Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-01-24
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out hourly, on an average, l,S43 hats.
During the month Of December two
hundred and sixty local and two district
assemblies Of the Z. OIL were organized.
From four TO eight assemblies Of the K.
Of L. are daily forming. Members are
Joining the old ones in great rapidity. In
nearly every State the ranks already mum
bee thousands.
The potteries Of Trenton, y, j., are run
ming about as usual, and prospects with
them are bright for the spring trade A
number OF new shapes will be put on the
market this spring.
Twelve out Of sixteen cigar manufsc.
turers OF New York have locked ont their
workmen-sboat 5000 in all. The goods
Of all the firms locking ont their men
will be vigorously 5oycotted oil over the
country.
The statement recently made IA some
OF the daily papers to the effect that the
workingmen employed by the Hite Natural
Gas Company had struck for higher wages
and that the foreman had threatened 10
amnloy Italians. was untrue in every par
t%icular, No men have been employed for
several months on the line spoken Ct
The three strong points in the labor
nroblem FOR 1855 are the eight hour ques-
tor. the increasing demand for labor, and
the Guiet movement among employers
toward arbitration methods. TIE e'gat
hour movement lsgs, but 1t vii! gam
strength as agitation increases.
A number OF English capitalists have
subscribed s.. 900. 900 TO erect large iron
and steel works at Birmingham, Ala,
where they can make iron at Sl2 per ton,
steel at SI7. and steel rails at 81, which
can De put aboard a vessel at S23 to SO q
ton Jacob Reese, the great m~s,slIurRlst,
hes South;o establish etee! Industries
The Piukerton detectives are worming
themselves into the Knights OF Labor,
booipr TO discover something that will en-
sole them either to criminate the move
neat or It's leaders in some illegal trans.
s~clions, CT 70 create disturbances thai will
render the organization less effective,
The Knights are securing the discharge
Of obnoxious bosses in severa! localities
The last head that fell was at tlttsheld,
Mass. One active organizer has started
twen.v-tao assemblies within two months
in Wisconsin and Michigan. At Washing.
ton two local assemblies, u made up OF
steam engineers and one Of harness-makers
we're organized. The Alexandria assem-,
5lies are growing rapidly. Entire mills in
Rhode leland are in tbs order. 4 moTs-
men. : 81 icos 20 organize a monster
demonstration at Richmond. Va. ~cs tSe
sssissspos o. ASSEMBLIES Il pai,s1eIpE!s,
Wsstias.o5 aE6 Baltimore LAST Vesa
Eve new assemblies were organized in Dos
ton.
The distric, assembly of Knights of La.
Dor at ST. Louis met last week 10 talk over
the eight hour and other questions There
are &C. 900 members OF that assembly, OF
Which about 5000 are employed on the
Gould railway lines.
The second annual convention OF the
Illinois State Assembly, Knights OF La
,,r met last Thursdas at Decatur. The
convention adjourned on Friday night.
The purpose of the meeting was TO perfect
,Is Stste orwauizatian. Ine eight-hour
question wss discussed, but husl action
was postponed until reports could be heard
from sister organizations.
The B-icklsyers and Mssons Inter
national Union Of America met last week
in s.. Louis and held several days sessions;
The convention wss largely attended, ana
steps we're taken to expand the orgsnizS-
tioR
All kinds Of trades 10 New York are BE-
ing organized.
The 900 cigsrmskers are hard at work
in San Francisco e~ndeaVoring to freeze out
the Chinese workers.
Eight-hour agitation meetings are being
held in New York, Boston, Chicago and
St. Louis.
The English lockmakers. who have lost
q good deal of their trade through the
competition of Pittsburg locks, have put
prices down and flooded competing mark
cts with their locks in order TO regain then
trade. 4 Glasgow frm ia Boosting that il
esn put down steel ship plates from Ger
MANY in that city cheaper By 81 80 per
ton than they can be made there. The
German and Continental steeluakers are
putting English manufacturers 10 a greai
deal of trouble. Pittsburg lockmakers are
TO be undsrsold 80 per cent by the EN-
ployment Of female labor as much IS pos
sibls.
4 gssssusT steel plant has been srsctsS