Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-05-06
Register
HINES ABOUT LABOR.
.,,su FACTS FOR OUR wORKISGxES
Mammoth Drain, Diggsr-Nsw Ains-OOOdltOn
a, Various Intustriss-Hany Nswsy
Notes Rte

; ~ mains. The apparatus is fifty fee
81 but can be made longer. On ID
USs' Of the machine q four horse-powe
M rms two knives, which do the dig
In the rear another apparatus, car
S1s, the dirt TO that part Of the machine
IA dIops 1t into the portion OF the sencl
= wb,ch the pipe in the meanwhile MAJ
H. lad. The trench may be made any
U'e',l I width. Six men attend the mon
I .Ss n has been claimed thst 300 yards
s. y n;,s can be laid in q dsy BY this ma
chiue
r,hs s,,le of wages that Carnegie put IN
- his Braddoek works when they
ct. ,S,,t last week differed as follows from
-, ysar's schedule: In 1887 the Keeper
Us, = +, worked at the furnaces were PAID
~ an f,r eight hours work. Under the ne"
- tbey will be paid s. 50 for Twelve
-, II the wages had but advanced 10
~ same proportion rs the number OF
InS .Li,g bours they should receive IS o.
far the twelve hours.
Among the new industries are cheese
t,c,ory AT Leon, Ia creamery at Lualow'
% Sr' Creamery, Lake City, Ia; pulP-mliis
I.lI,I,oks Monroe and Deerhsld, MSS
",nnio flc,ory, Washington, Kan. watch
t,r,cry Iadlauola, Nrb; stove foundry,
RyriS. Olt, aud 1905 bushel gram
tJsyst,r al Fort Dodge, Ia The RIVERSIDE
co,top-mill at DanUlle, Va, Will douoie
its capsclty.
The Minneapolis (MinD, sewing girls
nh, s.-Drk were receiving 81, and Scents
far shirts; . and cents for jean trousers;
15cents for three-stitch jean trousers; cash
mere tfousers, Il cents; engineers jackets
cents; California oyerslls, Z eentsi OH
oyeralls, ) cents, and Tor dOuoleseam over
ali. % cents a dozen. Tbs average pay
of loo Of the girls was 81 81 week.
II gss been claimed that the two whales
which we're brought from Australia II
1873 at the instance Of James Wickham
of England, and placed IN the Great SAL
Lake, Utah, have grown from thlrty-hTe
feet to siNty feet in length, and have
progeny OF several hundred, which follow
them. Ah0ut twenty tons OF oil comes
from s0od-sizsd whale.
Most of the industries Of Germany ar'
in operation on Sundsy. Ia some factories
the y orkmen eiter they become too old L
work receive full pay, and in Others hal
nay, the rest of their lives. In soma fac
tories the employees arc insured for $)OO
and $50. Savings banks are also con
nectsi with many industries.
The trouble between the bricklayers ant
masous Of Hamilton, Can, hiss been set
tied By an sgrssment TO work at $50 cent
an hour, with non-uuion or union boss
to be the choice OF the employer. TIT
carpenters get 81 - day. HOd-carrler
are to receive Isl cents an hour for l
seventy-p Ound lOad.
The Florida Tjmcs-L MON says: ''Th,
strikes and struggles and conflicts and lock
outs that mark the disOrgsn'zAtiOn OF so
ciety in the North aud West Ire alclos
unhsard Of in the South, and the reason
that labor here is satisfied, on the whole
with its condition"
List years new street railway mileag
in the United States was about 200 miles
aud this years will reach l, 100 miles
The Street RIiijcIy Journal has estimates
the cost u this } ears new kullding at -,
u73S. OGO
4 Stonscutters in Omaha, Neb.; Topeka
tKan Dsnyer, Col; Little Rock, Ark.
~. Paul ami Minneapolis, Mimi, get 81 s
day. Kansas City mo stonscutters, who
we're paid IS, 90 Last year, have struck fol
81 day.
Kansas City Mo. stonecuttsrs get 45
cents an hour. Thus is about the ruling
wages Ia the Missouri Valley. The Mas
ters' Association of the Missouri Valley
proposes TO make its organization national.
Several hundred miles Of railroad have
been laid 10 South Amsrica under the d.
rect;ou Of the Government, and 700 miles
more are projected. The rails are bought
in Euglaud, ard ccst about SIS ton de-
lyerei.
Glass that contains phosphorus and borsx
has been obtained by new process in SSe-
den. The admirers OF this new glass claim
thu; it Is ef finer quality than any glass
hitherto produced.
Montreal (CIn carpenters are paid
frOm $l.75 to 81 day About 800 French
Canadians are in the X OF l. They talk of
forming an open union and of askiEg an
increase to 81 and So % per day.
Eight hundred and thiriy.fye mine cars
were hois:ed in c day recently in the Cen
trail mine at Hyde Park, Scranton, which
Is 400 lest deep This record has perhaps
never been beaten.
An Injunction TO prevent the striking
mOldeTs Ia the Canton TO } malleable iron
Sorks from bOtheIing the men who have
AIKEN their places Hss granted by Judge
ease last week.
9 The Master Carpenters Association of
Toronto, Can has refused the request of
Tue Carpenters and JOiners' Association for
q nlne-hour day and saturday to end at II
o'clock noon.
st Paul, Neb, Knights, have elected a
Councilman, School Director and Police
Judge, and the Willow Spring (Missouri)
knights have elected the Mayor and an
Alderman.
Kansas City Me- Carpenters want a
nlne-h-ur day and 30 cents an hour. The
union has over 200 men. Last year wages
Were 30 and - cents al hour for a ten
hour day.
The zoo Omaha (Neb brick molders,
who struck for So a day-an advance of %
eents-aGd the settlers, who went out for
~ %, have returned to Wsrk at the old
wages.
The Wages of the employees Of the street
railway OF Norfolk, Va, have been re-
duesd 90 cents per week. Drivers have
been receiving 81 30 for ifteen-hour day.
Two hundred girls employed st Min
psapolis MINI dry goods house have
struck for an advance Of 20 per cent. Some
of the girls receive only IS so week.
BisnarcS's paper-mills produce fifteen
toas a day more than any other mills in
Germany. He is also the second largest
lumber dealer in the Empire.
The owners of the Gokey shoe factory,
Of Jamestown, n. Y, will not employ any
Of their workmsn till they shall have re-
nouneed the Knights Of Llbor.
Twenty Elmirs IN. Y. masOns struck
last week bscsuss last years ten-hour
wages-$2. 75-were not poid for the nine
hour day now in force.
The seveuty-frst charter has been issued
by the Bakers National Union TO local
IN Chicqgo The memharahiD roll has now