Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-08-08

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ion men after his contract with his pre-
sent employees shall have expired.
The growing increase Of women IN
the machinists' industry is engrossing
the keenest thought and attention OF
the International Association of Ma
chinists.
The License Committee Of the Chi
cagO City Council proposes to have an
ordinance passed compelling each pri-
vate club to pay $500 a year for the
privilege Of selling liquors to its mem
bers and guests.
Charleston Is. c. street car conduc-
tors are kicking against spoilers. At
Kansas City conductors are now COM
PEELED to collect fares in a closed box
containing slot.
Indianapolis Central Labor Union
will hereafter refuse to patronize any
person, firm or corporation who builds
or is doing business in building erect
ed by non-union laobr.
UniOnists of Kansas City will boy
colt the baseball grounds next month
while the Milwaukee team IS there.
The latter club is charged with having
accepted for its grounds the advertise
ment of a nOn-uniOn cigar firm.
The decision Of Judge Elmer, OF the
Superior Court, that the pay of the
engineers of the Reading road must be
restored to its old figure by the re-
ceiver, will secure, as it merits, the
approval Of the people.-Buffalo Cour'
Ter.
The Wellington (Australia) Board
Of Cancellation, to which was REFER
red for settlement q dispute between
tailors and their employees, decided
that union men must be given the
preference, and fixed the minimum
wage per week at e2 los.
The Atlanta Railway Company Will
not discontinue free transfers because
of the decision of Judge Newman that
me city ordinance ON that subject is
illegal. They find it TO their interests
to continue transfers, and no change
will be made.
The Electrical Worker says that II
the women employed in Shops and
factories would quit wock, three
fourthg Of snem would be married in
two years. Men would be needed for
their places, wages would advance and
an epidemic of marriage woull fol-
low.
Dublin Qre.) Nation (newspaper)
has been miOniZed after a three years
fight. Three years ago a Tacoma pa
per discharged its union printers.
They launched new paper and boy
colt. The new paper still lives and
the other was sold ut auction the other
day, the new proprietor replacing
every nOn-Union man with 4 member
of the Typographical union. The non
uniOnists had an organization, but it
did not avail.
"Thirty-fOur years ago." says Chief
Arthur, "a little band Of engineers con-
ceived an idea of forming an ocganiGa-
ton. Twelve Of them, all employed
on the Michigan Central railway, as
sembled at the house of one Of the
number and formed this brotherhood
Now we have $50 lodges, have pa;d
over S6,500,000 to widows and orphans
Of engineers and disbursed over $780,
600 to the needy. We have done more
for temperance than half Of the 60
called temperance societies. TO be-
come a member Of this organization an
applicant must be temperate
Draughtsmen in Massachusetts get
$50 per week, says n report OF the
Bureau of Statistics of Labor. the
highest figure Of any other State OF
the United States was $50, whereas
the highest for any foreign country
was S2430. Leather drcSSer5 reach
$50 in the country somewhere. while
in Massachusetts the highest is SlS,
and the highest abroad is SO so.
Metal dressers in Massachusetts and
in other States reach exactly the same
figure. $50. whereas no foreign work.
man gets OyCr $12.24. Massachusetts,
dyers get $t6t) per week as ihei'
highest figure; in other States they do
not rise above $50, while the foreign
DYER canlCt command above S19.46.
Electrotypers. get $50 here and $3.50
elsewhere III the country"
There was a time when the Wana-
maker advertisements were considered
the best i'm America. But the cards
turned cut by 24-year-old Harry S.
Thalheimer for a house established in
Philadelphia three years ago have
made that department store one of the
most successful in the country. Local
merchants will be interested in Mr..
Thalheimer's methods. Last weeks
Printers Ink" devoted over two pages
to Mr.. Thalheimer, and reproduced
specimens of his work. Il have no
faith whatever in anything less than
400 lines, says Mr. Thslheimer Il
would rather use a thousand line card
once than a hundred line card ten
times, and we have clearly demonstra-
ted that this kind of advertising shows
far better returns. The advantages
we gain from advertising are best ev-
idenced from the fact that last week
I happened to discontinue our Wednes-
day card Of one thousand lines, and
the receipts Of the store fell of near
ly $1,000 in one day.