Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-10-12

The guide mill and ten pudding fur
naces in the Etna mill, New Castel, Pa, ar
in operation.
The Aelmbaeher rolling mill is doing Lit
tie or nothing outside of their link and pir
department.
The Atlantic rolling mills, of Lawrence,
Mass, will be shut down for two weeks, be.
ginning October lS
The rolling mills Of Hutson & Sons. al
louisville, Pa, after having been idle for
SIX weeks, have resumed operations on full
time.
1t is said that P L. Kimberly L Co., Of
Sharon, Pa, are making arrangements to
erect hoop iron mill either at Sharan or
: GreeRyille, o.
The first rolling mill in Iowa will be
started at Burlington in October by the
Burlington Rolling Mil Co. The mill Eill
/ produce all sizes Of merchant bar iron from
the scrap.
The new nail works of Ellis, Leasing x
/ Co, located Just above the Warwick fur
mace, are rapidly assuming proportion.
! The large main foundation walls OF the fac
! tory and plate mill are we'll up and work is
progressing rspidly.-Reading Herald.
! A dispatch from Chattanooga, Tenn.
says: The iron interest is recovering in
/ the hoUth. The Woodstock, Ala. Com
| pany has Just closed a contract for $4,000
| tons OF car wheel iron at $50 80 per ton.
/ This is the largest order placed in the
South since the depression began: Reports
/ from other furnaces indicate increased in
quiry for iron,
The Bayyiew, Wis, Republican Of Oct. ;
says: The mills will all run next week.
! Everything is running this week A broken
7 roll stopped the plate mill for two or three
hours on Wednesday. The machinistS and
laborers are now working on the winter
! time schedule-from $40 a. m. to II m,
and l2:4O to 80 p. IN. The machinists
have a 5000 pound casting in the lathe. 1t
is part of the machinery for the cleo
fright for the nail factory.
There are $4,000 workingmen out Of EN-
p.Opment in Chicago.
There are 10000 idle workmen within the
limits of Cincinnati.
There is a probability Of another shut
down Of the mills Of Lowell, Mass. shortly.
The Jacobus and Nimick Manufacturing
Co., Of Jacobus, have decided to start up.
but at a reduction Of 10 per cent.
Word comes from the far West Of gen
cral revival Of industries there. The only
dull. trade there is holding which is dull
} everywhere.
, ! he Fall River, Mass spinuers will soon
+ Join the knights of Lgbor in body. They
. have had some experience IN their struggles
/ with the mill owners.
( The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi
ueers. in session at San Francisco, reelected
I T.. :. Ingram First Grand Engineer, and
/ }. r. SPragger, Toronto Second Frand.
/ Another series of wage reduction is in
/ progress and coming at this particular time
! it acts as strong incentive to stimulate a
politically rebelhOus spirit among the work
men.
The international Convention Of boiler
mixers elected the following officers: Pres
. iment, Thos. J. Curren, ~ Y; Secretary,
James MrGiyern, Cleveland, o.; Treasurer
ThOS. Gov, Minneapolis, MINI.
During the past year sixteen new lodges
have been added to the Brotherhood OF Lo-
conceive Firemen and SS7 members initia,
ted. They held a convention in To7onto
Canada, at which most prosperous and
vigorous condition Of the societies affairs
was shown
The federation of trades and labor uu,
ions OF New jersey met last Monday in
/ Newark Reports were received OF the pro-
+ gress Of organization of trades unions dur
ing the past year, as well as the result OF
pohtica. action. and program was adopt
ed for the ensuing year.
The employees at the new Jail being
built in this city struck for an advance IN
wages from 81 % to $3.50 per day last Mon
day. Some of them agreed to return al
81 p, but were assaulted ard had 10 de-
sist. A patrol Of police was ordered to the
place and are still guarding the men at
work-Labor Tribune.
About year ago Edward Smith, a mem.
Der of Mon No. 20 Of CowDgton, h, had
one of his feet almost burned of By the
upsetting of a ladel of molten iron while at
work in Charles Bogenshutzes foundry.
He brought suit for damages and was
awarded $500 damages by the jury before
whom the case was tried.-Iron Molders
journal.
The bricklayers and stone cutters in
New York are continuing their 6ght-the
former for nine hours, the latter for free
dom OF octior. The winter is nearly upon
Us, and many building will be caught I'M
co, cred Not man has deserted the ranks
. OF either union. and they are being helped
financially in their struggle.
The molders in Troy, Albany, Chicago
Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Quincy and many
other pls2e> that have sacrificed so much
for union principles, will demand, when the
proper tine comes, what they were com
peIIed to give up, and with complete or
Sanization, whose membership will include
! eyery molder of good character in North
: America, it can be obtained.-F. Field II
Iron MOlderS SournaL.
The nine hour rule is meeting with
good deal of favor among employers, esPe
cially in locomotive and railroad shops ano
in A few of the smaller shops, The confess
still continues in New York. The entire
nine hour movement may break to piece:
under The increasing Unemployment O
labor: but the seed has been planted. and
the revival of this issue on far more ex
tended scale is only matter Of time.
The cigar trade in New York city is yer!
dull, aud the prospects for the winter ar
not very encouraging. The busiest time o
the trade heretofore has been from Angus
18Th TO the end Of October, during whicI
every one should be employed. AT present
there are nearly 1000 cigar makers OF al
kinds ont of work, some Of whom have beel
idle for eight weeks. This cause is under
consumption and also that New lor
trade has been speculative and not real.
BELLAlRE LABOR NOTES.