Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-08-28
WORLD OF LABOR.

| WORLD OF LABOR.
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| The Fall River Labor Day celebration
will include parade.
A feature of the Labor Day parade at
Elizabeth n. Y, will be one hundred men
clerks in carriages.
] The labor men of Ottawa, Canada are
making preparations for the best Labor
Day celebration in the history of the
city,
! The f1fteth anniversary celebration of
| the Boston Typographical Union No. 10
| on Labor Day promises to be a pleasing
event
Many useful articles have been donated
| to the Gnionists by merchants of the lis
! trict of Columbia, which Will be awarded
| to successful contestants.
| The Cabinet Makers Tool insurance
| fund mas now 713 members Two benefits
! were paid in the last quarter. The amount
! of iisurar ce is now So, 315.
! The German Painters and Decorators
U'ion of New York, has decided 10 oc-
operate with the Brotherhood Of Painters
! aa! Decorators in the Borough of the
Bronx.
The seventy-seventh quarterly meeting
/ of the Forfarshire and Perthshire Co.
| Operative Conference Association was
: held in the Victoria Hall, Coupar Angus,
| Scotland, and there was an attendance
| of sixty delegates
! President V. g. Human has issu=.
| the call for the annual State meeting OF
| the Illinois Federation of Labor. The
| call is for Tuesday, October 4, and the
session will last four days. Two hun
! dred delegates are eXpec- ed to be in
attendance The prison labor bill and
employers liability act will probably be
acted on.
| A. F. of l.. principles-O Compulsory
education; (2) Direct legislation, through
| the initiative and referendum. 90 A
! legal work day of not more than eight
hours. "a Sanitary inspection OF, work
! shop mine and home t5) Liability of
employers for injury to health, body or
| life. 60 The abolition of the contract
! system in all public work. CD The
| abolition of the sweating system. (S)
The. municipal ownership of street cars,
| water works, gas and electric plants for
the public distribution of light, heat and
power 90 The naturalization of the
telegraph, telephone, railroads and mines.
Q0) The abolition of the monopoly sys-
tenn of land holding and substituting
! therefor a title of occupancy and use
only. QD Repeal all conspiracy and
! penal laws affecting seamen and other
workmen Incorporated in the Federal
| and State laws of the United States.
| Q2) The abolition of the monopoly
privilege of issuing money and substitute
| ing therefor 4 system of direct issuance
! to and by the people.
| 1t Is interesting to read occasionally
what others say of us. In concluding
series of articles in the Iron and Coal
Trades Review, of London, Franklin
Hilton, M. Inst, C. E.. says: Labor
efficiency and economy is the basis of
! all their achievements. At such works
as the Homestead and Duquesne Works
! of the Carnegie Company, at the works
of the Bethlehem Iron Company and at
| many other establishments which 1 Wis
tied. it was the enormous amount of
work being done in relation to the small
number of hands employed that struck
one as the leading feature of the con-
Germ. No one who knew anything of
steel manufacturing could fail to recog-
nize that in the leading works the labor
| figure, despite the fact the average
/ wages paid to the common workmen
varied from shillings to shilings per
day. One could see from first to last,
! that the men were in earnest about
| their work, and although, as a rule,
there appeared to be no hurry or fuss, 1t
seemed if there was not an idle mo-
ment for anybody. AS an example of
how the American workman labors, l
need only recall the fact that at the
Loran Works they have made 600 tons
of ingots in IL hours, with only 60 men
in the Bessemer shop, including all
labor. Many of the appliances used in
American practice differ radically from
our own"
Near Edison, in Skagit county Wash,
there is a colony of people who own their
land, houses, teams, cattle and all ma
chinery in common. They commenced
work last November with ten men as
pioneers, who went to clearing the land
and building houses. At this time there
are 800 people there. They cook for all in
one kitchen, and eat in a common dining
room By so doing it saves a great deal
of labor; also saves a great deal of mater.
! ial from being wasted. In their work each
one works at that work for which he
or she is best adapted. The farmer farms
the carpenter builds houses. the tailor
makes clothes, and on, each working
: for the good of the whole community
They work nine hours yer day excep
< Saturday, when they work only five
r hours, having holiday IN the afternoon
They all get the same pay, men and wo
= men. They pay themselves with checl
printed by themselves, which reads
: units instead of dollars and cents. The,
use no gold, silver or bank notes between
: members. They use their checks to pur
} chase clothing or any extras they nigh
: want from their own store at cost o
goods. No profit is taken by any on
: member from another. They have Their
near Edison. 600 acres of land. Tire
/ hundred is rich bottom land They expec
a to have eighty acres cleared for mex
$ years crops. This year they are farmin.
seventy-five acres of virgin timber, whicl