Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-02-12
WORLD OLE LABOR

A scheme is under way to connect
Liverpool with all the manufacturing
towns within radius of seventeen
miles, by electric street railroads, which
will carry passengers in the daytime
and freight at night.
Assemblyman O'Connell, of New
York, who is a member of the Journey
man Plasterers' Union, has introduced
a bill requiring street and elevated
railroad corporations to carry work
mems tool bags and providing that no
such corporation shall prevent. under
a penalty Of s25 fine, any person from
entering a car with a bag. box or other
receptacle for tools. if such is of a size
to carry in the hands Of the person
while occupying a seat.
Denver painters want SO and the
eight-hour day On March l.
Mrs. George Livingston Baker, soci-
ETY. woman of West New Brighton, s..
l., has commenced a fight against the
Staten Island electric railroads, acting
in the interest of the employees of the
two roads. She has had the officials of
one road summoned to court on next
Wednesday to explain why the motor
men and conductors are compelled to
work from fifteen TO twenty hours a
day. Mrs. Baker charges the officials
with violating the tenhour law.
Spain contains 1927 iron mines.
Alaska has 1873 saloons.
London has 1882 policemen.
There are medical schools in Japan.
United States have POSSESS saloons.
Belgium has 300 breweries.
Alabama has woman cotton plant
err
In Berlin sheet musienif sold by
weight.
In England the workers in the match
factories suffer from phosphorus poi
soning, and in the pottery factories
they are afflicted by lead poisoning.
Efforts have been made, with little eff
feet so far, to compel manufacturers
to use materials and appliances which
will prevent this. A trip through the
pottery districts of England is like a
visit to a hospital. People are found
suffering from blindness, deafness,
lameness, or with their lungs or other
vital organs affected by the lead.
Following closely on the heels of the
success of the cOmpOsitors' movement
for the nine-hour work day and the
adoption of similar resolutions by the
Bricklayers' International Union comes
the announcement that the Machinists'
International Union, with over 10000
members, is carrying on a strong fight
in the United States Senate and House
of Representatives for the eight-hour
work day.
Machinists have 1000 unions.
Not content with municipal owner
ship of street railways, electric and gas
Sol Mo ctryapfr and tn1n-
phones, in several English cities, the
municipal corporations have built
dwellings for workingmen, run hotels
and have erected and operated magnifi-
cent baths. in Liverpool the council
charges part of what should be the
rent from municipal houses occupied
by working men as homes against the
taxes of the community.
Plumbers, gas and steam filters, ell
ectricians and carpenters employed on
William c. Whitney's palatial New
York restaurant, struck because non
union marble cutters were employed
on the edifce.
Mr.. Scates, Socialist Democrat. from
Haverhill. has submitted the following
bill in the Massachusetts, Legislature.
Any corporation, partnership, per-
son or persons employing any person
for hire or otherwise, shall at any and
all times during the hours of such en-
ployment. upon request or application
made by any person TO the employer or
his agent or representative for a pri-
vate interview CT conference with such
employees at the place of his employ
ment, shall forthwith grant such re-
quest or application by directing and