Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-08-16

little signs Of an early resumption of work
The shovel works are running on single
turn With fair supply Of orders.
The strike of the shoe lssters Of New
burypors. MASs eonnnGes.
Three hundred men and boys employed
in the Lake Erie Bolt Works went on a
strike on the 3lst ult on account of 10
per cent. reduction In wages. Only tbs
bolluAkers, nutmskers and boys struck.
II is said that of the l27 militia taken to
Saginaw, Mich, during the late strike there
lie we're Knights Of Lsbor, aud devoted
their months wages to the relief Of the
Workingmen.
The New York Tribune paws the lowest
rate Of wages paid in New York on daily
morning paper By this means it is en-
sbled to break down The price Of other pa
pers in The country. Shame!
The bEiekl4yers strike at Berlin sill
continues and proposal to continue york
at FIVE shil'iDgss day Was recently rejec'ed.
About s, 600 men are out and fully 5000
more have left the city.
Hayforks shipped from the Michigan
State prison and buggies made with s&ies
turned cut Of an Auburn, n. T.. psniteu-
tiary have recently been refused admission
to the Dominion Of Canada.
The German bsicklsyers in New York, in
order to assist their fellow Workmen in BOY
coting. fined one OF their members $50 for
selling Peter Doelgsr's boycotted beer o.
picnic, and suspended him for FIVE yeers.
George Prowitt, the foreman OF the shoe
department at Morgsnza prison, reports
seven boys working at the trade with him.
During the past year he made $50 pairs OF
shoes for boys, l2O for girls, and put on l.
273 pairs Of half soles
A Knight Of Labor writes contemporary
as follows: Cooperative associations IN
the mechanic arts, the Knights Of Labor for
the education of lsboring man, and build
ing associations to provide homes for the
poor, sre IHre- important factors Ia Que
American c'yilizalicO.
No change has occurred at Morris,
Tssker & Co 3 iron foundry, Philadelphia
The strikers are determined TO remain out
until their demand tor an increase is
granted While members of the hrn say that
they have . large stock on hand for emer-
gencies
Adyices from Michigan are to the effect
that The strike in the Saginaw Valley has
lot yet been settled About oRehsf OF
the mill owners have conceded to the de-
msnds of the wUrkmen, while many others
assert that they will board up the windows
OF thair mills before they will come down q
peg. Tle men are confident of enough as
sis;suce from outside toensole them TO hold
ou'.
The Arlington mills st Lawrence, Mass,
recently reduced the weavers pay from 65
cents 10 rs cents. but very kindly gave their
employees three looms Instead oftWo which
makes tee pay about the same as bstore with
hs, as much more work 10 do Operatives
in other rooms are cut in the same proper
ton, and although greatly dissatisfied will
stand it,
A number Of Philadelphia firms have been
given contracts for the employment OF cou-
yicts in the State prison at Trenton, n T.,
under the new piece price system that has
Just gone into effect. VIM. Mcknight has
secured sixty hands and the Keystone Shoe
Co. forty for the manufacture of shoes. Pick
ing & Colschott will use one hundred men
for making brooms and brushes, and the
Consolidated Brush Co. will find work for
forty Of the prisoners.
According to the New York inns, q
special committee of the New York unions
visited the proprietors Of the principal no.
tells of New York to ask them to pay their
painters union wages. Mr.. Hitchcock Of
the Fifth Avenue hotel is reported to have
told his visitors that he was going to run
the house as he pleased, and to have re-
marked that trades unionists were loafsrs"
Mr.. Edward S. Stokes of the Hoffman
House also refused to change his method
of hiring painters aud ordered the commit
tee cut of the house