Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-08-22
TRADE NOTES.


ceiyed an advance in wages Of ten per cent.
There are $500 local assemblies of
Knights OF Labor.
There are 10000 Knights of Labor in
Western Pennsylvania.
An order for 1000 cars was placed in a
st. Louis car works last week.
Within short time half dozen CO.
operative manufacturing companies will be
in operation in Philadelphia.
Two thousand Knights of Labor in
Newark, n. j., including trunkmakerS,
bag and bOXmakers, are striking for higher
wages
The brick manufacturers of Western
pennsylvania have formed pool and is
sued stock to the amount of 81 600, 900.
The plasterers of Pittsburgh are still out
on strike, and firm. They demand 50 per
day, and the employers refuse to cOncede it.
Bricklayers' Union No. :, OF New York
city, had in January last but u members;
now the number is l., 700, and still growing.
The first cOlorcd ASSEMBLY OGthe Knights
OfIabOr ever organized was ut Hot Springs,
Arkansas.
The 400 striking bricklayerS of Milwau-
kec Wis, have returned to work, with the
retention of the eight hour rule
The bricklaycrs' strike at Detroit is still
on, with no prospects of a concession from
either side.
The HOneycOmb ore mines, LemOnt, Pa,
have been out on a strike on account Of tii-
teen cents per ton reduction, since July 20
Robert Newman, treasurer Of Cigar
makers Union, No. II, Chicago, has been
arrested tor embezzlemcnt of $1,000 OF the
unions money.
\ cooperative manufacturing company
was organized KenSingtOn, Pa, about two
months ago, composed of Knights Of Labor
Ii is now doing an immense business.
There now exist about ten district as
scmblies of the Knights OF Labor i'll Europe
and the order is now spreading through all
classes of labor.
The International Axe and Edge Tool
Makers Union is now an assembly of the
Knights of Labor The new trade district
assembly contains 1000 members.
The brick-yard of Henry Murphy, Bed
ford Avenue Pittsburgh, has thirteen men
and six boys employed. They will fire
their kilns about the middle of next week.
The product is paving and common brick
for building purposes.
A notice has been pasted in the shop OF
thc:lees Shoe Manufacturing Company, IN
Athol, Mass. declaring that after the 3Oth
inst. ''all the wOrkmcn will be required to
sigh certificate to the effect that they do
no and will not belong to any labor organ
ization.'
The labor organizations of Wheeling and
vicinity propose to have n monster work
in"men'S demonstration on August -.
The program comprises street parade OF
all the trades unions of Wheeling, Bellaire,
Martins Ferry, Bridgeport and other To-
calities, and picnic at the old fairgrounds.
Mayor May. of Augusta, Ga, has tele-
crahhed General Master Workman Pow
DERBY, inviting him to visit Augusta rs the
oueSt of the city to use his good offices to
settle the strike. The mill hands were
paid OF last Saturday. There are no indl-
cations of n settlement.
4 general convention of brushmakerS,
representing the trade in all the larger
cities of the country, is being held in Phil
adelphia. The formation of an lnterna-
tiopal union will be discussed and means
adopted TO secure the greater cooperation
of the various brushmakers' unious through
out the country.
John S. Kirchner, of the Cigarmakers'
International Union, No. 100, at Phlladel-
phia, has been appointed secretary OF the
Il L.
Federation of Organized Trades and Labor
Unions, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of William H. Foster. Official an
nouncement of the fact has been made to
the different unions represented in the Fed
Grafton BY President Samuel GomPerS.
The late L. 5. Stevens was great adj
mirer of civil service rules and he put the
bows through course of sprouts that day
that developed how much some OF them
did not know. Fred Turner, who Is now
General Secretary and Treasurer, was then
Corresponding Secretary of District Assem-
bIy No. of Philadelphia. The name OF
the order was at that time known only by
its members, and it was several years alter
the formation of District Assembly No.
that the ban of secreSy was removed.
The lockout of the cigar makers in New
York is at an end, and it has resulted IN a
complete victory for the union men. A
meeting of the joint committee of lnteFna-
tionel and Progressive Cigarmakers' unions
was held, and and as q result of the meet
ing the ultimatum was presented to the
manufacturers The situation was dis
cussed thoroughly, and it was decided that
it was useless to hope for any aid from the
the Knights of Labor in filling the shops.
IT was finally decided to open the shops
and allow each manufacturer to make such
arrangements as he may see hit In regard 10
the men.
About twenty years ago the National
Typographical Union of Holland found
itself in financial distress. An ingenious
device helped the union out of its dilemma
in the following unique way: The execn-
tive board adopted uniform cap, and
made it obligatory upon each member TO
purchase one. The cap was q model Oh