Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 125, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1904 — LABOR NOTES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LABOR NOTES

\Y r e pay about $7,000,000 a year for bananas. Japan, has recently placed orders for $2,000,000 worth of American machine tools. The dock workers’ strike at Marseilles, France, lasted forty days and cost the community $10,000,000. A number of towns on the northern coast of France are now connected with London by -telephone. The charge is $2 for tliree minutes. « According to the reports of the geological survey of Canada for the last year, recently issued, since 1890 upward of $97,000,000 worth of gold has been shipped out of the Canadian Y’ukon. As tending to show how Southern California is tilling up it is noted that Imperial Valley, in San Diego county, which had not a voter two years ago, had, up to Sept. 24, registered 557 votes. Things are going along well in the steel industry iu the vicinity of Pittsburg, Pa. Hardly a day passes that new mills are-.not put into operation, nud those that have been working on single turn are now doubling tip and working to their full capacity. The day of the brass megaphone is over. The latest thing in a megaphone mouthpiece is one built like a big morning glory and colored accordingly, red, white or blue. They are very showy and dealers expect a Mg sale for them. A Cleveland man has started a business which promises to be a great success. He has hired an. office, a large number of. expert stenographers and a number of telephones. Business men call tip by telephone, dictate their letters over the wire to a stenographer and the letters are later sent back by messenger boys to be signed.