Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-02
WORLD OF LABOR.

The tenth annual report of the labor de-
partment of the Board of Trade, London,
England, just issued is an interesting
document, and is by far the most COM
pete statement of the strength of English
trade unions ever issued. According to the
report there are now 1887 separate unions,
being a decrease owing to amalgama-
ton, of twenty-one as compared with 1896.
The membership has gone UP from 1,49l,-
007, to 2,OO9, 900, of whom 119, rs are women.
There are now 151 trades councils and LA
declarations of kindred and allied trades.
The accumulated funds of the unions.
stands at 92273,619, the income for the
year having been Ell, 9S1, 81 and the enpen-
diture G1,S96072. The average contribu
tions per member per annum in 100 of the
biggest unions for the six years was FL lis.
61ad. per member-a decrease of Is. T14d.
as compared with 1896, but an increase of
Is. 1Ad over 1892. The unions grouped
under the general head of Metal, Engi-
neering and Sh.pbuilding" showed the
greatest numerical strength with a total
of 317,518 members, or 20 per cent of the
whole.
Gold worth almost $50, 000,C00 has been
taken out of the mines of Cripple Creek
Bread costs six cents a loaf at Dawson
City.
The Legal Aid Society has opened
branch office at No. "a Pike street, New
York in behalf of the sailors and sea-far-
ing men who congregate in that neighbor-
hood when ashore. Clarke H. Abbot a
young attorney. has been selected as the
counsel for the sailor branch. He is now
looking into the matter of sailors board
ing house keepers licenses, and inciden-
tally unearthing much that will be of ad-
vantage to him in prosecuting sailors in
jury cases. Shere is no charge for this
service
All Philadelphia barber shops are closed
on Sunday
Toronto clock makers struck for ad-
vances ranging from 10 to Is per cent.
The Siegel-Cooper Company will insert
in all contracts with builders that only
union men shall be employed to do the
work on the new building which the COM
pany is soon to erect in New York.
New York is to have an eight-hour day
demonstration May 1.
st. Paul painters recently organized
St. Paul bricklayers union gave $40 to
member who had broken his arm.
Washington X. of l.. deny that the Fed
GRAFTON of Labor and the Knights of La
Dor are to consolidate
Cincinnati contracting tailors are paid
by the wholesale clothing houses from IS
cents to s. per dozen for pants and from
60 cents to $50 per dozen for vests. They
get from 80 to 50 cents for the tailor work
on sack coat such as forms part of the
ordinary So to SIS suit
St. Louis saloons are now closed on Sum
day.
The saloonkeepers of Akron, Ohio, have
offered their assistance to the Evangelical
Alliance in closing the saloons in that city,
on Sundays.
Cleveland painters now get . cents per
hour.
Georgia is to have a State Federation of
Labor
A New York tobacco house has now
agreed to employ union carpenters exclu-
sively at sS.25 for eight hours
Binghamton, n Y, has o unions.
The International Typographical Union
will be represented at the Buffalo conven-
ton in May of the International Associa-
ton of Machinists.
In Pine Bluff. Ark, the saloons that do
Sunday trade pay S month for the
privilege.
In beerdrinking contest in Milwaukee
Wis, between John Schinner and Chris
tan Schmidt. the former drank ninety
seven glasses in five hours, while Schmidt
required the services Of a physician after
he had swallowed eighty-two glasses
Cleveland street railway men are organ
izing. They are compelled TO always have
so in change
The Missouri Legislature has voted
down two bills affecting the liquor traffic
One provided for the adjustment of wine
rooms and the other would have closed
dram shops from midnight TO q. m.
The Amalgamated Association of Iron
and SteelWerksrs has decided to demand