Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-02
WORLD OF LABOR.
France buys American silk.
Meloburns hasn't a beggar.

France buys American silk.
MeloburnS hasn't a beggar.'
Glass canteens are announced.
England has 100000 Unionsts.
Chicago has 1000 union musicians.
England has woman grave digger.
The Oldest industry Is corn milling.
Beer costs dime a glass in Oregon.
London has sandwichmen's home.
London factories make ancient coins.
Our watches are sold in South Africa.
Germany contains 4O3 beet sugar
mills.
Ireland has 100 wooden manufactor
les.
Lima CO., PAYERS won strike for
$3.50 a day.
In France 1855 is exacted for ton
of coal.
Connecticut bakers held State con-
vention.
Nashville unionists want tenders on
street cars.
Sacramento has a railway employees
political club.
An international labor congress was
held at Antwerp.
Unionists operate six cooperative
window glass plants.
Aberdeen (ocotlandJ masons struck
for IL cents per hour.
Washington, d. c., Union granite
cutters get $3.50 a day.
New York PAYERS won a strike for
the discharge Of nOn-unionists.
English and Welsh miners demand
10 per cent advance in wages.
When Abba (Ia.) miners struck the
oo,,oopv oil, itc mines
A home for barkeepers Is to be eS-
tablished at Wankesha, Wis.
Joseph Leicester has been secretary
of the English Glassworkers' Union for
46 years.
President Barter, of Michigan Fed
Grafton Of Labor, urges unionists to en-
ter politics.
Solons IN. W saloons closed at 1870
D. m. last week on account of the re-
vival meetings.
Brewers censure Gompers for speak
ing at the Omaha Exposition. Nom
union beer is sold there.
The leading job printing plant OF
Wilmington, DEL, is owned and man
aged by 21-year-old girl.
Montreal retail dealers in novelties,
fancy goods, etc, protest against
wholesalers selling at retail
New York unions have contributed to
a fund to secure pardon for Berk-
mann, the Pittsburg anarchist.
The English Trade Union Congress
delegates include two representatives
of Japan's $4,000 Unionists.
Clothing, food, money, etc, is being
gathered at Toledo for idle miners and
their families at Jobs, o.
Prominent Houston negroes request
ed the colored men OF that city 10 not
take the place of negroes on strike at
Galveston.
Eleven hundred unionists at Newark
have protested against the nomination
for Freebooter OF a boss halter. who
has been opposed to unions.
BY a majority OF 1900 the miners
OF Fife and Kinross. Scotland. have
agreed to accept the per cent advance
offered by the coal owners and to con-
tinue at work.
The Minnesota Iron Company has
voluntarily raised the wages Of its
employees TO take effect October /. At
ter the date mentioned they Will receive
81 a day instead OF s1.75.
British unionists oppose the renewal
of refreshment and amusement licenses
unless the licensees agreed to pay
their employees trade-union rates and
Grant them a six-day week.
Chicago woodworkers struck last
June for a minimum wage scale of 81
a day. and the nine hour day. Last
week the employers asked the Circuit
Court to prevent the boycott
In New York any person who gives
street car transfer to another or any
person who accepts one from an I'M
authorized person and offers it for use
is guilty Of misdemeanor and liable
to Imprisonment and fine.
Nothing is more certain than that
organized labor will in the end control
the destines Of the world. Even to-
day it is the only real effectual weapon
against the dishonest combinations Of
wealth that legislation has been unable
to restrain.-New York Journal.
A department store bill passed by
Denver Aldermen will abolish these
places. A store selling dry goods,
clothing. furniture, crockery, millinery,
shoes, athletic goods, books and pic
lures, very few departments for one of
the big Denver stores. would have to
pay license of $23.601 per annum, and
each department added, no matter how
insignificant, would. be just $1,000 add
ed to the license account of the firm.
The formation OF tremendous inter-
national organization Of seamen, dock
ers, stevedores, railway employees and