Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-03-18
TRAnH NOTES.

The Fhunix glass factory, at Watercure,
Pa. Is running full time.
The Atlanta glass house, az Wheeling,
is running forty shops on bottles. Two
mrnl.ys are said to be in operation.
The LaBclie gitss factory, Wheeling, is
Tauuiuc with ten pots and four small ones.
IT, wora force il beiUg increased each
wees
The Nor,hwood glass house, of Martins
Frsry, -, the old Uniou) Il pressed With
ORDERS.
A machine that viii make y, COO, 900
,ol,hp.cks per Gay Is being built Tor a
L.vltowu, Ne., IA tory.
The Longshoremen, X, Of l., represen-
TIM thirty-ciue cities, met last week IN
New York. They Will apply tor q national
charter.
A fruit lar and bottle factory IS to be
hu.lt at south KOkOmO, Ind. The plant
is 10 cost about $4,000, and will employ
is1m7 - 20 l25 u.sn.
Business A. the North Wheeling Glass
Works Is tgll, and the works will close
th-.r blowing department On April Let. for
several weeks ii trade does net improve.
OF the $500 u asked, with which to
ers.: p glass wCrSS at Washington, Pa
S}S 400 has been subscribed by citizens,
assuring the enterprise. The works will
employ l25 hands.
Inc iourneymsG and boss stone masons
Of Newark, y. J have resolved upon the
basis Of - cents pr hour, niue hours TO
constitute 3 days work, during the com
luz season.
The VALLEY works, at Williamsport, Pa
rl7s lust made one of the largest centre
crank double disk automatic cutoff EN-
g.ues ever put together. IL weighs 10, OUO
pounds
The Building Trades League Of Kansas
CIV Is out in . circular TO the effect that
the city is o~veTdowing with skilled work
Iugulen OF nil kinds, three-!ourths OF whom
ase out of work aud have been for 90 days.
The Master Carpenters Association of
Chicago has notified tie carpenters unions
that sigh, hours will be a days work for
this season, aad 80 cents an hour will be
the Lowest wages, aud that there shall be
no Determination between union aud non
uUisu men.
The employees Of the Royal cigar fac
tory. az It. Louis, Mo have struck be-
cause OF the Withdrawal Of the firm FROM
The union and because OF q cut in wages OF
from sl3 to - q thousand. The firm
claims that Il cannot compete with eastern
goods 20 the old rates.
The trades unions Ct Great Britain and
Ireland have arranged tr holding an Inter
national Trades Union Congress in Lon
don. E1.'aud. ia September Of the present
year. Delegates .Gam SIT over the world
are expected to attend, and q concerted
movement :or eight hours is TO be the re-
suit E&
The Carpenters Union Of st. Louis have
instituted preliminary steps toward the
organization uf tn carpenters Of that city
on the eight hour basis. Ii is understood
that eight boUrs VIII he demanded at The
commencement OF the spring trade. The
other building trades in that city, it is
saId, only wo5l, eight hours a day.
Tne operatives il the Social mill, Woon-
socket, l.. l., were surprised last week
when they received their pay TO lind that
their wages hld bsea voluntarily advanced
> per cent. The employees OF the NOurse
aud Globe mills, Ownel By the Slcial Com
pany, I'll ircceiva the same advance. This
affects :. 900 hands.
A~malglmated carpenters with head
quarters in Manchester, England, have is
sued their January report. IL shows 25,-
$50 members, 5, los on unemployed benefit,
6o3 ON sick benefit, 2O3 superannuated.
In c)mpar'sjou with December report, this
demonstrates q decrease in the number on
unemployed and sick benefits.
Tue Carpenters CouaCiI Of Massachusetts,
met IN Boston last week 10 consider the
question Of tbs nine hOur system. A let
ter was drawn up addressed TO all master
bllliers Of the state. The letter notifies
master builders that after May l niue
hours will constitute a day work, 10 give
work 20 thousands Of men now idle. They
ask the builders 10 APPOINT a committee to
meet them aai settle the matter amicably.
The wages Of 80 per per cent Of the en-
plOyses Of the Chicago and Alton railroad
have been increased i've per cent. Twenty
per cent OF toe engineers have been re-
duced. The increase will make the wages
OF the passenger engineers So 80 per 100
miles, the freight engineers 81 per 100,
with the addition of so cents on way
ireights aud coal branchs. The iremen
are To receive So per cent Of the engineers
pay on passenger trains aud 80 per cent on
freight trains.
General Secretary Litchmau, Of the X.
OF L spoke at New Orleans last Saturday
night. He said there were 500 600 MEM
bers IN good standing in the Order ut
present. Il have been to Macon, Atlanta,
Montgomery and Mobile, and the trip was
a pleasant ore ali the way through" SAID
h.. ''i.om here | 20 to PensacOls, Blrm-
ingiam, Knoxville, Chattanooga, Marietta,
JDlnsonvil'e, savannah, 81, Augustine,
Charlotte OF Durham, RIleigh anu Rich
mpnd, reachiug home two weeks from to-
day, on the 18th Of March"
Omaha brickIayers say that they will not
work until their demand for au eIght-hOnT
day at 81 5Oa day shall have been granted.
The brick contractors reply that they will
not employ the men unless they shall agree
TO work q uine-hOur day at 81 50 a day
and eight hours on Saturday with eight
hours pay. In 1886 the bricklayers work
ed ten hours for 81 They struck that
spring for 81 80 for o ten-hour day and
won. Last year they were granted 3 nine
hour day and - 30 a day, with a full
days pay for an eigh.-hour Saturday.
The shoe manufacturers of Weymouth,
Mass, have filed the places Of their strik-
Ing hand-sewers with Italians, who are
living temporarily in the factories in which
they are working, every boarding house
IN the town having refused them board.
The mill-Owners will build 10 accommodate
the Italians. The strike was caused by the
refusal OF the firms to grant an increase OF
10 per cent over the existing wages, 20, -
"A cents a piece.
The Journeymen Blkers' National
Union, which held its third annual Con-
Yention in st. Louis last week, has q mem
berslAp Of {, 1888 bakers. 1t is represented
by uaiOns in Brooklyn, Boston, San Fran
cisco, Los Angeles, Cal, Detroit, Indian
apolis, Pittsburg, Cleveland, Newark, n.
j., Buffalo, Columbus, o., Denver, Louis
vile and Cincinnati Il has already gained
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