Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-06-14
TRADE NOTES.

Eighteen molders Of the Mechanics iron
foundry, Boston, are on q strike.
The Knights Of Labor cooperative hat
factory has received sufficient orders to
guarantee a steady run until the first of Sep
TENDER, one order alone being for 2, 100 doz-
en- wool hats.
Great dissatisfaction prevails in :he Coal
ard Iron Co. 3 shops, Of Reading, Pa, Mol
ders are bui;tiug and seeking employment
elsewhere. Skilled molders are getting Sl.25
per day, and work hard at that. Laborers
are receiving 96 cents per day.
Perry 4 Co. removed their stove foundry
from Albany to Sing Sing when they secur-
ed a ten years contract with the State. They
pay the %conyicts 80 cents a day and have
1000 at work, filling the market with hol-
lowware and gradually filing the labor mar
ket with half taught ~eX-convicts, who run
down wages and help to degrade the craft.
At Hamilton, Mass, $50 French Cansdi-
ans have been imported to break down home
wages. Imported labor has driven out over
SO per cent Of American labor from the tex
tile mills.
The St. Louis coal operators have failed
in their effort to organize q coal exchange.
Of the sixty.four mines which supply the
ST Louis trade, fourteen ere operated with
coal mining machines and FIFTY are worked
by miners imanual labor, with624 and 2,0S4
miners respectively. Hand mining averages
yearly $50 tons; machine mining l,O2S
tons; capital invested to man employed,
1888; to machine, $l,0S3. The manual
labor produced last year l ,720, goo tons, and
machine labor GAL ,544 tons.
Mark L. Crawford, chief organizer Of
the printers, reported 1860 Membership.
Eighteen unions were organized last year.
The coal miners hope some day to effect
a grand national organization, supported
by a great defense fund, so that if one Sec
ton Is ordered on strike the strikers can
live, and when it is necessary for a general
strike to be made all can be relied on to
come out
But for oppression progress would be slow.
Undue taxation stimulated American indie,
| pendence. What labor reformers call en-
| blowers greed is the whip that drives men
into organization. LiberslitY and fairness
would check organization. 10, n Brown
| MADE AppOuAltOA u CSEldlutI' A'SAS CIV
contains the germ of good.
The New York carpenters are crowded
with work at $3.50. Philadelphia csrpen
tiers are glad to get 81 so and S2.75.
So far this year the railroad builders have
| constructed SAG miles OF road. Up to june
/, 1883, they had constructed 3,2O3 miles
Prices now are one-halflower than they wer'
then, but low prices are no i~nducement tc
investors. Part of the trouble of sbundsn
labor in the west in the plethora of discharg
ed railroad laborers waiting for fresh oppor
Uiies-
The labor organizations are making Wig
orous efforts to expand their membership
and in several crafts are doing so, but tn,
competition for work is against a RAPID
growth of membership. The first signs o.
General Improvement viii bring in thu lag
cards BY the thousands T~rsdesunionisu
VIII grow, and in an improved shape; it i
now q permanent feature Of our American
industrial system.
The knights of Labor count among ther
colleagues one Governor, one United State
Senator, three congressman and one hun
bred and twenty-five members Of State legis
latures.