The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1895-08-28
LABOR NOTES.

Advances in wages and other news OF in
terest TO employer and employe can be found
In the followingi
The strikers OF the Monongahela Furnace
Company have returned to work.
New Castle-The Tin Plate company offer
ed their laborers an advance OF cents day.
Rankin, Pa.,-The flve mills OF the consoli-
dated Wire Mills have resumed in all depart
ments, employing 500 hands
BrInton, Ia. a.,-sl60, 900 was divided among
$500 employees at the Westinghouse Works
for two weeks work all records broken.
Beaver Falls, Pa The Old Economy
Works, the Nicholson File Company started
Monday, giving employment to $50 hands.
Beaver Falls--The employees OF tho Town.
send Wire Nail Company at Fallston, Pa,
have received an advance OF 10 per cent
Harrisburg-N Notice has been given the en-
ployes Of the Bailey Iron works OF an Increase
OF to is per cents several hundred men are
affected.
The Carrie Furnace at Rankin has been
blown 10, which will add so tons per day to
the production OF pig iron. It has been idle
for months.
wilmerding, Pa 800 men found employ
ment at the new rubber works building by
1000 mon.
Carnegie pay roll contains $4,000 workmen
The tonnage will aggregate 2,000, 900 tons OF
finished material for the year II the output 10
maintained.
The Cumberland, Pa, Steel and Iron Shaft
ing Works are adding Q number of new
machines to their large plant, which viii give
employment to 120 mon.
Aetna Iron Works 10 In operation for the FIRST
time in many months, about 1,G00 men are
workings prospects very bright.
Pot setting was finished at the Acme glass
works at Steubenville, o., on Friday and this
isrge CHIMNEY plant, employing 600 hands,
resumed in full Monday.
The blast furnace OF the Pittsbure Steel and
Iron Company, Second avenue. was started
lest week. When the other departments are
started l,000 men will be required to run the
works.
The La Belle iron and steel company, of
wheeling, has purchased n piece OF ground
adjoining Its plant with the intention, II Is
understood, OF erecting a pudding and skelp
department
No. q furnace OF the Carrie furnace com-
pany at Braddock has been blown in giving
employment to 100 additional men, II has
been out OF blast four monthe and since the
suspension has been built 10 feet higher.
The Pittsburg Locomotive Works have re.
ceived q large order for engines from the
Lake Shore end Michigan Southern Railroad.
The order calls for ton ten wheel road engines
and demands an early delivery.
Benwood, ". We. Two thousand employ
90 OF the Riverside Tube Works have been
notified OF an increase Of 10 per cent In their
wages, being the second for a like amount in
hree months.
A general advancei in wages has been gran
ted the wire drawers at the Cleveland Roll
ing Mill The drawers Of nne wire will here
after get 10 per cent more and various ad-
vsnces, ranging from to 10 per cent have
been given the coarse wire drawers.
Johnstown-The old No. furnace OF the
Cambria Iron company. which has been out
Of blast for a year, has been refined. The
old pudding mill, wkioh has been out OF date
for years, 10 being put In order, which indl.
oates press Of orders; o large number OF mer
will be employed.