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Show Kens of the I.alinr World. Four-lift lis of tlio tin plate rnilfiV't Wales have been closed for a month. V Tho Steelton (Pa.) mills' last semimonthly semi-monthly pay amounted to IT.TiOO, distributed dis-tributed among; 3, (158 workmen. Strike of Pittsburg carpenters for the eight hour day has lasted two months and cost a half million iu wages. In making tin cans one man nnd a boy, with modern appliances, can do the work of ten workers by the old process. Silk furnishes the largest continuous fiber known. One coceoon has been known to yield nearly three fourths of a mile. Coal operators say that the contemplated contem-plated reduction in the price of miuing to II cents per bushel will be delayed 'until fall. An electric drill in an Idaho mine recently re-cently performed the feat of boring a two inch hole through twenty feet of solid granite in four hours. Pittsburg iron manufacturers have signed the modified amalgamated scale. Both sides make concessions. Iron heaters are to work nine and a quarter hours. Chief Arthur of the brotherhood of engineers says that times are fairly good for locomotive engineers. The brotherhood ia especially strong in the south. It is estimated that between 4000 and Mot) ironworkers are idle in the vicinity of Heading because of trouble between the Amalgamated Association and their employers, who refuse to sign the scale. Seventeen hundred men are now employed em-ployed in the Union iron works, the great steel ship building establishment of the Pacific coast, which has sprung up within three or four years at Sao Francisco. The Moldert' union of Chicago, TIL' has decided that none of its members I should work on architectural work in any shape in the foundry during the continuance of the strike of architectural architec-tural iron workers. The first installation of an electric plant in Scotland for mining purposes has just been completed at the collieries collier-ies uear West Calder. Numerous motors mo-tors will be located throughout the mines for rock drilling, coal cutting. pumping, hoisting and hauling. A convention of machinists and tool makers, in session in New York last week, decided to form a national organization or-ganization to be called the International Internation-al Machinists' union of North America. It will be composed of machinists and machinest helpers, indluding tool-makers. tool-makers. The International Brotherhood of lioiler Makers and Irou Ship Builders have adopted resolutions to establish the nine hour day at a date to be agreed upon at a later meeting. The lirother-hood lirother-hood is alii bated with the American Ameri-can Federation of Labor, and this organization or-ganization will be asked to endorse the action of the boiler makers at its next convention, at Birmingham, Alabama. |