Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-02-13

that each operator was expected to turn
out from twelve to eighteen pairs of trou-
sers day, and each presser to press from
eighty to ninety pairs in the same time
They worked sixteen hours day and
earned from s. to 50 a week.
Mayor Quincy of Boston, has created
new department.. Hereafter the city win
conduct municipal carpenter business.
The city will do its own carpentering.
plumbing, painting and glazing, and will
dc away with contract work. quincy es-
tabIished a municipal printing plant dur
ing his first term. Some Boston union
lists say he should be President of tie
United States.
Detroit unionists are opposed TO the in
PRODUCTION of street railway mail cars
In Cleveland" says a delegate, there IS
not even an attempt at organization made
now. The men cannot strike. Every car
there has L. S. M on IT, and the minute
that the men quit work it is q conspiracy,
and the company has an injunction out
against them. They have to go to work
then or so to jail
A bill before the Maryland Legislature
provides that no persons hall corduct Or be
employed in a pharmacy, unless he has
obtained a pharmacists license. Physl-
clans are permitted TO compound their
own medicines. however, and traders may
sell patent medicines, provided these have
ben put up by licensed pharmacists, and
such drugs, spices and chemicals as are
used for culinary purposes and in the
arts, if not sold for medicinal purposes.
One hundred thousand men are looking
for work in New York City. The New
York Evening Journal has opened here
and there public halls where the man in
search of work may rest for moment,
and find a cup of hot coffee ready for him
ana piece of bread if he will eat it.
When tales Of distress come to the Even
ing Journal office. as many reporters as
can be spared are sent. rot to investigate,
but TO relieve. If a man says he is hun
cry. he is welcome TO eat
President Mahon, of the Street Railway
Employees Association, says: THE condi-
tons of the laboring people in the South
are terrible, and it is the most important
subject in my judgment before the wage
earners of this country. Something must
be done to increase the wages of the
South, if we hope to obtain a high stand
ard of wages throughout this country.
Talk about sweat shops IN our great cit
les, they're not in it compared to the
cheap labor in the South. l found that
children were working In the cotton mills
of Atlanta for 81 cents per week; I found
that young women were working in the
cotton mills of Macon. Ga. for as low as
II cents per day. ] found street railway
men working IS hours per day for L
cents an hour"
Michigan unionists are up in arms
against shirt making by convicts. Gov
ernor Pingree says the output must not
be sold for less than the product of free
labor. Michigan hasn't a shirt factory.
The Massachusetts Single Tax Leagne
last Monday gave a dinner to representa-
tives of the Massachusetts, clergy and wo-
men at the Nendome. One of the speakers
was Rev. Charles D. Williams dean Of
Trinity Cathedral. Cleveland The
many" said Mr. Dean, are crushed and
ground to pieces between the upper and
neither mill stones of enormously increas-
ing wealth and the private ownership OF
a white slavery worse in some respects
than black slavery before the war IN
deed, it is doubtful whether chattel slav-
cry would persist in our present social
conditions even if there had been no war
1t would not pay. 1t is cheaper to hire a
man at starvation wages when YOU want
him. and discharge him when you do not
want him. with no feeling of responsible
ity for his fate, than to maintain him,
feed him, clothe and house him. in work
and out, as the Southern planter did his
clio