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

The iron holders' strike continues in
Troy, ~. Y.
The Buffalo cooperative stove works,
Buffalo, y. Y, are operating with full
force.
The mill Mt Greenfield, Pa, was on with
rs furnaces in full operation last week.
The prescription glass factories are all in
operation.
All the Augusta, Ga, cotton factories
are shut down.
The Chicago packing house employees
are ut work again.
The big lockout in the SIuires pork pack
ing house. Chicago, is ut an end.
The Atlanta, Ga, stone cutters are ON u
strike.
The first Trade Assembly of the United
States was organized January Il, 1881, IN
the city of Boston.
The puddlers at the Central Iron Works,
/ Harrisburg, Pa. have been given an in
crease of - cents per day.
The strike mt the stove foundry in Eliza
beth. y. j.. is over, the men having gained
their point.
The men employed ut the shropshire
! Iron Works, Wellington, who for the last
! twenty weeks have keen on strike against
| a reduction in wages, resumed work again.
The owners have agreed TO the mems
terms.
The Agc of Steel, of st. Louis, says: The
Granite Iron Rolling Mills are turning
their vacation to account by building and
repairing their heating furnacer and put
ting in new rolls.
The Salem Wire Nail Company, Salem,
Ohio, name 5000 kegs of penny wire nails
duIing July, equal to 5000 keys OF cut
nails. They sell over 200 tons OF wire per
month, this being their surplus over what
is used in making nails.
The first local assembly of the Knights
of Labor west of the Allegheny mountains
was Iron-WOrkers' Assembly No. II, Oh
| o-,nized early in 1915 in the hall corner OF
/ Butler and Thirty-SiXth streets, PlttSburg.
There has been great trouble between
| the cioarmakcrS of New York, which bids
fair TO he amicably settled now. At the
national convention of the Progressive
Union, n proposition to amalgamate with
/ the International Union was ratified by 4
| two-thirds majority.
/ II is rumOred that n movement Is on foot
70 locate in Louisville, KY, the largest
stove foundry in the United States. The
names of several prominent stove manu-
/ Eacturers are freely mentioned IN cOnnec-
tion with this enterprise, but no one seems
to be authorized Ito know" anything
about it.-.StOrGS and Hdrdrdrc.
Eleven wears ago, on Sunday, August 5,
| 1S75 District Assembly No. was organ
lied in Colfax hall. The inStituting oih-
Gers were Uriah ). Stevens, James l..
/ Wright and Fred Turner, all of Philadel-
mia. ]. NJ. Davis, of the National Labor
| Tribune. WAS elected District Master Work
man, and 4. A. Anderson, District Secre-
| tary.
4 number of PittSburg glass workers,
under the direction of David Jenkins, Jr.,
| McKee's glass works have organized CO.
operative glass company. They have ar
ranged for site ut Findlay, Ohio, on when
they will erect extensive works. They eN-
pect to have their new enterprise In opera
ton during the latter part of this year.
1t is reported that the blast furnaces OF
the Colorado Coal and Iron Company, at
BeSsemer, Col, in which for fourteen months
the fire has been banked, and in which but
n small portion of the steel-works plant
has been in operation, will be started up
IN full blast again in short time. IL Is
said that the company has contract foI
furnishing the Midland railroad company
with all its rails-abOut years work.