West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-01-26
LABOR WORLD.

THE iron moulders have some $50 Local
unions with upward OF 1900 members.
LAST year $4,000 tons Of shipping wero
built on the Clyde, as against ii2,0O0 i'm 1886.
SCCRErARY lIrcuMAN SAYS there are 800
600 members of the X. Of l.. in good stand
ing,
Tur Cambria Iron Company. OF Johns.
town, lcan., will reduce wages ten per
cent
TltrRr arc 100000 members OF the Ancient
Order of United Workmen in this country
and Canada.
A NEw rubter shoe factory is soon to bc
started I'm Nangatuck, Conn. and will employ
one thou anl persons.
ms National Gtonite Cutters Union has
now seventy branchc, with total mcmber-
ship of about six thousand.
THE international Furniture Workers
Union has now twenty five branches, with
total membership OF about 400.
THE Philadelphia and Chartres Gas Com
panies OF Pittshurg have merged into ono
company, with a capital of Sl3,OOO,OOO.
TuE tanning of boa constructor skins forms
a branch of industry in Hamburg, N. j.
They are madc into pockctbooks principally.
A YEAR ago 100 nail machines were in
operation nt PittSburg, making 900 kegs
day Now tho output Is only five hundred
kegs
PiTrsRURG rabbi has invented Trail
NuliN lNlli NAl hlfn Sly VIII IlNNthI tn-
ginc or train from jumping the track. lt
cots 81 100 mile.
TuE employees OF the Laccdo Mil at ST.
Louis, will hereafter let one third OF their
wnges stand back, In order TO run the mill on
the co operative basis.
THE organized laundry employees of Now
York city have prepared petition request
ing tho state Legislature TO enact law
prohibiting convict laundry work.
A MOVEMENT ia ON foot Co form n National
Trades District OF furniture workers, i'm
cudng machine hands, chair-malSorB wood
cnrvors, cabiuetmakers and upholsterers
THE weekly pay roll of the Singer Sowing
Machine Company at Elizabeth N. j.,
amounts 60 S3b,OO), and that no Glasgow,
where ono third more people arc employed,
TO $4,000.
THE Journal Of United Labor says that
the wealth produced 10y each worker for the
past ten years was Sl0.lj OF this amount
Tabor, the producer, got $l.0S, and somo-
body else got $o.O1.
From reports tho hntters' trade throughcnt
the country Is i'm better condition than for
years past. This is said 90 bo due TO the fact
that the importation OF hats from England is
much less than 10 has beon for years.
TYrEwRrrNG AMI stanographic Offices are
multiplying with unusual rRpidity In New
York city. IL Is said that not loss than 10 to
100 young girls and men "graduaten every
week aud start out TO earn a living in this
trade.
iN suits instituted 10y tho Knights Of Labor
| against tho Bay state Brick Company, at
/ Bostou. FOR violation OF tho law prohibiting
/ importation OF foreign labor, the defendants
/ confessed judgments The penalty Is $1,000
/ in each OF live T..
THE Horace Greeley knights OF Labor As
scmbly of Reporters in New York. which was
/ suspended for non payment o. dues TO tho
! Central Board, has paid up and hecn rein
/ stated. The reporters wouldn't pay up, and
/ so tho Recording Secretary AN ardent knight,
/ footed the bill
OSE thousand men belonging 10 the auxil.
+. iary branch of the Producers Protective As
sociltion, have receives 81 per day each from
/ Nov. /, 1887, when the shutdown of oil
wells took effect The amount distributed
/ was about 100000 Tho Association set aside
/ 2,0OO,OO barrels at sixty two cents each for
/ tho benont OF the wOrkiugmen.