Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-25
LABoR NOTES.

Nearly <, UuU men went TO work at the
Pennsylvania steel works, at Steelton,
Pa, Tuesday.
All the shops of the Reading Company
will be run but four days week until
further notice.
The Marietta, o., Chair Company re-
sumed operations Monty, employing
about 600 hands.
The new 14-inch mill of the Gautier
Steel Works, Johnstown, Pa, will be
started this week.
The Saxony knitting mill, at Little
Falls, N. Y, was reopened Thursday
and will run on full time.
The Patton coal mine, in Cambria
county, which has been idle for several
months, will resume this week.
The Fowler Car Company's works, at
Elizabeth, N. j., have been closed in
definitely, throwing 800 men out Of
work.
The Mohawk Valley Lumber Com.
pany has shut down its extensive works
at Fultonville, N. Y, owing to lack Of
orders.
Wick Brothers pottery at Kittanning,
Pa, was shut down Friday, because
the men refused to accept 10 per cent
cut in wages.
The Howard Plate Glass Works, at
Duquesne, Pa, employing over 500
men, has resumed in full. The planthas
been idle four months.
The Elizabethport, N. j., CordaGe
Works, which were burned two years
ago, are to be rebuilt by the United
States Cordage Company.
The Keystone Silk Mill at Emaus,
Pa, will suspend operations for the
present, owing to "the Wilson Tariff
billand consequent business depression.
Most of the Haverhill, Mass, shoe
manufacturers have made general re-
auctions in wages, averaging 10 per
cent. The cut is said to be only tenn
porary,
Committees representing master and
journeymen bricklayers Thursday
agreed on 45 cents per hour as the
wages for the present year, the same rate
as last year.
The Saxonville, Mass, wooden mills
will start up Monday, January Goth,
after shutdown of nine weeks, with
the full force of $50 employees and no
reduction in wages.
The National tube works at McKeea-
port, Pa, will resume operations this
week in about half of the departments
and with reduction of wages. About
5000 men will be given work.
A telegram from Newark, N. j., saws
that large number of factories there
have resumed operations in full or part
time, aud the outlook, according TO the
manufacturers, is much better than it
has been.
One thousand men, employed in the
Lehigh Valley railroad shops, at Hazle-
ton, Pa, were Monday put on four
days work per week. The shops are
crowded with work at present, and the
order created much surprise
A Baltimore dispatch says that the
statement made on Tuesday that re.
duction OF. 80 per cent had been made
IN the wages of 1000 men at the Mount
Glare repair shops OF the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad Company is denied by
General Manager Campbell.
The Massillon, Ohio, coal operators
thursday issued a circular saying that
the coal operators Of Pennsylvania have
reduced the price of mining over is
cents per ton, and appealing to Ohio
miners to accept similar reduction,
with the hope of avoiding the distress
that must follow the shutting down Of
the mines in Ohio if the old wages are
kept up.
Managers of several potteries at East
Liverpool, o., Thursday announced a
new scale of wages. "0n yellow ware
1t is an immediate reduction OF 10 Ser
cent, with an additional 10 per cent
withheld pending the passage Of the
Wilson bill. Old wages will be restored
if the bill is not passed. On white ware
the cut will be 10 per cent, with 20 per
cent held back"
An order has been issued by the
Reading Coal and Iron Company sus.
pending II of its largest collieries fol
an indefinite period. These collieries
are North Franklin, Suffolk, Bear Val
ley, Thomaston, Draper, Bear Run,
Hammond, Pine Forest, Elmwood
Shenandoah Cityand West Shenandoah.
These collieries employ in the aggregate
about $500 men and boys.
The Textile Manutactursng World fol
January gives statistics concerning the
new textile mill construction during the
past year. The summary of new mills
for 1893 shows 172, employing 1880
people, as against 272, employing over
10000 people in 1899. line average
magnitude of enterprises for 1898 is
about one-third less than that for the
preceding year, when the average mum
Der Of employees per shop was ITO as
compared with 70 for 1898,