West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-01-17

THE strike movement is subsiding In Bel
GUM.
A STRIKE Of silk ribbon woavers is Inn
minent
CLEVELAND Ohio city woskmsn labor
nine hours per day.
AT New Bedford, Mass, a new automatic
shoe-laster is at work.
WOMEN In Lynn (Mass) cotton mills mako
81 and men $12 a week.
TINS country now leads the world in the
manufacture Of perfumes.
Tn BARRIERS are 10 have n national organ,
and It's name is TO be the ShGUer.
THE German speaking bakers throughout
the United States are largely organized in
unions.
THE Seaman's Union, Of Buffalo, ". Y,
has restricted its membership TO American
citizens.
Or the 65Ol brick-layers, stone-masons and
stone-cutters in New York city, 4354 are Of
foreign birth.
Is said TO have received over 500 in tips on
Christmas morning.
THE coal mines at Monterey, Cal, which
have been idle for years, are TO DO ~reopened
and vigorously worked.
BAKERS in Chicago are now required to
stamp the weight OF the caves and their
names on every loaf of bread.
ACCORDING to Bradstreers, there were ff.
teen strikes in the United States in December,
1883, in which 1851 persons were concerned.
PowDERLY's salary as Grand Master of the
knights of Labor is $1,000 this year. de was
voted $4,000, but would not accept so much.
The Oxford Iron and Nail Company's
works at Belvidere, N. j., have been closed
indefinitely, throwing 400 employees out OF
work.
STEAM machines for cleaning out the re-
forts in oroQ vEOrkc aro hafnar Vcad.fn phflaAaI.
phia with great success. One machine does
the work of eight men.
A LARGE amount of business has been done
at the marble quarries, West Rutland, VT,
In fulhllment of a Government contract for
20, 600 soldiers gravestones
A COMPANY has been chartered in Wash.
ington FOR the purpose OF building railroad
cars from sheet steel according to methods
lately invented in California.
BESIDES the $500 all-night bakers in Phila-
delphia, there are l4O0 male and female work
ers in twenty-five steam bakeries for the MAX
ing of cakes, crackers and knick-knacks.
HI gauge of the Cleveland and Canton
Railroad, in Ohio, 16l miles lin length, was
entirely changed to standard on a recent
Sunday. One thousand men were engaged
in the work.
THERE are twenty cotton factories in ia.
pan now in operation, with a total OF 80, ESQ
spindles. There are twenty factories now In
VI 0ANOAA1AOAAN Will
an estimated capacity of $50, $50 spindles.-
TIE Pope having expressed a desire for
the organization of ~workingmen's pilgrim
ages to Rome next September, arrangements
are being made for taking 10, 900 French art
isans thither. under the escort of the Arch
bishop of Rheims.
THE International Trade Association Of
Hat Finishers OF America was organized i'm
Philadelphia, June 8, 1854, with I2 local
unions. 1t now numbers 10 locals will 1000
members and has almost complete control Of
every hating center.
OFFICIAL returns in regard to female
workers in all parts of Maine show that the
highest wages received by a woman is at the
Waterville Mills, or one OF them, namely SD
per week, this being given to one of the fore
women, while the lowest for steady Employ
ment IS So weekly.
they have an improved method of lasting
shoes in some of the Maine shoe factories by
which cement is made to take the place OF
pegs and lacks. The device, which is patented,
costs twenty per cent. less than all other
articles for the purpose, and IL is said to do
three times the work.