Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-12-03


Minnesota boasts a wolf farm.
Pugilist Jeffries is a union boilerma-
ker.
The Granite Cutters National Union
has paid it's debt of 1921, 900, incurred
during the big lockout in 1893, and now
has a snug sum in bank.
The National Union of United Brew
cry Worlmen, which once held Ma
tional Trades District charter from the
Knights of Labor, now gives it as its
opinion that the membership of that
order is much below 10000.
The constitution of the Metal Polish
ers, Buffers, Platers and Brassworkers'
International Union prohibits members
holding political positions from acting
as national officers, and, In accordance
with this, Charles Atherton, of Dayton,
O., who was last week elected to repre-
sent Montgomery county in the next
General Assembly, has resigned as in
ternational treasurer. His successor is
to be nominated and elected by the ref
erendum.
The organization of labor for it's own
defense and benefit has again and again
proved Its merits and value. Organi-
cation has demonstrated its efficiency
by increasing wages and by securing
more favorable conditions for labor.
Besides that, the great combinations of
capital have made it essential that the
workingmen should similarly combine
together for their common advantage.
But the stronger their union the easier
1t should be to convince their employ
Sc, oh
eficacious device than either strikes or
k-outs.-Philadelph Ledger.
Harry Glib, president of Frisco Ty-
geographical Union No. II, appeared be-
fore the Building Trades Council. He
urged every member to live up to the
conditions of the following card, with
the object of compelling merchants
and trades people in general to aid the
various unionized printing shops in
their endeavors to do away with scab
printing concerns: '"To whom it may
concern-I hereby pledge my word of
honor that henceforth 1 shall not pur-
chase any article Of merchandise that
does not bear union label IL a similar
article can be purchased in San Fran
cisco that does bear union label; that
l shall not patronize any establishment
or its products against which organized
labor has officially proclaimed a griev-
ance; that l shall not employ non-un-
ion labor when union labor can be en-
ployed; that I shall ask every mer-
chant with whom I deal to have the
union label placed on his printing, and
shall also ask him to handle all union
made goods for which there is a rea-
sona!ble demand. Should any mer-
chant refuse this request. I shall with
draw my patronage and patroniZe only
such merchants as heed this request
l shall also ask each member of my
family to live UP to the spirit Of this
pledge"
The workingman has felt the COM
mercial pulse, he knows capital is
alert, he see an extraordinary demand
for his labor. Is he going TO throw it
at the feet of the man OF money and
gratefully pick up what the man Of
money condescends to toss to him?
Not the American workingman. The
newspapers have told him his labor is
a commodity with market price, va
rying according to the law of supply
and demand. The demand is great,
the supply is small Very well, he will
insist upon wages much larger than the
wages he was willing to accept year
ago. He has conceived the notion that
the labor union is a good thing for him.
Therefore he will not work with non
union men. He thinks he sees a
chance to restrict competition in his
trade. Therefore he insists upon I'M
usually stringent rules with respect to
the employment of apprentices, the use
of material, the hours of work and 9TH
er details. In short he asks for the
higher price he thinks his commodity
will bring. If he asks too much that
infallible law of supply and demand
will make him come down in his terms.
He will get what the commodity is
worth, not dollar more, or an appren-
tice less. He will sell, too: that's his
business. He will get the best price
the market will afford, but sell he
must. But this won't suit some of our
neighbors. The workingman must
sell, not at his own or the market
price, but at a price-in money, rules
of employment, and other things that
he regards as useful-that certain en-
ployers will offer. No wonder the poor
man is bewifdered when his pretending
friends regard him as a merchant while
he has something to sell that nobody
wants, and expect him TO be a philan-
thropist whan everybody wants what
he has to sell. This, as we all know,
is the way large fortunes are made
And he is quite right in disregarding
the advice of gentlemen who tell him
that he ought to consider anybody S
prosperity except his own in making
terms. Chicago Journal.
A remarkable body of men with re-
markable history are now In session at
Faneuil Hall. The State of Massachu-
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