Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-05-02
GPrOmlsing Lockout for Increased
Industrial Ventures.
What abOr is Doing in Different Parts Of
the Country Toward 0rganiZing---
The Knights Of Industry
General Labor News,


with ell this, an lmmense auOuu' Vi nON''
mandatory, school church, bank, ware
house aud also bridge building, Is to b
done.
The bridge building this year, for Whici
nsrmission has been granted BY Congress
includes bridges across the Mississippi
River at Alton and Ksithsburg, ILL.,, at Ret
Wing and Wiuons, MINI, besides which
,hers is project to throw bridges across
the river at Cairo aud Memphis. A CON
pany is being formed, to build bridge
across the Mississippi at New Orleans.
Steel bridges are to be thrown scrOsst the
Missouri River at St. Joseph, St, Charles
Saline City, Mo-, aud one at point some
where in jackson CoantY. the same State;
6f,h at Atchison, Kansas; two in Dakota
oDs At Chamberlain, and one at Peire.
R,;dyss are 10 be built across the Ten,
NASSAU River; Huntington IS to build one
ovar thu 0 no, at Cincinnati. 10 view Of
,bs large demand for structural iron OF all
kind. which this bridge construction will
occssiop. sll the establishments turning
N, ,b,s kind OF material are looking for
,ood buIusss, and many Of them are il
crss,ug their producing capacity,
THE NATURAL GAS EXCITEMENT
= Ws,,srn Psnusylysuis Is still attracting
grea, deal Of capital sud enterprise
NJ York Capitalists held nesting last
,ssk 10 receive the reports OF experts who
IL ,nietly sent out. few weeks since, to
rso,rt on the dssiraoihry OF securing leases
~ extensive rats of had IN PennsylV wanna,
O,io and West Virginia. with q view to
Dn,,iny down large number OF wells, and
r. rIrnate transfer of manufacturing es-
attachments 10 points within the gas belt
@, hinstions of the smaller companies are
tsk;nv Mace and it ID pro )shle thai within
= vssr or tuo, the competition which Is
Dcv 40 active will be place! under control
The United Line Company has completed Its
s;,b,s.n miles OF D De, from Ctunousoutg
- P;rtsburyh. The Ohio Valley Gas Co,
Is pushing its pipe line construction rapidly
'Nng the Ohio. Large numbers Of "e'iS
a. - Ssing bored, AID plenty o. capital
go ug in, awaiting its turn.
80. t the much.tslked OF dullness
~ 'p..e sreel industries, capacity Is
S.i ,u' r nC in, go 'ed Besides the SIX
oslus .b 80 49, mann, >e,G ring plants being
1000 S,sj in Western lH~nnSpIysnls;; md
ridasl manufacturing firm ssS SI S5i oS0
,hsircspsri'y. a. cost ranging "'st S- g. ~
10 500 900 each The same sp VT - gu
,srOrlss Is displayed in Eastern Penn '.s
MA Oai, ard o'ha- iron aud steel MAXI
centred Ta- it.'neut oflsbor troubles
the -s,aoli-hn-nt u "a fair system OF sroI
tra,ion, and the settlement OF tariff lie. isls-
ton uncertainties, would do much to
strengthen the hating confidence OF cap
iislists and manufacturers
INCREASING DEMAND FOR IRON AND STEEL
Daring the past few days, great many
specifications for iron and steel have been
received at Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and
New York, and quite an improvement in
INQUIRY for steel rslls, steel aud iron plates
and merchant s'eel and iron, has been de-
v,loped. All the prospects are favorable
for an increasing demand. nov that build
ers and manufacturers are able to discount
the future
The demand for battling material IN the
larger cities and towns throughout the
country will contjnn- active. Capital 10
seeking employment in u=E building en-
terprisgs, especially the ERECTION of houses
costing from 81 900 to 5 OOO for the ben
eff Of the wage workers
Several large manufacturing corpora
lions in the New England and Middle
States, have 5sen consideriuy rhe pcoposi-
ton Of profit shsriUy arta their employees;
not with any idea Of afop'iug this system
81 once, or at any particular time IN the
tu.urs but With vieE - eating the opln.
ions Of stocAhuli-ys AMI managers, as to
/ the sdvisi1lhty Of working on, a scheme OF
\ this kind for al p'jOl when the time
cones 10 make 10 d-.ic.ble Tbs employ
ers Of large numbsrS,,of Eorkmen, recogniz-
the tact that there are influences at work |
which. in time, will radically modify exist
Ing relations. There Ia disposition to |
ADM, the p,oit.sharing ia a, a. q practl.
Cal one L
TUE KNIGHTS OF INDUSTRY
is the name of new labor organization |
which has been started in Boston, aiming |
to draw together, MOI only the l. oorers, bat |
the middle classes. as We may say, Tor |
want Of better term. These scheners
propose 10 do ali ths, the Knights Of Labor
are dong aud grea: deal more.
Ii Is probable that the membership OF the
Knights Of Labor, Willincrease to l OoU,9JO
IN tue HeEr year or eighteen mouths, unless
disaster should overIaks the order, which .
good many people are hoping for. En.
Ployers generally yield because 1t Is neCes
Sa'y; but they will D. quick to take adSsn'
tSse Of the FIRST break
A powerful organization Of employers
has O-en established IN Rhode Island, suc
SgOOd msnv mills have been closed, By ne
order mill o Fners being paid for being idle
This system OF mutual assistance Is likely
u to Os extended 10 other states; but 1t Is
only practicable where = lArege number o.
employers are doing business in the same
" Place
The recsiots at lumber st Atlantic Ports
Tor ta9 pasr week, haya been one halt great
q thaa t.r the pcscepdirg week, and the
oHtnol,loh 10 6uqers for building purposes,
. is i. Neteasng
10 Boston, seventeen branches Of the
hOiiiiu- trades, ere 10 favor OF the eight
hour sys.'sn In Trenton, business OF
every kind u picking up. In Cleveland.
TN Groc-rs .>ssosatIon has ordered thai
The es,sohshms, Is of all members shall De
Closed ats O'Clock, sharp Ia Holyoke,
business is improving, aud wages have
been advanced 10 several branches.
IN BUFFALO
me Plumbers & Cigars Unions are the
Oaiy oaes thar have decided TO WSSk only
egnt hours The Bakers Union has pine
.saSa' OF all the jOurneymen in the CITY,
Saa is prepared TO reduce the working
oo9's to Z per day.
10 rttsourgh, the membership of all the
.aoos unions is increasing, but there is no
9Gee;'ed movement in the city, in the
esas hour question.