Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-10-18
TRADE NOTES.

Northern capitalists have erected pot
terry ~ Aiken, y. c.
Oue Of the largest pottsries in the United
States is located a Lincoln, Cal.
WslhsllA, S c., is to have pottery in
the near future.
A carpenters union has been formed at
Lawrence, Nass.
More looms are now running at the Penn
bsrton mills, Lawrs nee, Lass than at any
time during the previous year.
The majority Of the broom men at
Muskegon, Mich went to work last Satur
dav morning, and the strike is virtually
ended.
About 100 employees at Bergstrom Bros
/ Co 3 stove foundry, at Neensh, Wis,
struck for an advance OF per cent
The New York TT buue pays six cents
less per thousand for setting type than any
other daily in that city.
The strike Of molders in the Rochester
cooperative foundry has been settled, and
all the men are At work who we're discharged
except two.
The wages OF carpenters in this country
ore fully 20 per cent lover than they were
four Tears ago. Good men bring from
81 20 to - so per day,
D c Biuu, Of Bay City, Mich, will
travel through Canada the nexttwo months
in the interest OF the eight hour movement
for May |, 1856
The ircn molders' strike, which has been
in progress a: Albany N. Y, since last
May, has ended, concessions heirg made
on both sides.
Trouble is brewing for the engineers
brotherhood in Texas. A number Of en-
giueers were discharged without apparent
cause, and strike is emminent
The molders at Wakefield, Mass, sixty
10 number, have struck for the restoration
Of the Is per cent reduction pat upon them
few months since.
Last month conventions of the following
trades organizations were held: Inter
na,ionAl Brotherhood { Boiler Makers and
Iron Ship Builders, a. Milwaukee, Brother,
hood Of Locomotive Firemen, at Phila6el.
phis; the Cigarmskers' Int, irrational
Union, at Cincinnati.
The present nail making capacity o our
mills is II, eco 900 kegs per sunum, while
the consumption OF the country does not
exceed 100000 ksg5 Nevertheless
several new mills are being buil', and
Others are extending their capacity. The
makers Of nail machines are all quite busy
During the past two years it has cost
The Int irrational Cigsrmakers Union over
$2lO, OOOto support members during strikes
and locsoais, Of which there have been
l52; % Of these have been successful, SO
unsuc, essful, three have been compromised
snd others are still in progress. These
striGes effected 1852 men.
Gov. Hill, Of New York, has forbidden
the use Of onvict labor in tbs construction
Of the new south wing of the State Reform
atory at Elmirs. The work was being
dorS II contractors who were employing
convicts and paying the State only Is cents
per day for them. The conviets have since
been replaced by honest free labor.
The Virginia authorities have made q
contract with Lynn, Mass, firm to furnish
500 convicts to be worked at shoemsklng
for seven years, under penalty OF $780,
f 900. The State will erect new building
for that purpose The Richmond knights
ara pledSing all candidates to the abolition
of the convict system. The Boston
Knights are gaining rapidly in membership.
/ Fairbanks & Co employ large force OF
couvicts in the Virginia peniteatiary In
barrel mrking. They work for IL cents
q day.
The industrial situation Is improving,
taking the whole oouutrp into account,
( IdlenEGS ia still observable in some locah'
lies. TIE labor organizations are gaining
numerically. Confidence, too, IS growing,
and this will in time, with success 10 secur-
ing higher wages, eliminate 10 an eE-
,husiasn which viii probably lead to uuWise
movements and schemes and strikes, as
kas been the case under like circumstances
in the past.
The New York Central Labor Union
has taken steps to hold q grand mass meet
ing for sgiIsrion p1rposs with reference
70 the sight.hour movement to be insngurs'
tel next MAY. There is sn indifference to
il in New York. and it is proposed TO put
some money in printers ink and platform
talk to arouse the masses there.
The Central Trades and Union If Boston
has insugursted Q system OF fortnightly
msetipgS for INTELLECTUAL Improvement;
Trades unionism is furnishing there, and
nearly all crafts are organized.
The cigsrmskers say their recent Cih,
cinna,i convention vas the pSless and best
ever herlj. The laws governing strikes
were amended. After January | the hours
of labor are to be reduced to nine hc:rs
in al shops, and after May to eight hours
The union will ens Rllviolstors and resort
to expulsion if the order is not observed
The two large foundry employers 81
Albany, n. Y are making overtures to the
molders, and resumption is probsble.
|, The anthracite miners are preparing fo'
action by instructing COMMITTEES to pre-
pare q statement for presentation to EN-
ploysrs to correct evils growing out OF the
altered condition Of things between noS
: and when the basis OF wages was y 90
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