnoxious boss’s doings, and they won.The window-glass houses of Findlay, 0., have got ready for the shutdown on June 15, which was agreed on at a meeting of the manufacturers in Chicago. Hardware manufacturers held a secret meeting at Cleveland some days ago. Representatives were in attendance from many cities including Philadel--phia. • “ " 1

The biggest self-adjusting leather-lint belt is 76 feet long, 32 inches wide andi weighs 780 pounds. It has 106,775 links.. The belt is in use at Lawrence, Mass. The government of Finland recentlysent a man to learn the art of Persian, carpet making, which those who know, how to manufacture the article guard very strenuously. He caught on, and a factory has been established in Finland. A California firm made a contract with a party for lumber at sll per I,ooo> feet, provided the defendant would not sell in four counties to any one else.. The plaintiff sued for SIO,OOO damages for breach of contract, and the lower and Supreme Court have denied the prayer on the ground that a trust is. illegal and against public policy. Abraham Lincoln once said: “Monarchy is sometimes hinted as a possiblerefuge from the power of the people. In my present position I would be scarcely justified were I to omit raising a warning voice against returning despotism. There is one point to which I ask attention: It is the effort to place capital on an equal footing with, if not above, labor in the structure of the government. I bid the laboring people beware of surrendering a power which they already possess, and which, when surrendered, will surely be used to close the door of advancement to such as they, and fix new disabilities and burdens upon them until all of liberty shall be lost.”