Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-04-08

Inv men CANNED that the weather would
De too hot TO do six heats. The resump
tlon would have given employment to Isl
men till jane.
Some Of the striking Omaha. Neb
brieklsyers have gone to Denver. Col.
woere they are getting S. a day for eigh
hours, and 3 few have been at Memphis
Tenn, working all winter at the sam,
wages and hours. The bricklayers at st
Louis are getting 81 so for an eieht-houl
Jay. Some Omahs contractors are hirinS
men at so cents an hour.
The ice dealers Of New Haven, Conn.
nav decided that no pieces shall be SOLD
Tor les than 10 cents. Families will b
served with 100 pounds for 40 cent?. Fol
less than 200 pounds, 80 cents q hundred
Will be charged; % cents a hundred fol
over 200 pounds and less than 500, and q
cents q hundred for 500 pounds and over
japanese compOsitors have lots of fur
hustling around after the {, 1000 character
which make mp the alphabet of that lap,
guage. There is only one case for all the
eompositors, and it is stationed at the side
OF the wall. 1t has been estimated that a
composition in that country covers about
twenty miles q day while at work.
A lumber stacking machine, which take;
the place Of fifteen men, is in successful
use. The lumber is carried on chains from
the trimmer aud dropped ON the cars in
better shape than the men formerly did
The work. But one man is now Necessary
10 manipulate the machine.
Samuel r. Lowry, colored, has estab-
ltshed n colony Of negroes in Jefferson
county, Ala, where the silk worm Is Guilt
waited with great success. From 100 TO 400
pounds Of silk, worth s. a pound, can be
raised on one acre. A company will he
formed to manufacture the silk.
Seventeen employersof the striking Chi.
eagO painters have settled with their men
by agreeing TO pay, at the lowest, 37k
cents an hour and an eight hour day. OF
the ], 200 who struck only $50 are still out.
Painters are requested to not 20 to. Chicago
during the struggle.
The members Of the Builders Exchange
OF Hamilton, Can, will discharge all their
employees who belong to any labor organi-
cation, after Wednesday next, until the
rupture between the Laborers' and Brick
lay eIs' Union and the master builders shall
have been settled.
The dislike of the Chinaman in Austria
liza is owing almost entirely to the fact that
be works for = low wage, and consequent
ly tends to the destruction of the colonial
laborer's ideal:
Eight hours work, eight hours play,
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Cotton factories will he put up at La
Grange, Ga; Charlotte, n. c.; Round
Knob, N. c. Forest City, n. C Orange
burg, S. c., and one of from 1900 to ., eco
spindles at Kings Mountain, n. C. TIE
factory st MapletOn, n. c., has increased
itz capacity By 400 spindles.
Investigation by the Penitentiary Com
mi>Sioners at the Coal Hill ARK mines,
where convictS are employed shows that
one man was shot deal for refusing to
come out of the mines. Oae hundred
lashes were administered to prisoners who
failed to dig two tons z day.
The Jobbers' Watch Trust, of New
York, has offered the striking sixty en-
gravers Of the Duebec Watch COmpany's
branch plant at jersey City $4,000 TO
help them stay out. The firm is removing
the JfrSey City plant to headquarters at
Cincinnati, D.
The men employed around Chicago and
the lakes are organizing an assembly OF the
X. of l. and what is to be called Marine
Trade Council. EIch branch Of the trade
proposes to stick by the other in the case
of q strike or other grievance.
An authority says that so, 900 pianos
were manufactured last year in the United
States. The average life OF this iustru-
ment is % years. Only a few factories
make the piano entirely, there being about
nineteen trades in the composition.
Assistant State Labor StatisiiCian COu-
gag, Of Kansas, in an address TO CarpeG-
tiers and JOiners' Union, No. 1853. Of To-
peka, disapproved OF manual training
schools, hSeIuse they viii overflow the
various occupations aud reduce wiges.
Architect Darlington, Of Minneapolis,
Mimi, has q pet project. He believes he
eau build q twenty-eight.s.ory building
entirely of IRON, and says that capitalists
of thar city will invest in the scheme.
The coal output Of Missouri duricg 1887
was 2.S65, 900 tons, worth $3.50 ton at
the miues. The area Of coal covers p 1000
square mikes. Tue average annual wages
OF the miners was $3i6.55.
The MonongaheIa river miners who Were
convicted Of conspiracy while on strike
three years ago recently celebrated at a
banquet board the first anniversary of their
liberation from Jail.
1t has been estimated that only 1000
men are a. present employed around the
mines in the Shamokin pa district.
Heretofore {. OUO have usually been at
work at this time Of year.
The Workingwoman's Society Of New
York city is circulating a petition TO be
presented to the Legislature praying that
six women factory inspectors be appointed.
The only slaie-pencil factory in the
United States il at Castletou, VT, near
the beds. Thirty thousand pencils are
made daily. Oae man sharpens 800 a day
on an emery belt.
In England manufacturers pay less than
schedule wages for work on old looms. In
this country operators find it pays better
10 AWAY .huO tue iabCct AiHAof'WSAS'
A big factory wherein table ware will be
manufactured is to be put up at Penn Sta
tion, near the Grapsyille, PA gas fields
About 200 men and boys are to be EN-
ployed.
The Austen w. Va.t minel have been
shut down owing to the refusal Of the
men to promise to stick by the company
in case the price Of coke should he re-
duced.
A gun car Just made at the WOodwich
arsenal TO carry 4 big English gun has
twelve wheels and "a capacity of 100000
pounds. The guns weighs 24S, $40 pounds.
The ths,e months strike for a nine-hour
day by East Saginaw Mich carpenters
hiss been settled. The point was gained
after q slight reduction in wages.
The members OF the Syracuse IN. "
| Brewers Union have been granted shorter
hours, an increase in wages and less strin'
gent shop regulations.
The 800 employees OEHan's sac and lock
works, Cincinnati, have gone out on strike,
cIa;pinO that the schedule wages are not