Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-11-20
WORLD OF LABOR.
England sends coal to Manila.

England sends coal to Manila.
In France coal costs 50 per ton.
Saginaw leather workers have organ
lied.
st. Louis tobacco workers struck
against cut
Covington, KY, has a cooperative
glass factory.
Baltimore Union tailor's wages have
| been increased.
Watertown, n Y. hasn't a non-union
compositor.
Canada's mineral output last year
yielded $4,000, 900.
In Chilli and Peru coal oil is the chief
fuel for locomotives.
Kansas City milk dealers were fined
$40 for selling deficient milk.
Contractors attended the union car
penters' open meetings at Ottumwa,
! Ia.
Duluth Clerks Union prosecutes mer-
chants whose stores are O. en- on Sun
day.
New York architectural iron workers
exact double pay for work on election
day
The annual tonnage of all the rail-
roads in Russia does not equal that car
ried on railways entering Chicago.
In 1897 the United States bOught
from China 81 ,556,525 pounds of tea, at
cost Of $7,017,921, or a fraction over
"A cents per pound.
The next biennial session of the To-
baccO Workers National Union will be
held at Wheeling. Nine women were
delegates at the recent COnI 3ntiOn.
President Sabine, of the United Gar
ment Workers Of America, was elected
member OF the New York Legislature.
A former business agent Of the Brick
layers Union was reelected.
Brewers sent $50 to Oshkosh wood
workers and a Chicago seaman's union
donated $Z5 to g. W. Clark, the Jeffer-
son Borden sailor, who is serving a life
sentence in Thomaston, Me-, prison for
mutiny.
On August of this year the average
wages per day of working men and ar
tisans in Chilli were as follows: Or
binary laborers, 81 cents; masOns, AZ
cents; carpenters, SO cents; gastitters,
SO cents; painters, 20 cents.
The New York Central Labor Union
has appointed a committee to welcome
the delegates from the British Trades
Congress who are coming to attend
the annual convention of the American
Federation Of Labor, to be held in Kan
sas City on December II.
The motive power (steam) of Europe
amounted in 1897 to 3421 1874 horse
power, equal to the energy OF more al
50 600 600 men. The estimated steam
motive power Of the United States is
2,623,9 $50 horse power, or more than
tWO-thirds that OF all Europe.
Massachusetts mental healerS. Chi IS
tian Science physicians and others of
their ilk, are just at present deeply in
terested in the threatened passage of
law through the State Legislature to
prohibit the practice of any physicians
save those having medical diplomas.
Europe consumed in 1897 from Afri-
ca, British India and CcylOn l,763,6S0
pounds OF ivory. Practically all Of this
passed through the markets of London,
Liverpool aud Antwerp. The ivory i'm
ported at Antwerp came from Congo
Free State. The number Of animals
killed to furnish this supply is estimat-
ed to have been S8,1S5.
you who are not in a trade union"
saws President Tobn, of the Boot and
Shoe Workers Union. are enjoying
wages to-day that would be much lower
were it not for the fact that the trade
union, by hard and persistent work,
makes the work of tearing down wages
rather improbable for individual firms
or corporations. for even large associa-
lions of capital hesitate before going
into conflict with a well-disciDlined
trade union"
The Burnley Self-Helr Cotton Manu-
featuring Society is cited in illustration
Of the working Of the cooperative sys-
TEN in England. The management Of
this concern is vested in a committee
elected BIZ the work people. who num-
her three hundred and twenty. all con-
tributing to capital and sharing pro
rata in the profits Of their labor. The
trade of this single institution, in 1898,
aggregated 1905 .000 and the profits S10.-
GOO. the share capital being nearly 500
coo
According to the British Board Of
Trade returns for the year 1897. the
conditions of labor in the tight little
island are showing unmistakable signs
of Improvement During the year
named. $50, 707 wOrkingmen had an in
crease of wages. the increase aggregat-
ing about sos 600 Reduction in the
hours of labor affected G5.572 men. the
net reduction amounting 10 2S4,
! hours. On the opposite side of the
ledger we find some 1900 persons suf-
fered a reduction in their pay. and
about 1000 had the working day
| heightened.
| At last SUNDAYS meeting of the New
/ Work Central Labor Union Delegate
Brown. of Cigarmakers' Union IA
said: "There are 10000 cigarmakers in
! the PhiliDDineS. and if we annex the
| islands those men. who work for next
! to nothing would come into competi-
| ton with American cigarmakers -
''You cigarmakers are not the only
PEBBLES on the beach" said Delegate
Geo. H. Warner. 1T is true that the
| cigarmakers might be wiped out. but
other unions might be benefited, as.
for instance, the machinists and tin
and sheet iron workers" There
would be a great opening for machin-