The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1877-10-06
WORK AND WAGES.

At Cambridge, Mass, tanners are paid
IS per week, clean hands 50, curriers' So
>plitters and engineers $l4, shavers Sl3
and inishers $40.
The carriage factories OF New York
and Brooklyn are doing y fair business,
although not running at full capacity.
Trade is reported dull at Boston
At the St. Louis saw mills carpenters
get from Sl2 to $l5 per week, turner's
SIS so, boxmakers 80 to $12, engineers
Sl2, teamsters SO, and laborers SO.
The miners o. the Riverside coal COM
psny, Wllkesbsrre, Pa, have accepted
= 10 per cent. advance, and all the col
lieries of that company are now at work.
Business in the building trades is re.
ported better In st. Louis and Chicago
than at any time since the beginning of
the season. Prospects are promising in
New York and Chicago.
The millinery and essmskIng trades
are brisk at present in all large centres
OF population. In New York City last
week l34 machine operators were adver-
tsed for, in Boston 40, In St. Louis $50
Business at the -four mills keeps improv.
ing all through the West. At New Or
leans the mills are busy, and the follow
ing rates OF wages are paid: Millers SIS,
engineers Sl2, teamsters $40 and helpers
50
The painting trade is reported as gen
orally good, but at Detroit, Michigan,
about two hundred painters are idle.
Wages per week in tina: city are SlS for
ornamenters, SO for grainers and SIS for
gilders.
The demand for female domestic labor
seems always active, and good servants
command high wages in addition to their
board and lodging. The papers OF all
large cities have numerous advertise
ments for cooks and housemaids.
There is more activity in the carpenter
ing trade in Boston now than there has
been for several months, and business in
New York and Brooklyn is also good.
The door, sash and frame factories at
Salem, Mass. are not busy at present.
In the stone qurrries near Charleston,
S. c., stonecutters and marbleworkers get
SIS per week, helpers Sc, polishers So,
teamsters 81. At Brooklyn, Jersey City,
| Boston and Providence business is fair,
bat the western trade is dull and many
are out Of work.
The glass chimney makers in parts of
| the middle and western states are on q
strike, and issue appeals to workmen IN
their line to keep away from Pittsburgh,
Mansfield. Pa, and Steubenville, Ohio.
! At GAINESVILLE, Ohio, n large glass works
have resumed operations, giving employ
mems to $50 hands.
All the cotton mills in Georgia and
North Carolina are running on full time,
and are keeping large number of hands
IN employment. Wages in the southern
cotton mills are from 20 to 80 per cent
less than III the eastern aud middle states,
snd they declare dividends of Is and IA
per cent
The coopers' strike at Pittsburgh and
Allegheny City has not yet been settled,
large number of men still remaining
out. The daily demand is about 5000
barrels, while the production is only g.
600, so that the difference must be made
up by receipts from other points. Al
Rochester, n. I E, about 6O0 coopers are
idle. At Sharon, Pa, the coopers are on
strike for al increase of wages.
This country continues to make stead
progress IN shipbuilding, notwithstand-
ing the hard times. Five years sgo Eng
land had decided advantage over the
United States with respect to the cost Of
shlpbmiding, materials and laber being
much cheaper. A great change has taken
place: the price of American iron ha:
fallen nearly so per cent. The price OF
labor, which is the most important item
being estimated at 70 per cent. Of the
total cost OF steamer, has also been
reduced by the use of machinery not
employed in England, and also by reduc
ing the rates of wages. The first iron
vessel constructed in this country was
: built in 1868 and since then 25l ships Of
various dimensions have been launched