Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-03-18

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Hereafter the painters and paper
hangers of Paterson, ". j., will work nine
hours q day and eight on Saturday. These
are the first to make the change. Other
trades have given notice to the same effect,
to be enforced on April l and May l.
The four furnaces that are in course OF
erection at Emsley City, near Birming-
ham, Ala, are to produce 12O tons Of pig
iron q day. Two thousand men will be
employed. This great establishment will
cost nearly 81, 900, GOO for construction.
New Orleans (La) contains the largest
electric light plant IN the world. The
power is furnished by two engines, with a
capacity of 1900 horsepower. There are
1900 lamps in use in that city operated by
the plant.
The brick manufacturers Of Pittsburgh
have sigusd the brickmaker's scale, which
provides that wages for the coming year
shall be at the same rate as IN 1887, ex-
cept that boys will be employed to sand
the bricks.
The spoilers in the Granite Mill, at Fall
River, Mass, struck last week because the
firm compels them to ill o 26-pound box
without extra pay, instead of the 22-pcund
one, which they have been using.
Since the organization Of the New York
millwrights they have forced an advance
OF more than 81 IN the daily wages OF each
member and have cut down the length OF
their working day day by n hour.
With more coal than either Peunsylva-
MIA or Great Britain, West Virginia pre-
duced in lS>6 only about one-tifteentl as
much as Pennsylvania and one-fOrtieth as
much as Great Britain.
An appeal has been issued by the Fed
Grafton OF Metal Workers, calling upon all
unorganIzgd workmen TO combine and
fight for > reduction OF working hours and
increased wages.
IL Northern Illinois, where the coal
miners are organized, they make from $50
to 500 a month, while in the southern end,
where the men are ~unorganized, the most
Of them average but Sla day.
The FJremen's Association, composed Of
the fOTemen 10 nearly every kind of en-
p'oyment in P~itlsburg, has been organized
for the purpose OF opening reading rooms
for the working people.
A single blast at Fair Haven, VT, recent
IL moved a block of slate weighing 400
tons and containing 100, 900 feet of good
material. 1t was 60 feet long, 40 feet
wide and 20 feet thick.
A scale of wages has been prepared by
the tin and sheet-irOn rooiers to govern the
trade the coming e They will demand
50 so q day and a nine-hour working day.
Members of the Fortune Association Of
Knifesmiths and POlishers have won their
strike for the reinstatement OF discharged
men in Westphals shop, New York city.
The rate of wages established by the
New York Hebrew Typographical Union
is 81 for 100, or l cent a line. There are
fifty Hebrew printers in New York.
The Carriers AMI BIiCkhaulers' Union of
Baltimore, Md, have notified the brick
manufacturers that unless they shail
agree to pay 50 a GIy they viii strike.
Buteuders' Union, No. /, of New York
city, has issued a barteuders' guide. Cairo
Ills. bartendsrs have organized on tbs plan
Of the New York men.
TIE weavers, Spinners and other piece
workers in the Cocheco Me- ManufActur-
ing C~Ompany's mill have been given ) per
cent advance.
The PlastereIs' Union of New York city
has decided that none of it9 members shall
work for contractors who will not pay
weekly.
This years business at the Bath Me
~ship-yaIds promises to beimore prosperous
than that Of the two preceding years COM
bined.
The Island of Malta has a lace output
worth 1920, 900 a year. Four thousand
five hundred women and girls are en-
ployed.
The Operative StoGemasons Society OF
Baltimore, Nd, has asked for an advance
from So so to 81 per day for the coming
year.
An effort ia on foot to change the
headquarters Ct the Cigarmakers' Iuter-
national Union from Buffalo TO New York.
Minneapolis, MINI. X Of l. have
picked out o number o. legislators whom
they ask all labOriug men to vote against.
The San Francisco Girls Association in
struets young women in household duties
and furnishes girls to families.
According to the latest figures as many
as 10, 900 of the worlds railway employees
are killed or MANNED every year.
There is talk at San Francisco, Cal, Of
importing 1900 girls from Europe to work
as servant girls in that city.
A Lebanon pa manufacturing COM
pauy has au order for 800 model ears for
the Pennsylvania Railroad.
The journeymeu painters of B~3rdentowD,
y. j., have been given an iucTease of from
$l.75 to s. a day.
Newport, r, l., X. Of l.. bricklayers
will strike on April 10 if q nine-hour day
be not granted.
Freight conductors on the Grand Trunk
Railway are paid from $l.75 to 81 10 per
day.
The Labor party was defeated in the
Vermont town elections during the last
week.
The United States and Canada expert to
England $3.50, 900 worth of apples q year.
The value Of manufacturing plants
erected in Admission, Ala, in 1887 was ST.
$50, OO0.
The Wilson vein of coal on Roaring
Geek is said to be the thickest in the
world.
A Keokuk la jury has decided that
shsving is mo- \ Sunday necessity.
In Ireland there are 50, 600 spindles ana
4 nnn n.--.- = A.. --..n,, y,st1a
StonemasonS Union, No. Q, of Brooklyn,
will fine all members who shall become
sub-contractors s., and every mau working
for q sub-contractor will he fined So for
each days offsnse.
MILL NOTES.
The Ellen Ross iron works, at Avon
dale, Ala are being enlarged.
The GisndOn Pa Iron COMPANY last