The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1890-02-13
LABOR NEWS
Items of Interest to workingmen.-The
Eight-Hour Campaign.

hnghthour campaign.
Nearly 30 delegates were present at the
State eight-hour meeting held in St. Paul,
Minn. The first object of discussion was an
expression of opinion from all trades repre-
sentcd as TO how the eight-hour campaign
should be carried on. The stonecutters car.
penters and plumbers favored immediate ac-
tion, but the printers urged delay. The gem
eral opinion of other trades wis that the
League should become an educational body
allowing each locality TO decide for itself as
TO the number of hours for work
After working for two weeks the West
Brooksde Colliery operated by the Phila
delphia and Reading Coal and Iron Com.
pany, has stopped again for the second
time during the present year One thous.
and men and boys are affected. The Penn
sylvania Coal Company is sinking shaft
at Bearville, which will be completed soon,
and will employ several hundred men, and
will largely increase the output Of coal. The
Williamstown Colliery, operated by this
company, is working regularly and is assur-
ed Of steady operations. 1t employs 1870
men and boys.
The New Castle pa }, Wire Nail Company
has been chartered. Capital, 100000.
The Franklin Iron Works will occupy their
new building, Green Island, y. Y about
May /.
The window glass works at Belefontc.
Ia, idle Tor 10 months, have resumed opera
tions.
The Gallagher Shoe Manufacturing Com
pany, of Wilmington. has removed its plant
To Childs' station, Cecil county, Md
Gen. u. Burd Grubb, Of Edgewatcr Park
y. j., who purchased the Lynchburg (NaD
Furnace, is said to have paid $4,000 Tor it.
The Charlcroi Company have secured the
Mexican farm, near Canon~burg, Pa, for
$1,000, and intend forthwith to erect Il
large glass factory upon it.
All the iron mills in South Troy are run.
ming brlskly, with prospects of continued ac-
tiyity. There are 500 men employed in the
Burden works alone
The Minnesota Iron Car Companv. at
West Duluth, is now working over SO) mon,
and expect To increase the force to l,OJJ by
the middle of the summer.
Alpena (Mich.) wants furniture factory.
There is a large body of fine hardwood tim .
bcr in that section that Is available for the
manufacture Of furniture
one hundred and sovcnty.iiye men, EN-
plOyed in the Erie Railroad shops at SusQue
hama, Pa, were suspended last week. Near
ly all are single men, and many non.resi-
dents
Ben DWELL, of Badger Mills. Wis, per
fectcl the invention of an automatic car
coupler about year ago, He has just leased
the use of 1t in the United States tor 1000
u year.
The Hon. Willis Barnes. Of Charleston.
Ind has invented u little machine which *
operated by Clockwork and marks auto
matiCally, on glass, %, % lines on space of
an inch
After an idlcness of two months the Stony
Creek Rolling Mills have resumed operations
in the plate mill Tuesday The mills, which
have been undergoing repairs, employ about
10 men.
At Dover, New Hampshire, the Sheriff at
tachcd 100 machines and the stock in pro-
cess of manufacture of the Dover Shoe Com
pany shop, for Walter $. Dckcrson, sole
leather manufacturer, Of Lynn.
The Pusey & Jones Company, of Will
mington, has contracted to build an iron
steamboat for Philadelphia parties which
will he l3O feet long, u feet beam and o feet
depth of hold The steamer will ply on the
Delaware river.
The Charlotte (Mich.) Common Council
has voted John L. DolsOn n bonus of 81, 00J
in consideration of his erecting brick car
riagc factory with a capacity Tor 700 work
men, anu nave tnc same III operation Dy
October |.
The Bellefontc (Pa.) glass works, which
We're sold by the Sheriff ten months ago, and
have been idle ever since, have resumed
operations. The works have been Released
by l.. +. Munsen, General Manager of the
Bellciontc nail works.
1t is stated on reliable authority that GER
tain gentlemen OF MOnongahela City have
n proposal To locate steel works there ON very
liberal conditions. The proposed works will
form : o 900 plant. and will employ ljJ
men at the start.
Between 200 and 3 o persons are thrown
out of employment by the assignment of
Joseph T.. Murphy, the extensive wooden
manufacturer of Philadelphia. IL is not yet
definitely known what the liabilities and as
sets are but Mr.. Murphy himself estimates
his Liabilities at SJOO,OUO and his nominal
assets at between $500, 900 and S7OJ,OOO.
The total production of pig iron in the
United states last year was 1904, ,j25 gross
tons, against Il, ,iS9, ,73S gross tons in lsSS, an
increase of l,lli,7Si tons, or over Il per
cent. When it is remembered that our pro-
duction in lSSS was the largest in our his
tory down 10 that time, the magnitude of
our production last year will be more fully
comprehended.