Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-23

supply Of gutta peEchA &h0t c40le Pe0-
pae say that Il this cable Is laid It will
BE- the last one that win be laid until
some new insulating material Is dis
covered that will take the place OF gutta
percha.
At q meeting Of the Boston Central
Labor Union resolutions were adopted
to the effect chat in order that as
SCISSORS violate not their oath to meth
or overvalue nor undervalue any prop
er'ty subject to taxation that they pc
required to assess vacant land at the
same value as similar adjoining land
with improvements thereon, in order
that discrimination against the poor
home owner and in favor OF the rlch
land monopolist may cease, and the
Withholding of land from productive
use may be discouraged"
The (Mass.) Spinners' Union has re-
solved that no member should work in
the mills more than fifty EIGHT hours
week, and that the necessary overtime
work should be given to the unemploy-
ed spinners. The mills are running
nights week till or 10 o'clock. This
action is in conformity with the recent
declaration of the National Union
against overtime. The weavers ipi-
taited twenty new members at their
last meeting, and are about to take In
all the nom uniolists in the Appleton
mills.
st. Paul boilermakers struck for 81
cents an hour. The scale OF the union
for st. Paul is 30 cents per hour for ten
hours work, against % cents per hour
for Minneapolis; Omaha, IS per day;
Great Northern shops, So and $40 per
day; st. Paul & Duluth. at Gladstone,
$2.70 to SO per day; milwaukee shops,
$3.50 and So per day; Northern Pacific
shops, which are at Brainerd, $3.50 per
the amounts less than So were paid to
a few men, while many others received
as high as 1925 per day.
Canada is showing lively interest
lust now in the development of the
pig iron industry. 1t is now announc-
ed that a blast, furnace is about to be
established at Toronto with a capital
OF $4,000, 900 behind it, and capable OF
putting out 200 tons of iron day; the
Hamilton Blast Furnace. Company has
enlarged it's capacity about 200 tons
day; the Radnor (Quebec) Company
and two concerns in Nova Scotia are
also increasing their product, and, IN
addition to these returns, Mr.. whitney
is building I'D an entirely new business
in Cape Breton.
The American Vice Consul at Copen-
hagen says that ready made SHOES are
becoming popular in Denmark, and that
goods from the United States ought 10
find ready sale there. The Danes nave
large feet and do not fancy pointed toe.
Put as American manufacturers are able
to suit the tastes of Germans they can
ALSO without doubt please the ScandlnaV-
ians. Machinery for making shoes IS be-
ing imported from America to Denmark,
but as the duty on shoes is low there is
stNl a good chance to sell the latter be-
fore the domestic manufacturing indus
try gets firm footing.
Among the other matters considered at
last Sundays meeting of the Boston Gen.
trail Labor Union was the decision of the
Executive Council Of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor in regard to the ultima
tum of the last convention of that body,
in effect that all members of the city
employees unions be competed to join the
organizations of their several handi-
crafts. The action of the A. F. of L. has
been the cause of much contention among
trade unionists of the City, and Its pro-
mitigation has been averted several times
in the hope Of having the order modified
so as not to drive the city employees from
the Central Labor body, such action hay-
ing been threatened should the order be
pressed This document read from the A.
F. of l.. does not revoke the proposition of
the last convention, but stands for 1t firm
ly, regarding it as in the best interests of
organized labor Those who desire to con-
t.nue their Affiliations, however, with the
city departments, may retain their MEM
bership in the respective city unions. The
decision was accepted without a single
protest, and the secretary stands instruct
ed to promulgate the final action of the A.
F. of l..