Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-12-28
LABOR NEWS.
=. Latest lsdustrial lntelli-
genCe
,o1p At HOME AND ABROAD.
.A,, gOrkmen are Saying and DOING
Movements Of Manufacturers
and the State Of the
Markets.
esNERAL INDUSTRIAL.

The Top mill is closed. The men were
ID off last Wednesday with the notice that
h mill would be closed for an indefinite
vsrOd .
The Belmont mill is working full force all
i # las, week excepting on Christmas day.
TIE Riverside nail factory worked all last
i vsek except on Christmas day.
sweeney { Sons foundry is oaly making
,bOut half time.
The North Wheeling bottle works viii
Start NJ, after a weeks i3leness, on Monday.
The LaBelle nail works is making good
ane.
Among the glass houses work was going
IOng steadily, though Of course nothing like
5rsk times is experienced.
Business is. very slack among the planning
4 mills in this city and vicinity.
Youngstown, O.-The Youngstown roll
ne mill was on steady last week with the
4 exception Of one tlrn. The blast engine
brose down, throwing the puddlerS of n
nru. The rest OF the mill is on steady.
Ashland. Kv-The nail factory here is
mining full time, with l2j machines on.
4 Ne make abom 1900 kegs per day and
lave about TO- 600 kegs on hand, aud have
shipped about that amount in three days.
The prospects for Inuntil spring is good.
Everything is well built about the mill and
srtory. and all Of irou. We have seven Of
4 he Clifton uailerS here, and four from
chattanooga, Tenn,
Mldlepogt O.-The Standard Nail Com
rsrv have made no mails since November
q and wont make any until after New
Yssrs. They discharged all the boilers and
,sii them off. They say they are going to
make nails out Of old rails. They have
olnG no Gas as yet-that is, not enough to
] 20 then. any good Their tools got stuck,
ard are stuck yet, | think.
Sharon, Pa am sorry toinEorm you Of
he isilu5o ofP. L. Kimberly to pay his men
On Saturday, December 10th, as usual, it
!ging the regular paw day, but he says he
vii be ready to pay in about ten days. It
has cassa gloom over Sharon, as it was the
| 0rly MI in the city that the business men
boxed to for support, and we have run
pretty steady through the depressed state Of
.nde.
Terre Haute, Ind-The Terre Hsnte nail
works shut down on the 18th inst, in all de-
vsrtmeuts, and for an indefinite period,
oEing to the dullness in the nail market
and the large stock Of nails stored in the
warehouse. Yet We cannot mUrmur, for
thew are a verv ~enterpriSing firm, and have
given work right along the greater part Of
The year. We warn all iron workers not to
come here, as We are all idle now and will
be for some time to come.
Terre Haute. Ind.-There has been no
trouble in this district since last June. The
puddlers are working in Brazil Tor 81 so
per ton, and the guide mill for 10 per cent
Of 3 reduction; bar and axle mill for lot
rer cent reduction, so | sm informed. Some
Of The men Of the guide mill quit, while all
the rest accepted the reduction without a
murmur. The Terre Haute nail works Is
idle, and / think will be Oft until the mid
die of January. They have somewhere IN
the ~nei,hborhood Of IS, 900 kegs of nails on
hand. The Wabash mill is also idle.
A short time ago the employees Of the
mammoth mills OF the Cleveland Rolling
Mill Company at New5urg, o., were re-
duced in wages. The concern has o shut
down in all but q few departments. 1t is
not among the impossibiities hat the en-,
tire plant will resume operations about
January 18th, after administering another
cut on their unorgaGized employees.
The extensive rolling mill of the Cambria
Iron Co. at Johnstown, Pa, has closed
down. Want Of orders is the reason
assigned by Dame Rumor for the stoppage,
But a short time ago this company cut the
wages of their employees 10 per cent, and al
the same time reduced rents. Can the shut
down be for the os.ensible purpose Of recoy
ering, by a further reduction in wages, what
the firm gave in reduced rents?
Some time ago Mr.. P. L. Kimberly, o
Sharon, Pa, bought in the sheet mill o.
Refs Bros. 4 Co, of New Castle, when the
latter firm failed. The mill has since ruu
fairly, but the employees were surprised on
Saturday last, which was pay day, by 8
notice being posted in the mill to the effecI
that the firm could not pay the hands owing
10 their inability to procure money for the
purpose. The employees manifested much
disappointment thereat.
Not a pound of coal or wood is consumed
At Creighton, twenty miles from Pittsburgh
xhre the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. and
se7ela al other manufactures have their plant,
Glass factory and residences are heated and
lighted By natural gas. Gas vas strRek al
l2Os ZEE l. in a 6ye-inch bore. A torrent Of
what the owners described as pure nitrogen
gas bzra out with q force OF 80 pounds to
the square inch, and after three yearsis How
ing wirhaslqueh energy as ever. The visitor
sees No eoaI norwood, no einders, no ashes
10 smoke IA the furnaces IS q lurid
steady heat ra 'ulated By clock work. Nc
grimy stoker s~a ats his life away at furnace
doors bur insteA d a calm person with q
stained glass shield invites you to look a
the glass through the open furnace doors
where glares a halt sufficient to deter q
modern Ssadrach, Msshach and Absdnego
Overhead gas burners are ablaze in broad
day because il is not worth while to take
time to turn the burners of and on, IS there
is plenty Of gas aud 70 spare. In the resi-
dences a thumb screw regulates the temper'
AZURE to absolute observation-disclosures
Manufacturer.
The attempts made some time ago oy
the officers Of organized labor to unite the
workmen Of the Connellsville coke region,
did not receive the encouragement the
move deserved, and the officers had to
soon cease working, owing to the lack OF
support. Since the late reduction took
place they have to some extent begun TO
sgitste the question Of organization. 1t IS
a coed sign to see them awakening to q
sense Of duty. This situation is too well
known to need any comment at present.
Let another attempt be made, and We hope
that the past experience will enable them
to avoid defeat in the move now eontem-
plated.