Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-08-08


cent. from August 3.
Glastonbury Knitting Company, Man
chester Green. Conn: 10 per cent. from
August . restoring the rate paid be-
fore March L, 1894; 100 employees.
TiltOn Mills, Tilton. \. H.; meltons,
tweeds and cassimeres, 10 per cent.
granted on July %: $50 employees.
FarWell Wors-ed Company, Black
stone Mass: increase Of ~ per cent.
Fittsburg and Youghi0gheny Gas
Coal Company; wages increased to "a
cents per ton on August l.
Rolling mills, san Francisco, Cal;
10 per cent.
Republic Mining Company, iron ore,
higan: increase 10 to 20 per cent.
Manhattan Rolling Mil, New York
City; 10 per cent.
Blast furnaces at New Castle, Penn;
second increase of from 10 to 1212 per
cent, on July q.
Reading Iron Company, Reading,
Penn; increase Of 10 per cent. for $50
men in the sheet mill on July %, in q y
dition to advances heretofore reported.
Green Falls Manufacturing Company,
SOmersworth, n H.; per cent. on July
20 for 1000 men.
Franklin Copper Mining Company,
Michigan; scale OF Two years ago re-
stored on August /.
Glasgow Iron Company, Pottstown
Penn; 10 per cent. Tor puddlers on JULY
%; second increase.
National Bureau of Engraving and
Printing. Washington. d. c.; increase
of 20 per cent, reported by BradsJeets
Miner * Co., Meesup, Conn; ~ per
cent.
Eagle Mills. Soonsocket, r. l.; cid
scale 90 be restored on August Z.
Brayt0n Foundry, Providence, r. l.
1919 per cent.
South Bend Wooden Company, South
Bend, Ind; ~ per cent. on August l.
c. d ". Pyle Company, leather, Will
mington, Del. 10 per cent.
Mccullough Iron Company, Whining
ton, Del; 10 per cent. Tor $50 men.
Johnson Forge Company, Whining
ton, Del; 10 per cent.
Lippett Wooden Company, Woon-
socket, r. l.; about per cent. On Au
gust 8.
Perseverance worsted Company,
Woonsockot, r. l.; abou, per cent. on
August ..
Simpson & Kirkaldy, woolens Woon-
socket, R. l.; about per cent on Au-
gust
Bituminous coal mines in Pennsyl-
yania. Ohio, Indiana and Illinois; the
agreement signed at Pittsburg On Au-
gust , increases the wages of 100,0 900
q /.
the rate in Ohio and Indiana will be
advanced on that date from 81 to GO
cents, and it is provided that there
shall be another increase on January 1.
Harris Wooden Company, Woonsock-
ct, r. l.; increase of about per cent.
on August ..
Themon, Wors,ed Company Wocn-
socket, K. l.. abou, per cent. on Au-
gust 5; about 1.S00 employees in WOon-
socket are affected by the general adj
vance on that date
Lake Erie iron Works, nut and bolt
department. Cleveland, Ohio; increase
on August l.
Twenty-Five wire-rod mills; the
American Wire Company in Cleveland,
Ohio conceded to strikers an advance
of 5 per cent. on August /, with . per
cent mere on November ]; in another
Cleveland mill another similar agree
meDt was made. and il is expected thaJ
the terms viii be accepted by all the
Wire-rod mills % in number) in the
country.
Wooden and wors,ed mills Of the
Rhode Island district; a general adj
vance OF about ~ per cent for the firsA
week OF August; among the Olneyville
mills affected are those of the PrOvi-
dence. National. Saranac. Riverside,
WeyboSset, and Saxon Companies; some
OF the othe. mills affected have been
mentioned already in the list; the re-
dUctiOn in 1898 was 10 per cent. 4
All the Lowell cotton factories; no,
tice was given TWO weeks ago in all
the mills tina, there would be a general
increase, said to be about 8 per cent,
on August 5; the number Of employees
affected are about 10000
All the bar-irou mills of the Pitts
burg and Ohio districts; the increase
ON the price Of bar-iron on July 80 by
s. per ton gives all the bar-iron work
ers in at least twenty mills an increase
Of wages, upon The basis Of % cents
more per ton for pudding, under the
provisions Of the scale adopted two or
three months ago.