Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-04-16

Z Practically All the Des Noines coal
miners have conceded the demands OF
the miners for an 8-hOur day. and the
continuation Of the winter scale all the
year round.
The Boston Water Works Employees
Union. attached to the A. F. OF L.,
adopted a resolve favoring the passage
Of the eight-hour bill for county, city
and town employees.
The Cooper Dip Company will oper-
ate two Misunderstanding pens this
season, one at WOolton and one at
Casper, Wyo. It will charge 1514 cents
per head for each sheep sheared.
The IrvingtOn ((Ky.) City Council
has raised the liquor license in that
town to $500. The sum is so high that
none of the dealers have applied for
renewal, and the town will go dry.
West Superior is to have $2,0OO,O0O
elevator, the largest in the world.
It's capacity is to be 100000 bushels
OF grain, or 100000 more than the
largest existing elevator.
Local Union 13 Jersey City Anal
gamated Sheet Metal Workers, has re-
solved on an eight-hour workday, TO
go into effect on April Is, and mini
mum rate of wages of So per day.
At Cleveland 10000 women now fill
positions formerly occupied by men
but not at mems wages. At Pitts
burg more than 500 women are work
ing in the iron mills at two-thirds the
wages paid to men.
Four thousand Films from all parts
of the copper country attended the
mass meeting at Calumet, Mich. to
protest against the abrogation OF the
Finnish constitution by the Car OF
Russia.
The Supreme Court of California has
rendered decision upholding the right
of labor organizations to boycott OBJ
noxious employers, and denying an in
junction except upon showing OF spe-
cific acts of a criminal nature.
The appointments OF John Williams
to be factory inspector in New York is
a distinct victory for the American
Federation of Labor, and correspond
ing loss to the Order of the knights OF
Labor. 1t is also the first big labor
appointment the American Federation
of Labor has ever received in that
State.
According to the census of 1920, the
entire capital then employed in the
manufacturing and mechanical indus
tries in the United States was $500
0OO, 900. According to the New York
Journal of Commerce, which has been
at pains to bring together and add up
the capitalization of the trusts and
combinations now in the field there has
been created a stock and bonded in
debtedness on their account OF $685.
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Among the bills passed by the Ne
braska Legislature and which have be-
come laws, is one which prohibits a
railroad company from requiring con-
ductor, engineer fireman, brakeman,
telegraph operator or other trainman
who has worked eighteen consecutive
hours, except in case of casualty, to
aaain go on duty until he has had at
least eight hours rest. The penalty
provided for the violation of the law
is a fine of not less than $50 or more
than 5000.
Monkeys pick cotton at SmedeS,
Miss. Cotton planters throughout the
South have watched the experiment
with a great deal of interest. On the
big plantation the rows were filled with
monkeys, each with her little cotton
sack about her neck, picking away
quietly and orderly and without any
rush or confusion. AS fast as the
monkeys got their sacks full they
would run to the end of the row, where
man was stationed to empty the con-
tents of the sacks into baskets. Then
the monkeys would scamper back along
the row and would Immediately resume
their work. Each monkey was protect
ed from the rays of the sun while pick
ing by cotton cap, which was tied
under its chin with piece of string
Mr.. Magnum is enthusiastic over the
success of his experiment. The monk
eys are in every way superior to ne
groeS as pickers. In the first place, the
cost of picking is about one-third
Then they are far more careful than
negroes and pick a finer grade OF cot
ton. Even during the rainy fall, when
all other cotton was OF a low grade,
that picked by the monkeys of my
plantation was all middling. And that
cotton sold for more than one-half a
cent more than that which was picked
by the negroes. In fact, I believe that
the discovery that monkeys can be
taught to pick cotton is the greatest
that has been made for the cotton
planter since Whitney discovered the