The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-03-31
FOR KNIGHTS OF LABOR,
Items Of Industrial inheritance Cleaned fol

the Greses,
| There are sixty n. OF l.. assemblies in
New Hampshire.
Mrs. Barry, of the X. Of L., is organic.
ing female assemblies.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad COMPANY
IS sconstructing 50O-foot dock at Gladstone.
Mich.
Dir. McGlynn has suggested that the
consolidation of the labor parties be named
the Common Weal' party
II has been estimated that there are
1908 Brotherhood engineers and as many
fireman who win not be able to obtain EN-
ployment on the Burlington Road now that
the strike is over.
This plant of the United States Rolling
STOCK Company, at Admission. Ala, is the
largest car works in America. Twenty
ilVe freight cars can be made there in a day
ana from fiYe to ten passenger coaches
every m onth.
For the week ending March "a, there
were shipped over Che l.. d- S. division of
the G. Il, r., of n. j., 1872, 200 tons of ceal,
total for the year to that date of /, ,O1O. 750
TONS, an increase of 39,433 as compared
with same date last year.
Father Garyey, pastor of the Summit
Hlil Catholic Church has advised his par
shioners to withdraw from the Knight of
LABOR. He also denounced the leaders of
the strike. The "denouncing" business is
becoming e.-Erchdnge.
Prospects for brig and prosperous
spring are not wanting. Business is reviy- |
ing on every hand and the demand for
labor is rapidly increasing. There are
signs of activity which will have an en-
couraging effect upon every channel of |
trade.
DIR. Warman's investigations in Europe
snow that operatives in American potteries |
enjoy better health than their Euronean |
brothers and live longer He accounts for |
this by the fact that the mills here are of |
more recent eraction and more work is
done by machinery. Besides, our climate
is dryer than that of Europe.
Thomas B. Barry, of the Executive
Board of the Knights of Labor, at Detroit.
Mich, last waek, said of the late Reading
strikers: "a better lot of men never con
tended for manlier principle. Nv ex
perlence, he added, "has taught me that
God and public opinion are with those on
top; and my advice to workingmen in gem
eral is not to strike until they have to. but
when they do strike to lick the other fell
low, because it is either lick or get licked "
Gould anything be sillier than the ont
cry OF the overcoddled industries and their
partisan organs that any reduction in the
war tariff will bring blue rain upon the
country? This country never had a A per
cent tariff until 1865. Did it not grow and
prosper up 10 that date? Have not wages
always been higher here than in the Old
World, alike under low tariff and high
tariffs? Are they not relatively higher to-
day in the non-protected than in the pro-
tected industries? What sense is there in
the cry that it will be calamity to make
suyar and clothing cheaper and to relieve
salt, lumber and fibres and chemicals used
in manufactures from needless taxationP
The entire railroad systems now in
operation embrace 303,0S3 miles. and
America is credited with 155,757 miles.
Europe comes next with 121 POS miles, Asia
with ID, I91 miles,, Australia with S.O45
miles, and Africa rounds off the list with
!, 2S5 miles. 1t is also shown thar Ger
many possesses the most extensive railroad
system in Europe, while in relation to area
Belgium has the densest network of rails.
and Sweden boasts more miles of rails in
proportion to population than any other
European country. But after all the proud
TACT remains that the excess of number of
miles Of road in this comparatively infant
Republic is about one thirty-seyenth of the
'ntire railroad system of the world.