Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-11-13

| Venezuela hasn't an electric road.
| Italy has eleven electric railways.
| Glass church bells are announced.
| Bordeaux has ordered electric cabs.
| Tennessee has 1877 varieties of wood.
| United States has $4,000 acres of
hops.
] phone.
+, A Peoria Qll.) stove firm uses the
| union label
In France the pawnshops are run by
| the gov eminent.
New York striking bill posters are
| paid SLIGO day by unionists.
London, Can, street car workers de-
| mand 16 2-3 cents per hour.
Wilmington, Del, printers will ask
the Legislature to place the union label
on all State printing.
The initiation fee charged by the
New York Employing Marble Manu-
facturers' Association is $500.
Plumbers struck at Chicago and
Rochester, at the latter place Tor the
discharge of a non-union man.
Mayor McKisson, of Cleveland, o.
declares that the street railway COM
y
passengers for four cents.
Manchester, Englend, boilermakers
and iron shipbuilders have had their
| wages increased rs cents per week, and
II cents will be added on January 1.
Cleveland unionists have removed
| the boycott from the base ball club.
It was effective, and unionists will be
employed hereafter when work on the
grounds is needed.
It is reported by the New York elders
Union that all of the union gilders are
busy and that competent men are now in
demand. The union is in a fourishing
condition. in spite of the fact that the
Amalgamated Society of Painters and
| Decorators has made a strong fight to
force the gilders to join their society.
The memorandum prepared by the En-
glish Labor Department of the Board of
Of Trade states that employment in Sep
TENDER remained generally good, most
of the important industries continuing to
be well employed. In tee III trade unions
making returns with an aggregate mem
bership OF $3.50, 12,027 or % per cent.
were reported as unemployed at the end
of September, compared with % per cent.
in August and "A per cent. in the 113 I'M
ions with a membership of 4G2,2 92 from
which returns were received for Septem
Der, 1897
In Breslau, Germany dyers get from
50 So to 81 &c week Railroad engineers
earn $S.2S to $3.50 a week; sWitchmen,
1851 to $500 conductors $357 to $5.47.
Printing establishments-Ed Editor 1904 to
So 81; photographers, $3o1 to $14 g; report
ers. SAG to $3.50; printers 1922 to Sill;
typesetters. $475 to s5.95; hookbinders
girls. $119 to 81 IS; pasteboard makers,
(male), 1857 to $4.2S; pasteboard makers,
female), $1.19 to $2.9S; cutters, s23S to
$2N.
France heads the list in the consump
ton of wheat. using O0,000 bushels a
year, or 467 pounds to each inhabitant.
Canada comes second. Japan using least
twenty pounds per capita a year. But in
the use of meats the differences between
the divers countries is best seen. The
United States stands well at the head of
the list, consuming 1000 000,0C0 pounds
year. OF this meat, 500, coo coo are beef,
4o0o 600 coo pounds pork and 500 Geo COO
mutton Great Britain comes second in
meat consumption. averaging yearly 100
third in per capita consumption.
The appeal taken by the Wilson Car
hide Company arairst the decision of Po-
lice Magistrate Hall, of Merriton. Cana
da, restraining the company from operat-
ing its works on Sunday. was disposed of
by Judge Senkler. The case arose over the
Merriton Carbide Company operating
portion of its plant on unday, January 90
last. The president Of the company,
Thomas L. Wilson, and sixteen of the
employees were summoned charged with
a violation of the Lords Day Act. The
defense of the company was that the
works were SINE! ting works, and that the
operation Of the plant was absolutely ne
cessary. Magistrate Hall decided against
this contention, but inflicted a nominal
fine.
The department stores are showing the
merits of economical management and
giving the people an inkling of what can
be accomplished by them when they
reach the stage where cooperative stores
will be possible. In the near future work
ing people will undoubtedly club together
and run their own store or supply depart
ment. The cumbersome and wasteful
plan of community Of say 1000 work
ing people having a dozen or more stores
with proprietors and clerks idling around
waiting for customers most of the time,
will be superseded by general store, in
charge of a superintendent at regular
salary, with assistance to suit the re-
quirements of the business. 1t is not ne
cessary that any profit should be made
out of selling or buying goods. What is
wanted is mart for fair exchange.-Rail
road Telegrapher
The conference between committee of
the New York Chinese Laundrymen's
Association and the United Laundrymen
Union to try and put an end to the cut
throat war that has been raging between
the two organizations, was held last week
in the Joss House at Is Mott street. The
conference was presided over by n. G..
Sheung, the Mayor of Chinatown, who
was said to resemble Richard Croker,
both in build and physognomy. The
members of the Chinese committee stood
al a respectful distance, and treated the
white mems committee with tea and ci-
gars. The white mems committee was
headed by Mr.. Elmer but several mem
bers of his committee talked more than
he did himself. Mayor Sheung said that
the trouble had Teen caused by non-union
Chinese laundrymen, who insisted on cut
ting prices. The Chinese union had paid
some of these non-uuionists as much as
500 to close their launGries and go away.
The abortive strike in Paris has at