Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-03-25
REALN ON LABOR
WEBBING BRIGHTER WDUSTRIALLY THAN
since LAST JUNE
Intelligence from Mine, Factory, Mil and Work
shoP-Glsaniags from La5ors Fisid-PU-
s0nlls Ab31t Nil Men.

our market reports tllS week snow ln-
proved conditions and some prospects
OF better trade, the general situation
seems 90 ba about as 10 was last week.
Throughout the east trade seems Co
show nothing new. The old complaint
OF low prices is heard, aud while there
are rumors OF considerable business
that is soon going 90 be done 10 does
not seem 90 show up. While
there is some little Improvement
Ia few lines affected by adj
yanCes To- foreign prices. 10 IS not gen
eraL At Chicago the situation is said
% be improving somewhat, as mauuiac-
turing concerns are resuming opera
tiOns 20 some extent, but all at lower
rates of wages. The general tone of
all lines of the market Is shown IN pig
iron, which continues dull. and low. ln
the Southern market buyers want 20
place orders for deliveries extending
over hall OF the year 40 even less than
present prices. Occasionally we hear OF
concern whose business is equal %
what 10 was 40 this time last year, but
on the whole the depression has lifted
but lit,.e."
Brighter TO- Foreign Labor Fields:
Coke production i'm the COnnellsvile
fields was brighter last week. Seattle,
Washington, is 90 have q steel and iron
mill built 0y Eastern capitalists worth
S. 600, 600. Goa, miners Oh MOntgOm-
cry, This State, have declared the strike
off, Salineviue, Ohio, Goa, miners will
return 20 work. Coal miners OF the
Connection Valley, Ohio, mines will go 20
20 work at so cents ton. Washington
ID On. Hrn
work after long idIeueSs. Niles, Ohio,
is 90 have an immense new plate mill.
Wire and nail mills OF EIndlay, Ohio,
are making overtime. To week new
coal mine 40 Toronto, Ohio. viii be
opened Up, and about 200 men will ind
work To- To- The outlook for the coal
trade is better.
There is nothing new TO- report in the
pottery situation here. Tn many ways
the strike IS @ peculiar one, as the men
are little inclined 90 talk OF the situa-
ton and the managers viii say little OF
the outlook. One can GO among the
idle pOt,ers and stay for hours and not
hear Che strike spoken of, but stiil they
are determined and think they will IN
the end win the struggle, while the
mauaEemsEt arc just as confident that
thew wI.l never start their works 80 the
old list. A portion OF tle decorating
shops Oh both the Wheeling Pottery
Companies plan, and those of the War
wick are in operation.
Wheeling Mu Notes: Steel is being
received at the Belmont MILL The
lower Benwooi pudding mill is OF till
in the morning. The short stop was
caused bv no pig meta. being 90 hand.
The Wheeling steel WORKS closed down
last Friday evening until the morning.
This was caused 5y the proper Siud Of
mixture no. being on hand. One
scrap furnace is on @, ths la Belle
MILL The De.l-we'5 furnace 40 the tube
works Will go on iU ia.I 100 the morning.
Business is about The same 40 the Dom
Edison carriage works.
The management 90 toe Ena-Stand-
ard report trade a0cat tue same as last
week. All Jle new department OF the
Standard ISL u operation, aud bat one
Of the pudding furnaces ls on. The
break down and the bis OAR mill are oU.
The company is making good progress
on the getting portion OF the big plant
iu readiness for che manufacture OF
tin plate. The differences existing be-
tween the plate null men and the maa-
agement has been adjusted, though no
date is YET seq for the resumption Of
this department
Concerns lu this locality on in full:
Yves, Virginia Glass Works, 500 meu;
Elm Grove Goa, Company cd, Crystal
glass works, $50; t0st0r,l glass works,
goo. Beua.re blast furnace, goo; Glen
dale coal works, 6J; Wheeling stee.
works e0. Riverside stea. works, fur
mace and plate mill, 500, B.Och's tobacco
works, goo. NcNecheus preserving
works. 40; Eeymaun's brewery, si, and
several 0-der smaller Industries.
Twentv-six OF the pudding furnaces
attbe lower 8suw0Od pudding mill re-
rumed at the So rate last Tuesday. The
puddIers had q good rll last week,
though it was very hard work for them,
having been idle. SD long. The plate
mill is now on, aud the Goa. miners dud
steady work.
Coal Miners Conventions. L. NJ wv.
qt Columbus, 8nuua. convention, the
lOth oi next moath. T.. M. ". or A..
annual convention, at Columbus, the
srd of next month, and tle annua. con-
yention of District 10 vi. oe he'd in
Charleston, 49,. Va, April 90
The planning mill o., Wilson Is Chap
man fs on at it's full capacity. Good
prorress is belug made at the busch
botel and the Moore contract. Fore
man Pozue, Of She mills IS having im-
movements made 40 his residence on
the Island.
The Joseph Bell Stove and Range
~,,,,.,v ~enrrtS urcrress The plant