Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-12-18

Eerp, md a, fnHQlx1Q ~ persons, re-
suited IA eomprontee.
Oakland (Cal.) uni0nists paraded.
WATERFOWL. N. y, hasn't nom
union printer.
Great Britain has 1os.51S women un-
ionists.
There are 1880 different trade un-
ions in England, Ireland, Scotland and
Wales, with 12,S07 branches and a
membership of LAST, 562. The best or
ganized trades are those in connection
with the metal, engineering and ship
building industries, with a total of
301,506 members. Next come mining
and quarrying, with 284,S members.
The textile trades have 212,491 mem
bers organized, the building trades,
196,283; the transport trades, 1873, TIA;
the clothing trades, 76,S00, and print
ing trades, 50,913. The largest single
trade union is the Amalgamated So
ciety of Engineers, with about $4,000
members; next in size is the Durham
Miners Association, with $4,000 men,
bers, followed by the Yorkshire Min
ers, with $4,000. The oldest union is
the United Society of Brushmakers,
founded in 1878, and still fourishing,
with $4,000 members. The general
commanding the largest army is w.
Moses, secretary of the Federation Of
Engineering and Shipbuilding, which
includes 16 unions, with a total mem
bership of 173,451. General Secretary
Ashton, Of the Miners Federation,
looks after the interests of more than
100000 members. The combined in
come of 100 principal unions for one
year was SS,37S,225; aggregate expen-
diture, s6,196,150. The funds in hand
of these unions total up to s10,S44,9 45.
At present Barnsley (England) iron
and steel moulders work 81 hours per
week for $685.; they ask Cts. per week
for SO hours.
A meeting of the Sheffield England
and District Engineering Trades En-
ployers' Association was held to con-
slider a letter received from the work
men. The men ask for an advance of
Is. per week and a reduction of one
hour in their time. The employers Of
fered an advance of Is. per week with
no change in the hours. This offer
the men refused to accept.
Said Harriette A. Keyser, secretary
and organizer of the New York Church
Association for the Advancement of
the Interests of Labor: There should
be prohibition against goods made
in tenements. Ask where your goods
are made. The time has passed when
man can say to you: STAND back, I'll
manage my business as l please" You
can now say: mo, you cannot. When
you starve your employees, body and
soul, and carry disease and contagion
over the whole country, it is the peo-
pies business" I'm glad to tell you
that many ladies have subscribed,
and over half the stock has been TAX
en- in the Ladies Tailors' Co-opera-
tive Shop.
Ireland has cooperative dairies.
GlasswOrkers and coal miners Of
Charlerio, Pa, have formed an asso-
citation to conduct a cooperative store.
The first and second floors will be US
ed for the mercantile and grocery bust
mes and the third floor for a public
hall. Successful cooperative stores
are in operation at BankSVille, Car
negie, Shanor station on the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad, and there are some
in Pittsburg. These not only pay all
running expenses, but clear enough to
pay handsome profit to the stock
holders. The Banksyille store also
supports a reading room free to the
public.
A letter from England to the Amer
lean Manufacturer says that the bolt
and nut industry of It. w C J. Walk
er, of that country, has been ruined
by the low prices quoted by producers
on this side of the Atlantic.
The American Miller, of Chicago, de-
clares that much larger area in the
South than ever before is now being
planted with wheat, and as a result
there will be lot of gristmills all
over that part of the country. The
-four industry OF the Northwest will
be sensibly affected by this change,
our contemporary believes.
The white laundrymen who compose
the Laundrymen's Protective Associa-
ton, of New York, have given up all
idea of joining the Don Sang Kong
Saw, or Chinese Laundry Association.
At first the white laundrymen were
eager to form an agreement with the
Cinnamon by which prices would be
kept up, but after several conferences
the white laundrymen suddenly decid-
ed to have nothing to do with their
Acknowledged competitors.
Spian has greater mineral resources
than any other country in Europe, in
Guiding iron, copper, zinc, silver, an
timony, quicksilver, lead and gypsum.
Limerick, Ireland, tailors won
strike that lasted six months.
rIoIiIav e,onds N large variety. Swaback-