Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-01-01


houses lightning plants, etc.
There is not a non-uniOn hat store
in New York. The opposite is the
fact regarding shoe stores.
! Reports from western railroad CEN
! tres develop the fact that there is a
scarcity of firemen and trainmen.
scarcit yof firemen and trainmen.
A building trades council has just
been organized in st. Paul.
The present year has been the most
| successful in the history of the Iron
I Moulders' Union.
Chattanooga, Tenn, Retail Grocers'
Protective Association has petitioned
the legislature for law against trad
ing stamps.
The iron manufacturing outlook is
better now than it has been at any time
since 1873.
A cargo of coal was shipped from
| Tacoma, Wash, to Honolulu.
Yhe deliberations of an Irish Ian
guage congress at Letterbenny, County
Donegal, were reported, telegraphed
and printed in Gaelic by the Dublin
Freemans Journal.
Cuba has 1900 sugar plantations and
! 1900 tobacco fields. Most of them are
in the western part of the island, while
In the eastern part cotton is gradually
displacing coffee.
me members of Hartford's labor I'M
ions will hold a series of meetings at
which economic questions will be dis
cussed English labor leaders now in
this country will be asked to speak.
Investigation shows that but Is out
of a force of 1900 carriers were ar
rested during the year for theft.
The trades unions of Rome, Italy,
are said to have forestalled the Cars
disarmament plan by recommending
that their members discontinue the
practice of carrying knives on their
person.
The eight-hour day has been adopted
by the city council of Memphis, Tenn,
for all laborers and mechanics work
ing for the municipality.
The labor interests in Denver are UP
in arms against the boycott law passed
by the last session of the Legislature.
They hope to have it repealed at the
present session.
Miners of South Wales, refused, by
vote of 51,S36 against 1854 to abolish
their monthly holiday known as Ma
bon's day"
BY a vote of 15S to 46 a labor con-
ference at Glasgow, Scotland, recently
decided to take political action
law has passed in South Australia
providing that no woman or young
person may be employed for more than
AZ and no other person for more than
50 hours per week in shops, stores, fac
tories, etc. In South Australia there
is labor party and there are labor
representatives in the Legislature.
The Landlords Protective Assoca-
ton has been organized in New York
city. They aim to protect themselves
from Objectionable tenants and they
will cooperate with business houses
that sell furniture and other goods on
the installment plan.
The commissioners of the District of
Columbia have made move which
will curtail the system of contracting
for materials to be used in public work.
A stone quarry located near by in
Maryland, has been purchased, and it
is intended to operate this quarry, pay
for the transportation, ETC., and thus
save large sum of money as com
pared with the former expense of con-
tracing for the same work.
The Iron Molders' Union of North
America is helping to meet the demand
for union made stoves by publishing
list of manufacturers who use the trade
label.
Nearly 100 employees of the Sieg BIZ
cycle factory at Kenosha, Wis, struck
because the old scale of wages was not
restored.
With Atlanta electing for mayor
journeyman printer who beat a promi-
nent and popular lawyer for the nomi-
nation through solid support of the
working element, and Haverhill Mass,
electing the Social Labor candidate,
who was clerk in d cooperative store,
there are indications of a new force in
politics that may smash a good many
deep laid plans. The labor vote, by
consolidation, would carry everything
before it in almost every city in the
Understandable CO., Gazette
The Supreme court of Kentucky de-
cides, in case brought by a black
listed employe against a railroad COM
pany, that whoever wrongfully pre-
vents man from pursuing his occupa-
ton inf1icts an actionable injury"
The Robinson Thrashing Machine
Company, of Richmond, Ind, increased
their workmens wages 10 per cent.
The prison commissioners of Frank
ford, KY, have leased the labor of $50
convicts for forty cents per day per
man.
The Metal Polishers', Buffers, Plat
ers' and Brass Workers union, of New
York city, have issued a circular letter
to non-union brass workers. asking
them to join issues in their common
cause.
Latest official figures show that trade
unionists in Germany increased from
329,230 in 1896 to 412,350 in 1897.
New York contractors are having
shirts made in the Raleigh, n. c., peni-
tertiary at % cents dozen.
The Flint Glassworkers' Union label
is blown in the bottle.
There are now Is cotton spin
ming mills in Japan with an aggregate
capital of e4,O00,000, half paid up, with
100000 spindles working and nearly
10000 more in course of erection or
projected, giving employment to over
$4,000 men and over $4,000 women, the
wages of the former ranging from cd
to Sd. and the wages of tie latter
ranging from 212d TO sd a cay. OF the
$4,000 tons of raw cotton worked I'D
by these mills last year, 6: per cent.
were Indian, is per cent. Chinese and
II per cent. American. The amount of
native grown cotton was under 500
tons. Down to the last year or two the