Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1889 — INDUSTRIAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

The St. Paul car drivers have lost their strike. Two general lecturers of the K. of E. will make a canvass in this State. ~ The Michigan Central road will hereafter run no freight trains on Sunday. August Donath, the veteran labor editor, has retired from the Washington Craftsman. The Nationalist movement is being well received by organized labor in all the large eities. The Patterson bakers are making a hard fight for a reduction of working hours from twelve to ten. The union pressmen at Philadelphia have secured an increase in their scale from sls to $lB per week. The striking ribbon weavers at Paterson, N. J., are paid $9 per week from the strike fund of their union. Chicago carpenters have withdrawn from the K. of L. and joined the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joihers. The recently organized Union of Chinese cigar makers at San Francisco will not be recognized by the International Union. Fifteen thousand men have agreed to parade on July 4 at Chicago, It is expected that 39,000 workers will be in line. The White Manufacturing Company 's mill at Rockville, Conn., has shut down, throwing 400 persons out of employment. A. majority of Southern and Western cities are overrun with idle meehauire attracted by Jalae reports of buildinc booms. The Boot and Shoe-workers International Union, recently organized' by seceders from the Knights oi Labor, is growing rapidly. The Buffalo and Columbus Unions will not be represented at the annual session of the International Typographical Union in Jnne. The Washington Central Labor Union will be represented at the World’s Labor Congress at Paris, by Mr. Waudby, well known union to printers. The American Federation is accumulating an immense assistance fund for use in 1890 in case the demand for eight hours results in a general strfke. “One of the most remarkable features of the labor reform movement in Boston,” says the Labor Leader, “is the spread of socialistic ideas among the clergy.” An effort is being made to graft wliat is left of the Union Labor party onto the Prohibition party. A meeting of the National Committee has been called to consider the matter. According to the Labor Standard, the officials of District Assembly 100 Knights of Labor, are engaged in furnishing non-union weavers to fill the places of the striking union ribbonweavers at Patterson. It is estimated that 66 per cent, of the anthracite coal is wasted before it gets to market Fifty-five per cent, has to be left in the mines for pillars, and 11 per cent, is lost after it gets above ground. The Steubenville and Benwood nailers. operating cold machines, have been dischaiged. Hereafter the picking process will be used, and each nailer wil’ be required to run double the number of machines. This system will be generally adopted, it is thought and many nailers deprived of an opportunity io work at theirtrade; —