Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-12-04
WORLD OF LABOR.

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The Philippines boast so varieties OF
wood.
Belgium has $4,000 liquor establish
ments.
London, Ont, garments workers or
ganized.
Greater New York has 233 idle union
printers.
Newburg, Ind, miners struck for 80
cents q ton.
Many Sonora Mex schools are
closed, owing to lack of teachers.
Utah farmers will form a State I'M
ion to obtain better prices for products.
Albany masters have been conceded
$11 a week, and only unionists are to
be employed.
Ruskin, Tenn, cooperative town,
is to have a sash and door factory add
ed to its industries.
Cleveland, O., liquor dealers will fight
the ordinance that compels the closing
of saloons at midnight.
The New York Legislature will be
asked to pass a law compelling brew
ers to manufacture a pure grade Of
beer.
Short Brothers, shipbuilders of Pal
lion, Eng, declare that their employees
under the eight-hour system do more
and better work than when the day
was longer.
st. Louis brewers boycotted a firm
five years, and last week its employees
were conceded union wages and the
eight-hour day
The Philippines derive their greatest
wealth from the growth and export of
sugar. The cane grows on practically
every island in the great archipelago.
In the reign of Edward III. all the
brewers and bakers were women, and
when men first began to engage in
these occupations it was thought so
strange that they were called men
brewers and men bakers.
The most costly leather in the world
is known to the trade as piano leather.
The secret of tanning this leather is
known only to a family of tanners in
Germany, though the skins from which
it is tanned come almost entirely from
America.
Bolton Hall, second son of the Rev.
DR.. John Hall, whose enthusiastic ad-
vocacy OF Henry Georges theories and
support of labor unions are said to
have been the reason prompting his
father to discriminate against him IN
his will, is a bankrupt. Mr. Hall is
lawyer.
Terre Haute miners struck for an ad-
vance Of 10 cents per ton. The de-
mand for Indiana coal is better than 1t
has been for a number of years. One
of the noticeable facts about the In
creased demand is that inquiries are
coming from the natural gas field,
which has not been buying coal for
some years.
A bill that will be submitted to the
Alabama Legislature is to regulate the
hours Of labor in factories and mines
and to regulate the employment of
children. 1t provides that ten hours
shall constitute a days work and that
children under eight years Of age shall
be prohibited from working in factor
les and at other employment.
The labor unions OF the country,
though they include less than 10 per
cent of the wageworkers, have been
power for good. Let those who deride
the result of trades unions keep in
mind the fact that so small portion
of the workers in the country support
the organizations whose mission is
the uplifting and the upholding of the
man who tolls. 1t will be well also to
remember that the beneficial effects of
organization are not confined to mem
bers, for the laws that have been en-
acetd through the influence of organ
lied labor touch alike the interests of
union and non-union men, and the
wages and conditions of employment
Of the unorganized are better because
of the standards set and maintained by
the unions.-Joseph Buchanan.
The monthly returns that have so far
been issued by the engineering trade
unions of Great Britain show a con-
tinued reduction in the number of I'M
employed members. The Steam En-
CINE Makers has now very little over
q per cent of its total membership on
donation, while in the Manchester dis
trict practically a clear book" is re-
ported. In the United Machine Work
ers' Association there are now only
go per cent on donation, and it Is in
teresting to note that three fourths Of
the total number OF unemployed are
members of the Oldham and Bolton
DranCaes. Throughout Lancashire this
society has about per cent on dona-
ton, while in the Manchester district
there are only Is per cent on this
benefit, as compared with per cent
last month. The returns as to the
state of trade continue Of most favor
able character activity being reported
from practically all the leading centres.
The Indiana BARRIERS Protective AS
ISOLATION met in Indianapolis last week
to perfect its organization, for the pur-
pose of securing the passage Of a bar
bers' license bill at the next session
of the Legislature. It is directed to-
word driving out of the business those
cheap shops which do not comply with
sanitary flaws, and whose owners are
unfamiliar with the trade. The chief
provision is the one restricting the
granting of license to those who have
had not less than two years exper-
fence. are in good health, and are able
to demonstrate that they are compe-
tent to manage shops of their own. BY
the end of the week 1,500 petitions ask
ing for the passage Of the bill will be
in process of circulation through the
State. The replies which have SO far
been received from the different towns
indicate that the bill is being very ia
vorabl. received.
At the latest meeting of the New
York Central Labor Union few re-
plies came in from constituent unions
in regard to the question as to whether
the United States ought or ought not
to annex the Philippines. which the