West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-02-09
LABOR WORLD.

KNIGHTS OF LADoR favor government
telegraphy.
THERE IL boom In cotton factory building
IN North Carolina.
CIo ARMAKERs TO the number OF 1, 200 arc
striking in New York city
LAST year there were 3s3. 40i casos OF Shoes
shipped from Brockton, Mass, against Y3I,-
54 I'm 1886.
WILLIAM ID. HARruPEE Is now preparing
plans Tor The new window glass factory 70 be
built mt Grapevilc, Penn.
SEVERAL engineers on tho Reading Rail
road will be removed because they have
Jailed to pnss the color test examination.
OF the 100 tons OF zinc annually produced
IN the worl !, Missouri turns out twelve tons,
ana tho industry is only partly developed
thero.
PENNSYLVANIA Railroad coke shipments
ments show an increase OF 20T, ,0y9 tons in
3,751,3H tons.
j. j. McGARRY, a Knight Of Labor. got
verdict In st. Louies, Mo-. for $1,000
against tho Missouri Pacific Railroad Com
pany for malicious prosecution.
a REPORT from South California mills
states that cotton operatives commence work
at 5:3O In the morning. take forty minutes
for dinner, and leave Off at $3.50 T.. NJ.
THE Sultan has requested Prince Bismarck
to send competent German to Asia Minor
TO instruct the natives in tho better working
OF mines ani forests and in husbandry.
THE long strike OF the shocmakers In
Rochester, which has continued since Novem-
Der ], has collapsed, tho men having ro-
turned to work on the manufacturers terms
The National Tube Works at McKeesport
Penn, completed n now plate mill for ro ling
sheets OF iron over six feet wide, to DO used
IN manufacturing twenty four inch lap weld
pipe,
TAKING six trades as bass, tho average
pay OF n skilled laborer in North Carolina Is
81 go n day: unskilled 65 cents: farm labor.
without board, b cents aud with board 30
c.nts.
THERE are number OF WOODEN mills and
knitting factories in operation In Utah whore
hosiery. mittens. le2gings, ladies knit skirts,
and mems knit un lerwear hre turned out In
large quantities..
AT conference between Carneeis. Phipps
a. Co., of the Homestead Steel Works, Pitts
burg, Penn. and a committees OF the Amalga-
mate Association, an amicab'e settlement OF
the wage question was effected.
THE BTotherhoodof Carpenters OF America
originally un lSSl hal only twelve local
unions, consisting OF 20I2 members. On
January J. 1858, IL numbered 3j3 local unions
locat ID in JJl cities with 4l, 72l eDrollel mem
bcis.
The International Hatto-s Union IL sa "a 10
be ore Of the best protective organizations In
the world There is n National Union In this
country and one In Europe, aud both are
aflilat d under the name OF the lntcrnaiiona
boly
THE organizers ~ the Lon gshoremsn's
Nationll District Assembly have rcccivel
communications from u. arly all tho org1niza-
Sons oi that class OF workers in the Unite 1
Stat $. AMI all thus far heard from favor the
scheme.
TnE total iron output in the South last year
was - fiU tOns-an increase OF 20 per cent
in two Yeas, ami represents one eight ol the
to- al product ON of tho United States The
total number ~ furnaces IN blast January j.,
! lsSS, was. Charcoal, %, coke, 20, and antbra.
c,t,, l.
A nc petition which. when complete. will
contain upward Of iAD,OOO signatures nsking
Tor a Government telegraph service, Is beng
prepared under tho super ision OF the Gen.
eral Executive Boar1 OF t5o Knights OF
Labor. Mr. Powderly expects TO be able 20
take IL 10 Washington an1 present IL 60 Con
gre =.
TnE statistics from the Michigan Labor
Bureau show many million dollars in mort
cages ON ths farms Of that Stat3. In one
county nearly halft tho farms arr mortgage T.,
the total reaching nearly ono fifth ~ the
assesscd value ~ oil the farms in the county.
IL IS snid that other counties are in n much
wCrse condition.
Os account Of the agricultural depression
i'm Crest Britain farm lnborers arc not <,
orally employed during the winter a. Trey
formerly were A. cons squenco large
nuaIl,ers Of tbom come 90 cites 60 obtain
something 90 do. As tho cities are crowded
few Of them succeed In obtaining employ.
uient and their condition 20 orncs distressing