The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1888-02-11
IN TEE WORLD OF LABOR.
SPECIALLY Compiled for the Toilers by an I'd
vooste Man

/ SPECIALLY Compiled for the Toilers BY an Ad-
vooate Man
SO far this month $500 men have gone
on strike.
The silk mill at East Mauch Chunk is
crowded with orders.
The two silk mills in Bethlehem give
employment 10 about 800 hands.
"A very rich vein Of coal six feet thick
has just been struck IN Golfsx, I'll.
New York K. Of L. Assemblies CON
iribuied $4,000 toward the coal strike.
The employees in Atkins Iron Works,
Pottsvlle, have had their wages reduced
The IIersh Heater Works haye been
closed until the Lehigh foundry resumes
operations.
New plate glass works will be started
in Butler. Pa. which will be the finest in
the country.
The Lucindaiurnsce at Norristown
has just received consignment of 2OO0
tons Of iron ore from Africa.
The largest glass tumbler eyer made
nine inches high and six inches across the
top-was made a, Rochester, Pa. 1t holds
eighty ounces.
The Philadelphia Reading Railroad
conductors are signing a petition which is
to be sent to Congress protesting against
the proposed licensing Of conductors.
"A large stove manufacturer in Albany
has secured the consent of his workmen to
retain 10 per cent. Of their wages until the
end of the year, to be forfeited to the firm
in event of a strike.
The Massachusetts Labor Commission
ers are watching the employment of children
with extreme care. The public school sys-
tenn has suffered by factory industry, and
it is now proposed ro correct this evil.
"A Pittsburg foundry made 200O can
mons and thirty thirteen-inch morjars for
the United States during the war. These
thirty mortars threw 10000 tons of cast
iron into Vicksburg. Each mortar weighed
eight and half tons.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad is expert
mentng with soft coal and a number of its
freight locomotives are burning this kind
OF fuel. 1t IS said that the Wyoming an
thracite coal, which the company has been
using since the strike, is full of slate and
not at all satisfactory.
There is a great deal of mistaken talk
going on about railroad-building in the
Northwest. There are even now nearly 10,
900 miles of railroad projected, and, as
there is anxiety to put money into railroad
building, it is probable that the outside
rather than the inside limit Of railroad
building will be done.
The Lloyd valve works, foundry and
machine shops, which have been idle since
the fall of 1885, will be stated up again in
week or two, the Bethlehem foundry and
machine shop having consolidated with the
valve works. The works have the finest
machinery in tho county. The news of the
resumption of these works will be hailed
with pleasure by the people, as it will give
work to very large number of mechanics.
The shutting down of so many furnaces
for want of coal has caused misery in an
unexpected quarter. There being no de-
mand for ore, many OF the iron ore mines
along the East Penn Railroad have closed
down. The miners, who have large fami-
lies, received only Is to 80 cents day, and
consequently, even working, are in almost
abiect poverty. About thirty of them, with
their families, have been compelled to seek
adnlittance TO the Berks and Lehigh coun-
ties poor houses until work is resumed. This
is result of the strike, and in view of it all
men can be intimidated to such profound
foolishness.