Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-10-30
WORLD OF LABOR.

engaged in making preparations for
the mining of same.
WORLD OF LABOR.
More anarchists are manufactured
every year in this country by the short
sightedness of capital and the mis-
taken policy of employers of labor
than by all other influences combined. y
&C. S. Thomas, in Denver News.
At the convention of the American
Federation OF Labor, which will be
held in Kansas City in December, it
will be proposed that all boycotts now
in force against corporations and
firms be declared off, and that a gen.
eral fight be made to increase the sale
OF articles bearing the union labels of
the trades by which they are manu-
featured.
Convict labor has been abolished,
infamous child labor minimized, labor
bureaus and factory inspectors ap-
pointed all over the United States to
protect the health of the white slaves
of the mills and the city stores. A
thousand laws in the interest of labor
have been placed among the statutes,
State and National governments, while
preachers, professors and lawyers are
pushing forward to champion the
movement with more radical energy
than the workers themselves. Maya
zines and book stores TEEN with ex-
positions and defenSeS of our cause,
and are revolutionizing the convic-
lions of the vast middle classes of this
nation. All this since Labor Day was
born.-Edward King.
The president of the New York Mu-
steal Mutual Protective Union is car
penter.
The Tin and Sheet Iron Workers
and Cornice and Skylight Makers I'm
ions, of New York, have amalgamated.
For some time the two unions were at
war with each other over the right to
do certain kinds of work. AS matter
of fact, the men in each trade can do
the same kind of work and it was de-
cided that it was best for the interests
of both unions that they amalGamate.
Definite action was taken by promi-
nent society women of New York last
week to investigate the condition OF
the striking Fifth avenue tailors.
They were represented by Mrs Freder-
ick e. Nathan, of the Consumers
League, at the rooms of the Social Re-
form Club, No. As University place,
where a committee of strikers assem-
bled together with number OF labor
leaders and social reformers. These
figures were furnished by one OF the
strikers: Covert Coat for Mrs. W. G..
Whitney:
Time taken to make. ..lWeeR
Maker received. ........... ............$lS IS
Cost of material and trimmings ..... 1877
To+o1 .s36 90
Price paid by Mrs. Whitney .......... 5000
Tailor's profit .............s0fOo
Covert Coat for Mrs. ]. Seligman:
Maker received ............ ............Sll 60
Cost of material and trimmings ..... II 40
Total ........ 49,. 90
Price oI paid by Mrs. seiiigman....:. 5000
Tailor's profit ............s55.oo
Ulster for Mrs. George Gould:
Time taken to make .................1 week
Cost of material and trimmings ..... H. 50
Price oI naid bv Mrs Goud 1 2Sy 60
Tailor's profit ......... ...........$8 90
New York Building Trades Council
represents 10000 unionists.
The local unions of bakers In the
city of New York who belong to the
Journeymen Bakers and Confectioners'
International Union have issued a cir
cular declaring that they will demand
a ten-hour day on and after the next
Fourth of July.
Speaking Of the hours of labor,
James e. Thorold asserts: "In the fiji
tenth century the workmen had an
eight-hour's day, probably by their own
concerted action, assuredly to the adj
vantage of the employers" And again.
'Ln the nineteenth century, and in the
teeth of restraining statutes, the work.
men secure an eight-hours' day. l am
sure that an eight-hours' day is worth
more to the employer than ten-hours'
days cheaper at the same money. But
| would far rather the workmen got it
by their own combinations, and by their
own exertions, than by a gift of the
Legislature" Mr.. Thorold's state
ment, frequently reiterated through
out his works, that workmen had an
eight-hours' day in the fifteenth and
sixteenth centuries, seems to be based,
in the main, on the wages paid to mas
ons who were employed in the erection
of the Merton bell tower in Oxford,
from May, 1449, to May, 1851. He
says: "The artisan, before 1910, could
earn. on an average, taking so weeks
as the amount of his yearly labor,
about e7 year"
The English Boilermakers and Iron
Shipbuilders' Union has $4,000 mem
bers, AGA unions and over 100000 in
the treasury.
The eight-hour workday, If 1t were
universal, said Henry Lloyd, would, by
creating a demand for labor, give work
to many thousands of men Tow unem-
ployed. There were nearly 2,000, 600
children and 100000 women employed
in factories throughout the country,
while 100000 men. willing to work,
were idle. The children should be pu.
to school, the wives remain at home,
and the tramps should be put to work.
He said the shorter workday should not
be restricted to an eight-hour workday
Or a seven-hour workday, but should
be so shortened that every man willing
to work could have work.