Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-02-01
so1a At HOME AND ABROAD.
u,,, WOrkmen are Saying and DOING
Movements Of Manufacturers
and the State Of the
Markets.
CAPITAL vs.. LAsoR.
..,,.r OF Great Interest to Manufacture
ers and Wo.kmen.
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- the purchasing pO"tE VI money. 1uo
mas, seasons's crops are the largest on re-
cord, and 1readstufs viii decline. The cot
ton CROP is the largest on record, and cotton
mods will decline. The sugar supply is
100000 bags greater than for the proceed
ing season. The nation is yet surrounded
with abundance. vet want stalks abroad and
speaks in AZ orr back doors for a crust Of
bread.
The average imports Of glass for the past
iteen years have amounted TO 100000
boxes The excess over the usual average
for the past TWO years been 100, COO boxes,
costing ; 2,O00,00O. Since the first Of Sep
TENDER HOO pots have been in operation,
the largest number in the history Of the in.
dussyr. The average window glass product
i 2000O0O boxes, but this season the sup
ply VAL reach 3,250,O00 boxes, or l,2j0,OO0
move than were consumed from July 1888,
10 Julr 1881. Several new works some of
of them on ;be cooperative basis, are pro-
;ec,ed. The Glass Workers Union exer-
else almost absolute controli in the factories.
The demands for legislation in the inter
es,s Of the worxlng classes are being made
in several foreign countries. The Govern
meus feel that the policy is q dangerous
enc, and viii resort to every device before
adopting it.
The Amalgamated workmen IN the Oil
yer mills, who passed resolutions to let part
OF their wages stand until their employers
recovered their financial footing, showed a
maa.y spirit, which is in conformity with
heir past acts and in harmony with their
teachings. The Pittsburg workmen would
willingly lend their employers S25,0 900 q
week in wages, but they would shut down
every mill in the city if the employers under
TOOK TO enforce a reduction of twenty-five
cents IN wages.
The frightened manufacturers ogthis city
VINO are asking tor police protection against
anticipated incendiarism need not fear.
The work people would be as safe guardians
OF mill property as the police. The wage
workers ~eoantenance no violence to prop
erty, and would countensnce none we're it
attempted by a few hot heads. THIS ex-
preston Of disspproyalis their only method
Of exercising moral coercion, and the crowds
have 10 .othsr purpose. They are simply
~unOrganized Indignation meetings, such as
other people who are able to pay for halls
often hold.
The Ohio Legislature will throw some sop
to the Hooking Valley miners in = letting
on" on investigation as TO the causes of the
strikse. The Hooking Talley syndicate owns
the Legislature.
In a very few years manufacturing will
5e conducted extensively in the far North
weSt. where goods are now carried from
1000 70 2,0CO miles, paving high rates OF
freight. This probably is clearly forseen in
the discovery OF vast beds Of coal in Wyo-
ming. Washington and Dakota. In cutting
I 400 foot tunnel in Wyoming seven veins
Of esal were pierced. Three are worked,
which are ), 3, and 10 feet respectively and
tunneGug is in progress for an lS-foOt vein.
In another place a l+-foOt vein has been
found. In Winnipeg valuable ore beds are
worked. This means the building up Of
manufacturing industries in that section,
and it will stimulate agriculture and lead 10
higher prices and steaiier MARKERS than
would be possible If the farmers were obliged
to pay high freight rates to send their pro-
ducts from one to four thousand miles to
market, in reaching Chicago and Liverpool.
There are abundant opportunities in this
new and undeveloped region for mechanics
and la6Orers With a little capital These
valuable mineral properties can De bought
very low at me present time, and will doubt.
less in time improve very rapidly. II the
labor unions in this city could manage to
raise funds for the purchase Of such prop
trty. aud become owner OF mineral and az
Ticaltural land in this way, they would ind
themselves in q few years wealthy.
The vwners and miners IN the newly de-
yelopeO coal regions Of West Virginia are
looking forward to q successful struggle
with ClearGeld and Cumberland cos[own-
ers for the traffic in eastern tidewater mar
kets. The coal found in West Virginia has
less water, less sulphur, and less ash and
more carbon than the Cumberland o. Clear
field Goals. /. is, therefore, more valuable,
ton for ton, and manufacturers are reeog-
nizing the superiority: of placing orders
Tor il. Here is a new field for the striking
miners of Pennsylvania and Ohio to inau-'
gurate cooperative enterprise. The coal
lands are extremely cheap and within easy
reach Of railroad facilities. The coal MI
ners of Western Pennsylvania are between
three or four eross-Gres-lack of harmony
within themselves. reductions OF natural gas
fell from 10 70 ~ cents per 1000 feet, dull
manufacturing requirements, and lncress-
ing supply Of fuel from new fields. II they
would stop striking and strike out tor these
new Virginia fields they could ina few wears
be cooperative owners OF extremely vslu-
able fields and properties.
, Much destituton could be avoided among
working people if they were as foresighted
as what, for convenience, might be called
our middle-class people, thousands OF whom
are in CO operative insurance or old-lne IN
suraace Companies. Workingmen live on,
toll on, and die at last, leaving wives and
children mostly without support. There IS
no excuse for such cruelty. The poor au-
thorities and our charitable agencies give
hosts of instances where sbject want exists
which could easily have been averted by
timely insurance. The joiners and csrpen,
tiers in Reaches shipyard have organized
IOr lhsofance purposes HseW ~
tive insurance associations might be gwen
they are well conducted. Building and loan
associations are good, but but they do mol
insure. Labor should give attention to
this.
There was posted in q window in New
York the other day these words: Ter
thousand drinking places in this city are
supported By the working classes, at a week
" cost of 800 each, while 10000 women
are making shirts at q cents apiece, and
John Swinton's Paper, the labor organ, /!
dying for want Of support" A similar
notice might be safely posted up in thu
city, with the modification that any labol
organ would starve for want of support,
The last one was starved out, and its edltol
insUlted and jeered st, after Piling III
several thousand dollars of debts in s heroic
struggle to make it a success
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