Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-11-07

augmented by the establishment of tie
National Association Of Grocers As
sistants. The wages OF this class are
low, averaging about Id pei hour, and
they work from so to 100 hours a
week.
The demand for men on the Min
nesota iron ranges, says the Duluth
News-Tribune, and for the woods in
that section is greater at present tran
for many years. 1t is said that /, 900
men can find employment in the north .
ern part Of ST. Louis county ar the
present time. Wages have advanced
and the laborers will come out IN TIE
spring with something to shO" fer
their work.
The city of Birmingham low builds
and runs its street railways, gas
works, electric lighting plant, water
supply plant and Turkish baths. II
buys the food that is sold in The mar
ket of Birmingham and owns th:
market, selling the food itself. L:
builds houses for artisans and rents
them. 1t owns and operates d arm.
a printing establishment and a wooden
mill. 1t is in the egg business anc
runs pawnshops.
At Dunsdin, Australia, the Arbitra-
ton Board recommended That the
hours of work for bakers be eight
per day after November l. That The
proportion of apprentices to men be as
follows: for the first three men CT any
less number, one apprentice; for more
than three men and up to six men,
two apprentices; and so on in the same
proportion. Second hands are to re
ceive not less than So los per week,
and table hands not less than e. IS
per week. members of the union to DC
employed in preference to nOn-menl-
bers.
The Joint Executive Board of the
United Brotherhood of Tailors of New
York has issued a manifesto addressed
to all the clothing manufacturers OF
New York on behalf of the coat tail
ors: I'VE hereby declare that at a
given time in 1899 the clothing workers
of this city will refuse to work for any
contractor or middleman. We make
this announcement two years in adj
vance in order to give the manufacture
ers ample time to consider our purpose
and gradually pave the way for this
wholesome change by opening clean,
ventilated shops operated under their
own management, just as the clothing
cutters are now employed. If this
great reform is accomplished in this
city, the great clothing manufacturing
centre of the country, we are certain
that it will be followed in other cloth
ing markets.
The attitude of the English cotton
operatives is one of clear and well de-
fined hostility to the proposals of
their employers A reduction of wages,
they say, is no remeuy for bad trade;
the gain to the employers from the re-
duction will be speedily lost by them
in competition on the market, and
other reductions of expenses, which
would not entail general loss to the
community. The loss to the operative
spinners, if they accede to the demand
for a reduced wage, is estimated at ST.
425. 900 per annum. and to the opera
tive weavers at S3.750,0 900 per annum,
or more than a round S5,000.000 in all.
For the first time an overwhelming
preponderance of the whole trade of
four counties, which control $4,000, 600
spindles and about 100000 looms out
of total for the whole kingdom of
45, 100000 spindles and $50, 600 looms,
has resolved spontaneously upon unan-
imOus action.
Contrary to the popular opinion. one
would make money by backing labor
all the year round. The following fig
ures, furnished by the Board of Trade
of England, prove this up to the hilt.
They relate to the year ending August
81. and may therefore be trusted to
show the actual and present relations
of the two great parties. From the
first table it will be seen at glance
that a majority of disputes terminated
in favor of the men. During the
twelve months a total of $50 disputes
were settled In 35S the men carried
the day; in 265 the masters were vic
torious, and in 194 tie men were par
TALLY successful, which means that
some sort of compromise was arranged,
while thirty-three disputes are classed
as indefinite. OF the total of S2i 500
men whose wages were increased or
diminished, only $500 had embarked
on actual strikes. while in the case of
766. 800 the change arose from an auto
matte working Of sliding scales. to-
gether with negotiation, the action Of
Cancellation boards, and the voluntary
concession Of employers. From the
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