Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1905 — LABOR NOTES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LABOR NOTES

The journeymen tailors have voted to have a regular convention date once in four years. Of the 13(5,5(51 freight cars ordered for American railroads last year 35,000 were of steel construction. A machine is being perfected in a Birmingham shop that is to turn out from 90,000 to 100.000 finished wire nails an hour. Tlie American inventor, apparently, never takes a vacation. The government issued 597 patents one day last week, and there are plenty more applications [Molding. The manufacture of motor cars and their accessories has become one of the most important French industries. From a total of 1,850 automobiles in 1898. valued at $15502.000, tlie output in 1904. according to the Chamber syndicate de ('Automobile de France, lias grown to 22,000 cars, of an estimated value of $34,000,000. A colony of railroad men from this country will go to Japan in tlie near future to assist in Americanizing the railroads there under Japanese government control. A general movement is on foot at New York to increase the wages of washerwomen to $1.50 a day and car fare. Now tlie women get $1.25 for a day'* work away from home. Twenty-seven thousand men are now employed at the Krupp works at Essen, Germany, the highest number ever employed there. In the heavy gun department men are working in double shift*.