The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-07-28
AMONG THE WAGE. WORKERS.
An Interesting Batch Of Labor Notes Special
for Ye Workinemen,

tor re Workingmen,
AT Toledo, o., women Knights hav,
started a cooperative knitting-mill.
-Weatherly's silk mill employs eighty.
five hands which number will be soon in.
creased.
There is Woman's Socialists Club in
New York city. The officers are all single
young women.
"A German manufacture instead ofrivet-
ing the joints of boilers YIELDS them at a
slightly greater cost.
AT Portland, Me-, contractor on the
water works gets 81 per day for Italians, to
whom he pays but so cents.
Hats still have wide brims, and feathers
small and tightly curled, make the crown,
with an aigrette of ribbon or flowers.
Three thousand million pounds of sugar
are consumed annually in the United States,
one.-tenth of which is grown in Louisiana.
Organized labor of New Hayen, Conn.,,
will celebrate Labor day (September 81 by
a picnic. Indianapolis unions will parade
anu nave u piCnlC.
The ST. Louis Age of Steel says that we
could greatly extend our markets In Mexico
if we should have cheaper raw material and
better railroad facilities.
There are fifty cooperative stores in
New England under the management Of
the Sovereigns of Industry. The yearly
sales amount to $5,50O,OOO.
York, Pa, is said to have the greatest
ragcarpet works in the United States. Six
hundred women and girls make carpet rags,
and there are 100 weavers and spoilers.
The several brick yards in town are
working to their full capacity. They have
orders on hand to last them until cold
weather, snow and ice stops work. This is
encouraging.
The proprietors of the shoe factories in
Beverly, Mass, have been compelled tC
move their plant in consequence of the
competition of country-made goods, where
cheaper wages are paid.
The mills of Manchester, n. H., are
crowded with orders. The owners woult
like to run overtime and so would the
hands, but the Legislature at its last session
limited the hours for days work.
-Thomos Evans, the Labor speaker ha,
returned to Fall River from Philadelphia
He could not work there because of his
trouble with the firms at home. Fall Riv
er operatives talk of presenting him with {
purse. He Is very poor.
The Central Railroad of New Jersey j,
laying a third track between Allentown ant
Bethlehem, to prevent the two main line
tracks from being 5lockaded with coal ant
freight trains intended for transfer to the
North Penn railroad.
The Allen Cement Company, whose
works are located at Siegfried's Bridge, are
building large stock house, $50 feet long
to accommodate their increased trade. Othel
improvements are also being made. The
company shipped 1000 barrels Of cement
in June.
Three hundred employees Of ia Cleveland
(O.) nut and bolt foundry struck last weei
because the company decided to pay once
a month instead of every two weeks, Re
Gently wages were reduced 10 per cent; ant
the men say that the old wages must bt
paid if the once-a-month payday is to e
into operation.
The capacity of freight cars has beer
wonderfully increased in the last few years
Formerly 10000 pounds were considered {
carload, to 10000 pounds, and now cars car
be seen on the Lehigh Valley Railroad
with their capacity marked up to 60,00(
pounds. 1t is stated that the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company is building gondola car
almost entirely of iron, with capacity o
100000 pounds, or fifty tons.
Mrs. Barry, the woman organizer o
the Knights, has this to say of the result o
the employment of women in the Pittsburl
iron and steel works: every woman wht
went to work in the iron industry threw
man out of employment, relegating him L
the army of the unemployed, and mayhal
by so doing compelling some other woman
to leaye her home and with one or two o
her little ones seek employment to suppor
her. Second, we all know that the environ
ments Of an iron works are not conducive t,
culture or refinement in women, nor are it
duties such as 10 insure good physical con
ditions, yet all those privileges that ar
beneficial and ennobling to women she mus
sacrifice because she has been found capabl
and faithful; while the mad race for wealth
which has entered the heart and soul of he
fellow-man, prevents him from doing her tn
justice of receiving for her labor that whicl
he would without a murmpr pay to mar
Yes, the venture has proved success, bu
to whom?"