Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-12-06
THE LABOR WORLD.


THE Order of the Knights of Labor Is just
twenty years old.
THE lace trade Of France gives employ
ment to nearly 100000 persons.
GEORGIA. mill hands hnvc been urging tho
Legislature to pass II bill making ten hours Il
days work.
Sir EDWARD GUINNESS, the big brewer,
has given II million dollars for the erection of
dwellings, for the laboring poor OF London.
SnIrBUILDIHG is active on the Clyde
Scotland, that in many of the yards work is
carried on ut night 10y means of electric
lights.
MEssIs. Knurp. of Esacn, nre about to
establish an immense iron foundry and steel
works i'll the ncighborhood of Luxembourg
Germany.
The prosperity of the cotton mills of Fall
River, Mass during iEc entire year Is with
out parallel in the history Of Fall River in,iii-
ufacturing.
THE american Manufacturer of Pitts
burg states that ninety per cent of the forge
companies of the country have formed n
combination for mutual protection.
AT the session of the Knights of Labor in
Atlanta the words 'of America were
dropped from the name OF the organization,
making it simply the knights of Labor.
Few people are aware that there is n
trades union or industrial organization of
toiOitu llcil llllJ uhLtS DICK 10 IS.itJ, nt0
years before the war; but such is the fact.
JOHN McBRiDI, President of the Miners
Progressive Union, has called convention
of the miners of Northern Illinois, Indiana
Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia for
indianapolis.
COMPLAINT has been made to the Treasury
Department that tlenicn labor contract law
IS being violated mt Detroit, Mich, by Cnna-
uian inborers who cross the line every day
TO perform labor in the United States and
return to their homes ut night.
TIE knights Of Labor us body are not
disposed 10 interfere i'll tho cight-hour qlics-
ton. They discussed il Mt their meeting in
Atlanta, and came to the conclusion that the
Lest policy would be to allow the local nsse,u-
bhes to deal with it ms they saw best.
A MASS meeting o: the striking blocl, coal
miners of the central part of Clay County.
Ind, was held mt Churchill mines, near Cen
ire folnt. TWAS unanimously agreed to re-
sumo work ut the operators order since forty
per cent. OF the strikers were at work ut the
reduction.
AT meeting of tho Washington Typo
graphlcal Union, Il resolution was adopted
repeating the eight-hour rule that has hereto
fore prevailed. The printers in the job and
newspaper Offices opposed the resolution
unanimously, but twas carried by the men
from the Government Printing Onice
THE production of Bessemer steel ingots in
thc Oiioeu 'otiUeS curing 1876 was 2,2UJ, lUU
gross tons. Of rails the output was com
pnted at ,5G2, 410 gross tons. The produc-
ton OF Bessemer steel ingots in 1856 was CSC, =
G'o tons more than that of 1885. while the
production of rails had increased by GU2, $3.50
tons.
VEIN of coal said to contain several mill
ION tons has been discovered in Lawrence &,
Browns coliery at Alahanoy Place, Penn.
Inc VEN was struck by some men engaged in
making drift froman abandoned Shaft TO
another collicry The find win go on record
as one OF the greatest accidental discoveries
In the history of coal mining
IT is hoped that the discovery which has
been made in Trenton, n. j., in relation to
the heating Of pottery kilns may result adj
vantageously to an industry which has al
ready made marked progress in thiscountry.
ny superlleating the air before il enters the
Kiln it is claimed Tint perfect combustion
may be obtained. Tho new method ccomo.
inizes coal, and largely reduces the time re-
quired for firing IL kiln.