Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-03-15
TRADE NOTES.

The carpet Weayers' strike in Philadel-
phis is still stubbornly resisted BY the en-
ployers.
The strike Of some 1000 women and
men carpet operatives, at YonberS, n. T.,
still continues.
\ Knights Of Labor Assembly was or.
gsnized in Walkeryille, Montana, recently,
one hundred members being enrolled.
The striking rubber workers at Millville,
K. l., have voted to invite Woonsocket rub
Der workers to Join them in the formation Of
q rubber workers union.
The Wabash Railroad Company have
made concessions to their striking shop EN-
ployees at various points, and the men have
resumed work.
II win be noticed that the chief activity
in connection with the substitution Of steel
for iron is in the West. 1t is at Pittsburg
the Clapp-Griih,h experiments have been
made; il is Wheeling that has Bessemer
plants for the production Of steel for nail
mills; it is the Homestead works near
Pittsburg that are supplying large part
Of the Bessemer steel now usedin the United
States for reworking into various forms
other than nails.-AGe Of Steel.
The Youngstown News Register of last
Saturday says: Cartwright, McCurdy L Co.
have had good weeks run on double turn
and Will run the same next week. They re
ported orders there about the same as the
week before. Everything but the furnace
at the Valley mill has been idle this week
and one Of the proprietors stated last night
1t had not been decided when they would
start. H reported business extremely dull
The Youngstown mill was on double turn
all week and will continue so next week.
William Cook has succeeded James Ring
as boss roller at This mill Cook began
work last week.
A dispatch from Philadelpbis, says The
demand for steel rails is said to be good, es
pecially from the south and southwest, but
an advance in prices is extremely slow. The
Pittsburgh mills will very likely get the ben
eft OF a majority of the orders from the
southwest, owing to their favorable location
for delivery.
During the month of January forty-one
new Assemblies of the Knights of Labor
were organized and FIVE lapsed Assemblies
reorganized This is better showing than
since last November. The last Assembly
organized in January was 3,577, com posed
Of Kansas railroad men. 1t is hoped the
February report will show still larger.
The society called the Derry, n. H., Co
operative Shoe Factory. which was formed
recently for the purpose of starting new
shoe factory, is getting on finely in the en-
terprise. 1t was found that the sum OF
$1,000 would be required to start factory,
and this has already been subscribed.
Measures will be taken to erect factory
immediately.
In New England The manufacture of
textiles presents the rather singular aspect
OF stoppages in some quarters and resump.
ton of work in others. The BIsckintou
Wooden Company, of North Adams, has
shut down for the present, and the Lawrence
WoClen Company, Of Lawrence, is about to
stop. The principal strikes not yet adjusted
are those Of the Norwslk, Conn, hat
makers and the weavers of the Wamsutta
mills at New Bedford, Mass A small lock.
out has resulted in favor of the operatives
in the Bourne mill at Fall River. The
hands in the Cords mills, Millbury, Mass,
have struck against q second 10 per cent
reduction Of wages.