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

81 New jersey Knights of Labor IN,
loiiowlng delegates were elected TO renre
sent the District in the coming conyent;or
az Richmond, Va: B. w. Terlinde H A
Beckmeyer, Thomas II. Felter. JoseDb II
Mehrle, David s. Brooks, P. j. Malonev
charles E Eaton, George X, johnson I
I. Mcdonnell, William Yuill.
1t Is not quite q year since bottles yvar.
coming TO st. Louis via New Orleans ~
the barge load. This was STONED Nv ~
threatened boycott of Anheuser & Bush
ana unless the green bottle industry &
carefully handled by both the manufaetu.
rers n blowers they may give an excuse
LOT the re-oPening of the hood-gates and
the nght against rebates may not be sue.
ceSsful ~"
MT. Atterbury, of Pittsburgh, after
visiting European glass making eommuni-
Ties, expresses a conviction that American
manufacturers Of glass have no need 70 on
aoroau 10 take lessons in their art, and
~ no nation can compete with this in
any branch Of the business except in the
manufacture Of window glass, which Ger
many Is enabled to send US only because of
the extreme low wages paid in that coun-
try.
The expected lockout at Lees shoe
SHOPS AthOl, Mass, has begun. The en-
ployes on coming to the shops found the
doors guarded by policemen. Every man
and woman before being allowed to enter
the factory was obliged to sigu a certificate
10 the effect that they did not belong to
any labor organization and will not Join or
engage In any strike while in the employ
OF Lee or the four or five hundred hands
only about twenty-five signed the certi6-
cate and went to work during the fore
noon.
Philadelphia stove manufacturers state
that the Stove Manufacturers Association
a secret meeting, at which it was I'M
anlmouSly determined to resist the de-
mands Of the stOye mOulders and laborers
Ior an advance OF ten per cent In wages.
The manufacturers claim that the present
condition Of trade renders il impossible 10
grantthe advance. They regard the fixing
ola certain date each year for the a
ment OF the coming years prices rs a good
idea, but they are opposed to August / as
the date. The circular of the Stove Mould
ems Assembly No. ll6, Knights of Labor,
was sent out and the replies Of various
manufacturers in the association will be
be received and discussed at the meeting
Of the assembly which will be held. and a
course Of actiOd will be determined on.
From present appearances it is highly
probable that the mOulders on being refused
VIII come out ON a general strike, which
Will include all the labOrers and helpers
employed III the founderies. In that city
they number about 1900 men. The scale
was presented at the same time at found
rieS m other sections OF the State, in Read
ing, Spring City, ROyersford, Columbia,
Limerick asnd Danyille, where about 1900
other hands are employed.
Two years ago not more than six rolling
mills and steel works in the United States
used natural gas rs fuel; now we have a
record Of siXty-eight rolling mills and steel
works which use the new fuel, and Of six
teen which are making preparations to use
it. Every rolling mill and steel works in
Allegheny county, Pa, f~ifty-fye in all,
now use natural gas. In Western Penn
outside OF Allegheny county, it is
used in twelve mills and steel works, and
others, including the rolling mill and
Fautier departments of the Cambria Iron
Works, s~eyeuty-nine miles east Of Pitts
are preparing to use it. One roll
mill i'm Ohio is now using it, and eight
are getting ready to use it. In all
but a very few OF the mills and steel works
referred TO natural gas is nsed rs u fuel eX-
clusiyely.-IRe BHlletiR.