Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-12-31
and they may engage In business there
If matters suit them.
World OF Labor.

Ile CaIuEn0t (NllCn.J ana Hecla Min
ing Company announced to it's en-
ployes at their last pay day that it
would pay the Aid Fund assessments
during the year 1900. This
aent is in continuation of the gener-
GUS policy in vogue by this company
for many years past. The manner in
which the company takes care of its
employees while sick and treats their
families when they meet an accidental
death in the mines is considered the
best of any mining corporation in the
world.
Years ago, when the Calumet and
Hecla first commenced mining, they
started an aid fund, every employee pay
ing SO cents or 81 a month, as they
were single or married, to the fund, to
support the hospital and sick benefit.
With this money the company furnish
ed medical attendance and medicines,
and built n of the best hospitals in
the State of Michigan. The company
pays $500 to the family of any man
who is unfortunate enough to lose his
life in the mines or die from injuries
received.
A number of years ago the aid fund
had a big surplus from the monthly
contributions, and with it the
purchased Calumet and Hecla mining
stock at low figures. The surplus cash
each year was also invested in the stock
OF the company, which has appreciated
wonderfully in value, until to-day the
fund OWNS ATS shares of the stock.
which pays $4,000 a year dividends,
just about enough to care for the sick
and injured. In 1897 the ompan
paid the assessments, thus relieving
the employees Of the payment of this ex-
ira money. 1t did likewise in 1898 and
1899, and now announces that it will
do the same In 1900. 1t is more than
likely that from now on the hospital
and aid fund will support itself on the
dividends from the stock which was
purchased years ago, and which now
pays better and just as regular divi-
dends as government bonds.
New York has a Woman's Henry
George League.
The labor question seems to be inter-
esting the church a great deal of late,
and no better example of it can be
shown than the stand which the recent
State convention at Eureka, ILL.,, took
when 1t passed resolutions of the advis-
ability Of ministers throughout the
United States inviting labor representa-
t1ves to their pulpits at proper times,
that they might learn of the needs and
aims of labor that they may assure
them Of Christian aid. The conyen-
ton represented 119, 900 members, TIA
churches and about 500 ministers.
The next convention of the Interna-
tional Coopers' Union will be held in
Boston. This move was decided at the
recent meeting in Minneapolis, and it
was also decided to organize the ma
chine coopers into separate but affliat-
ed bodies. Eight hours will constitute
a days work, for which the following
scale OF wages has been fixed: Brewery
machine coopers, $3.50; flour barrel,
whiskey barrel and other slack work,
$40 a day.
In order that the Journeymen Bar
bers' Union may become one Of the
strongest organizations in the country
the Brewers Union of Cincinnati has
decided to do all in it's power to help.
The latter body has passed a resolution
that any member patronizing a nom
~ Sl1OP WILL ullC UuO pSldlty Oh d
fine, and it has been the means so far
OF helping the BARRIERS along very ma
terially.
Paterson, N. J.. hasn't a non-union
machinist.
At Portland, Ore, the master bar
bers have raised the price of hair cut
ting to 25 cents in all shops and have
promised to increase the wages of the
journeymen.
There is no valid reason why every
city in the United States should not
W and operate its own street car
lines, telephones and lighting plants,
water works, and, indeed, every other
franchise in the nature of a public du-
ty.-St. Louis Star.
Since the general lockout of the gran
tie cutters by the New England Gran
ite Manufacturers Association the
Granite Cutters National Union has
paid off a debt of $500, 900 and has a
balance in bank of $27, 900.
In 1864 Abraham Lincoln wrote a
letter cordially accepting an honorary
membership in the New York Working
mems Association.
In Chicago the men of the Union
Horse Nail Company went on strike
for better pay. Thereupon the 120
women employed in the factory struck
from sympathy, and when the company
offered to ONE pay they replied:
Give it 10 the men!" Thereupon the
company surrendered and work was re-
sumed. At a meeting of the strikers
the male speakers declared that the
stand taken by the women was the
most chivalrous thing they had ever
known in trade unionism." In the end
all hands OF both sexes got an advance.
The Parliamentary Labor party of
Australia scored a victory at the recent
bye-election by returning Mr.. Neil
Nelson, who stood as the labor can
didate. The party now numbers 20 in
the Assembly, where it holds the bal
ance of power.
The union ~cigarmakers of st. Louis
are organizing clubs in the various
wards to advertise and introduce the
label of the union more generally to
the consumers. A committee has been
appointed to carry on the work, and is
reporting progress.
At st. Louis it is believed that an
organization of from 10000 to 10000
team drivers can be formed there in
a short time. 1t is said that some lum-
Der teamsters are getting as little as
S1.35 for a day of ten hours or more.
And only recently one firm tried to cut