Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-10-17
LABOR NOTES.

Labor Is more generally employed tnan
for many years. The demand has brought
a great many wood butchers into the car
penter's craft, and knobstieks among the
textile workers. Work will be more album
dant during the coming winter than usual,
and much inside work will keep the mem
bers of the building trades busy.
Three hundred labor delegates sat from
) D. N. to 4 q. M. in Chicago aud nominal
ed forty candidates, but Endorsed two
Democratic and two Republican judges.
The Connecticut labor men have nomina-
ted q strong ticket, two of whom are old
soldiers. The Trades Assembly of Newark,
representing eighty trade and labor unions
nominated a city ticket. In Baltimore
there is = Labor ticket for councils. In
Topeka, Kan, the ~wOrkingmen, old sold
ierS and Democrats have united on Il tick
ct against the Republicans.
The Pittsburgh printers have voted
against the establishment OF an official or
gan for the Knights.
NNew York sent one hundred delegates to
Richmond.
indianapolis has t~hirty-twO assemblies,
all prospecting, three wOmen'S assemblies
and twelve trades unions, $4,000 organized
wOrkmen in all.
At Charleston, bricklayers are paid 81;
carpenters - to $50; plumbers, $2, and
common laborers $50. 1t is a hard place
to work.
Over 100 New York plumbers are work
ing under the cooperative plan. The
It'll n-l,- 80 T,rnanAarl has SAINT them
$1,000, and other trades are helping.
The International Union of C~igarmakers
has 3 1900 members. WOrkmcn are Te-
porting violatOrs Of the Sunday law, to be
fined.
There is 4 steady and surprising growth
of the sOcialastic spirit in Great Britain.
The German government during the past
seven years suppressed 192 volumes oil
scholastic literature, l3 German mi ~
foreign periodicals, and 50 German. aud I'll
foreign newspapers were prevented from
going into circulation. Despite this re-
preston socialistic literature is creeping
into circulation, and the spirit Of socialism
is growing.
The MeNiaan Railway Company has in
use 0 1000 steel ties, and has ordered 10,
900 more from England, and tits proposed
To put down from 10000 to 5O,OOOa year
hereafter. These ties cost SID In Eng
land and - in Mexican silver, delivered.
The wooden ties replaced by steel cost from
30 cents to Sl.62 silver, and last a COM
| paratively short time. The steel tie saves
spikes and lasts q much longer time than
wooden: i'm fact, is indeStructlble.
4 new process OF making steel pipe has
been introduced into Germany. As soon
| IS the steel is cast into the round mold a
core is thrust into the steel, so that a tube
is formed between it and the walls OF the
mold.
The English ~tin-plate manufacturers are
complaing that a trade of which they haNt
\ complete monopoly does not pay good
margins. They think il they could get rio
| Of the London and Liverpool middlemen
thay could do better. There IS a move
ment on foot to stop some of the works.
The J~apenese government has agents in
England negotiating for large purchases OF
rails. engines, bridges and plant required
tor railway development.
4 brass rolling mill is being erected ut
KenOSha, Wis.
The Pullman Palace Car Company IS
turning out So, 900 worth of cars per day
The demand for palace ears is unprecedent
ed.
A punch has just been made that vii
punch six holes at one time through one
inch thick spices.
An Illinois carmaker has ordered 9OO
ears.
The Providence; X. l., locomotive shops
employ 1900 men against oOO Il year ago
The largest copper plates ever rolled
were turned out at Pittsburgh last week,
md were 176 inches in diameter, circular
in form.
The Poeahontas miners are producing
~, 900 tons per month.
The use of petroleum fuel is extending.
| The Southern Pacific Railway Company
| mas used il successfully on its ferry boatS
| fnr a wear. 4 locomotive engine Is run by
il ON an Egyptian railroad. EXperimenters
| here and elsewhere are diligently working
10 overcome some of the practical dlihcui-
ties to its Use.
Some European tlupiOl'LS
| taken to abolish blue Monday by dlVld,
iug their workmen into four groups ana
| having each on q separate day. Inc eN'
| pertinent has been satisfactory.
Mechanics will be interested in knowing
that n new material has been found lol
| nine Joints called ferrOid. Joints made o.
It resent a water pressure of from 5O to 2O'
| pounds per square inch and q steam pres
sure of 10 pounds. Its crushing power Is
5000 pounds.
The Executive Board of the District As,
, sembly Knights of Labor. has succeeded
in bringing to an and the strike OF th'
| noulders for an advance Of 10 per cent IN
WAGES at the stove foundry Of Floyd,
Wells * Co, and Grander Il Co, at RoyeS
ford. Pa. The men are to he taken baeL
| without discrimination at the old wages,
scale to be agreed upon hereafter
GLASS NOTES.
The window glass factory at Bradford
Pa, will not likely be run this blast.
G. I. Flaccus, ofTarentum, Pa, is erect
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