Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-04-17
THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD.
LOCAL AND TELEG2APHC LABOR NEWS

.-OlllG NOT accept Lue 0IlOuul VI Tue G
auction and after several conferences
The company failed to make any pro-
position for a settlement. Friday was
he d3y for the new scale to so into
ofaef and when the men did not get
any word from President Hearne they
doliberately quit work The men held
meeting Friday afternoon and in
srructed the committee to see President
Hearne again.
l.. 6. Hallock has the contract for
tha erection Of the abutments and
riers of the Baker street and the Full
ION bridges, of the Wheeling & Elm
Grove railroad. One abutment at the
Baker street bridge is completed and
tbev are pushing the work on the pier,
and the Fulton bridge
The Team Owners Union have fixed
the price at 81 per day for a two-horse
toam. and horse and cart at $3.50 per
dav. nine hours to constitute a days
work.
Wvndham Lewis a former La Belle
lin worker. was married a few days
ago at Washington, Pa.
Geo. X. McMechen & Son, the pre-
serving company are having their Of
fees remodelled and reftted. When
completed it will be divided into three
Offices the bookkeeping, stenographic
and general business Office.
TIE ". W. Wood Co., Of the South
Side received several new contracts
last week. John r. Palmer will build
house costing $4,000 on North Huron
street A frame dwelling and store is
10 he built for Mrs Anna Swan at
Huron and Indiana streets. The firm
is making extensive repairs on the
Peter Cassel residence at No. rs Four
tenth street, and is also improving
the Thomas Nesbitt house on Fifteen
th street.
The firm of l.. NJ. Holiday & Co. is
building large coal shed for the
wheeling Railway Co. at their power
house in the Eighth ward.
Fahey Bros planning mill at Forty
second and Wood streets. is completed
and ready for the machinery. The ma
chinery has arrived and will be soon
placed III position.
!. /. Ebeling. Of Greer & Laings,
will build fine tw0-story brick resi-
dence on South Eoff street, just below
Twenty
DR. Mary Baron-Monroe is building
al ifice building on the old Sweeney
property, on Eof street below Twenty
seventh. Adjoining she viii put up a
two-story frame residence.
Isaac V. Barton. State Commissioner
OF Labor, has recently completed his
report on the condition of manufact-
ures in West Virginia, showing a num-
Der Of men employed, percent of in
crease and decrease in numbers and
wages. etc The report is very com
pete and makes an excellent showing
The summary follows: In all indus
tries, 500 establishments report 20,541
employees Oh the pay rolls, January L,
1897 and % 529 employees on the pay
rolls, January /, 1898, an increase of
81 per cent. Average number Of
weeks in operation, ending January 1,
1898, 434; average daily hours of la
Dor. 9S. Forty-nine establishments
report advance in wage rates, affecting
4,S38 employees. Twenty-seven estab-
lishments reduced wages, affecting 3S5
employees and the wages Of 3,709 en-
plOyes in Is establishments were re-
stored.
The new plate mill at the La Belle
is about completed and will probably
be tested next week The La Belle
has been running full during the past
week.
The miners strike in the district is
still unsettled and the miners are still
out of work.
The Wheeling steel works resumed
last week
The tin and sheet mills at the Whit
aker which have ben idle for the past
five weeks, will all be in operation
within week or so. Tin mills Nos.
and resumed operations last We'd
nesday and sheet mills Nos. and 4
will be started up tomorrow. This
will leave three sheet mills and a tin
mill idle. Preparations for resump-
ton of work in these departments will
be made during the week.
The Top mill is working in full.
W. A. Wilson & Sons and the Ex-
celsior planning mills are working as
usual
Spears & Riddle, the machinists,
have full force of men at work. A
complete set of axle manufacturing
machinery which has been under way
Of construction at this shop for Def
RES & Co., al Dusseldorf, Germany
has been completed and was shipped
Yesterday. A large polishing machine
was shipped from this shop to Hlg-
gins Spring and Axle works at Racine,
Wis, during the past week.
he Central glass factory continues
10 OOnrqtp with furnace
he Wheeling Corrugating works is
Working in all departments.
Redman & Co.'S machine shop has a
lull force Of employees at work on a
number Of small orders.
Inc Bellaire steel plant is working
lull IN all departments on double turn.
ne addition now being built to the
Novelty stamping works at Bellaire
VIII soon be completed. Work on the
new building is progressing nicely.
he new Ara glass sign company at
beHaire is making considerable pro-
sresS in their new business. The
company have filled quite a number of
o'aers for silver glass signs and dur
'ag the past week turned out a very
s'factlve gold and amber sign. A
FORCE OF about thirty persons are now
Employed in their factory in the Third
ward
ADDITIONAL delegates have been cleo
|a TO attend the national convention
me Amalgamated Association of
on Steel and Tin Workers. which be-
slS Tuesday, May 18th, at Cincinnati
,H6ndship No. 2, of this city, elected
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