Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-02-05

erS Union ana the Brotherhood Of TAN
ors. accompanied by inspectors OF the
Board Of Health last week made a special
investigation OF the East Side (New York;
| sweat shops.
/ The New York State Workingmen's
Federation has appointed a committee
to consult legal counsel as to the proper
draughting of labor measures, so that
when they become laws there will be no
question as to their constitutionality.
Wages on the Hawaiian plantations, in
! Guiding house and firswood. or room and
board range from Sis TO $40 per month
| for engineers and sugar boilers. $50 to
| Slo0 per month for blacksmiths and car
penters, $40 TO so per month for locomo-
! tive drivers, s100 to s125 per month for
teamsters. In Honolulu the rates are s.
to S. per day for bricklayers and masons.
$3.50 to s. per day for carpenters and
painters. and So to s. per day for Ma
chinists. Cooks receive from S to s. per
week; nurses house servants and gar
deners, IS to s12 per month. Retail prices
| of provisions are as follows: Ham, 10 to
80 cents per pound: bacon, 16 to % cents;
-four. $50 TO $ per 100 pounds; rice. So .
| to s. per 100 pounds; butter, . to 50 cetns
!
and ice, one and one-hah cents per pound
| The farming experiment conducted by
| Typographical Union No. 6, New York,
for the benefit of the unemployed printers
of that city has proved a great success.
For five years. the report says. this
| union has been giving from $4,000 to $780,
coo year toward helping the unemployed
Last year the New York Committee for
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teach our unemployed farm labor. One
hundred men were placed on the farm
The amount expended by your committee
/ was s., 2S5. 10. Did the returns justify this
outlay? The yield OF the farm to our
| members, in crops sold, eaten and taken
homo, and in rent of lodging saved, was
| 81, $3.50. In addition, our men received in
meals $3.50 Is and were given potato sacks
that cost 5000 Nor is it TO be overlooked
that the $500 agents salary went TO farm
members. and the camp outfit, which cost
more that 500, is still fit for use
At last Sundays meeting of the New
York Central Federation Union, COM
munication was received from the Ladies
| TaiIors' Union explaining the failure of
the proposed cooperative shop for the
strikers in that trade a committee of 1S
| composed of the members of the Social
| Reform Club the Consumers League and
the Church Association for the Advance
ment of the Interests of labor the letter
went on to say, had the matter in charge
{ About $1,000 was subscribed, and the En-
ecutive Committee of Eighteen drew up
a plan. Shares were to be sold at so
and the profits of the cooperative shop
| were to be divided as follows: One-third
to be paid for wages. one-third was to be
a benefit fund and one-third to be used
to increase the business and for a reserve
| fund. The men were to work eight hours
a day, and be paid SIS a week. The men,
! the letter continued complained that SIS
a week was not enough, as they would be
/ idle half the year, and that would mean
| only 50 a week the year through. John
| w Cunning, of the Social Reform Club,
| had opposed the Tailors' Union, and then
it was decided to postpone the opening of
| the cooperative shop.