The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-03-03
FOR KNIGHTS OF LABOR.
Items Of Industrial Importance Cleaned for
the Masses.

the Masses.
The Valley shops at Delano are crowd
ed with orders.
There ls big rush of work at the
Stemton car shops.
The Easton match factory recentlv de-
stroyed by fire has been rebuilt. and Is now
In operation.
Carpenters Union No. S4s, of Port
land, Me-, fines member RS who are absent
three consecutive meetings 25 cents, and 10
cents for each succeeding meeting.
Cutters silk-mill, at West Bethlehem,
Pa, now keeps 100 employees busy, and
will soon have alterations made that will
necessitate the employment of over 300
persons.
In Augusta, Ca. the other day teer
was cut in the forest at 9 O'Clock In the
morning and by night II had been turned
into printed papers and the people were
reading in them the news of the day.
-Pittsburg members of the Brotherhood
Of Railroad Brakemen expect to induce
the Brotherhood to hold reunion there
about May 1. There are $50 lodges In the
Brotherhood, which covers the United
States and Canada.
AN election of officers for the ensuing
year for the Lehigh Stoye Manufacturing
Co., of town. took place Tuesday. 1t Is
expected to start up the works during the
coming week. This will be good news for
number Of our citizens.
For the week ending Feb. 25th, there
were shipped over the L. & s. division of
the G. r, R., of N. j., 92,2s7 tons OF coal,
total for the year to that date of TOO, ,986
tons, an increase of 122,627 tons as COM
pared with same date last year.
-Swtchmen in the Western Steel Com
pany's yards, at Carondelet, near st. Louis,
have gone out because the firm reduced
wages from 50 to $3.50 per day. Other
men took their places. Switchmen on
railroads out there get $3.50 day.
AN International Trades-Union Con-
gress proposeds by the trades-unions Of
Great Britain and Ireland Will be held at
London in September, at which delegates
from all over the world will be present and
take action on a general movement for an
elght-hour dav among other business.
Natural gas is booming Westmoreland
county, Pa. Two big glass factories will
be removed to Grapeville from Pittsburg.
Other towns in that county are also getting
factories. Greensburg has been offered
the Kelly & Jones heating apparatus plant
at jersey City If 900 be subscribed and
twelve acres of land donated.
Master Workman Daniel j. Campbell,
speaking of an interview he had with
President Cleveland, said: President
Cleyelands kindness and courtesy made a
deep impression on me. l found him
keenly alive to the interest Of the working
men of the coal-felds, and he entered freely
into a discussion of the situation.
General Master Workman Powderly
has written an article for the Knights Of
Labor paper published in Philadelphia, in
which he advises the Knights not to take
the places of the striking engineers in the
West lie reviews the treachery of the
Brotherhood engineers to Knights Of Labor
engineers in the past, but holds that two
wrongs cannot make right and suggests
that the Brotherhood be permitted to have
monopoly OF strikes and the filling Of
down-trodden workmen's places
1t is estimated that the strike Of th'
Reading employees has cost $3,629. 900. Il
involved 20,500 railroad men. who wer'
out forty eight days, and whose wage
averaged 50 per day-total, $240,OOO
There were 10000 miners, whose wage
averaged less than $40 per week, who wer'
out twenty six days, making their total los
81, 100000. The workmen at the furnace
>, who were thrown out Of employment b,
i the strike 100000. The increase in tn
price of coal caused loss to the consumer
+ of $500, 900, while the Reading Company
u out from $50O,OO0 to 81, ,OO0,O 900.