Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-10-25
Tia Latest Industrial IntsIIi-
gsnCs
,,rs At HOME AND ABROAD.
y,,,Workiugmen are Saying and DOING
Movements Of Manufacturers
and the State Of the
Markets.

over .S,,' % and many small ones. The strue-
80 IRON makiog capacity Is being In
NO o,,j IN view of the additional demand.
80, engineering enterprises are also pEo-
,a t which will employ much caPitalsnd
labor. -. g. IN
o,S trps Of steel to be- used 10 the msnu-
s ~. ot skates aud within nine months
% invsptiops have been taken out for
,Lo,s improvements. Foreign agents are
'oorr;ng the world 70, boxwood, which has
doubled in price.
ana io- Ihirly.6gs consolidated freight en-
I;Dss having SIX wheels, for the Louisville
and Nashville road, taken By a Patterson
maker
Electricity is to be the motive power on
Z street car lire four miles long between
LINN and Nsbstt Mass.
r will take 500 tons Of iron for the pro
;ae.ed drv goods building at Eleventh and
Make, strre's, Philadelphia.
one fifth o. all rbs coal produced in the
T-oired States ia found IN four counties. OF
which Pittsburgh is the business center.
Nearly oue-tbnd Of the product Is convert
Al into coke There are 100 coke makers,
~ 0O0 overs and Sl3 900, 900 invested. Six
thousand men are employed.
Tbsenemy often csnuouades hercely Just
before fleeing 20 hide bis retreat The reso-
Iprion Of the Western NaI Makers Asso-
citation sounds to the workmen about a.
csnnonading sounds to soldiers in war.
They look for their employers to surrender
q, this weeks Cincinnati meeting.
Nschinis.s. locomotive builders and rail-
r,s5 MASTER mechanics have been Wa'eh-
;rg the Ishsvior Of steel castings under ST.
40 CONDITIONS. and the almost universal
Conclusion :>isar the overcoming Of much
rraindice il inst esst steel is the best ma.
terisl for many para Of the locomotive. A
test of locomotive cross essss showed So
600 psr SQUARE inch tensile strength Tor
Steel SO UUO pounds for Ulster iron and
"a. 600 for common wrought iron
Electricity hss been employed to cut coal
in Illinois mines because /. would not hold
mass meetings and strike for higher wages
The cutting is done hy chisel az the end
os a steel bar fastened 10 q piston OF soft
IRON in the midil4 cf q cylindrical coil OF
insulated wire, and the desired reciprocal
soy motion is given TO the rod 5y reversing
the current in The coIlS
American sNd Ger MA locomotive build
ers are competing for the Argentine Re
public trade. O5r BAlasiO people are ex.
pectiug orders from that quarter and stand
the best chance for business
Aud still another stselmasiCg process 10
looming up. after q tFo aUd-a-halt yssrs
trial 10 an English mil. IL is called the
Bsaslsy process, ard il conducted IN an
ordinary pudding furnace The steel shows
Lrsskipg strain Ok INsnIy-foUr tons to the
;nob If ibis process IS what ia gwen out
:, v,;lI - - ,5e pcddhog furuS2s from the
too tbs Ina, - kas suffered from tue h2nds
A Young Mems |, SUITE VA opened IN
New York on Thursday F'ea'hg; t9e 90 90
iect of which IL 10 provide . place io s
youug men 10 spend their ev, aHS go. Snu
develop their physical ard literary q Ni'' 'e;
It's proposed to organize iEGustEial L. =
trade classes.
Lord Clinton il the absentee president
of a Esnawhs Coal Company that owns
$4,000 acres Of Gne coal land in The IA
uawhs Valley, this Sta'e. and which is to
be developed and the coal sold in lower
Ohio markets in competition with Pitts
burg coal Between natural gas and Ia
uawha coal the MonoDgahels boys have o
good deal to think about
These are the latest English cooperative
6gures: 1914 societies. 677,9lO members;
capital, So, OGO,O0O loans to members,
$1,000. 600, sales for the year, 800, 100000;
net revenues, II per cent. The last CO
operative congress in Germany showed
1858 socislies of which 1900 we're popu-
lar banks. 1870 miscellaneous societies
6Tj societies for consumption and $50 so
cieies for construction. The agricultural
co operative societies have 267.0C0 mem
bers.
An International Phi. on Congress is to
be held IN Rome next month, where prod
uc's Of theiHdDs rial departments Of Amer
lean prisons will be displayed.
A great many New England msnUfsc-
tursrs are i7HiPg in with the custom OF
paving thsir hands mere frequently than
formerly. The more frequent the payments
tie better
Eastern Pennsylvania will soon be known
for something else than pig iron and coal
Fine silk dress goods and ribbons are
made 10 large quantities at Allentown. A
silk manufacturer from Bllse il erecting q
mill at Bethlehem. Nsw silk mills are
going Up at Allentown, Naueh Chunk,
South Bethlehem and EastoD. The mills
St Haley and Scranton are doing well
A benefit society in London lately e.
ts5ished has some good features Its
basis Is the Payment into q common fund
Of S25 year by the firm, and from two TO
SIX shares are allotted 10 each workman,
according 10 the average amount OF his
weekly earnings On each of these shares
ne pays ceLts 8 week Sickness brings
81 per week per share; after three months
80 cents q share is paid. In case Of q
js-th each workman is taxed 50 cents
A good many European manufacturers
are temporarily preventing labor sgitstions
by giving The workmen 9 share in the
profits Rccruing from their labor A lead
ing shoe manufacturer Of Ps'is, works it
this way: After an employee has worked
three years for him he pu into State Sc
curities q SUN EQUAL to per cent of the
amount earned by the employee in the three
Sesri, and pays the latter pension after
he has passed q certain eye Some manu-
tacturers Of late years have been erecting
email houses by the hundred and sell Them
oat on small payments, as is done here.
Tie London employing shoemakers have
an association to help old and incspacits-
Ted wcrkmen or their families. Half 9
guinea is paid yearly. Benefits are SIPS q
gear to male aud S75 8 year to female
members, in monthly instsllnents, which
are paid 70 men OF so and women at SIS;
buff earlier disabled the receive these
benefits. The shoe manufacturers Of Eng
land have similar society.
All these plans and devices ignore q
fundamental fact and principle which vii
never be surrendered By intelligent labor
VIZ that something is done for it instead
OF BY it; that Just compensation is evaded
and that control Is retained by employer,
70 dstermiue the value of labor done CT de
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