Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-10-03
3TbeeIins Register
WORLD OF LABOR.
WHAT THE WAGE WORKERS ARE DOING
ALL OVER THE WORLD
Business Among he Trades Interests Becoming
Brighter Day by Day-Why are nss&
Many Idle Men When Work IS
Plely?-Gslsrl Notes Of
IntersS.

While all the world is singing the SONG
of booming business and a grand industri,
al prosperity there are tens of thousands Of
NM HELPLESS men,. women and children
toiling here and there for the merest pit
lance. to whom payday brings no sun
shine. HOLIDAYS no gladneSS and Sunday nc
hone. Just why this condition OF poverty
i 80 widespread ut n time like this Is not
easy of solution. The fact stands out ugly.
There ARE tens Of thousands Of worEmen
who would to-day become trampS for the
proSpectS of finding SunShiny spots to veal
ont their miserable bodies and souls If they
eouId afford to do it, but that is a luxury
reserved for the professional tramp. Those
who would are restrained by poverty and
cares of family or by associations. The
labor outlook. shutting our eyes to these
exceptions, is good. Not a single craft
can ne mentioned which is dull. Labor is
in demand. over 5000 house, shop and
min-builders at home are crowded with
work, which will not abate until the
weather forbids, and even then, the build
ers saw, they will steal from winter every
day and hour they can to dig and build.
The mutations of new business have re
acted 10 the little ten-men-in-a-Shop class
of EMPLOYERS, and they are feeling better
han they have for three years.
The English manufacturers have been
pretty badly shaken up of late by German
r,mpetition. \ Sheffield manufacturer
who recently made q tour of the United
STATES wrote to a home paper and said 1t
WAS not Germany but the United States
the English had to fear. He said he was
surprised on every side TO find the immense
strides the Americans had made IN readily
adapting machinery to almost every article,
bv which they are enabled to produce
goods ut prices which the British manufac-
turer could not possibly compete.
The long hours and low wages on the
continent OF Europe are telling severely on
the English manufacturers. PuddlerS'
waves in England are likely to be reduced
10 Il 6O per ton.
There is another way by which German
manufacturers make the English sick, and
that is thew send ont capable and energetic
travelling agents who SeOur every nook and
corner of the habitable globe in fact, while
the English manufacturer sits ut home and
leaves every thing in the trade hunting
line with IN equally lazy merchant or fac
tor or stuck-up agent, who Imaglnes buy
erS will run after them.
The Scotch Miners National Federation
has given notice that il will request a
national conference to discuss the questions
OF restriction and of wages.
The breaking up OF the European steel
rail syndicate caused a reduction OF - per
ton. The German TdiimIkcrS are heavy
losers on home and foreign contracts, while
English manufacturers arc holding their
own.
The highest earnings OF the Belgium
coal miners, according To the report OF 4
ROYAL Commission. are SD per month; the
Urls from IL to l. years of age are kept
under ground from Iii to Il hours per day,
for which they are paid from 30 TO 10
cents. Henry George ought 70 90 there and
write them up rs Soon rs he has served his
term rs mayor of New York.
The first industrial prosperity is stimu-
lating greater production. The foundations
are br!ng laid for an Oyer-prOduCtl0n.
Two thousand new coke ovens are project
ed. and lOOu are under way already. The
coke BUYERS will DC glai to soc the 2OOU
built. but the industry is controlled 10y a
little syndicate.
There are twenty-fouU wOrkiugmen in
the Gcrmin Parliament, aud they com
mand a hearing ON every question they ad'
vocate. I'm Belgian the wOrkingmen are
vigorously agituting for universal suffrage,
In Denmark and Italy labor leaders com
mand respect.
The railroad companies have refused
special rate, to the Knights To Richmond.
Two PittSburg manufacturing firms have
bought land ON which 10 erect POI or @DU
houses. which their wuykmcn viii be en-
Outraged to purchase on easy payments.
The master builders Of Albany ordered q
lockout last Monday because their employ
eeS made an effort To have the builders
purchase materials from manufacturers
EMPLOYING only union men. There are at
present 3ynO members of the building
trade idle.
The furniture workers annual conven-
ton WAS held September - ~ Evansville,
Ind. Daring the year $3.50 WAS paid out
in strike benefits, SIG, 600 in sick benefits,
$3.50 in death benefits, and $3.50 for
damage Ia tools in cases OF fire. No future
strike will be recognized or supported un'
less approved BY the executive committee.
The miners, who get 80 cents for mining
a ton of anthracite, are trying 10 study out
who gets the other end OF the price of the
ton in market.
\ syndicate Of Philadclphians and New
Workers has purchased 300 acres OF land IN
New Utrecht, l.. l., which it Will cut mp
into 300 city lots and erect on them cot,
tages for well-to-do wOrkmea and small
business men who can afford to live tar out
Of New York.