Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-10-31

Sudil, MICH.
houses attached with proper bathing
facilities. The matter will be brought
before the city council in the near flu
! ture.
! In recent circular to the employees
of the Chicago Great Western Rail-
way Company, President Stickney in
vites them to become stockholders,
they to pay $40 down and SO II
monthly installments. The Illinois
Central Railroad has had such a plan
in effect for years, with the result
that nearly all of its employees own
stock and take as much interest in the
success of the company as the head
officials themselves.
At Pittsburg a citizen has been NOM
mated for Judge who is not a lawyer.
AS he has been endorsed by the United
Labor League of Western Pennsylva-
mia, and has some chance Of election,
the question of his eligibility for a jul
dicial Office has been raised and is I'M
dergoing very active discussion in
that vicinity. One of the courts has
ordered his name left off the ballot,
while the working people in the dis
trict have resolved TO write his name
on their ballots if it does not appear
there in print.
THE labor movement, in it's broad
est terms is the effort of men to live
the lives of men," says Professor r.
! r. Ely. Half conscious though it may
, be, the labor movement is force
| pushing toward the attainment of the
purpose OF humanity other words,
the end of the growth of mankind,
namely, the full and harmonious de-
yeiopment in each individual of all nu-
man faculties-the faculties of work
ing, perceiving, knowing, loving; the
development, in short, OF whatever ca
paDilities of good there may be in
man."
The colliery proprietors at Newcas-
tie are brewing more trouble, as the
! owners Of the Dudley pit have given
! notice that after fourteen days the
| hewing rate of coal is to be reduced
from shillings, II pence to 2 shill-
ings 6 pence per ton. The miners
know that if this reduction were ac-
| cepted a general all round slash in
wages in every pit in the district
would take place. Consequently a bal
! lot Of the Miners Federation is now
! being taken on the question of accept
! ance of reduced wages or strike. the
| general expression of the men being
! for the latter
You farmers and merchants that
want cheap labor, did you ever think
| that cheap labor wears nothing but
hoD-nalled and wooden Shoes and
buys no clothing and but little of the
lu&urles Of life? They live on that
which is cheap, and there is but little
profit for the middleman and none for
the producers. Yet we hear merchants
and manufacturers abusing labor I'M
ions and seeking to destroy the combi-
! nation of men who are ding more
than any other set of men to uphold
the use of modern necessities-San
Francisco Vioce of Labor.
1t WAS learned last week that a labor
union had succeeded in getting certain
wages lowered at the Brooklyn Navy
Yard. The International Machininsts
Union alleged that the leading men,
and the quarter men" were receiving
| rs cents day more than the rules of
the department allowed. A complaint
was made to the Secretary of the Navy
| ported that the wages had been read
| Justed and the 48 cents a day taken
OF. This is not a question of union
wages" said Mr.. Warner. There is
always more work to do in the navy
yard than the appropriation will pay
| for. By this REIMBURSEMENT of wages
| more men will be able to get work.
There are in the cotton spinning
! countries of the world about 81 600, coo
| spindles and 1920, 900 looms; of these
totals 100000 spindles and eco 600
! looms are credited to England In the
/ past ten years there has been an in
crease of more than 5000, 600 spindles
! and $4,000 looms in Great Britain
! Nevertheless, the exports of cotton
| have gone down instead of up during
this period The United States now
/ have 1890, 000 spindles, against 13,-
! 100000 ten years ago, and $4,000
! looms, while the European continent
! has 27,000,G00 spindles (23,000 600 in
| 1850 and 850,0C0 looms. The exports
! OF textile machinery from Great Brit
| ain have increased from $4,000, 000,-
! in 1925 to s35, 500 600 in 1896.
! AT recent meeting of the Washing
| ton Central Labor Union Delegate Sill
/ yer, Of the committee appointed to call
| on Secretary Gage N reference to the
| alleged violation of the eight-hour law
at the Bureau of Engraving and
/ Printing, reported having discharged
! the duty; also that during the latter
| part of last week an order was issued
| by the Secretary of the Treasury d.
! recting that the employees of the Bu-
| reau of Engraving and Printing should
| in future cease work at 4:30 D. m.
| thereby restoring the operation of the
eight-hour law. Mr.. Silver also re-
! ported that the employees in the bureau
| had been formally requested to organ
/ ize into trades union, and thus re-
ceive the support of organized labor.
The delegates from Bakers Drivers
| Union reported that committee from
the Knights of Labor were threatening
to boycott these employers who per-
mitted their drivers to join the union.