Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-01-31

than for twelve months, aud in some cases,
have advanced wages without. solicitation.
BSiJge Builders are in the msket for
large supplies Of material, for bridges to
be constructed over several large rivers
~iucluGiug the st. Lswrer c.. Within 90
days, railroad builders hnve bought 300,
coo tons Of steel rails, ard within q few
weeke, !, is probable that the entire years
allotted production. Of ! 600, 600 tons, will
be sold.
During the past three months, more il,
dusIrial organizations have been incor,
Borsted, than for the preceding twelve; IL
one half the enterprises now projected are
pushed, labor will be in active demand,
wages will improve, and the producing
capacity OF the country be materially in
creased.
l.. A. 3, K. of l., at its last meeting,
elected J.. L. Evans NJ W; R. S. Cav W..
F.; Eli Powell F. S.; D. j. Bowen R. s.;
George Dovey Treasurer. The next meet.
iug will be held April 81, 1886.
The strike of the tanners of Pittsburg
bas been settled, the firms all advancing
their beam hands to $l2 per week, an in
crease of 81. The fnishers are the only
workmen whom the advance will not bene-
ft they being piece hands.
Wm Wheelwright. an American, built
the hTst railway in South America, from
Caldera to Copiado, Chill, in 1851, and is
the father OF the railroad system in the
Argentine repEb.ic % well as Chill. A
statue has been erected in his honor in
Santiago GCd aud sno her stands in Buenos
Ayres.
The bricklaysrs hall in Philadelphia is
. fine building, and cost $40, coo, This
5Iiidiug is d monument 70 the benefits of
organization, and was crested by an asso-
citation less than five years old, Why can
not the trades unions and the X. Of l.. Of
P,ttsburg follow tins noble example? The
amount psid out yearly in rents by our 10.
Dor organizations would almost pay for q
bulldog Eae this.
Tie furniture ugholstcrs Ct Pittsburg
aud vicinity propose 10 orgnnize for their
mutual beLtHt AID imp'oymeot. and will
hold D preliminary meeting IN a few days
TO take'steps 10 that end. No class Of work.
men are more III need Of such an organi.
zatian than they are, and we hope 70 see
them enrolled under the banner Of the
Knights of Labor within a few weeks at
furtheSt.
Among the workmen employed in the
umbrella and W~alking-stick factories Of this
country. since the trade was introduced,
there has been no organization. In the
various factories different rates Of wages
have prevailed, and the tendency has been
to gradually lower the pay OF the work
men. \ mass meeting OF the workers in
the trade in New York city has been held
to organize for uGitorm wage Irish
World.
The twentieth convention OF lhe Work.
n !neu's Assembly Of New York closed on
FRIDAY, after q tour days session. Sixty
nine trades we're represented Everything
produced by coOlie labor Was boyco,ted
Discussion Of politics 10 trades unions was
recommended
Ia Cleveland engineering is dull The
ron trade is very active TroIble is brew
iag among the sucat car conductors.
Tie Federation Of Trad"3 will hold an
ovca meeting in Washington on the second
Tuesday OF next February.
lhe Safe Trades Assembly Of Ohio will
me-. at Columbus thus week.
TIE WheatsLone trsrsmitter, 81 English
Geographic device, which works automatic
a!ly, is now used between Chicago, Kan
sas City aud New Orleans, and also in
some OF the larger eastern cities Each
in.tsumeut sends out poo 20 800 words per
minute, or nearly ten times the working
speed Of a skilled operator.
rhe improvement Of machinesin cooper
iog work is ouch SO 20 threaten a serious
displacement Of manual labor. CGskmak-
ing is done by nine machines. A thou
sand ~l2t-gailon can be made in C week by
the help or fifteen boys and a foreman.
CabinetmGbiug is sub scted TO the same
reyoiu'iorihiug tendencies. Cheap furli
lure factories sre springing up near the
lumber regions Steam Gsws, steam planeTs
and steam joiuers cut and shape the stuff
Machinery puts nearly all kinds OF furni.
tur, together. BOYS teed the planners, gitls
DO the gluiDg and a few immense conceTne
are mo]ropolizlng the cheap work OF the
couGtry.
Sky delegates attended the three days
convention OF the Illinois Knights at Dsca-
tur. The Knights declared that the wage
system ia O dtspotism; that civilization
mears ne division Of G~owledge and wealth:
that q victory is to be won over tue ve2ted
righ,s of modern landmarks, Insurers and
industrial aU.ocra,s. They call on their
Callag workers 10 combine 10 the end that
poverty and all its attendant evils shall
be abolished forever. The Illinois State
Grange, in seation at the same time, sent
4 telegram OF ira;e7ua! greeting. which
was cordial responded 20.
The Chicago boxmaker5 are IN despe
rate straits over the conpetiticn OF machine
o xmckiDg. The question the laborers
there are trying to consider o .~'
how q penriless t~ramp!can enjoy tae bless
inzs Ct q progressive civilization.
VALLEY GROVE.