West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1888-10-11
INDUSTRIAL WORLD

THREE million women in the United States
work for money.
THERE are only three crutch factories in
the United States
THE File Makers Union has added n sick
benefit fund 20 It's other financial advantages.
Mn. a. l. Roof gives employment 20 l50
hands about his bee establishment in Chicago.
THERE are about 25, 900 persons engaged
In the manufacture OF cigars In New York
Twelve sii.ts havo been brought againsta n
Boston marble firm for importing contract
labor
THE brotherhood OF Locomotive Firemen
hive decided 10 0malgamate with the
knights Of Labor
OK thepay rolls Of the Pennsylvania system
Of railways there are constantly tho names
OF 5000 omployeA
THERE arc $500 persons employed by th9
t3l firms engaged in the wagon making tn-
dustry IN Philadelphia.
CUBAN troops arc under arms 10 suppress
an expectot riot among the 2J,OOJ striking
cigarmakers in Havana
The baskets for peaches are made In
laurel, Del, and tho workmen and work
women got eighty cents a hundred.
CHESS for tho working classes Ia a new
experiment Of the English chess players and
il Is meeting with cons.derab success.
THE National Federation OF Miners and
Mine Laborors contemplate putting the niue
hour syst9m into effect at an early date.
TnE tanning OF boa constructor skins forms
a branch Of Industry In Hamburg. n. j.
They are made into pOcketbOOxs principally
TIE labor societies Of Pittsburs have rased
oyer $500 for the monument TO be erected in
memory Of Thomas Armstrong, noted lnbor
leader.
Ir Is stated that the National Union Of the
United Brewery wOrkmen, which was o.
ganized In August, 1886, has already sp3nt
$50 600 " strikes.
SINCE tho organization OF tho insurance
/ feature OF the knights Of Labor the order
/ has paid out iu bsnelits over 5000 To [ one.
/ ficiaries OF deceased members
SEVENTEEN trades societies have forward
ed 70 the English Labor Bureau reports show
/ iog an aggregate membership Of 1856, 100, Of
which total 7OOj we're unemployed
TIE Brotherhood OF Locomotive FiremoD,
/ which was established in 1913, with one local
\ union and nine members, has now 80 divi-
aious and 1900 beneficial mem herA
THERE were 253. .s52 manufacturing eslab.
I lishmont4 In tho United States when the last
/ census was t1ken, with n capital of R,7O,-
2i2,GJi The number Of incn emplOyed was
! 2,15259j
THE employees OF Baltimore box factory
/ struck because che firm put in mailing ma
! CHIMES during the busy season. The machine
! needs four men and can nail GOO boxes per
/ day The average man can nail only 70
| boXo8 per day
MEssHs. WYHAS AND Sons, printers and
! publishers. Of LncO,n's Inn Fields, have
/ given pension of 500 per auuum for life IN
! w III. Phillips, on Dis retirement from tho
position Of casc-overscer, which be has filed
FOR number OF years.
IT is asserted that the American Fedora.
i tion OF Labor is numerically tho strongest
! tbor organization in the world. even sur
| passing the Knights Of Labor having 6lSO
| members while that OF Tho Knights i5 Oflci
| ally set down at 5000.
A CONVENTION VIII soon bo held FOR tho
| formation Of National Oystermeus Union.
/ Already o.evcn local un ous have been
/ formed and Do is intended that The Sat onni
, Union snail havs q sick benefit fund allow
/ Ing member ~ % week and death bonolt
fund by wbich bis heirs will receive $40.
ASA general thing sh3emakors profits ors
/ better in this country than im England An
l American shoemaker can make at "a cost to
/ himself Of sixty.six cents what an English
I shoemaker hos 70 pay Tor. while in manu-.
! fn .furl Of ludie8 sho.s the expenditure ~
/ twonty eve cents in this country is equ.ye-
leat 10 that Of tbirtyiour cents IN Eng and.