Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-08-02
TRADE NOTES.

Preachers are giving some attention to
/ the statistical fact that only five per cent OF
| the artisans In our cities attend church. A
| preacher named Zimmerman comes out and
says that the time has come for the pull pit
TO come out and speak fairly of and for
labor The church will never 60 half way
/ to labor.
Every step taken in the direction of CO.
| operation develops q corresponding capacity
I to overcome the fresh difficulties presented
by it in its race with the private ownership
system.
The labor unions everywhere are discuss
ing: What will we do with the State legis-
lstures" Every candidate promises all
asked of him, and then forgets everything
and does nothing.
English laborers are in trouble over low
wages. A very severe struggle is anticips-
ted in the cotton trades. The iron workers
have demanded FIVE per cent advance.
The members of the building trades are
fully employed and well paid. The coal
miners are quiet. The mines OF the United
Kingdom employ 520,376 persons. There
were 99S deaths in the mines last year.
The lumber mills of the Northwest, espe-
cially in the Saginaw district, are mostly
closed. The owners refuse to recognize the
ten hour system.
There are three cooperative plumber shops
in Milwaukee, which the master plumbers
are trying to boycott
Labor is in increasing demand at Buffalo.
The women of Moberly, Mo-, pelt the
non-unionists with bad eggs at every oppor-
tunity Winchester rifles in large numbers
are stored in several Wabash shops, in view
of probable conflicts. The Kansas City
workmen held an indignation meeting in
the opera house to denounee the action OF
the Court Judge in committing two strikers
for contempt OF court
The eigarmakers, $4,000 in number, will
hold their national convention on August
4, at Cincinnati Last year they spent
S260.OOO in strikes, 81, 900 was given to
travelling cigarmskers and $4,000 disburs-
ed for sick benefits.
A National Central Labor Union is pro-
posed, which viii cooperate with the FEEDER
alton Of Labor. This is the basis of fu-
ture industrial congress.
Of the Grand Rapids Mich Board of
Aldermen, composed of sixteen members,
ten are members of the Knights Of Labor.
All but one OF the city officials and every
county official are Knights. The Knights
of Labor in Iowa arr pushing organization
vigorously
Some Western towns are oyerrun with
idle mechanics. Richmond, Ind, has 1000
Il Ill., IN Oln m hna
Ohio, st. Louis and Louisville.
The Chamber of the Syndicate of Stone
cutters of Paris has sent frsternsl letter to
the comrades OF America in which il writes:
"Our friend Revolution daily assumes great
sr proportions. 1t is absolutely necessary
that this society be overthrown. Workmsn
must stand firm with their souls in
in their fists. Let Us have confidence
in the social revolution, which is to insugu-
rate the era OF humanity, justice and labor"
A Philadelphia house has just sold 200
tons Of Ajax metal to be used in England.
Another largest casting ever made" has
Just been taken from the sand in an ALI
anee, O., foundry. Dimensions, l4xSxlO
feet; weight, 40 tons.
A Philadelphia house has Just shipped
turning-min weighing $4,000 pounds to st.
Petersburg, Russia.
The largest boiler locomotive ever con-
structed is under way at the West Albany
shops-25-inch shell Of TIC iron, with 22S
tubes, and weighs over tons.
The window glass manufacturers held
their annual meeting IN the Catsnn Noun
tains, Monday. 9th ult. Of the forty glass
houses Of the South side, Pittsburg, al but
halfa dozen viii soon be using natural gas
Pittsburg glass manufacturers are shipping
glass every week to Germany, Australia and
South America.
A large amount ofrailroad building win
be undertaken on August l. A locomotive
win run 10000 miles before requiring gen
sral repairs, but some get discouraged at
10000, and want little "petting."
While it is neither advisable nor safe to
build railroads, nor rush into great engin-
eeFing enterprises projectors are busy pre-
pairing, organizing and surveying for great
work, which viii be undertaken and p0shed
through As soon as there are reasonable as
surance that they can be made to pay per
cent.
There are 1900 anthracite miners or
ganizea in Pennsylvania. TIE work % soon