Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-02-19
WORLD OF LABOR.

We export oysters to Europe.
Spain contains 461 coal mines.
st. Paul dcirymen will organize
France boasts women letter carriers.
st. Paul hasn't an idle union brewer
Grenoble, France, has d municipal
restaurant.
Alabama may establish State print
cry.
The New York Furniture Workers
Tool Insurance Fund has 10 members.
Over $4,000 worth of insurance has
been written.
The Dublin Qreland) Mill Sawyers
and Woodcutting Machinists' Union
gave $500 to a member who has been
disabled for life.
A st. Paul union clerk addressed the
Ministers Association on convict labor
Tacoma (Wash.) BARRIERS advocate a
law requiring journeymen to pass an
examination as to fitness.
Delaware printers want the union
label on all State printing
Alabama uniOnists want 10 hours to
constitute days work in mines.
The Indiana Legislature has been
asked to create Labor Commission.
st. Paul steamftters will reorganize.
Women are not accepted as members
by the National Journeymen BARRIERS
Union.
Atlanta (Ga.) railroad shopmen have
been conceded the eight-hour day.
Muncie, Ind, building trades want
the eight-hour day on and after April ?.
The Ohio State Arbitration Board in
it's annual report recommends that laws
be passed compelling employers to re-
cOgnize labor unions.
Rev. David Morgan addressed the st.
Paul Socialist Labor party.
The Methodist ministers of Baltimore
have joined the movement for vestibul-
ed street cars.
Organized labor in Colorado has in
trOduced bills in the Legislature pro-
viding for the payment Of labOrers of
their wages in lawful money Of the
United States; also a bill to protect
union labels.
The Central Federated Union, of New
York, passed a resolution denoupcing
the proposition to have biennial irttead
of annual sessions of the State Legis-
lature.
According to reports that are going
the rounds of the press there are 4,251
Mergenthaler linotype machines now in
use in this country. This means, says
an exchange, that in the printing craft
alone at least 1000 men have been dis
placed by this machine since its intro
duction.
Russia exports more than 100000,
600 eggs every year. Iron furnaces
with a capacity of 100000 tons a year
are idle because they are out of date
Tho I0ir-tr5nr, nf
hood of Locomotive Engineers donated
the sum Of $50 to a member who had
been out of employment. but secured a
position in the South. The money was
for the purpose of paying his expenses
to his new field of labor.
The Hartford City, nd., Glass Com
pany did something that merits praise.
There was glass lost in the fire. The
workmen had no legal right to receive
pay therefor, but the glass company
made it a point to get at the value OF
the rollers, fattened and unflattened,
and paid the workmen. The bill
amounted to about $1,000.
At a meeting of the st. Paul Hack
and Cab Drivers Union, the secretary
was instructed to return the SC received
from the Pressmen's Union. The
amount had been sent the Hack and
Cab Drivers Union on account Of a
mistake made in hiring non-union
hacks for a funeral, and to notify them
that principle was worth more than
dollars to the Hackmen's Union.
The unions of New York have taken
up the fight against the Plate Glass
Trust, and the Central Federated Union
and the Building Trade Section have
passed resolutions denouncing the so
called "beneficient" methods Of the
trust in reducing" the price Of glass
by reducing the wages of its employees.
At present strikes are in progress in
New York on all the jobs Of the Pitts
burg Plate Glass Company. of Lafay-
cite and Aston place, and in nearly all
the other cities similar strikes are IN
progress.
In the forthcoming annual report Of
the New Jersey Labor Bureau will be
some statistics forming powerful and
convincing evidence in favor of union
ism. The figures relative 10 union and
non-uniOn wOrkmen are the averages
obtained by taking the returns for 100
men as a basis of compensation In the
glassware trade the union men had an
average of $685. for each day employed
The average yearly earning Of the non
union men was S6S5.S5. or 1855 for
each day actually employed. The great
advantage 10 the union men came in
having much steadier work and in pro-
ducing a larger quantity of work in a
given time. The union men lost seven
ty-twO and one-third days in the year
and the non-union men 1870. The pro-
ductive capacity Of the union men in