Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-01-09
WORLD OF LABOR.

Mexico makes fireworks.
Paper bottles are for sale.
ASIA buys Alabama pig iron.
London has 103, 400 paupers.
Russia has A 900 coal miners.
Australia is to cultivate tobacco.
Japan makes electrical machinery.
Detroit has 200 union bricklayers.
Detroit has $4,000 Polish residents.
Japan boasts an engineering school.
Duluth is to have a labor exchange.
Only negroes inhabit Langston. Okl.
Ireland has 10000 linen operatives.
Fall River has 100000 cotton SPIN
dies.
AIgsrica has forty-four women plum
bers.
Japan buys South Carolina phos-
pilates.
California has State free employ
ment bureau
Bellaire, O., Unionists want postal
savings banks.
Wisconsin life insurance agents have
formed a State union.
To-day the art of becoming rich is
the art of keeping your neighbor poor.
-Ruskin.
The Charlottesville, Ind, Federal
OAlOu lids us IlGIlD6IS luo Illy
Clerk and other officials.
The iron molders are taking a ref
erendum vote for and against holding
an international convention in July.
The next convention Of the Custom
Tailors' National Union will be held
in August, 1901, and thereafter nation
al meetings will take place every four
years.
A sill before the New York Legis-
lature is to exempt real estate from
taxation to the extent Of the indebted
ness against it. Another proposed law
will prevent government by injunc-
ton"
An effort will be made during the
winter to get the ore handlers OF Du-
luth, Superior and Two Harbors in the
International organization OF long
shoremen.
Every central labor body in Cali
fornia, except the Building Trades
Council Of San Francisco, has adopted
ringing resolutions against the pro-
posed annexation of Hawaii.
At present 9e~per cent Of the textile
operatives of Lancashire, Eng. are or
gani2ed. The operatives get from 24s
TO sos a week, while in Belfast they
earn from rs and los. In Belfast there
is no trades union.
A business agent may be placed in
the field by the Knights of Labor Of
Northern Ohio. "At the present time,
said an organizer, 1--WE have more local
assemblies in the district assembly, than
we ever had before
Central Labor Council of Cincin
natl and vicinity, has instructed it's
committee on law and legislation to
enter into vigorous agitation for the
construction of the new water works
by day labor as against contract labor.
Four ten-year Old boys in Muncie,
Ind, glass works won a strike for 81
per week. Three boys employed in
another factory struck for the same
pay. The State Labor Commissioner
hired hall for the boys to hold their
meetings in.
Eighty-eight per cent of the union
men Of the State of Minnesota are en-
ployed This information is Of pecu-
liar significance when it is considered
that there was less than so per cent
of the members OF organized labor en-
ployed a year agO.
The monument selected by the grand
lodge officers Of the international AS
sociation of Machinists to be placed
over the grave of T. W. Talbot, the
founder of the association, will be put
in position with appropriate ceremon-
les in the spring.
The trust benefits a very limited
group of people" says w. Z. Rausch,
of the Bicycle Workers International
Union. whereas the trades union
spreads its benefits to an unlimited
number. Even the non-unionist gets
the benefit. In that way it is not COM
parable to trust.
Another bill modifes the coDspir-
acy law by permitting the peacoable
assembling OF workingmen, and allow
ing them to try to induce a workman
to leave his employment by request
and argument. Such acts on the part
of workingmen are not to be punish
able as conspiracy.
In 1874, at Rochdale, England, 25
weavers with $40 started co-opera-
tive store. To-day in Great Britain
there are over 1,7O0 societies, with l.
500 600 members and capital of SS5,-
On0 coo The sales in 1895 amounted
to 5000 ,0G0. The manufactures in
clude shoes. soap furniture clothing,
breadstuffs, etc.
The law Of the province of Quebec
as it now stands prevents grocers
from handling and selling what are
termed drugs, with two exceptions,
viz. Paris green and London purple.
rrhe sale of all other drugs by grocers
was prohibited in 1889 through the in
strmentality OF the drug trade. The
Wholesale Grocers' Association wants
the law killed.
The pressmen of New York, expect
IN ppt a nine and q half hour work
6av beginning on January Is, and the
stereotvners and electrotypers begin
ming April /. According to the IN
IONS Interpretation of the settlement
with the Typothetae, it is understood
that as soon as the international Ty-
norraphical Union gives a date for a
6emsnd for the nine-hour work day
in all cities east Of the Alleghenies
and north of Richmond the nine-hour
workday will be conceded to the book
and lob printers of New York.
Type-setting machines are to be
used bv the Philadelphia Public Led
ger. George w. Childs. Eighty-seven
men are now employed and 100 sub
stitptes are also on its composing
room salary list. Twenty men will
do more work with the machines Than
was formerly accomplished by eighty
seven men.