Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1891 — LABOR AND INDUSTRIES. [ARTICLE]

LABOR AND INDUSTRIES.

Central Africa is to be opened up to immigration. In Austria the hours of labor are limited to eleven. ; An electric road is to be built from Niagara to Fort Erie. Electric roads are being built in fifty cities of the country. Five hundred men are to be employed in railroad shops at El Paso, Tex. j Large machine shops are to be removed from Wheeling to Staunton, Va. t A wire-cloth works is to be removed from Clinton, Mass., to Wau-, kegan, 111. ’ i An immense machinery manufactory plant is to be elected at New Orleans. | Steel rails are in great demand, but the iron trade generally is not, very active. | It will cost the Canadian Pacific $2,500,000 to build its grand bridge across Niagara river. The cotton mills North and South are all quite busy, and most of them are making money. A sewing machine company with a capital of $250,000 is to be established at Richmond, Va. . | / About twelve thousand tons of structural iron and steel are wanted for elevated railroad purposes. A scarcity of coke has thrown idle six hundred men at the National’ tube-works, McKeesport, Pa. There were sold last year forty-five million gallons of whisky j or three' quarts per head of population. English experts say that in ten' years or less American coal will sell• tn England at less than English coal. There are deposited in the savings banks of Great Britain $535,000,000, but it is all loaned out excepting $2,500,000. The largest belt ever made was turned out by a Philadelphia concern —ten ply, seventy-eight inches wide and 11T feet long. Philadelphia’s water works pump two hundred million gallons every twenty-four hours, or two hundred gallons per head per day. The labor organizations of Illinois have successfully carried through the Legislature a law to make corpora- ! tions pay wages weekly. Sweden allows no emigrant to leave the country without a certificate oi good character from the pastor ol the emigrant’s church. A steel rail mill is to be erected at Dayton, Tenn., and a cotton-tie mill 'is to be built at Cardiff, Tenn. A wire-nail mill is to be erected at Puget sound.