Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-10-21

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New zslqHd advances money to set
Ct. C.lsvel1h, O., has cooperative So
Loudo Aers pay : cents for pound of
Detrol, has a railway teamsters'
New Britain. Conn, has a Labor
There are 10000 union street railway
hands.
s.. Louis is to have cooperative
bakery.
Grand Rapids unions held a mass
meeting.
Farmers organizations have 5000, 600
members. -.
Salt Lake Scandinavians have polit'
ical club.
Wisconsin wOodmen get from SIG to
500 a month.
Day laborers on Southern levees get
81 so q Gay.
Nashville is to have co-ope rative
shoe factory.
In Germany employers must insure
their laOOrers.
Cleveland, o., German wire drawers
have organized.
Texas Federation wants National
banks abolished.
A Lacrosse plumbers supply company
shares its profits.
ST. Louis has a Vehicle Owners FRO
+ectiva Association.
st. Louis retail groceries protest
against unClicensed huckSters.
The California Winepakers' Corpora
ton mas been formed.
New York Italian marble mosaic
workers have . union.
Early closing of stores IS gaining
ground at jersey City.
Cleveland, o.. has been duooed Inc
graveyard Of uniOntsm.'
TYNE machines have displaced 3,5OO
men i'm the Uuited States.
Texas Federation Of Labor wants
postmasters chosen by popular vote
Chicago ex-po!icemeH have organized
10 take a hand in the coming election.
Cleveland lO.) bakers sent financial
aid 10 Phlladelphia's striking cigarma-
kers.
Alexander Dumas advocates tax
upon diners out for the benefit OF the
poor c.
ators Doycotted who will not stand oy
81 Paul Trades and Labor Assembly
wants the city 20 acyuire the gas
81 Paul union clerks arc sndeavoring
70 secure the cooperation OF lady
clerks.
The Metropolitan Gas Company, OF
London, shares its profits with its en-
Omaha women are organizing laun-
dry in order to provide work for poor
women.
X. Of L. claim that boycott caused
the assignment Of st. Louis clothing
concern.
The unemployed of New Zealand have
been assigned $4,000 acres OF land by
the government.
A Maryland law requires mechanics
70 have proper life lines on or scatto,d-
ing they may be using.
The Amalgamated Society OF CarpenI
tiers and JoinerS, of Great Britain and
ireland, is "a years old.
baltimore X. of l.. ara agitating in
favor OF the election OF United States
Senators by j popular vote.
New Orleans is making preparations
10 receive the convention OF the Inter-
national Brickayers' Union.
Detroit mRChinists in brass and
iron works won q strike against making
one man do the work OF two.
Four Denver Republican machine op-
orators have issued a challenge for
speed contest for 500 side.
Cardinal Gibbons says, 10 eight years
strikes have cost laOorers e1S,OOO, OOO'
while the employers lost only half that
amount
New Orleans mounted letter carriers
have been called down for insisting that
ibe peoDle should come 10 the cnr0Stone
for their letters
English trades unions expended about
g.. ODO. coo 10 Out-Of-wOrk Dement'S dur
ing 1898 That's why English unions
are almost Mr.. American.
-CirrelGpd citizen.
NH Va III me- Nit-A NNAAN'N
OF 81. Louis intends TO eXtarminate the
caics of Inspector OF Weights and
Measures, but the Retail Grocers Assoc
citation will give CATTLE 10 the gardeners
on this question.
Tba Mayor Of Milwaukee welcomed
the convention OF the Amaicamated
Association OF Street Railway Employees
OF America. There were six strikes
during the year. Reductions in wages
that would have reached $780, 900 a
year we're successfully resisted in De-
trojt and Ohio, and the association has
secured the adoption Of the NeStibule
law lie Ohio, Minnesota and Maryland.
The census OF 1890 give the statistics
OF labor and wages in 355, 4Ol manufac-
turing establishments employing an
average of 5,71l, s32 wage earnerS OF all
c'assad as operatives, including in that
description both skilled and unsktlled
labor. and that the average earnings
were $3.50 per year, or Ss.75 per week.
A separate returu of $50, 327 doing piece
wor, gave the average yearly earnings
as S223 0r 500.