Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-10-03
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TRADE NOTES.

There are 100, 600 men organized in labor
unions in Chicago.
The mOlders are on strike in Carr &
Crawley's foundry, Philadelphia.
The Wabash rolling mill, at Terre
Haute, indie, is on full in all departments.
The prescription and bottle factories are
running full time, with good prospects.
The glass chimney season is now here,
and the factories are all fairly busy.
Fires have beer started IN two OF the
three window glass furnaces at the De PAW
glass works, at New Albany, Ind.
The tobacco section of the New York
Central Labor Union has Endorsed the blue
label of the Cigarmakers' International
Union.
The Cigarmakers' Progressive Union of
America has been declared ~disbanded, and
the trade is now consolidated in the Inter
natianal Union.
The first tank furnace in any window
glass house in the United States has been
erected during the summer by the StraetOr
Glass Co, StraetOr, III.
The New Jersey Steel and Iron Co., Of
Trenton, y. j., has increased the pay OF
its employees from . to 10 per cent with
out any difficulty.
The pOtterteS of Trenton, y. j., continue
TO flourish. One of the firms recently fired
one of their kilns with gas made from an
thracite coal by q newly discovered process.
The strike of the Wilmington, Del, mo-
rocco workers, which began last March,
has been practically ended. The terms of
the settlement are said to be satisfactory to
all concerned.
The Roane Iron Company, expects to be
turning out, steel rails some time during
the month of November. This will mark
a new and important era among Southern
industries.
The new h. OF l.. building in Trenton,
y. j., has been completed and will be the
headquarters of the ID. AS and i. A. of
that section. The lower stories will be
rented out for storerOoms.
4 coil OF red-hOt wire encircled the leg
of Michael Joyce, at the wire mill o fOliver
< Roberts. on the Southside, Pittsburgh,
last Tuesday, and so terribly burned it as
10 necessitate the amputatiOn of the limb.
The London Pottery Gazette is authority
lOl TIC SlllCAACul ludl liisLl lCduCNAOLAS III
wages of bOttle-blOwers have been posted
in the leading works in Yorkshire, and
that some factories have shut down entire
ly pending n settlement of the wages.
The near completion of the extensive
plate glass works near Tarentum, Pa, and
the one o in course OF construction at
Butler, Pa, the manufacturer claim, COM
pelS them to send abroad for men skilled
in the methods necessary in the manufac-
ture OF plate glaSS.-GIaSSJCOrker.
The strike at the Union iron works, San
Francisco, inaugurated nearly four months
ago, is practically ended by the mOlders re-
Stunning work, pursuant to the order of the
Iron MOlderS' Union. Forty Of the forty
seven mOlders who went out on the strike
returned, and the other seven will 90 to
work soon.
The glass manufacturers and workers
came TO an understanding this week and
the fires will he lighted in the Ottawa
window glass works ut once. The agree
ment of last yeIr rs to wages and uSuages
will govern during the season of lSS0-1.
The resumption eft work at the window
glass factories will give employment to a
large number Of men now idle and add
considerably to the volume of business
done in the city.-OiiGiru, H., Republican.
Logging on the different streams in the
MenOnminee Valley, Michigan, has already
commenced, there being scarcely a place in
the valley but where there is acrew OF men
making ready" for the winters campaign.
Men are still plenty, and though thousands
OF men will be employed in this district
tlHs Cocoon fN - axnaafaI that tphnrn The
mills shut down there will bea great many
unable to find emplOyment.-The LdbOrer,
\ case of much interest to the pottery
trade was heard ut the Leeds, Eng, aSSizcS
ON August II. Itappears that the plaintiff,
a girl of Il, completely lost her eyesight,
through, it was alleged, poisoning by white
lead, used for glazing purposes at the Bur
mantOfts pottery works, Leeds, where she
was employed. and her father sued Mr..
James HOlrOyd, the proprietor, for E1,5OO
damages. After q good deal of evidence
was introduced on both sides, and counsel
heard. the Judge Baron HuddlestOn) di-
rected a verdict for the defendant on the
ground that the plaintiff was aware of the
perils attending the employment when she
entered the service of the defendant, and
also that the latter had used all possible
pains to mitigate and nullity the dangers
incident to health accompanying the use Of
the glaze. He said further that all anu
featuring industries were attended with
some risk or other to those engaged at
them, and that to hold manufacturers re-
SpOnsible for unavoidable ones would
render the successful prosecution of some
enterprises practically impossible. En-
plOyerS were bound, however, to use all
precautions to prevent iniuy to health and
to acquaint their employees with the risk
attending them when they first applied for
work.
The following notice has been served on
the employees of the Rochester Tumbler
Works of Pittsburg: THE Rochester
Tumbler Co, with a view to encourage
their employees in their ambition to earn
more money and rs a reward for faithful
services rendered and to distribute a pOr-
ton of their profits, make the following
offers. The prizes to be competed for dur
ing the term commencing Monday, OctO-
Der 18th, 1856, ending Saturday, October
LIST, 1857.
They will paw to the
PresSer earning the largest wageS.-~"~-Slj0 90