The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-06-23
FOR KNIGHTS OF LABOR.
TENS Of Industrial Importance Cleaned for
the Masses.

the Masses.
The narrowest railroad gauge is said
to be twenty inches.
The Knights Of Kansas City will have
a big labor meeting on July 4.
More hands are at work in England at
present than have been employed in long
time.
1t is stated that soap, water and scrub
bing costs the Pennsylvania Il. r. Co., $780,
600 year
Twenty-Five thousand acres of coal land
in DeKalb, Etowah and Marshall counties,
Alabama, will soon be deyeloped,
The girls in New York cigarette
factory went out to have a discharged girl
reinstated and to put a stop TO the obnox-
ious boss doings, and they won.
Among the new mills are these; at Win
sted' Conn, rubber; Pawlett W., fertilizer;
Nashua, N. H., bobbin; Columbia Falls,
Me-, pressed brick and terra Gotta.
AN Eng lish syndicate will develop coal
and iron lands near Seattle, Wash. Ter.
The company has capital ofS2 900 and
will employ 5000 men in its works, includ-
ing big iron mill
Buy your winter coal now. The Coal
Trade Journal says; "Those who are wise
will make their purchases early this year,
so as not to be caught mapping as they
have been this past year or two."
There are ten shoe-peg mills in the
United States. They employ 300 persons.
A New Hampshire firm makes 10000 bu-
shells per year. England used to send us
Il great deal, but our factories now export
large quantities to Europe
The government of Finland recently
sent man to learn the art of Persian carpet
making, which those who know how to
manufacture the article guard very strenu-
ously. He caught on, and factory has
been established at Finland.
"A California firm made contract with
party for lumber at S1l per 1000 feet,
provided the defendant would not sell in
four counties to anyone else. The plaintiff
sued for $4,000 damages for breach Of
contract, and the lower and Supreme Court
have denied the prayer on the ground that
n trust is Illegal and against public policy
The ConnellsviIle coke region is again
mixed with big strike. All Of Mcclure
& Co.'S coke works are idle. The cause is
that the company wanted to force the en-
ployes TO dump their wagons, to discharge
several employees and 10 reduce the wages
| from thirty to twenty-seven cents for pit
wagons of coal TO contain thirty-five bushels
| The estimated number of ovens now idle
ranges from 1850 to 400. The last miner,
to come were employed at Mullins near
Bridgeport. They struck Monday morning
Young mechanics make very egregious
mistake when they begin TO think that they
do too much for their employers when they
work a few moments overtime to complete q
small task they are performing just at the
| Time the whistle blows to quit work. More
young men have been kept from receiving
from any other known cause. Employer,
watch the movements of young men very
closely, and the least little thing oftentime'
places them in an unfavorable light befor,
their employers. 1t is the young man who
studies the interest of his employer, and i,
not afraid to give him few moments tina
gets the rapid advancement. He is tn,
young man selected when there are any
fayors to he granted can tell in twenty
minutes in any workshop the young mar
that is most likely to succeed in his trade
He is the last to leave his work aAd is al
ways prompt in beginning it. These fellow
that drop their work at the moment are al
ways the ones that the employer is ready t
discharge when business gets little slack
The young man who takes the interest G
his work at heart, and his employer int
consideration, very rarely is laid off in slac
times. Think over it. is it not so?