Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-12-18
WORLD OF LABOR.

1t is reported that in the biggest
pottery in Akron, o., machines are be-
ing introduced, and the SO and 81 a day
skilled mechanics have been told to
go to make room for 81 and $1.25 a day
handy men.
The average day wages of working
men and artisans in Chile are: Or
binary laborers, "a cents; masons, AZ
cents; carpenters, SO cents; gasftters,
SO cents; painters, 70 cents.
Honolulu blacksmiths get from $40
to SIS a month.
China hasn't a glass factory.
America has $50 toy factories.
India contains 1880 acres of tea.
Hamburg has autOmible cabs.
Venezuela hasn't an electric railway.
North Carolina has 20 knitting
mills.
California boasts $4,000 acre wheat
field.
Fall River Loom Fixers' Association
has established a textile school,
Houston, Tex, clerks want stores
closed at p. M. daily and all day Sun
day.
Edinburgh, Scotland, bakers insist
ludL uO uulOulSI snail NC pau lSSo IAdu
2S shillings per week.
The executive of the Gas Workers
and General Laborers' Union has ad-
vised the members to accept the in
crease OF wages offered by the London
Gas Light and Coke Company for the
present. This advance represents
about 71a per cent, against the 10 per
cent. asked by the men. The Gas
Workers programme" as put forward
by the union, is 6s. Cd. per day for
stokers, machine men and firemen; Is.
per day for scoop-drivers, 5s. Cd. per
day for coke hole men and wheelmen,
and 5s per day for yardmen. OF eight
hours. The concessions given by the
company amount to IS. Cd, 6s., is. Cd,
and As. per day for each of the above
classes respectively. The increase in
wages will affect some 10000 men, and
represents a yearly sum of about $780,
000
The Excelsior Labor Club, New
York assembly of the Knights Of
Labor. composed of mixed trades, is
going to try and have law passed re-
curing pawnbrokers to wrap each
pledge of clothing in new, clean paper.
The organization also wants the pawn
brokers compelled TO burn the wrap
pers in which clothing is kept as soon
as the pledge is redeemed. in order TO
prevent the possible transmission of
disease germs.
Boston printers union is so years
old.
washington unionists will ask the
Council m
send delegates to the centennial cele-
bration of the establishment OF the
national government, TO be held in
Washington in 1900.
Springfield (Mass) printers, press
men and electrotypers are forming an
allied trades council.
Manila has ordered American barber
chairs.
Fifty-four fresh trade disputes oc-
cured in Great Britain in October. in
volving 12.577 workpeople. The cor
responding number of disputes for Sep
TENDER was 50, involving 1914 work
people, and for October, 1897, SO dis
putes. involving Sze7 work people.
Eight disputes took place in the build
ing trades, Il in mining and quarry
ing. in iron and steel manufacture,
u in engineering and shipbu1ldlng
trades, in other metal trades, IN
the textile trades, in the transport
group and s in other industries. OF
the 55 new and old disputes, involving
1879 work people, of which the set
Element is reported. is, involving 1880
persons. were settled wholly in favor
of the work people; 16. involving 2,515
persons, wholly in favor of the employ