Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-05-09
TRADE NOTES.

Twenty-Five out Of l24 American but
ton factories have closed.
The steel works at Plano. Ill, are being
enlarged. and running full time.
Daring the past month charters have
been granted to eighteen new carpenters
unions, two Of them being in Pittsburg.
Twenty thousand Bohemisns, mechanic;
and la5orers, are awaiting organization in
the K of l.. They are TO form District
Assembly aud conduct business IN thelI
own language.
Colored Knights OF Labor assemblies
are springiug up all over the South. 1t Is
beginning to dawn upon them that they
we're not set free from the new slavery by
L:ncoln's proclamation.
Statistics in Eoglsnd show thst during
| fifteen years OF long hours in 500 cotton
mills, with 400 900 operatives, tina produc'
tiveness of labor increased only % per
cent, while during seventeen years OF short
hours it increase 80 per cent
Labor agitation is not, as some imagine
the rantings of bowling mob, nor Is 1t
simply struggle to get possession OF more
to eat II is more than that. 1t is a strug
gle to secure an opportunity for physical,
mental and moral improvement among the
people.
The cigarmakers' union throughout the
country are voting on the amendments IL
the constitution. The first is that the Presl-
dent of the International Uoion shall be
be elected by popular vote OF the mem
bers instead Of by delegates, as at present.
The other ia that in no case shall the blue
label bs used in any factory that pays
less than So per 1000.
There are nov some 1900 first class
type settlers in Chicago, many OF them
possessing genius and skill not surpassed
oy the typos Of any city in the world. OF
this 800. some 200 belong 10 the union.
The other 600 are either working in small
offices on 100 work or on weekly, monthly
or quarterly publications. aud on rates OF
wages known only TO themselves and their
employers BIT the general sentiment OF
the printers is in the direction of uniform
system OF hours AID fixed, uniform CON-
psnsstion Paper and Press.
There are over 200, 900 women employed
il about ninety trades 10 New York CITY.
The wages run from So so 81 week
learners getting 81 80 week less. The
better class of workers get from s. to SIS
week. while few heads of departments
receive from $25 to $50 The hours in
factories and large workshops are from 7
or : in the morning until or 81 in the
evening; but in bakeries, candy shops and
millinery and fancy sores the hours are
much longer, and generally without any
increase of pay.
The boycott kills, destroys, devsststes,
sunihilates the business it has taken years
of patient labor 10 build up Consequently
we sincerity hope that the workingmen Of
this city will guard against any necessity
In the direction OF the boycott; and also
that business men and manufacturers In
this vicinity will steer their crafts in such
straight forward paths that occssin will
not occur for handling this terrible weapon.
-MlEskee RsView.
A vote on the holding of convention
in July ia being taken among thu members
OF the Window Giass Workers ASCOT
s'ion.
The section hands on the Fort Wayne
road, from the Union depot to Woods Run
have hean advanced 10 cents day and
are now getting 81 81.
TIE strike of the miuars in the fourth
district, which includes Dubois and Reyu-
oldsvlle, still continues and is now for the
of the Columbus scale.
A cooperative company OF windo~ glass
workers has been formed at Mesdville, Pa,
and will soon b-gin TO operate the new
works of the Belgian Glass Company.
The Canonsburg Iron aud Steel Com
psny Vas chartered Thursday, with CAPT.
tai Of Sis 600 The directors are Charles
Msvran, John Ewing, VIM. A Scott, h s
Duncan, w. A. Scott, j., of Pittsnurg, and
Samuel Muunel aud John +. Budke, of
Canousburg.
The W ndow glass gstherers at Pittsburg
are sgits,ing for al advance of wages TO
10 per cent of the blowers wages.
An organization OF glass eugrsvers, with
200 moers, now exists in PIt,sburg, and
proposes to establish q national sssocis
ron