West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-12-05
THE LABOR WORLD.

TuE Order OF the Knights Of Labor - 5uss
twenty yc,srs old
TuE laco trade of ttrauce gives employ
ment 60 nearly 200, 900 persons.
GEoRGIA min hands have been urging the
Legislature TO pass hill making ten hours n
dSg's work.
SIR EDwARp CtfsNnss the big brewer
hss given a million dollars Ton She erection OF
DWELLINGS for the laboring poor OF London.
SHrBUuDiN0 10 So active on the Clyde,
Scotland that In many Of che yards work is
carried on at night 10y means az electric
iisht-
MEssns. KRurp, ~ Essen. arc about 20
establish an immense iron fnppdry and steel
works in tho neighborhood OF Luxs"iburg}
Germany
THE prosperity OF tho cotton mills OF Fall
River Mass during tho entire year Is with
out parallel in the history OF Fan River man
ufacturing.
TUE american Mdnu(dc,urer of Pitts
btrg states that ninety per cent. OF the forge
companies of the country havo formed a
combination for mutual protection.
Sr the session of tho Knights OF Labor In
Atlanta ttN words "of America" were
dropped from the u&siis ~ tho organization,
making it simply tho Knights az Labor.
FEW people are aware that there a 4
trades union or industrial organization OF
cOlored men that dates back 60 1855. fivd
years before tho war, but such is the fact
ahTtS M6BIuDh, President Of tho Miners
Progressive Union, has called n convention
Of the miners of Northern Illinois, Iddiaua,
Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia fbf
Electromagnetic
COMPLAINT has bcoh fliido 10 tho Treasury
Department that the alien labor CdAnt|Fct law
IL being violated at Detroit, Mich, 10y CdIfh4
dian lnborcrs, who cross the line every day
% fcttNfriI labor IN the United States and
return 10 thoit h'iHics NJ night.
disposed TO interfere I'm the eight-ttftir owes
ton. They discussed IL at their meeting III
Atlanta, aud came TO the conclusion that the
hest policy would he TO allow the local assem-
bites 20 deal with II as they Saw best.
A MASS Iiiketfng of the striking block coal
miners of the central inirb Of Clay County,
Ind was held at Churchill niihosi Deef Cen.
tre Point. twas unanimously agreed To- re-.
sumo work at the operators order since forty
per cent. OF the strikers were at work at tho
reduction,
Ar n meeting Of ths Washington Typo
etapldcm Union, q resolution was adopted
repeailHF Ahe eight-hour rule that has hereto
fore prevailed Thk winters hi the Job and
newspaper Offices opposed tho resolution
unanimously, but IL was carried ~ the iUefi
from the Government Printing Ohlce.
1hE Proclamation ol Besscmer steel ingots In
the United States difirS 1885 -Tas 2,2G9 100
gross tons. OF rails the outf51h was com
puted at ], ,b62, 40 gross tons. The pr6drF'.
ton OF Bessemer steel ingots I'm 1885 was $50
go Tons moro than that OF 1885, while the
production OF rails had increased by Coz, 900
TOMS
a VEIN Of coal said 20 contain several mill
ioii tome he been discovered in Lawrence ~
Browns colliery Gt MabaD0Y Place, Penn.
The vein was struck by some men ofigdgsd ~
making drift from AN abandoned shaft "a
another colliery The find will go on record
~ one of the greRtest accidental discoveries
IN tile history OF coal mining
1f is hoped that tho discovery which has
been made in Trenton, N. j., I'm relation 70
the heating Of pottery kilns may result nd.
vahtagtbtisly VI an industry which has nj.
ready made marked progress In this country.
BY superheating the air before 10 enters tie
kiln IL is claimed that perfect combustion
may be obtained. The new method econo-
mizes coal, and largely reduces the time re-
qhired fer firing kiln.