Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-08-15

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has just put in s., 600 worth of new lathes
and will put 200 hands to work ON October
/ l, in new building l0Ox3O feet.
| The Massachusetts, paper makers report
business brisk. One maker at North Adams
has just put IN four new SOO-pOund beat
ers The total production of paper and
| pulp OF all kinds in the United States WIS
$50, $50 pounds against :, S66, $50 pounds
IN leS$i, 6,949, 500 pounds in 1885 and s.
3l5, 100 pounds in 1SS2.
THE AVERAGE WAGES PAID
to anthracite miners last year was found to
be 500 per week and bituminious 81. 2l.
The miners claim that their wages average
from $40 to $50 per month. The bulk of
the miners live in houses but little better
than shantieS, for which high rents are
charged. They deal ut stores where goods
mt from 80 to 100 per cent above their ac-
tual value. Ii the miners were compactly
organized there would be a general strike
extending throughout the United States,
because Of the deep discomfort existing in
all classes.
Another attempt is to he made to form
an International MOulders Union. The
heart OF labor Is sick with oppression, even
IN these days when business is booming:
when manufacturers are crowded with or
derS; when mills are running night and
day, and when trade and industrial pros
poets are apparently better than they ever
have been. Leading labor leaders say:
Dark clouds hang over our cause ut pres
ent, and the prospect is gloomy enough to
diShearten the braveSt of us" During
June, 39T assemblies were organized and
IL old ones reOrganized The Knights of
Maine will meet ON August 21th, at Bath
with POO assemblies. The State Assembly
of the Knights met ut Cedar Rapids with
l25 delegates. \ lady was elected chair
man in that State. The Knights OF Texas
will hold a grand picnic ON August ~.
There are 1000 Knights in Philadelphia.
Baltimore Is becoming one of the strongest
organized cities in the county. There
are two assemblies in Dover New Hamp-
shire, with membership OF 4 thousand
The Knights and the farmers in California
are cooperating politically The head OF
the social democratic association OF Great
Eritlan will visit this country this fall
along with two Or three other labor leaders
The organized wOrkingmen of New jersey
will meet at Trenton next Monday, The
international plumbers will mold a cOnyen-
ton in Buffalo early in September. The
United MIChiniStS Of New York are arrang-
ne for \ monster picnic, and on Septem-
Der 9th, the New York wOrkingmen will
have a grand holiday Thirty-fye hundred
cigIr makers have withdrawn from the
Knights OF Labor in New York They
have been making trouble and their depar-
ture is appreciated.
\ STRONG FIGHT
is to be made against the truck system and
company store system throughout the
country, and great amount OF injustice is
being done to wOckiugmcn, by being oblig-
ed to pay these excessive prices for what
they buy.
The workingmcn are preparing for
political revolution. Just how to bring it
about is not clear Their friendship for
the old political parties is weakening.
They are growing more and more willing
cooperate with an honest effort that prom
jSeS success. The State Legislature and
Congress have trillcd with them, and they
feel that no result is 10 Dc hId through the
Did political parties.
Cooperative schemes arcStill looming up.
\ Chicago man HIS Just gone to Pittsburgh
.Or the purpose Of establishing an iron mill
in Missouri. \ Montana proSpectOr is
cudcayoring 10 induce MonOng Ihcla miners
To 90 to that territory to develop tract OF
coal Land containing bed OF coal from /!
To 10 feet thick The cooperative stove
foundry ut Beaver Falls resumed operations
last Monday, aitcra shut down, with plenty
oi orders Tor the fall. The Penn Bridge
Works at that place are having lON26O
.cct addition built. Old nail machines are
Driu% tlkrn out III several Western ldcto-
rird, and machines Of greatly improved
make will be substituted for them.
THE ORGANIZED LAHoREES
of Baltimore will celebrate ARTISANS day
on September q at Druid Hill Park. The
employees OF the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company ut that city are far from satisfied
with the rules OF the rrljcf association Of
that company.
The celebration OF Labor day il BoSt0n
Is being actively prepared for, and will be
imposing affair. The CiglrmakcrS' Inter
national Union held grand parade and
picnic on Monday July -. Cambridge
Mass. pOrk-packcr has discharged 400 at
his employees because they belonged to the
knights OF Labor. The strike OI the jour
nevmen tailorS in Boston continues, with
but little prospect OF IN early settlement.
The Cincinnati bricElaycrS are compact
IN organized and have resolved To carry on
no building after August first, where non
union hOd carriers are employed.
The paper hangers OF Brooklyn have
formed u mutual protective organization.
Five hundred employees Of the American
Tube and Iron Company, at Harrisburg
have struck Tor an advance in wages.
The Brotherhood OF Carpenters will hold
a conventions ut Buffalo ON August ;. Del
raatcs from unions in all parts OF the
country will attend.
The furniture makers Of Baltimore desire
tohavc their union admitted to the Knights
of Labor.
THE CONVENTION OF OPERATIVE POTrERS
held i'm Trenton on the - ult., formed a
permanent organization under the style at
the .'Opvrativc POttcrS' National Protective
Association OF the United States Dele
.,,tes from abuut 80 pottery manufacturing
town were present ut the convention.
They have formed Knights OF Labor As
~emDIE.
4 vigorous effort will he made by the
New York shoe clerks to have the stores
closed ON Sundays, and ut : o'clock every
,ay with the exception of Saturday
Contracts for supplying the New York
daily papers with paper having been given
out As low rs 1! to 4 cents per pound.
Several New York and Boston papers are
giving very heavy contracts, finding that
Nv So doing, they can secure very large,
discounts. 4 number Of manufacturers OF
paper in New England expect to lay out
large sums of money in increasing their
capacity. and numerous extensions are pro
ie,taI 4 movement Is on foot to shat
down the paper mills from Saturday alter
moons until Monday mornings. The man
ufacturers are Individually in favor OF II;
and the only uncertainty is rs to concerted
action. The makers of paper mill machln-
erv have heavy orders on hand, and to all