Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-02-21
TRADE NOTES.

At Milwaukee the Eight Hour League is
very active, and labor matters generally are
booming.
The Bluff City stove works, Memphis,
Tenn have increased their capital to
100000, and will enlarge their capacity.
Five thousand operatives we're locked
out By the Amoskesg, \. H., mills last
Monday. The wesvers had asked an ad
vance in wages.
The Knoxville Car Wheel Co. will in.
crease the capacity of it5 works ID 100
zheels per day. Il has received al order
from Savannah for 400 pairs Of wheels on
axles to be delivered May l.
The carpenters Of Pittsburg sre strength
epipg their organization. A large and en-
thusisstic meeting was held during the
present week, and a large number OF men
were enrolled.
All painters employed in this and ALLIE
gheny City are requested to attend tho
mass meeting at City Hall on Tuesday,
Feb 25, at 1880 p. NJ. There will be several
good speakers in attendance, and all are
invited who have an interest in good wages.
According to the New York Sun, ali the
cotton mills in New Bedford, Mass, the
Bhins, Webster and Pembroke mills, at
Suncook, all the mills in Manchester, n.
II and l. W. Faulkner 4 Sons, OF Lowell,
have advanced wages ten per cent. lhe
advance will take effect on March J.
A knight oil Labor, who has recently
beep down on Cape Ann, says that the
Rockport Granite Company have in their
employ about fifty S~candinsvlsns and 3.
berisns whom they the munihcent sum OF
cents q day. These people are huddled IN
stone house wherethey sleep in pine hunks,
and board themselves.
The Mccormick Mower aud Reaper
Works. of Chicago, I'LL, has shut down and
| 400 men are idle. The reason for TINS
action on the part of the employers IS stated
to be that they had discovered that their
molders were about to demand that certain
rules of their organization be enforced,
| Mccormick refused to allow q committee
of the workmen to speak to him.
The Eastern Iron Masters Assoc alton
\ has lust held q meeting in Philadelphia. al
which the proposition to advance the price
oF wrought iron was considered, but no
Naci;on was taken. This will leave the
wage of the puddlers at IS IS a ton for at
Least another month. The latter are dis,
posed 70 make g Gght for an advance OF
wages, as they say iron mas sdVGnced'
Soma of the puddlers have made prepare
ions for An organized demand tor an ad-
vance.
The vorkiugmen Of Mobile are Joining
The Knights very rapidly; organizers are
travelling through thst state and Louisiana
In Richmond, Va, the ~boycotting move
msnt ia in progress. An assembly OF the
leather workers, curriers' and harness
makers. In Pittsburg Is lspsed assemblies
have been revived. In Houston, Texas q
boycott is in progress, against the Msiisry
Steamship Line. The knights In tnls
state nre talking politics. They have join
sd with the farmers, aud between them
thew expect to carry the State, within
twelve month";
In Cleveland, o., all branches Of labor
are organizing, and sgitshng tor the eign'
bour day, after May Isl.
In B,ake6eld, Mass, a cooperative stor'
IA in succsssful operation. a movement
i On foot. TO establish cooperation, IN 81
~Drosperous assemblies. II it is prosecule'
With energy, it will probably meet with sue
cess. :,
The KNIGHTS of Labor have an assembly
in England, No. 1854, with q memoersnii
Io 900. In Danbury, Conn, there ar
2OOO knights, out Of q population OF lS,VOO
The iron trade is strong and healthy
Prices of all kinds Of material are hrm
, demand improving, and the prospective n
; onirement Of the country are greater ina
) hs have been for Eve years. There wi
~ ten thousand miles of railroad COZ
. Ssrueted in the country this year, beside
ths general improvements Which will 0
made in existing roads, and the geners
: sTtsnSion of locomotive and car capacity
Within q few days, the long1tslksdt
: msstipv between the miners and their en-
: nIovsrS for the purpose Of arranging
TTn;on. will take place at Cloumous, l
Tbs employers are sincere and earnes
nd ths workmen are anxious that an a
: rSnosment may be made BY which the
nav receive the value OF their labor, an
. ayoidtbe disastrous effects Of 9 coupetttlo
vhieS does not recognize the rights
. hmm unity.
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