The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-05-23

list which The Herald has published
of the increase of wages in various de-
partments of labor. To this we now
add the following, copied from the New
York Times, which our neighbor may
chew over for few days until We can
furnish some more:
The most important changes are to
be noted in the iron industry-at the
furnaces in che Mahoning and Shen-
amigo valleys and in western Penn
| sylyania, and the iron works at Pitts
burg, Wheeling and McKeespoT't. Nine
Thousand makers of garments in Balti-
more and Philadelphia have obtained
a considerable advance. We continue
the record:
National Tube Works and Rolling
mills, McKeesport, Penn; increase of
10 per cent ordered on May 8; 5000 en-
ployees.
Riverside Iron company. Wheeling,
W. Va; increase of 10 per cent on May
10; 1920 employees. This restores the
wage scale paid before the late general
depression
Wheeling Steel and Iron company,
| Wheeling, w. Va; increase OF 10 per
cent restoring the old rates; $500 en-
ployees.
Peabody Mills. Newburyport. Mass.
increase of 10 per cent ordered for
May 81.
Tanners in sheboygan. Wis; in
crease amounting to One-half of the
reduction made in 1892.
Carrie furnaces, near Braddock,
Penn; increase of 10 per cent; $50 en-
ployees.
Coatmakers in Baltimore: an In
crease of from 20 to 80 per cent. grant,
ed on May 8; 1900.
| Iron furnaces at Sharon, Sharps-
vile, and West Middlesex, Penn; in
crease granted on May 8; 1900 men.
Spang, Chalfant & Co., iron manu-
facturers, Pittsburg, Penn, pudding
rate increased to 81.
Garment workers in Philadelphia;
% contractors have increased wages
since May /; 5000 employees affected.
Phoenix Works. Meadville, Penn; 10
per cent, on May 6; 125 men.
Nut and Washer Manufacturing
company, Milwaukee. Wis: 10 per
cent.
Moorehead Brothers. iron manufac-
! turers, Pittsburg, Penn; advance of
~ cents per ton to puddlerS.
Sligo Iron Works, Pittsburg, Penn;
advance Of 10 cents per ton to pud-
dlers.
Denison Co.. knit goods. Saltwater.
n. Y; increase of 5 per cent.
<AOil4d44Q Mills, jewell Nlly, NO4l4A.g
increase of 10 per cent. on May Is.
Springvale Cotton Mills, Springvale,
Me-; increase Of 614 per cent, this be-
ing half of the reduction made in 1893.
Foundries in Cleveland, o.: wages Of
500 molders increased by 10 per cent.
on May /.
D. Cummings & Co., shoe manu-
facturers. South Berwick. Me: 10 per
cent. on May 6.
Thomas Furnace cor,oauv Miles O..
increase of Is per cent. on May 6. this
being a restoration of the old wages.
Iron furnaces in the vicinity Of
New Castle, Penn; former wages
restored on May 2; 'fthe total reduc-
ton had aggregated 30 per cent" 500
men.
Oliver Iron and Steel company,
Pittsburg, Penn; wages Of puddlers
advanced to 81 per ton.
Waltham Bleachery, Waltham.
Mass; increase of 10 per cent, being
a restoration of the rate paid before
the reduction of November, 1898; 200
employees.
Woodstock Wooden Mills. Norris
town, Penn; an increase of 10 per
cent. has been refused, and the en-
ployees are on. strike for 20 per cent.
Norwich Mills company. wooden
goods, Norwich, Conn; old scale re-
stored last week; 200 employees.
Cleveland Hematite Iron mine,
Michigan: dispatches say that wages
were increased by 10 per cent. some
weeks ago, and that the miners are
on strike for 10 per cent. more.
A large increase of wages in all
branches of the oil well industry in
Pennsylvania is reported.
At the annual meeting Of the Iron
Manufacturers association of the
Mahoning and Shenango Valleys. on
May 2, "it was decided says The
Iron Age, ''to increase voluntarily the
wages of blast furnace laborers to the
rates prevailing in 1898. The advance
amounts to about 10 per cent. and
governs wages for blast furnace labor
in the Mahoning Valley, and at other
furnaces throughout Western Pennsyl-
vania and Eastern Ohio" Notice of
an advance of from Is to 20 cents a
day was posted at all the furnaces in
the Mahoning and Shenango Valleys
on May 8. Several thousand men are
affected.
I'm the vicinity of Pittsburg alone
over 10000 workmen received an ad-
vance in wages during the last week"
Dispatch from Pittsburg, May II, to
New York Tribune.